adminThe bane of foreign aid
Stephen Mpofu
Aid is sometimes vaunted to be the magic bullet to revive ailing economies. However, when manipulated by the giver into a tranquilliser dart, aid has the power to turn a country into a donor nation.EDITORIAL COMMENT: Let’s support our farmers, promote wheat production
The importance of wheat to Zimbabwe can never be taken for granted given that, when milled, it produces flour that is used in baking bread and other related products consumed by the majority of people.
How not to see Africa in 2012
Binyavanga Wainaina
Nairobi is a good place to be an international correspondent. There are regular flights to the nearest genocide and there are green lawns, tennis courts, good fawning service.
Murdoch maybe a demon, but the media is a junta
John Pilger
Australia is the world’s first murdochracy. US citizen Rupert Murdoch controls 70 percent of the metropolitan Press. He has monopolies in state capitals and provincial centres.
Castro visits China
HAVANA — Cuban leader Raul Castro left Havana on Sunday for official visits to China and Vietnam, the official Granma daily said yesterday.China confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak in Xinjiang
BEIJING — China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has reported an outbreak of H5N1 in poultry, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced yesterday.
Unlicensed cars stolen or smuggled — Zinara
Temba Dube
THOUSANDS of motorists who failed to beat the vehicle licence disc registration deadline on Saturday may have stolen or illegally imported the vehicles, the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) said yesterday.
EDITORIAL COMMENT:Solve civil servants’ salary issue once and for all
The Government is meeting all civil servants’ unions tomorrow to discuss salaries and conditions of service. This is a meeting, we want to believe, civil servants have been waiting for.
There are spies at Bosso: Kaindu
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
HIGHLANDERS coach, Kelvin Kaindu believes there is need for the team to change its playing tactics in order to start collecting maximum points in view of the last three games’ results.
Umguza experiences choral revolution
Bongani Ndlovu
UMGUZA Sinjalo Music Choir (USMC), a group sponsored by the area’s House of Assembly Member, Dr Obert Mpofu, has released a 12-track SiNdebele Chimurenga album entitled Khulumani Elikufunayo that is already making it on the country’s airwaves.