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Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter President Mugabe has promoted Air Force of Zimbabwe group captain, Ellen Chiweshe, to the rank of Air Commodore. She becomes the first woman to hold such…
What makes people love their country?
Blessing Musariri Shelling the Nuts The truth is, it is not an easy thing to pack up a life and take it elsewhere. Too much is lost in transition. It…
Three arrested in slaying of Mexico mayor
Mexico City. — Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican…
SA maize prices scale new peaks
JOHANNESBURG. — South African maize prices maintained their record run into 2016, scaling historic highs yesterday amid growing drought concerns and rand weakness.
How compromises, mistakes made in Mandela era hobbled SA’s economy
Alan Hirsch Correspondent Julius Malema has blamed policies put in place during Nelson Mandela’s era for the country’s high levels of inequality. He may have a point.
Sunshine Boys get down to business
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter HARARE City got their pre-season preparations off the ground when they roped in fitness expert Gerald Maguranyanga to engage the players on the first day of…
Chinese delegation expected today
Business Reporter A 12-member business delegation from the Qingdao province of China is expected in Zimbabwe today for a four-day visit which will include signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…
Africa faces increasingly expensive debt financing
NAIROBI. — Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa are facing increasingly expensive debt financing as favourable global and domestic conditions come to an end, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) said yesterday,…
Can growing lettuce in the clouds feed the world?
Tom Jackson Since off-season cucumbers were grown under “transparent stone” – an early version of the greenhouse – for the Roman Emperor Tiberius, we’ve been trying to bend Mother Nature…
DA in another racism storm
Johannesburg. — The Democratic Alliance is planning to pull Penny Sparrow’s membership, the party said yesterday. This after the KwaZulu-Natal woman compared black people to monkeys on her Facebook page…