‘He sleeps with machete under the bed’

Fungai Lupande
Court Report

A HARARE man allegedly in the habit of taking pornographic pictures and videos of his wife was yesterday brought to court by the wife who sought a protection order.
Gemma May Barrat also told the Civil Court that her husband Grantley Stuart Barrat always threatens to shoot her.

Tense EU summit opens with show of unity

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders gathered yesterday for a two-day summit crucial to the future of the euro, playing down divisions as the sovereign debt crisis threatens to engulf even the bloc’s top economies.

Ships conduct regular patrols on South China Sea

BEIJING — A patrol team consisting of four China Marine Surveillance (CMS) ships on Tuesday sailed from south China’s coastal city of Sanya to the South China Sea to conduct regular patrols.

Nepotism triggers clashes

LUSAKA — Scores of youths who were left out in an army recruitment programme fought running battles with the police when they protested against alleged nepotism as the southern African nation battles high unemployment levels, the Times of Zambia reported yesterday.

Journalist jailed six months with hard labour

BANJUL — A Gambian court yesterday fined a newspaper editor US$3 100 or six months in jail with hard labour for contempt of court.

Dancing with the enemy

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Dancing with the enemy at the expense of your fellow Blackman will always backfire. Africans should be like iron which sharpens iron. A betrayal of Zimbabwe by any revolutionary party in Sadc is the same as an idiot whom sitting on a branch (high up a tree) cuts the very branch he is sitting on. The moment the branch falls the very moment the imbecile will also fall.

History is the enemy

Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.

Goodbye Tuku, welcome Roki

Richmore Tera
AFTER his much-publicised run in the Big Brother StarGame, Rockford Josphats or simply Roki is on a roll.

ZYCCI gives youths a voice

The Zimbabwe Youth Chamber of Commerce and Industry was officially launched on May 31. Our features writer Tichaona Zindoga (TZ) engages the chamber’s executive director, Tawanda Njerere (TN), on the organisation’s mandate and its thrust vis-a-vis Zimbabwe’s economy, policies and laws.

Oprah to appear on Kardashian show

Los Angeles. — Oprah Winfrey will appear on a forthcoming episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”.

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