adminTobacco floors ready for 2012 season
Walter Muchinguri Assistant Business Editor
PREPARATIONS for this year’s tobacco season, which starts on February 16, are almost complete at the four floors licensed to handle tobacco sales this season. The floors include Tobacco Sales Floor, Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Millennium
Protesters storm Libyan govt HQ
BENGHAZI – Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council, warned yesterday that the country could be heading towards a “bottomless pit” after protesters stormed a government office in Benghazi. Protesters stormed and lobbed grenades at the NTC’s Benghazi headquarters on Saturday while Abdel Jalil was still in the building. He told
2012: A Bahá’í perspective
Flora Teckie
It is the beginning of a new year that brings with it new hopes, new dreams and new aspirations for us all. We all began the 2012 with joy and expectation towards a better world, an environmentally sustainable and just future. Let us mark this new
Copac should not be a battleground
Albert Nhamoyebonde
A political battle ground is being prepared on the constitution making process to the detriment of the values and principles that should be enshrined in the new constitution. A recent programme aired on television in which a panel was discussing
‘Attack on Iran won’t be easy’
Robert Bridge
During his annual news conference, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the scenario Russia and the global community could face if things in the Middle East, especially in Iran, get out of hand. Addressing what is certainly the most worrisome
Crisis occurs at the curve of change
Gertrude Takawira
Nothing is cast in stone. Change is a constant occurrence, which ushers us to new levels and experiences. The young become old just as the old used to be young. The climate is changing along with the seasons. Health changes too and so
Leaders should value peace
Stephen Mpofu
This pen celebrated a belated but a hope-filled dawn break the other day, recently. When the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration was first set up in early January 2009, this pen wrote in these same columns calling on
Libya’s Lap GreenN mulls dragging Zambia to court
LUSAKA – Libya’s telecommunication firm has denied any wrongdoing in its acquisition of a 75 percent stake in Zambia’s state-run telecommunication firm and that it has been forced to “explore” legal options to protect its reputation, the Post of Zambia reported on Friday. LAP Green Network acquired a 75 percent stake in the once troubled Zamtel in 2010 under the
Rousseff’s admin gets best rating in first year in office
BRASILIA – At the end of her first year in office, president Dilma Rousseff’s administration won 59 percent positive rating, which exceeds those obtained by previous presidents of Brazil since 1989. A Datafolha poll, released yesterday by the newspaper Folha de S Paulo states that 59 percent of Brazilians polled described the performance of the president as excellent or good in
Toe the line or else, Zuma tells critics
JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma has issued his sternest rebuke to his detractors, warning them they have no future in the ANC if they are ill-disciplined. Zuma, addressing provincial ANC centenary celebrations in East London on Saturday, also took a swipe at those “who defend wrongdoing” within the party. In what could be interpreted as a veiled attack on errant ANC