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Herald ReporterTHE Africa Unity Square will soon be re-designed to change its format from being a symbol and remnant of British colonialism, to reflecting the aspirations of Ziumbabweans. A new structure depicting the role
Tobacco growers earn US$362m
Agriculture ReporterTOBACCO growers have earned US$362 million from the sale of 96,3 million kilogrammes of the golden leaf as deliveries to the auction floors continue to decline. Auction floors are now receiving an average of
Winnie Mandela in hospital
JOHANNESBURG — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, has been hospitalised and is due to undergo surgery for a broken wrist, her daughter said on Saturday. “Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is in hospital with a broken right wrist
Russia-China relations at ‘unprecedented high’
MOSCOW — Relations between Russia and China have reached unprecedented high levels, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says in an interview ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to China. Top leaders of the two countries are expected to discuss the expansion of bilateral15 killed in Nigerian church attack
KANO — At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded yesterday when a suicide car bomber drove into a Nigerian church compound and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service. The bomber targeted the Living Faith church, in a neighbourhood near the airport in Bauchi, theFamilies grieve after plane slams into bus
ACCRA — Grieving family members gathered at a morgue in Ghana’s capital Accra yesterday after a cargo plane overshot an airport runway and crashed into a passenger bus, killing at least 10 people.The four crew members from the Boeing 727 Allied Air cargo plane survived Saturday night’s accident,
Queen Elizabeth boards barge for diamond jubilee
LONDON — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II boarded a ceremonial barge for a 1 000-boat river pageant on the Thames yesterday in the set-piece of her diamond jubilee celebrations. The queen, dressed in a white hat and a silver and white coat, was ferried to the barge on the launch of the now-decommissionedAssad ‘fears real war’
DAMASCUS — Syria’s president announced his country is facing a “real war” and blamed terrorists and outside forces for the violence. The defiant speech comes a day after the UN special envoy warned that the spectre of all-out civil war grows daily in Syria. Speaking to the newly-elected parliament in his firstProtests sweep Egypt
CAIRO — Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday after a night of rage as the state prosecutor said he would appeal sentences handed down to Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs.A judge sentenced Mubarak (84), and his interior minister Habib al-Adly to life in prison on Saturday for
Kasukuwere summons bankers
Business Reporter
Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has summoned Bankers’ Association of Zimbabwe president and Barclays Bank managing director Mr George