Husband kills wife over sms

Herald Reporter
A 34-year-old Harare man allegedly killed his wife last week over a text message in her phone. Malvern Ndawana reportedly had an argument with his wife around midnight on Sartuday last week after he saw some text messages indicating his wife was having an extra marital affair. Police national

A must have guideline to success

Hope Chizuzu
Title: How The Mighty Fall
Author: Jim Collins
Publishers: Harper Collins
Year: 2009
Rarely do I get bowled over or better still, hit for a maximum in an over by writers of books whose roots are not in Africa. Not that I have a

Avoid overspill of Syrian conflict

Akudah Nsingo
It is really critical for the African Union to be part of a long-term peaceful solution for Syria as, after Damascus, the United States that has for long wanted to effect regime change in Zimbabwe and elsewhere, could use the Syrian precedence to intervene, militarily. It is also critical for the AU to

Armed robbers kill 20 in Nigeria

LAGOS. — Armed robbers opened fire on a group of people as they left prayers at a mosque in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna yesterday, killing about 20, a military spokesman said. A resident reported that the gunmen were disguised in police uniforms as they stormed the mosque in

2,2 million Australians living in poverty — report

CANBERRA. — A key welfare organisation said in a report released yesterday that more than 2,2 million Australians, or one in eight people, are living below the internationally accepted poverty line used to measure financial hardship in wealthy countries. Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS)

Morsi agrees to keep prosecutor-general

CAIRO. — Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday agreed to keep the country’s prosecutor-general in office, which ended a standoff with the country’s judiciary. In a statement released on Saturday, Egyptian presidency spokesman Yasser Ali said the Supreme Judicial Council petitioned Morsi

Russians directly elect governors

MOSCOW. — Russia welcomed its “single voting day” yesterday, with voters directly electing governors in five regions for the first time in eight years, the country’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) said. The direct gubernatorial elections took place at the Amur Region in the Far East, the Bryansk

Syrian army launches counter-strike

BEIRUT. — The Syrian army launched a counter-strike against rebels in the north yesterday, in a bid to wrest back control of positions lost in recent days, a monitoring group said. In the northwestern province of Idlib, much of which is now in rebel hands, the army used fighter jets to bombard

Iran scoffs at Israel’s air defences

TEHRAN. — Iran yesterday scoffed at Israel’s air defences as it confirmed Tehran had provided Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah with the sophisticated drone which overflew the Jewish state earlier this month. Iran’s “capabilities are very high and are at the disposal and service of Islamic

Let’s not tolerate greed, unilateralism in health sector

The country’s bid to achieve universal access to health services and meeting the Millennium Development Goals is in jeopardy if the greed and unilateralism within the health sector is not nipped in the bud. The health delivery system has borne the brunt of the sanctions for more than a

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