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NEW YORK. – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the international body has a “moral responsibility” to help Haiti end a devastating cholera epidemic, which was allegedly brought to the Caribbean…
Obituary – Nadine Gordimer: Laureate exposed toll of South Africa’s apartheid
Nobel prize-winning South African writer who spoke out against apartheid and racial inequality. SOUTH Africa has produced several writers of stature in the past half century, but few have approached…
Maize deliveries to GMB rise 231percent
Business Reporters MAIZE deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board have risen 231 percent since the beginning of the 2014 marketing season in April, a senior Government official said. Farmers have…
Copa fever sweeps over Harare schools
Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter HARARE province have declared they are ready to host the national finals of the Copa Coca-Cola boys Under-16 and girls Under-17 football tournament slated for this…
Govt works on industrial relations framework
Peter Matambanadzo recently in VICTORIA FALLS Government is working on establishing the Zimbabwe National Productivity Institute, an industrial relations framework that seeks to deal with collective bargaining, workers remuneration as…
Chinese businessman in trouble
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter A Chinese businessman based at Longcheng Plaza has been arrested after he allegedly tried to rape two women he had duped into believing there were…
Cheapening the police force, its authority
Ignatius Mabasa The Column THERE is a generation of black people that remembers a lot of dehumanising and brutal things that colonialism did to them, and their long-term effects. Paradoxically,…
Ban contraceptives: Mudede
Herald Reporter Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede has urged Government to ban contraceptives which he claims have negative side-effects on women’s health. In an interview yesterday, Mr Mudede said he had…
DPRK fires 100 shells into disputed waters
SEOUL. – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) yesterday fired some 100 rounds of artillery shells into its eastern waters from a region just north of the military demarcation…
Marikana was a tragedy, says ex-police minister
PRETORIA. – The shootings and deaths at Marikana should not have happened in a democratic South Africa, former police minister Nathi Mthethwa said yesterday. “Whatever happened there was not supposed…