adminUS Africa policy will remain imperialistic
Abayomi Azikiwe
With the re-election of Barack Obama as president of the leading imperialist state in the world, the foreign policy orientation of the second administration will continue along the same trajectory of
Juice, much ado about nothing
Tafara Shumba
The MDC formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai recently launched its long-awaited economic blueprint.Entitled Jobs, Upliftment, Investment, Capital and Ecology (Juice), the blueprint was not worth the
Editorial Comment: Society must kick out gender-based violence
Yesterday marked the end of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. Zimbabwe joined the world in observing these critical days set aside from November 25 to December 10 to denounceMP urges Swazi to hike witch doctor tax
A Swazi member of parliament has urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and soothsayers to help solve a funding crisis in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. The mediums, known asGovt commended for updates on Mandela
JOHANNESBURG — Information on former president Nelson Mandela’s admission to hospital is being made available quicker than previously, a Rhodes University academic said yesterday. “Last time thereSadc pledges troops for eastern Congo
DAR ES SALAAM — Southern Africa has pledged 4,000 troops to hold the ring in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but there is uncertainty about who will pay and when and
Robbers fatally shoot taxi driver, injure cop
Masvingo BureauTWO suspected armed robbers last week allegedly shot and killed a taxi driver along the Jerera-Chiredzi highway before shooting and seriously injuring a police officer who was trying to flee from the scene of
Man arrested for attempting to smuggle 19 kids
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge BureauPolice have arrested a 33-year-old Bulawayo man for attempting to smuggle 19 children aged between three and 17 into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post. The children had been collected from
Cop gets 10 years for raping paralysed woman
Senior Court ReporterA CHINHOYI police officer who raped a partially paralysed woman after dragging her into his brothers’ house on the pretext that he wanted to collect his cellphone was yesterday jailed for an effective 10
Sleeping man jumps out of bus, fatally crashes
Beitbridge BureauA 30-year-old man from Chiredzi died on the spot after he jumped off a moving bus along the Beitbridge-Masvingo Road. The incident occurred at around 10pm near Bubi village. It is understood that