Scheme beneficiaries showcase success

Chris Muchechemera Herald Reporter
ABOUT 530 beneficiaries of the Presidential Input Scheme in Hatcliffe Extension yesterday held a field day to showcase their success. The families that are based at Mariyawandanzou Plot have two acres of

Editorial Comment: MDC-T councillors a disgrace to voters, society

Demonstrations rocked the small town of Karoi in Mashonaland West province on Wednesday as residents protested against what they alleged to be corruption by councillors and council officials, poor service delivery and abuse of council money. The Karoi demonstrations were hardly surprising

African leaders must value unity

Mukutwa Aiwa Atiku
After the end of the slave trade and colonialism, the fight to gain access to Africa’s resources has been a major cold war between mainly the United Sates and China. On a few occasions it has

US: Latter day Animal Farm

Farirai Chubvu
When he wrote The Lord of the Flies, William Golding may as well have had the United Nations in mind. The UN, which once had the significance of the conch has since been discarded by the

US ups Syrian regime change bid

Bill Van Auken
In the wake of the acceptance of a United Nations peace plan by the government of Bashar al-Assad, US, Western Europe and Turkey are preparing a meeting in Istanbul to escalate the armed campaign

Gangsters kill rival, eat him for lunch

Serbian gangsters beat a gang member to death with a hammer, skinned and boned him with a sharp knife then put him through a meat grinder at a flat in Madrid, police said. They made a macabre face mask from his skin, cooked his flesh and ate him for lunch. Later they threw the bones into the

Google invents self-driving car

Web giant Google has already changed the way we search the Internet, watch video and navigate.
But the firm’s latest breakthrough could be its biggest innovation yet. The company promises that its self-driving car will enable blind people to drive, as the vehicle takes over nearly all the functions of the

Tough times lie ahead for ANC

Udo W. Froese
South Africa’s “Sunday Times” reported on Sunday, March 25 2012, “Phosa warns of Arab Spring in SA”. This year is South Africa’s ruling ANC’s presidential year. In the build-up to the Conference in

Pope, Fidel Castro meet

HAVANA — Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro joked about their age in a brief meeting on Wednesday and then Castro popped the question: so what do you do? The two world figures chatted for about 30 minutes at the Vatican embassy in Havana near the end of the Pope’s three-day

ZDF officer Kajese dies

Herald Reporter
Liberation war fighter and Zimbabwe Defence Forces’ Warrant Officer Class One Florence Erica Kajese has died. She was 54. Cde Kajese died on Wednesday at Westend Hospital after a short illness. Cde Kajese

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