adminMalaga face Borussia Dortmund
PARIS — Debutants Malaga have toppled European soccer giants AC Milan and Porto on their way to the Champions League quarter-finals and have another former winner in their sights when they host Borussia Dortmund tonight.
Drogba back at Madrid
PARIS — The wheel will have come full circle for Galatasaray forward Didier Drogba when he takes to the pitch for tonight’s Champions League soccer quarter-final first leg match at Real Madrid.
Zuma rejects criticism of CAR mission
PRETORIA. — South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday defended his decision to send troops to the Central African Republic, saying 13 soldiers killed by rebels there had died fighting for Pretoria’s foreign policy, not his party’s business interests.
‘Police provoked miners’
RUSTENBURG. — Crowd-control experts would testify that police conduct had provoked striking Marikana miners, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard yesterday
“Acts of force, like what happened here, putting a razor wire (between police and protesters) was or can be considered highly provocative,” said George Bizos for the Legal
DPRK to start nuclear operations
PYONGYANG/BEIJING/SEOUL. — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said yesterday it has decided to restart operations at the Nyongbyon nuclear complex.
A spokesman for the General Department of Atomic Energy told the official KCNA news agency that the country will “readjust” and “restart” all nuclear facilities at the complex,
Malawi turns to courts over Tanzania dispute
LILONGWE. — President Joyce Banda has said that Malawi was giving up on mediation efforts and would take to the courts to settle a long-dormant border dispute with Tanzania, which has been re-activated by prospects of an oil find.
Unpacking referendum vote
Tau Tawengwa
I note with interest a recently published post-referendum report by the Election Resource Centre entitled: “‘Miracle Votes’ — An analysis of the March 2013 Referendum.”
Europe’s egoism destroyed Africa
Panganai Kahuni
History tells us that Africa as a sovereign continent lived peacefully before the coming of the murderous and inhuman Europeans. Although there were tribal wars dotted across the continent, the levels of anarchy were not as disastrous as compared to the days the Europeans enslaved and later colonised mother Africa.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: End the tolerance on our country’s roads
Fifty people died on Zimbabwe’s roads over Easter, almost all of them because a driver decided to have a few drinks before racing off, or because a driver was speeding, or because a driver failed to give way, or because a driver was chatting on a mobile phone instead of looking at the road, or because a driver committed some other criminalRay J, Teairra Mari rekindle
RAY J and Teairra Mari are now dating.The two R&B singers rekindled their old flame after dating briefly in 2008.