adminIn camp with Ernie Noble: ‘We worked hard as a team’
IF the hands of time could be turned, Bulawayo basketball enthusiasts would probably wish they could go back to the early 1990s when Peking Stars (men), Memphis (women) and Highlanders (women) reigned supreme in national basketball.
React swiftly to deal with cases of refugees
The people of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo have since Monday been looking after 26 Congolese who arrived in the city last Friday from Victoria Falls.
Time for countrywide audit on leaders
Barring the impossible, general elections will take place in Zimbabwe this year and flurries of perceptible and imperceptible manoeuvres are already under way as leaders big and small, incumbent and aspiring get set on the starting line for a race into the hearts and minds of the electorate.
ANC was formed to fight rabid racism
TODAY, the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa will be 100 years old, the oldest political organisation founded and led by black people south of the Sahara desert.
CDF makes great difference to constituencies
By Yoliswa Dube
THE year 2011 saw a number of legislators spearheading developmental projects in their constituencies while other legislators were at the mercy of their electors who felt they were not being adequately represented.
Ministry to investigate Zvishavane housing scam
Midlands Correspondent
THE Ministry of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development has assigned the office of the Zvishavane District Administrator to investigate alleged irregularities in the allocation of residential stands in the mining town.
Robber jailed for 12 years
Court Reporter
A 26-year-old Bulawayo man was yesterday sentenced to 12 years for robbery and theft of motor vehicles.
Prosecutor demands death sentence for Mubarak
CAIRO — The prosecution in the case against former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak has demanded the death sentence for him and other defendants, including his two sons and the former interior minister.
Mubarak is facing charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 18-day demonstrations which swept him from power last February.
ANC celebrations tinged by disappointment
Johannesburg — Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and restaurants were reserved for whites only.
Gunmen kill six in Nigeria church attack
Kano — Gunmen opened fire on a church service in Nigeria on Thursday, killing six people and wounding 10, the church’s pastor said, the latest in a string of attacks that has raised fears of sectarian conflict in Africa’s most populous nation.