Warriors begin preps

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE finally got their preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Burundi yesterday with a depleted squad as fears loom that some of the foreign-based players may only be

Airzim suspends flights indefinitely

Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
AIR ZIMBABWE, which failed to resume domestic flights this week, has now suspended

Exorcising the spirit of puppetry

In the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the inevitability of dialogue between past and present is universal. In Zimbabwe, many a times villagers are looked down upon by many urbanites or pseudo urbanites, who, because of colonial prejudices banked on their minds, think

Chitungwiza set to retrench 391 workers

Michael Chideme Municipal Reporter
Chitungwiza Municipality is set to retrench 391 employees while contracts for 264 others who

SPB boss irate

Herald Reporter
STATE Procurement Board chairman, Mr Charles Kuwaza, yesterday claimed The Herald has an agenda against him when asked to respond to allegations that the board was awarding tenders to incompetent

Kombi conductor jailed

Court Reporter
A COMMUTER omnibus conductor, who pushed a police officer out of a moving kombi, in a bid to evade arrest has been sentenced to an effective five-year prison term. Guide Matsika (25) was convicted of

‘Zim always ready to engage EU’

Herald Reporter
ZIMBABWE has always been prepared to engage in dialogue with the European Union to remove the illegal economic sanctions the bloc imposed, a top Government official has said. The 27-member EU

Rape victim sues State for US$51 000

Wenceslaus Murape Senior Reporter
JUDGMENT in the case in which a woman is suing the State for US$51 000 in damages and maintenance after she fell pregnant after being raped by armed robber in 2006 has been postponed

Compliance: ARVs’ golden rule

HIV Walk Catherine Murombedzi
Charity had been on Anti Retroviral Therapy for the past five years. She had regained her weight and was no longer ill, as was the case years before commencing ART. She has vowed never to stop taking the drugs.

Of ‘philanthropic’ imperialists and democracy

There are more than a dozen countries set to hold elections in Africa this year, and in every one of them the West is determined to influence the outcome for imperialistic political ends. We have this exaggerated recency added to the idea of democracy in Africa, creating a media illusion that says we have a continent where freedom and liberty are exquisite, if not a new phenomenon altogether.

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