Editorial Comment: Tsvangirai must substantiate election rigging claims

WHILE other candidates be they presidential, national assembly or local authority aspirants are busy campaigning by selling their policies to the electorate, MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai is doing the opposite, selling violence and despondency

Mambo, larger than life character

Tumeliso Makhurane
Very rarely does one’s life get so intertwined with that of an institution, to a point where one’s mention of either party is evocative of the other. Such was the association of the legendary Paul Mambo with the Sunday News, a newspaper that he worked for since

What constitutes free, fair poll?

Emilia Zindi
In eight days Zimbabweans go to the polls which will be overseen by hundreds of foreign and local observers. And the burning question for some seems to be whether “the stage is set for a free and fair election’’. Already, the usual suspects, among them the

Zim elections and NWO conspiracy

Paul T. Shipale
In Zimbabwe, the campaign season has begun. On July 4th 2013, the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe confirmed that harmonised elections would be held on July 31, 2013. Special voting for people on national duty and members of the uniformed

How media have been used to create a counter-revolution

Mabasa Sasa
MALCOLM X once remarked: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” And to a great extent it seems as if this is the tragedy that Zimbabwe

MDC-T losing social network battle to Zanu-PF

MDC-T is losing the social network “battle” to Zanu-PF and the Internet is now awash with strong campaigns from the revolutionary party. While Zanu-PF campaigns were virtually non-existent online in 2007-8, they dominate the internet only

89 dead, 5 missing in China quake

LANZHOU — The death toll has climbed to 89, with 5 others still unaccounted for, in an earthquake that hit north-west China’s Gansu Province yesterday morning, local authorities said. As of 6 pm on Monday, 87 people in the city of Dingxi and two in the

UAE pardons Norwegian woman

DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has pardoned a Norwegian woman who was sentenced to jail for illicit sex after she reported being raped by a colleague while on a visit to Dubai, the Norwegian foreign minister said yesterday. Marte Deborah Dalelv (24) had been

Snowden may leave airport soon

Moscow — Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Moscow airport and move to the city centre, his Russian lawyer said yesterday. Anatoly

Judge sets first hearing in Detroit bankruptcy case

DETROIT — A federal court judge has set the first hearing in Detroit’s bankruptcy case for tomorrow to take up the city emergency manager’s request to put state lawsuits challenging the bankruptcy filing on hold. US Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven

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