adminMutharika family snubs death probe
BLANTYRE — The family of Malawi’s ex-president Bingu wa Mutharika yesterday rejected an inquiry into his death, saying facts around his death after a heart attack were already known. “We want to put it on record that we the bereaved family did not at any point request for a commission of inquiry,” said aUNAids asks African countries to explore new partnership
LOME — The executive director of UNAids Michel Sidibe on Wednesday urged the eight member states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to establish a new partnership with emerging countries for the transfer of skills and technology in the fight against HIV and Aids on the AfricanFrance warns Rio+20
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande warned yesterday that a major international summit to be held this month in Brazil aimed at breaking years of deadlock on pressing environmental issues may fail. Hollande, who will attend the summit, said there was a “risk of division between developed
OPSR: The reforms Zimbabwe badly needs
I was most amused to hear Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC-T president threatening Generals for political involvement. He, of all people! Just two weeks before, the man had met with one General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), also known as FOB, Friend of Bill, following his ill-fated decision to run for US Presidency in 2004, with full backing from Bill Clinton.
Both were Rhodes Scholars, something linking the two men, and then with Tsvangirai, to the imperial settler political legacy personified by Cecil John Rhodes. All are benefactors of Cecil John Rhodes, the first two directly, the lonely last by lineage legacy. And given Clark’s dubious title as the general to
It’s a shame really and my challenge to all the journalists, starting with Sharuko
It’s a shame really and my challenge to all the journalists, starting with Sharuko, is to resign with immediate effect, before even this useless Zifa board quits, so that we can get a fresh crop of reporters who have no attachment whatsoever to these football leaders.
In 20 years in this job, I have to confess today that I have never felt as powerless, if not as useless, as I did throughout this very depressing week for a national game that means so much for us as a people.Dump e-mail? No way
Last week’s piece on the power of instant messaging platforms seemingly pushing the Short Message Service into extinction attracted varied responses with some readers even claiming that some web- based messaging services will kill e-mail.Mupariwa in Zim A 22 member squad
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterPACE bowler Tawanda Mupariwa has been included in a 22 member Zimbabwe A squad to prepare for the limited overs triangular series against visiting South Africa A and Sri Lanka A teams next month. Mupariwa is one of the familiar faces in the side, which is a mixture of new and fringe national team players.
Sean Connor attacks Rahman Gumbo
Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
CAPS United team manager, Sean Connor, says he was surprised that Warriors’ coach Rahman Gumbo chose to work with such a large pool of players ahead of Zimbabwe’s World Cup qualifier
Motorist slaps Zinara with lawsuit
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
A Harare motorist has filed an urgent application at the High Court seeking to compel police and the Zimbabwe National Road Administration to allow unlicensed vehicles on the road without penalty until June 30.
Ms Roselyn Hanzi listed Zinara, Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri, Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche and Harare City Council as respondents.
The application seeks to bar the police from fining, arresting and impounding vehicles whose licence discs expired on May 31 this year until June 30, the date to which Zinara had extended the deadline.
Ms Hanzi also seeks to bar council from towing and clamping all vehicles without licence discs.
Zinara this week scrapped the June 30 extension deadline with immediate effect and gave police leeway to descend on motorists who use the roads without valid licence discs.
Motorists and lawyers criticised Zinara on Wednesday for the U-turn.According to legal experts, the decision was contestable because it was in breach of the Administrative Justice Act and Common Law.
Ms Hanzi, through her lawyers, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, is challenging the scrapping of the deadline.
Mutambara slams Copac for time-wasting
Herald Reporter
DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday lashed out at Copac, instructing the committee to speed up the completion of the Constitution-making process if the country is to hold elections using a new supreme law.
He said Copac’s delays in finalising the process will not help those clamouring for reforms as it was possible for the country to hold elections using the current Constitution.
Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, DPM Mutambara said Cabinet was surprised to hear that the next management committee meeting will be on June 17 in Nyanga. He said Cabinet on Tuesday gave Copac and the management committee up to tomorrow to produce an official draft Constitution.
“Copac must put its act together,” he said.