Know your author: Claude Mararike
Marcia Gore
Professor Claude Gumbucha Mararike is a lecturer in rural development, indigenous knowledge and the Sociology of Mass communication in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe.Touts must not be allowed back
IT appears the progress that had been made in restoring order at bus terminuses and bus ranks is slowly being undone. It is just a pity that after cleansing the ranks of touts and rank marshals whoChina sees coldest weather in 28 years
BEIJING. — Temperatures recorded since the end of November 2012 have marked the lowest temperatures to hit China in 28 years, the China Meteorological Administration said on Saturday.Assad offers own roadmap for Syria
DAMASCUS. — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday put forward his own roadmap for a political solution to the country’s 22-month-old crisis, which is based on halting the international support toHonduran ambassador sacked after wild party
LONDON. — The Honduran ambassador to Colombia has been sacked after a wild Christmas party at the embassy in Bogota. Ambassador Carlos Rodriguez has been told to resign “to safeguard relations with‘State of Palestine’ is born
RAMALLAH. — The Palestinian president has ordered his government to officially change the name of the Palestinian Authority to “State of Palestine”. The move follows the November decision by the UnitedNo wedding plans for Zuma: Presidency
JOHANNESBURG. — There is no truth in newspaper reports that another wedding for President Jacob Zuma is a possibility, the presidency said yesterday. “The presidency has noted media speculation about
Global imbalance, growth in China
Li Yang
If we want to use one word to depict global economy in the past decade, it must be “imbalance”. That is, on the one hand, some developed countries, especially United States, maintain a persistent
For whom the war bill tolls
Stephen Gowans
The US$1 trillion-plus Iraq and Afghanistan wars were the first US wars since the American Revolution to have been fought without a general tax increase to cover them. Without tax increases to pay forTrio caught selling stolen herbicides
Chinhoyi BureauThree men have been arrested after they were found selling herbicides, pesticides and fertiliser in Karoi town, hours after a break in at a farm storeroom in the same town. The investigation of a reported case


