adminBritish Council to premiere nine plays
Ruth Butaumocho Entertainment EditorThe British Council will premiere nine plays at this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts that kicks off in Harare tomorrow. This probably will be the biggest commissioning by one production house this year and already theatre enthusiasts
Re-arranging governance in NGOs might just save their day
Gertrude TakawiraOrigins of non-governmental or not for profit organisations are based on simple passions by founders to address societal needs. This may involve eliminating hardships among communities, raising awareness, advocating for a just cause or
Cobra comes to town
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News EditorWhen news broke out two weeks ago that Zambian President Michael Sata was headed for Zimbabwe, many did not take the ‘rumour’ seriously. After all, a similar “rumour” broke out at the end of last year that the Cobra, as President Sata is known,
Ex-convicts deported from SA resorting to crime — Police
Beitbridge BureauEx-convicts and border jumpers repatriated from South Africa are reportedly turning to crimes such as robbery, housebreaking and thefts in Beitbridge town, police have said. So far 28 ex-convicts have been deported from South Africa
Woman kills baby fathered by 15-year-old schoolboy
Masvingo Bureau
A 24-year-old Chiredzi woman has been jailed for 12 months for killing a newly-born baby she had with her 15-year-old schoolboy lover. Vimbai Mahembe of Village 3 in Chipimbi communal lands strangled the baby to death and buried it in a
‘Kidnapped British aid worker killed in Pakistan’
ISLAMABAD — A kidnapped British aid worker has been found dead in Quetta, Pakistan, nearly four months after his abduction in January, the Red Cross announced yesterday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had received confirmation that 60-year-old staff member Khalil Rasjed Dale “was murdered almost four months after his kidnapping.”Obama signs waiver to lift Palestinian aid barrier
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama last week signed a waiver declaring that aid to the Palestinian Authority is “important to the security interests of the United States,” removing a block on such funding. In a memo sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, published by the White House, the president said it was appropriate to release funds to the authority, which‘Bin Laden widow now in Saudi’
SANAA — The three widows of slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and other members of his family arrived in Saudi Arabia last Friday after being expelled from Pakistan, a Yemeni non-government group said. “The Yemeni woman has arrived in Saudi Arabia along with other members of the Bin Laden family, his children and her brother who was looking after her case in
State of emergency declared in Sudan
KHARTOUM — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir yesterday issued a republican decree declaring a state of emergency at a number of localities in states bordering South Sudan, Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) reported. The SMC said al-Bashir decreed the state of emergency at a number of localities in South Kordofan, White Nile and Sinnar states. Sudan earlier said it was
Ancestors were the war guide
Chemist MafubaTitle: Guerrilla Snuff
Author: Mafuranhunzi Gumbo
Publisher: Academic Books
Pages: 210
ISBN: 0-908311-73-7
The question that still baffles military strategists is how the 50 guerrillas who fought at Bikita Minerals in 1976 turned into