adminDoc tells pregnant woman pain was due to injury
A woman who was told her aches and pains were due to injuries from a car crash was astonished when she gave birth to a baby.African first ladies vow to intensify Aids fight
ADDIS ABABA. — African first ladies yesterday vowed to further intensify efforts in the campaign against HIV and AIDS, especially to the elimination of the mother to child transmission of HIV (eMTCT).Three abducted Kenyan workers safe in Somalia
NAIROBI. — The aid agency International Aid Services (IAS) yesterday said that the three Kenyan aid workers who were abducted last week in the restive northern Somalia are safe.
Over 900 000 affected in Chinese rainstorms
BEIJING. — Torrential rain last week affected about 750 000 people in central China’s Hunan province, the provincial flood control and prevention headquarters said yesterday.
Unite against poverty: Kaunda
LUSAKA. — Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda and one of the fulcrums for the struggle for independence on the African continent has advised current African leaders to embrace the spirit of unity in order to fight poverty, the Times of Zambia reported yesterday.Senior Syrian official refutes defection reports
DAMASCUS. — The former head of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon, Rustom Ghazali, refuted yesterday reports circulated on Arab TVs claiming his defection from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.Let’s have Zim’s revolutionary history in ‘flesh and blood’
Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabweans tout themselves, and are saluted by others abroad, as the most literate people on the African continent. That record makes them walk with a calculated swagger, flex their neck and cough with a genuine boost.
Former Israeli journalist appeals sentence
JERUSALEM. — Anat Kam, currently in prison for leaking secret military documents to a journalist, appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday in a bid to reduce her sentence.Indigenisation now on home stretch
Kurai Prosper Masenyama
THE publication of General Notice 280 of 2012 by the Ministry of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment outlining plans to extend the indigenisation policy to cover all important sectors beyond mining to include finance, tourism, entertainment, energy services, transport, communications and education has stirred a hornet nest.