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 who

China 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 to

Honduran 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 United

No 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 for

Trio caught selling stolen herbicides

Chinhoyi Bureau
Three 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

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