Libyan blood for Libyan oil

Sam Akaki
With respect, I disagree with South African President Jacob Zuma’s simplistic view, that with Gaddafi dead, “the AU will work

A portrait of America in decline

Patrick Martin
A series of reports over the past ten days – on poverty, wages, income inequality and social mobility – have painted a portrait

Top UK students to be offered £20 000 to train as teachers

London. – Graduates with first class degrees will be handed £20 000 to train as teachers in a desperate bid to improve state

‘Gay rights’ — we hear you PM

Tomorrow marks that tragic day in Zimbabwean history when in 1965 during this eleventh month (“the month of the goat  declared sacred by our people), on the eleventh day and eleventh hour, the renegade Rhodesian leader Ian Douglas Smith proclaimed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

History has since shown that Smith’s defiance was done on a day set aside to remember their kith and kin that fell in the 20th century’s two world wars.
With this unilateral act, he extended the quarrel started by his ancestors when they colonised Zimbabwe in 1890. This week, I look at a current issue in the context of UDI, and why it continues to be a devil in our

Jilted man jailed after botched suicide

WEMBLEY, England. – A spurned lover who drank antifreeze before driving his car at 128km/h into his ex-girlfriend’s home in

Super mum, dad expecting 20th child

It appears as if TLC is going to have to change the name of its hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Michelle Duggar (45) and her

The odd function of Zim cartoons

Knowleh Mushohwe
Political cartoons are not a new phenomenon. In the Western world where their history is relatively longer than in developing

End of an era: West Looks East?

Opitato Guvamombe
An unprecedented economic crisis has been tearing the Euro to pieces, forcing European countries – the self-acclaimed

Europe debt crisis harming some emerging nations

BRASILIA – Europe’s debt crisis is worsening and is triggering capital flight in some emerging economies, Brazil’s finance

Designer changes perception on Chinese fashion

HONG KONG. – Like the rags she turned into clothes for her siblings in Hong Kong, Chinese-American designer Vivienne Tam

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