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NEW YORK – Facebook will begin the process of becoming a publicly-listed company this week, valuing the social networking site at between US$75 billion and US$100 billion, reports suggest. The company plans to file papers with the US financial watchdog on Wednesday, according to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. The flotation later this year would raise
Fire kills 26 patients at rehab centre
LIMA – Fire swept through a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts and alcoholics in Peru on Saturday, killing 26 patients who were locked in to stop them from fleeing during treatment, local media and witnesses said. Several survivors said the blaze was started by two patients who wanted to break out of the private “Christ is Love” centre in the capital Lima. “Some inmates wanted
Topless protesters detained at forum
DAVOS – Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained on Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded
Kuwadzana education services in shambles
Loverage Nhamoyebonde Features Writer
Children from Kuwadzana Extension frolic along Bulawayo Road every morning on their way to school. The need to be educated and have a better future gives them the urge to walk the long distance to schools in the neighbouring residential areas. No matter how hard the situation is, these children have one great goal in mind “to be responsible citizens who will
Boko Haram rejects talks
KANO – Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists have ruled out talks with the government and threatened new attacks in Africa’s most populous country, rocked by an insurgency that has killed more than 200 already this year. Residents in the northern city of Kaduna said the group, which has frequently targetted the police, may have struck again late Saturday when gunmen on
Let’s not sacrifice the nation’s educational future
The expansion in the provision of tertiary education resulted in the setting up of a number of universities – publicly and privately run. This also resulted in the setting up of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU), the country’s first and only distance learning institution whose mandate is to provide affordable, accessible, flexible, high quality and relevant tertiary education
Let’s have a sport ministry
Zvikomborero Munaku
In most international sporting competitions, Zimbabwe has not been significantly successful and many citizens have been disappointed to the stage of no longer expecting anything meaningful from our sport persons. Of course, there have been a
Secret ballot the way to go
Panganai Kahuni
A culture of running sound primary elections and structuring the party from village/cell, branch, district, DCC, and province, using a secret ballot would form a strong strategy of keeping the revolutionary flame burning. This concept should be
Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Emmanuel Sigauke
Title: The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Author: Peter Godwin
5 Chinese face deportation
Masvingo Bureau
FIVE Chinese men who secured employment at mobile phone operator Econet Wireless after entering Zimbabwe as holiday makers are facing deportation. They were arrested and fined for contravening the Immigration Act. Chen Caijan (45), Peng