Tsvangirai distorting discourse

Hon Patrick A. Chinamasa, MP

MY attention as Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs in the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe has been drawn to a statement released to the media on June 13, 2013 by the Hon Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The Statement politically

Spare a thought for the disabled

Samson Muradzikwa

It was Nelson Mandela, in 1994 who once said, “There is no keener revelation of a society’s soul than how it treats its children!” The State of the World’s Children Report 2013 — launched on May 30 by the United Nations Children

African writers in the dock

Title: Decolonising the Mind
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Genre: Non-fiction
Written: 1986
Length: 113 pages

Ngugi wa Thiong’o famously began his writing career writing in English (publishing under the name “James Ngugi”). He had considerable success, but eventually turned to writing in his mother tongue, Gikuyu (though he did translate

MDC-T violence flares

AN MDC-T activist Ernest Banda had his home in Highfield, Harare petrol-bombed in the early hours of Friday in a suspected case of intra-party violence ahead of the party’s primary elections on

Man claims child dead to evade maintenance

Court Reporter
A Harare man last week told a Harare civil court magistrate that his former wife was claiming an upward variation of maintenance fees for a dead child, but the magistrate was sure the child was alive and ordered him to pay up. Cladwin Chasukwa

UFI pastor nabbed for illegally dealing in gold

Senior Court Reporter
A United Family International Church pastor who was nabbed for possessing nine grams of gold last week appeared in court for dealing in gold without a licence.
James Mwarira (25) was arrested at a jewellery

‘No legal basis for poll date extension’

Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has no legal basis to approach the Constitutional Court seeking an extension to the July 31 poll date order that it has already complied with, legal experts have said. They said the appeal to President Mugabe,

Chaos as MDC-T members revolt

Bulawayo Bureau
PLACARD-waving and slogan-chanting MDC-T members yesterday revolted against the party’s decision to have a re-run of primary elections in Emakhandeni constituency. Ward 10 councillor Prince Dube won the right to represent

Dr Nkomo memorial preparations on

Bulawayo Bureau
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province will next month host a special week to commemorate the life of the late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Bulawayo provincial chairman Professor Callistus Ndlovu announced at a press conference last

Plumtree-Mutare highway on target

Herald Reporter
REHABILITATION and widening of the Plumtree-Mutare highway, one of the two critical highways bisecting Zimbabwe, should be complete by April next year, the Zimbabwe National Road Administration has said. The authority’s chief

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