Editorial Comment: Time to rethink on incentives, extra lessons
The decision by Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora to ban incentives and extra lessons divided opinion among the public. Some were vociferous in their support for the…
Bulawayo Show returns to big screen
Bongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent POPULAR animated comedy series the Bulawayo Show is back on the silver screen after a sold out premiere in the city last month. The second movie…
Mothers duo ready for SA
Simbarashe Mutizwa Showbiz Reporter THE cast of Mothers – Sarah Mpofu-Sibanda and Mussa Sibanda – last week gave theatre lovers a feel of the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo with a…
Generations off air till December
LOCAL followers of popular South African soapie Generations will have to enjoy the last seven episodes of their favourite soap after SABC announced the show would no longer be screened…
Official commits suicide
Chinhoyi Bureau A SENIOR officer in the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in Chinhoyi committed suicide by plunging headfirst from a second floor after allegedly stealing from his…
Gwanda dominates EMA schools debate
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent SCHOOLS from Gwanda District-Mtshabezi and Gwanda high schools – are this year’s Matabeleland South Provincial champions in the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) schools’ debate with optimism…
America created Al-Qaeda and ISIS
Garikai Chengu MUCH like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing…
92 bodies found in Sierra Leone
NINETY-TWO bodies and at least 56 new infections have been discovered in Sierra Leone during a nationwide Ebola lockdown. The three-day lockdown came into effect on Friday and is aimed…
Syrian Kurds call for assistance as thousands flood into Turkey
KURDISH militants in Turkey have issued a new call for arms to defend a border town in northern Syria from advancing Islamic State fighters, and the Turkish authorities and United…
Pope: Don’t use religion for violence
TIRANA – Pope Francis denounced how religion has been “perverted” to justify violence as he arrived in Albania to highlight a Balkan nation that endured brutal religious oppression but where…






