adminPornography threatens family institution
Stanely Mushava Literature Today Book: Nothing to Hide Author: Joann Condie Publisher: Focus on the Family (2004) Pornography, chiefly visual material with an erotic command, has levelled a death-knell against the…
Bill accused again
A Florida woman who came forward last Thursday became the fourth in recent weeks to say Bill Cosby gave her pills that made her feel groggy then forced himself on…
S. Korea condemns DPRK nuclear war threat
SEOUL. — South Korea yesterday urged Pyongyang to stop any provocations or threats using conventional weapons or weapons of mass destruction. South Korean Foreign Ministry in a statement condemned the Democratic…
Bindura Nickel gets prescribed asset status
Business Reporter Government has granted Bindura Nickel Corporation a prescribed asset status for its $20 million bond. The development means that the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed company will go ahead to float…
Tourist fined for defacing Rome’s Colosseum
Rome. — A Russian tourist caught red-handed trying to carve his initials on a wall of Rome’s Colosseum was ordered on Saturday to pay a fine of €20 000, ANSA…
Kutyauripo, the custodian of cultural values
At the Bookstore With Elliot Ziwira CHINUA Achebe writes in “African Writers Talking” (1972:7) that: “. . . what I think a novelist can teach is something very fundamental, namely to…
Earthquake hits central Japan, flattens houses
Tokyo. — A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Japan late on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, causing houses to collapse and injuring at least 20 people, three seriously. The…
Mourinho voices faith in Chelsea
LONDON. — Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes it is too early to compare his current side with his title-winning teams of the past despite a record-breaking start to the English…
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Ze’ev Portner Correspondent AN African-American Jew working in the telecommunications industry in Jerusalem was asked by a very orthodox co-worker “whether in fact she was Jewish, as she didn’t look Jewish.”…
Boko Haram kills vendors in Nigeria
Kano. — Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria’s restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of the fish traders association told AFP yesterday. “Scores of…