adminCartoons depict the national question
Knowledge Mushohwe
Editorial cartoonists, just like stand up comedians, make a distinction between the “small world” and the “big world” when relating to the subjects they address. The “small world” is the light-hearted material, including beer, sex, sports and relationships.
Overview of Europe’s crisis
By Jason Voss
Most commentators trace the beginning of the European sovereign debt crisis to 5 November, 2009, when Greece revealed that its budget deficit was 12,7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), more than twice what the country had previously disclosed.
Chivero disaster: 3 arrested
Herald Reporters
POLICE have arrested three people in connection with the Lake Chivero Ch-ristmas Day disaster in which 11 children drowned.
Namibian minister meets Acting President
Herald Reporter
VISITING Namibian Foreign Minister Utoni Nujoma yesterday paid a courtesy call on Acting President Joice Mu-juru at her Chisipite home.
Cde Nujoma is the son of founding Namibian President Sam Nujoma.
Speaking after meeting Cde Nujo-ma, Acting President Mujuru said Namibia and Zimbabwe have strong relations dating back to the liberation struggle.
16pc of rape victims test HIV positive
Herald Reporters
THE Adult Rape Clinic in Harare says 16 percent of victims in rape cases it has handled this year tested HIV-positive. ARC said the statistics were of cases that were handled by Harare courts, but only accounted for those aged 16 years and above.
Victims and perpetrators undergo HIV tests whenever rape is reported.
The figure could be higher if children are included.
During the year, an HIV negative boy raped several girls below the age of 10 and one of the victims tested positive.
In the report, concern was raised that the courts had difficulties in dealing with juvenile offenders as some of them were too young to be prosecuted.
Such cases are on the increase and affecting efforts to arrest the spread of HIV.
Since there is no law that condemns juveniles to prison, the courts can only send underage perpetrators for counselling with the hope that they will be rehabilitated.
Gamblers fall prey to bogus lottery
Bulawayo Bureau
SCORES of Zimbabweans and thousands of Africans may have fallen prey to a bogus international lottery that reportedly swindles unsuspecting pe-ople of millions of dollars every year.
Guard fired after hippo attack
Wenceslaus Murape Senior Reporter
A crop guard, who poached fish from a dam while on duty and was later attacked by a hippo resulting in serious injuries, has been fired.
Man dismissed for stealing biltong
Labour Reporter
A Colcom Foods worker had a bleak Christmas after the Labour Court upheld his dismissal for attempting to steal 10 packets of biltong.
Guinea Bissau army factions exchange gunfire
BISSAU. – Fighting erupted between two factions of Guinea Bissau’s armed forces early on Monday in the capital Bissau,
Welegedera leaves Proteas in trouble
DURBAN. – Left-arm opening bowler Chanaka Welegedera produced a career-best performance to put Sri Lanka in the ascendancy on the second day of the second Test match against South Africa at Kingsmead yesterday.