Lewis Chitengwa to be remembered

Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S late illustrious golfer Lewis Chitengwa will be remembered 11 years after his death on June 30. Chitengwa wrote his own piece of history when he won the Orange Bowl World Junior championships

Chunga quits Black Mambas

Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
NOMADIC coach Moses Chunga is on the move again after he parted ways with struggling Premiership side Black Mambas following a string of poor results in which he failed to muster a win in seven

The Pentagon’s last frontier

Rick Rozoff
After the US begins to wind down more than 10 consecutive years of combat, mainly counter-insurgency, operations in what has variously been labelled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared for redeployment to Africa and Latin (largely South) America.

Zimbabwe: The rise of spectator democracy

WHEN Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1916 his administration was committed to joining World War I at a time the US population was so pacifist that it saw no reason to get involved with a European war.

Wilson decided to establish a propaganda commission called the Creel Commission, which succeeded within an impressive six months to turn an apathetic and pacifist population into a hysterical war-mongering mass sworn to the marrow to the idea of destroying everything and anything German, avowed totally to the doctrine of tearing Germans to pieces limb from limb — in the process saving the world from the deadly threat that German had

Throwing away the baby with bath water

MONDAY, June 25 was a big day, a day that should have been commemorated by all well-meaning Zimbabweans? Mozambique, one of the Frontline States (now Sadc regional bloc) celebrated 37 years of nationhood. This was a twin celebration because Frelimo, the party that spearheaded the struggle against Portuguese colonialism celebrated its golden jubilee. Theirs has been success against all odds.
I know that Mozambique’s independence was almost derailed by Renamo led by Afonso Dhlakama.

China space feats good for 3rd world

Bob Wekesa
The blast off of Shenzhou 9 into the skies is as much a scintillating achievement for China as it is for the developing world. When Chinese people cheered on this fourth manned space mission, a good

Payment of acting allowance

At the workplace Wenceslaus Murape
Many workers have been at loggerheads with employers when it comes to the payment of acting allowances for positions they may hold temporarily. This has in some cases resulted in protracted

Editorial Comment: Egyptian president-elect Mursi deserves a chance

CLOSE to one and a half years after the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak last year, Egypt has a new leader, president-elect Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was elected by the people of Egypt through a democratic process.

Death toll in Nigerian gun battles hits 18

KANO — The death toll from gun battles between militants and police in northern Nigeria, wracked by Islamist and ethnic violence, rose to 18 yesterday, police said. Gunmen attacked five police posts and a

Mursi starts work, army dealt a blow

CAIRO — Egypt’s president-elect Mohamed Mursi pushed ahead yesterday with selecting a government, after a court delivered a blow to the ruling military by suspending its powers to arrest civilians. Egypt’s

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