adminEDITORIAL COMMENT: Obama out of touch with Africa
THE much-vaunted “blunt message” on gay rights by United States President Barack Obama during his visit to Kenya has come and gone as he winds down his tour with a…
America’s new brutalism: The death of Sandra Bland
Henry Giroux Correspondent ON July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois, to take a new job as a college outreach officer…
Mwalimu: A true pan-Africanist
MWALIMU Julius Nyerere was very committed to the cause of African Unity. He worked hard with other African leaders to bring the newly independent countries closer together. He was one…
Can the African Union defeat Al-Shabaab?
Ty McCormick Correspondent African Union troops are having their “worst year” in Somalia since 2011. Can they still mount a final offensive against the al Qaeda-linked group? Somalia has been without…
Submitting to moral blackmail
Stephen Gowans Correspondent Kristen Ghodsee’s “The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe,” is a variegated reflection on socialism as practiced…
Chiyangwa wins Harare South land dispute
Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter— A housing development consortium which sold residential stands to over 20 000 people in Harare South has lost its bid in court to stop businessman Dr…
Corrupt cops to face the music
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Judgment in a case where two police officers stationed at Beitbridge Border Post are accused of making a duplicate receipt book which they used to collect fines…
Cuba marks 62nd anniversary
SANTIAGO. — Cuban leaders pledged to keep socialism alive but toned down the anti-US rhetoric at Cuba’s first national holiday since re-establishing diplomatic relations with the United States on July…
Six killed in Somalia hotel attack
MOGADISHU. — A car bomb exploded at a heavily guarded hotel in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu, leaving at least six people dead. “We have seen around six people killed,…
Chinyama rescues DeMbare
Ricky Zililo in Bulawayo— Highlanders . .. . . .. (1) 1 Dynamos . . . . . . . . (0) 1 THE nine years and no win for…