adminTanzania death toll now 34
DAR ES SALAAM – The death toll from the collapse of a multi-storey building in Tanzania has risen to 34 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, a senior government official said yesterday.
South Korea vows to hit back if North attacks
SEOUL — South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned yesterday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the US deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.
Mandela messages of support left on stones
JOHANNESBURG — As former president Nelson Mandela moved into his fifth day in hospital yesterday, South Africans have left messages of support on stones surrounding plants outside Mandela’s Johannesburg home.DA petitions Zuma to withdraw forces from CAR
CAPE TOWN/BANGUI — The Democratic Alliance said yesterday it was tabling an urgent parliamentary motion to force President Jacob Zuma to withdraw all South African troops from the Central African Republic.Adviser to Libyan PM seized
TRIPOLI — An adviser to Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was grabbed from his car by unknown assailants on the outskirts of Tripoli on Sunday evening, a government source said.
M23 rebels slam UN
KINSHASA — The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday denounced as an act of war the UN approving to send its first-ever “offensive” peacekeeping brigade to the region.Odinga’s firm vandalised
NAIROBI — Offices of East Africa Spectre Limited, a company owned by the family of Prime Minister Raila Odinga were Sunday night vandalised by unknown people.
The attackers are said to have taken off with two trucks of gas cylinders worth over Sh3 million. According to Hudson Chitala, the technical manager of the Company, two night
Tobacco exports gross US$86m
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke
ZIMBABWE has so far earned more than US$86 million from the sale of 21,4 million kilogrammes of tobacco
ZSE reopens, focus on indices
Golden Sibanda Senior Business ReporterINVESTORS return to the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange today after the long Easter holidays with focus likely to be on which direction the indices are going to take.
Financial analysts also expect that investors would take a cue on how much and which stocks to invest in when more sets of financial results are released during the week.
Be more analytical, accountants told
Business ReporterMANY accountants could be wasting time and compromising the accuracy of their financial reports by spending too much time collecting data and dedicating little time to analysing the information, says a Sagel Pastel Business Centre specialist.