adminInsiza villagers build school
Prosper Ndlovu Senior Reporter VILLAGERS from Insiza North’s Amazon resettlement area have embarked on a project to build a primary school and are seeking assistance to speed up construction work.…
Mwenezi man commits suicide over wife’s infidelity
Masvingo Correspondent A 45-year-old man from Mwenezi in Masvingo committed suicide by taking poison when he found his wife in bed with another man. In an inquest conducted at Mwenezi…
MDC-T abandons primary elections
Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Correspondent MDC-T–primary elections for Gweru urban were abandoned for the second time yesterday after some aspiring councillors reportedly blocked the election, arguing that the venue was not…
Tsvangirai acting like paid piper
Martin Stobart ZIMBABWE as a nation seems to be drifting from one “problem” to another. I use inverted commas deliberately in order to indicate that the problems are not real…
Councils must make houses affordable to residents
Most urban local authorities are battling to clear housing backlogs and the situation has been worsened by the shrinking revenue base for most councils. Industries which used to be the…
Mandela on life support – report
Johannesburg — Former president Nelson Mandela is believed to be on life support as he remains in a critical condition in a Pretoria hospital, according to a report yesterday. The…
Australian PM loses party leadership vote
Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, has been unseated by intra-party rival Kevin Rudd as the Labour Party leader. Gillard lost a snap party ballot yesterday, which she had called…
Obama, Karzai discuss Taliban impasse
Doubts persist over the fate of planned peace talks with the Taliban, despite the US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai discussing ways to move forward the…
Morsi to make his move as protests loom
Cairo — President Mohammed Morsi spooke to the Egyptian people yesterday in a televised address that could determine his political survival as millions prepare to rally to demand his removal…
Topless Tunisia activists’ trial resumes
Tunis — The Tunisian appeals trial of three European women from the radical protest group Femen, jailed for baring their breasts, resumed yesterday, with their lawyers hoping to avoid another…