adminBid to evict pregnant wife fails
Court ReporterA Harare man who attempted to bar his pregnant wife from coming back to their matrimonial home had his application for a protection order thrown away by a city magistrate.
HIV-positive man kills self over sex
Freeman Razemba Crime ReporterA Chitungwiza man believed to have been HIV-positive, allegedly burnt himself to death in protest over being denied conjugal rights by his estranged wife.
Security reform not GPA issue
The publication of American diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks exposed the sinister motives behind the American government’s drive towards a programme of “reforming” (read weakening) the security sector in Zimbabwe to pave way for regime change in which the US government would install an MDC-T puppet regime.How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Sabrina Smiley Book reviewWalter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, is a classic of anti-imperialist literature. At the core is the concept of development and contemporary Marxism as the main theoretical underpinning. Both concept and theory is utilized to explore, evaluate and explain the historical
Sun setting on British imperialism
Pankaj Mishra
Scuttling away from India in 1947, after plunging the jewel in the crown into a catastrophic partition, “the British”, the novelist Paul Scott famously wrote, “came to the end of themselves as they were”.
Work on Inga Dam to begin in 2015
PARIS. — Work on the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam will start in October 2015 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a statement said in Paris after talks between DRC and international officials.Spies hanged in Iran
TEHRAN. — Two Iranian spies working for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were hanged in Iran yesterday morning, the state IRIB TV said.Soldiers seal roads as offensive spreads
KANO. — Nigerian soldiers yesterday sealed roads heading out of a key north-eastern city, blocking supply routes to remote towns where Boko Haram Islamists have taken power as a massive offensive against the insurgents spreads across the region.Divorced Briton slits children’s throats
LYON. — French police yesterday were questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two young children, judicial officials said.The bodies of the two children aged five and 10 were discovered on Saturday afternoon in his apartment in Saint-Priest,