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PRETORIA – Only the ANC Youth League has the right to dismiss its leaders, its embattled leader Julius Malema told delegates at the league’s three-day lekgotla in Pretoria yesterday. “If the youth says we must step down and resign, we are prepared to step down.” To applause, Malema said the leadership had effectively been found guilty of abiding by the resolutions of the league’s
US invites Sata for economic bilateral visit
LUSAKA – The United States government has invited Zambian president Michael Sata to pay an economic bilateral visit to that country later this year, Zambia’s official news agency reported on Thursday. The Zambia News and Information Service (ZANIS) quoted Minister of Foreign Affairs Given Lubinda as saying that the Obama administration has invited president
The Interview: Draft constitution almost ready
Fortious Nhambura
The writing of the country’s supreme document has taken longer than was anticipated. The delay has brought lots of anxiety among Zimbabweans. Most people are confused about what is happening to the new constitution. The situation has been
Ghetto Blast: Of rural teachers and village girls
Rosenthal Mutakati
Hardly a minute after a panting Joshua had passed at lightning speed, I saw a group of people carrying a motley of weapons in hot pursuit. When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. But the fleeing mathematics teacher did not think so. He saw it
Beware of sources of typhoid fever
Doctor Timothy Stamps
In Harare recently, there has been a renewed outbreak of typhoid fever. The last major outbreak we had was just before independence in the late 60s and early 70s when I was City Medical Officer of Health. I was closely involved with the
Muzvidzwa ordered to repay Redan 1,6 million litres of diesel
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
BUSINESSMAN Mr Gerald Ashley Muzvidzwa, who is part of the recently appointed five-member resuscitation team for
Kaukonde sets up committee to investigate DCC
Herald Reporter
ZANU-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Cde Ray Kaukonde has set up a committee to investigate the party’s
Biti to inject more money into economy
Walter Muchinguri Assistant Business Editor
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti will next week announce a raft of measures aimed at easing the current liquidity challenges in the economy.
Minister Biti said that the liquidity challenges should only be seen as temporary.
“We have a temporary liquidity crisis in the economy and not a banking crisis. However, to ensure that we address the situation, I will in the course of next week announce measures to deal with the situation,” he said.
The minister will announce measures to deal with statutory reserves that will see banks that are owed US$82 million by the central bank recovering that money.
Empowerment: Learning from Rhodesia
My instalment last week generated quite some response warranting a second take on the same subject. Of course a good many of my readers struggled with the word “zeitgeist”, wondering whether this was English English or German English. Well, I shall have occasion to revisit this same matter in future. I need to hurry to another matter which is just as crucial, but evenZambia’s approach exposes ZIFA
The Zambians have shown us the way and you get a feeling that the biggest problem with our football, in terms of its national management structures, is the recycling of leadership, the majority of it being deadwood.
Somehow this feels like ’94 and you don’t have to be a Zambian to be swept away by the tide of nostalgia that has turned 2012 into a carbon copy of 1994.