Editorial Comment: Cadetship scheme deserves full support

All education costs money, and quality tertiary education is easily the most expensive. Yet Zimbabwe needs an educated population, and especially needs a good, regular flow of graduates in all disciplines and subjects. So a lot of money is needed.

Feting Barabas, punishing the innocent

Stephen Gowans
Canada has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, a country it decries as “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” and it has done so as part of the Harper government’s

Palestinian government employees protest cost of living

RAMALLAH. — More than a thousand Palestinian government employees protested outside the office of prime minister Salam Fayyad yesterday over the rising cost of living, an AFP correspondent said. The

Brics bloc brings new dynamic

Johannesburg. — The Brics bloc has introduced a new dynamic to the world’s political and economic systems, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Monday. “We (Brics) also

Hague in Cairo for talks on Egypt, Syria

CAIRO. — British Foreign Secretary William Hague is to hold talks on Syria and post-revolution Egypt during a meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi yesterday, his office said. Hague, on

3 killed in Kenya plane crash

MOMBASA. — Three people among them two Kenyan soldiers died while one person was seriously injured on Monday night in a plane crash at Kenya’s coastal town of Lamu, the military confirmed yesterday.

S Korea, Japan in propaganda war

SEOUL. — Just days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged South Korea and Japan to cool tensions over a territorial island dispute, both countries geared up yesterday for a propaganda war over

500 Tshovani villagers besiege farmhouse

George Maponga Masvingo Bureau
More than 500 villagers from Tshovani communal lands in Chiredzi have joined their chief at a

Council orders eviction of over 30 families

Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
The Harare City Council has ordered the eviction of more than 30 families from the dilapidated

Chegutu repairs roads

Chinhoyi Bureau
Chegutu Municipality has embarked on a road rehabilitation programme after buying dumper trucks, a grader and a pneumatic roller. The equipment was bought using a US$2 million grant from Government

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