adminSyrian opposition trying to derail peace plan: Russian FM
MOSCOW. — Russia accused the Syrian opposition yesterday of trying to derail UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan.“Recently, mass media reports have proved that the armed opposition is making attempts to organise provocations in order to wreck reconciliation,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. Lavrov said
Cuban sugar to sweeten meals of Lao students
VIENTIANE. — Cuban Ambassador to Laos Waldo Reyes Sardinas officially handed over 180 metric tonnes of sugar to Lao Vice Minister of Education and Sports Lytou Bouapao at a ceremony yesterday, in a bid to enrich the meals of more than 150 000 students in Laos. The sugar will be cooked into a mid-morning snack for primary and pre-primary school pupils in the poorestMidnight deadline for Malema
JOHANNESBURG. — Lawyers for three ANC Youth League leaders had until midnight yesterday to file written heads of argument to the ANC appeals committee, party spokesperson Keith Khoza said. Khoza said by late morning he did not know if the papers had been filed. ANCYL president Julius Malema, spokesperson Floyd Shivambu and secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa were
Obama’s father in British secret files
LONDON. — Secret files from British colonial rule — once thought lost — have been released by the government, one year after they came to light in a High Court challenge to disclose them. Some of the papers cover controversial episodes including the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. They also reveal efforts to destroy and reclassify sensitive files. The Foreign Office
The white left’s hypocrisy
IK RushPeter Godwin has had a makeover. Godwin, a one-time hatchet man for arch-racist and mass murderer, Ian Smith, is now “an award winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary film maker and screenwriter,” according to his biography,
Zimdollar packages a tasteless joke
At the Workplace Wenceslaus MurapeIssues of payment of retrenchment packages agreed between workers and employers in Zimbabwe dollars before the advent of the multiple currency system continue to be brought before the dispute resolution system. Some employers stand
Editorial Comment: Maintain momentum on enforcing tax compliance
Zimbabwe’s tax revenues are rising, with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority managing to collect US$773,7 million in the first three months of this year, significantly above its target which in turn was significantly higher than the revenue collected in the first quarter of last year. The most positive element of this rapid rise in revenue is that it is not coming from new or
Let’s safeguard our independence
Tendai Moyo
As we celebrate our 32nd Independence anniversary, it is important that we sit down and introspect on ways to safeguard this hard-earned dispensation in view of relentless efforts by our adversaries to once again snatch it back from our hands.
Family in court for assaulting daughter-in-law
Court ReporterThree Chitungwiza family members appeared in court on Tuesday for allegedly beating up their daughter-in-law after causing her return from her husband in South Africa. Oliver Kanyungwe (69), his wife Judith (60) and their son Gerald (38) of Unit K
5 perish on roads at Independence
Herald ReporterFIVE people were killed in 65 road accidents recorded countrywide during the independence holiday. Police spokesperson Inspector Blessing Chishaka yesterday said the accidents were recorded between Wednesday and yesterday. Last year 27