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Pretoria — Having learnt the lesson that bonus points lost are bonus points squandered, the Springboks will head into this year’s Rugby Championship knowing that every single point counts if…
Sadc trade clocks $58bn
From Patrick Chitumba in Victoria Falls REGIONAL trade within Sadc member states clocked $58 billion in 2012 from 13.8 billion in year 2000 following the adoption of the free trade…
BCC turns beergardens into factories
Business Reporter THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to turn its disused beergardens into factory shops to accommodate small businesses as it moves to tackle ballooning unemployment in the wake…
Israel, Gaza violence defies truce ‘deal’
Gaza City — Israeli jets bombed targets across Gaza early yesterday, retaliating to Palestinian rocket attacks in spiralling violence that left a truce extension teetering on the brink of collapse.
Pope calls for peace as N Korea tests rockets
Pope Francis has called for renewed efforts to forge peace on the Korean Peninsula as he opened a five-day visit to South Korea with a message of reconciliation, as North…
Brazil presidential hopeful dies in air crash
Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has died after a small plane carrying him and several campaign officials plummetted into a residential neighbourhood, throwing the October poll into disarray.
Infected Nigerian nurse skips Ebola quarantine
Abuja — A nurse who contracted Ebola at a Lagos hospital travelled to the eastern part of Nigeria before falling sick, raising fears of new infections outside the city, officials…
Spain, Italy struggle with surge in African migrants
Madrid — Spain and Italy struggled to cope Wednesday with a huge surge of African immigrants, plucking more than 2,300 people from flimsy vessels in just 24 hours as they…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Let’s create jobs for returning Zimbabweans
Southern Africa has witnessed a few phases of mass movement of labour over the past 75 years. Probably the first formal wide scale traffic was in the 1940s when the…
Council fails to hire nurses, engineers
Prosper Ndlovu Business Editor Bulawayo City Council has failed to fill 30 vacant nursing and three senior engineers’ posts despite getting the go-ahead from government as it does not have…