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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remains concerned about the potential for escalating violence in Burundi and has reiterated his call for calm and restraint amid the African country’s simmering political tensions.
Coloniality perpetuates African poverty
Joram Nyathi Spectrum Coloniality is a concept said to have been advanced mostly by one Anibal Quijano to explain the legacy and damage caused to colonised peoples by their long…
Curiosa and curiosa
Perspective Stephen Mpofu In a pub far, far away at one extremity of mother earth two imbibers, both a little inebriated, take long respites from frothing half-full mugs of a…
Revenue from natural resources must fund varsities
Opinion Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu Reports that Zimbabwe state universities maybe instructed by the government to raise their own financial resources to pay their professional staff members and administrative personnel was…
KZN on high alert as snow is expected
Durban – KwaZulu-Natal traffic authorities were on high alert yesterday, expecting weather conditions in the province – where snow has already caused an accident – to worsen.
68 found in shipping container at UK port
London – British emergency services said yesterday they had found 68 people locked in a container at a port in south-east England, including two pregnant women.
Editorial Comment: Tregers retrenchment must be probed
THE Government recently came up with new regulations governing retrenchments in a bid to protect workers from unscrupulous employers that rush to retrench. According to the new regulations, retrenchment should…
Deadly bombing hits busy Nigeria market
At least 31 people have been killed in an explosion at a busy market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, an emergency official has said. The blast happened at…
Domestic violence: Role of the Church
Tapiwa Muzerengi Gender One may begin to wonder why God created men after creating all creatures on earth in Genesis 1 verse 26. It was God’s desire that a man…
Doctors perform first skull, scalp transplant
Austin – A man whose cancer left him with severe damage to the top of the head has received what his doctors in Houston describe as the first skull and…