Headlands petrol-bomb victim discharged

Freeman  Razemba in RUSAPE
ZANU-PF leader for ward 21 in Headlands Cde William Chapepa who was allegedly petrol-bombed and injured by an MDC-T official was yesterday discharged from Rusape General Hospital where he had been admitted for the past two weeks.

(EDITORIAL COMMENT) ZACC: Who will watch the watchers?

Corruption can generally be defined as abuse of office or trust for personal gain. It is moral deviation from ideal conduct. This cancer manifests in many activities among them bribery and embezzlement.

Helicopters collide

BERLIN. – Two helicopters clipped each other and crashed as they landed in a snowstorm near Berlin’s Olympic Stadium during a federal police exercise yesterday, leaving one person dead and several injured, German authorities said.

The parcel that shook the village

Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust, or Guruve, the heavist of all rains does not wash off the spots of a leopard. There, scars are reminders of the past and there, no sun sets without its own history.

Don’t criticise South Africa, says Zuma

PAARL. – South Africans should stop talking their country and its economy down, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.
Speaking at a Human Rights Day commemoration ceremony in Mbekweni township, near Paarl in the Western Cape, he told his audience: “We need to take a more balanced view

Women prove they can do it

Women can handle any demanding job and do it well.

India gets tough on rape

NEW DELHI. – India’s Parliament passed a sweeping new law yesterday to protect women against sexual violence in response to a fatal December gang rape and beating of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi.

South-South the way to go

In a world of political and economic giantism where small countries refusing to kow-tow to big brother are punished for that, any hope bridging the yawning gap between an obscenely rich North and a miserably poor South remains a pipe-dream in the prevailing circumstances.

Nakedness of European hypocrisy

It cannot be disputed that the West who are defenders of capitalism have been exposed in what transpired in Kenya. The ascendance of Uhuru Kenyatta to Kenya’s highest office, Michael Sata in Zambia and Nkosazana Dhlamini-Zuma becoming the chairperson of the African Union are all arguably ushering a new era in the way in which Africa is developing. Are we going to witness an Africa that is going back to following the principles of the founding fathers of the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union.

The siege and terrorism

In his 2011 book Crisis in Korea: America, China and the Risk of War, Tim Beal writes, “The Americans, and their friends and allies, tend to have a disengaged attitude toward sanctions — disengaged both ethically and in terms of causality. Sanctions are, after all, but the modern version of the age-old military tactic of the siege. The aim of the siege is to reduce the enemy to such a state of starvation and deprivation that they open the gates, perhaps killing their leaders in the process, and throw themselves on the mercy of the besiegers.”

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