adminIllegal sanctions a threat to diamond earnings
Oliver Kazunga
THE imposition of illegal sanctions on some of Zimbabwe’s diamond producers is a threat to the country’s projected $600 million diamond earnings
MPs absconding parly shortchange electorate
THE legislature is one of the three pillars of the State.
The other pillars are the executive and the judiciary. Parliament has basically three main functions and these are to legislate, to play a representational role to the people who vote legislators into office and to play an oversight role over the activities of the executive arm of the State.
Derby fever grips Beitbridge
Lovemore Zigara
A rare football treat is in the offing for Beitbridge fans when the first of the derbies explodes into life today when last year’s runners-up Tripple B take on the expensively assembled Strikers FC at Dulibadzimu Stadium in a Zifa Central Soccer League encounter.
Pair gets nine years for robbing taxi driver
Court Reporter
TWO men who robbed a taxi driver of his car valued at $6 000 were yesterday each sentenced to nine years in jail.
‘Al-Qaeda bomber was a British spy’
BRITISH intelligence played a central role in the undercover operation involving a supposed new underwear bomb threat from an al-Qaeda off-shoot in Yemen.
Premiership ‘have beens’ clash
Sports Reporter
FORMER Premiership clubs Zimbabwe Saints and Railstars will clash in a Zifa Southern Region Division One Soccer League derby at Luveve Stadium tomorrow.
De Klerk apartheid remark sparks furore
CAPE TOWN — Former president FW de Klerk has reportedly sparked controversy over comments made in an interview with CNN, in which he admitted that apartheid was “morally indefensible”, but appeared to defend the homeland system
Teacher allegedly kills teenage domestic worker
Harare Bureau
A SCHOOL teacher in Hwedza allegedly killed her teenage maid after catching her being intimate with her husband on their matrimonial bed and hid the body for 12 days.
How men and women lived in colonial Bulawayo
Vaidah Mashangwa
The oppression of black people in Bulawayo started way back in the nineteenth century.
In 1898, Journal Rhodesia expressed disgust at the growing familiarity adopted by “natives” in town who coolly took possession of footpaths, thereby disturbing the movement of the white settlers, their wives, daughters and sons. This then disregarded the issue of class distinction and priority, wrote Terrence Ranger in his book Bulawayo Burning1893-1960.
From Cameron with love — Brooks haunts PM
LONDON — David Cameron signed off messages to tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with an affectionate “LOL”, she told an inquiry yesterday, conjuring the embarrassing image of a prime minister-in-waiting fawning over a Rupert Murdoch protegee.
As editor of Britain’s most-read newspapers the News of the World and later the Sun, Brooks had the power to make or break careers and was courted for years by top politicians until she abruptly fell from grace in July 2011.