adminFemale police officers hailed
Herald Reporter
A senior police officer yesterday hailed the increasing number of women members of the force participating in Support Unit
Effect of redesign on newspapers
by Knowledge Mushohwe
The licensing of new newspapers in Zimbabwe has afforded the reader the power to choose. In the face of direct
Power of urban design on climate
One of the greatest environmental and development challenges in the 21st century will be controlling and coping with
Know and keep your side of the street
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his book, ‘‘God is not a Christian”, narrates a hilarious story of a drunkard who could not comprehend the reality around him partly because of the befuddling brew he had partaken and partly because of poor understanding of his society and context.
The story, that was narrated by the now retired Anglican Archbishop during his visit to Birmingham, England in 1989, pertained to a guzzler who crossed the street and accosted a pedestrian, asking him, albeit on unsteady legs, “I shay, which ish the other shide of the shtreet?”
The pedestrian, somewhat nonplussed, replied, “That side, of course!” The drunk said, “Shtrange.
War veterans seek audience with Biti
Herald Reporters
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association leaders have accused Finance Minister Tendai Biti of avoiding them
Strike causes backlog at High Court
Court Reporter
THE strike by prosecutors has caused a huge backlog at the High Court where bail applications are being postponed. This has
Prosecutors not being sincere: PSC
Herald Reporters
GOVERNMENT yesterday accused striking prosecutors and law officers of deliberately understating their salaries to garner
4 burnt to death
Four people were burnt beyond recognition on Monday after two haulage trucks side swiped along the Harare-Chirundu Road.
President hints on WikiLeaks probe: Gumbo
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe has reportedly said Zanu-PF will investigate the origins and authenticity of revelations by whistle- blower website WikiLeaks that some of its members engaged United States officials and deliberated on sensitive matters without party approval.
Several junior and senior Zanu-PF members allegedly engaged America through its embassy in Harare.
This was despite the fact that the US administration imposed illegal sanctions on the country in an open show of aggression and disregard of international law.
Zanu-PF, for the first time, discu-ssed the WikiLeaks revelations at its Central Committee meeting last Thursday.
Party spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo yesterday confirmed
Female rape suspects: Scores besiege police station
Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter
SCORES of people yesterday besie-ged Gweru Central Police Station demanding to beat up three women suspected of sexually abusing men.
Police also said many complainants had visited the police station, but could not divulge the numbers.
The three youthful suspects – all aged 24 – were arrested last Sunday after their vehicle was involved in an accident along Lower Gweru Road.
Police say they recovered 31 used condoms – four of them with semen – from the vehicle, a Chevrolet, that was being driven by a boyfriend of one of the suspe- cts.
The three women, whose identities are being withheld as investigations continue and the driver, were arrested.