No to violence — President
By Farirai Machivenyika
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday urged Zimbabweans to shun all forms of violence and unite
18 people perish on roads nationwide
Herald Reporters
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West acting provincial chairman Cde Robert Sikanyika has died. He
President Mugabe’s 31st Independence Day address
It is with a great sense of joy and unfaltering national pride that I warmly welcome you as we
Nigerian VP’s house burnt in post-poll riots
KANO.
Rioters in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria yesterday burned the house of Vice President
Dutch court rejects MP’s bid against judges
THE HAGUE.
A Dutch court yesterday rejected anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders’ bid for the withdrawal of a panel
SA’s Zuma phones Gaddafi
PRETORIA.
South African President Jacob Zuma phoned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the weekend,
Botswana civil servants on strike
GABORONE.
Thousands of Botswana civil servants marched, sang and danced in protest yesterday as they
West fingered in Libyan defections
By Gregory Elich
MUCH has been made of the defection of several Libyan officials to the West. We are told
Two Swazi activists charged
MBABANE.
Two people arrested in last week’s pro-democracy protests in Swaziland faced charges of illegal







By Augustine Hwata