adminRugby has always been for passionate people
By Ricky ZililoTHE history of rugby emerging in the Western suburbs will not be complete without mentioning Trust Khumalo.
Khumalo was one of the few black players from the western areas who were involved in the sport before independence.
He started off as a player, turning out for Western suburbs as a hooker before moving to flank.
Sisulu seeks to gag MPs on air force
DEFENCE Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has drawn a veil of secrecy over the operations of the air force by demanding that a parliamentary committee give guarantees of confidentiality before it can be briefed.
Italian president condemns botched British raid in Nigeria
ROME — President Giorgio Napolitano led a chorus of condemnation yesterday of Britain’s failure to inform the Italian government before launching a botched rescue mission with Nigerian forces that led to the deaths of British and Italian hostages held by a militant Islamist group.
Syrian forces kill 31 ahead of Annan peace mission
AMMAN — Syrian forces killed 31 people yesterday as they sought to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by UN -Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, opposition activists said.Egypt women want to co-write constitution
Cairo — Hundreds of women marched through Cairo on Thursday on International Women’s Day, demanding the right to co-draft the country’s new constitution.Since the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled dictators in the region, including Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, women now fear for their rights as Islamists reap the fruits of the revolt.
US upgrading bunker buster to use in Iran war
A senior US Air Force general says the US may use a huge new 13 600-kilogramme bunker buster bomb in case of a possible strike against Iran over its nuclear programme.Lieutenant General Herbert Carlisle, Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, said Thursday that the bomb was a “great weapon” designed to smash through some 200 feet of concrete before exploding.
Kenya sacks 25 000 striking nurses
Nairobi — Kenya’s public hospitals face a potentially devastating health worker shortage after the government said on Thursday it had fired 25 000 striking nurses.The nurses went on strike on 1March to protest the government’s failure to implement a salary increase agreed last year, when they also stopped work to press for improved services in Kenya’s mostly ill-equipped public hospitals.
Taliban demand release of bin Laden’s widows
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Pakistan) — The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said yesterday.Do foreign DJs perform to their billing?
By Auxilia KatongomaraSINCE the dollarisation of the economy, the city of Bulawayo has recorded an influx of foreign disc jockeys.
Of late, the city has seen house music stars joining the great trek to Zimbabwe from South Africa where hundreds of their fans will be waiting anxiously to get a glimpse of them in action.
Zim/SA: Docking relations in history and realpolitik
Russia’s Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin’s vulnerabilities for a counter-attack. With Putin’s victory comes the hope for a global safe and just order for the Third World, especially for independent-minded nations like Zimbabwe.
Throughout his campaign, Putin’s messages had all the right inflections: stiff opposition to external