adminBerdych wins apology
PRAGUE. — Czech tennis star Tomas Berdych won an apology on Saturday from the public Czech News Agency (CTK) which had alleged the world number seven’s name had appeared in…
Go well Cde Mwashita, you fought good fight
Correspondent Go ye well gallant fighter and brave comrade. Your blood has, indeed, watered the Zimbabwe flag as we used to sing during the war. You have fought your fight.…
SPB boss sent on forced leave
Lloyd Gumbo Senior Reporter— THE State Procurement Board has sent its principal officer Mr Cledwyn Nyanhete on indefinite forced leave as investigations into the operations of the board under former chairperson…
Mourinho still jobless
LONDON. — Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has not signed a contract with anybody, he said on Saturday, but expects to be back in football in time for the start…
Nation mourns heroine Chitepo •Burial slated for Wednesday •Condolences continue pouring in
Felex Share and Tendai Rupapa— ZANU-PF Central Committee member Cde Victoria Chitepo who died last Friday will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday. Cde Chitepo (88), the widow…
Arsene Wenger concedes defeat
LONDON. — Sam Allardyce has told old enemy Arsene Wenger that he has missed his best chance of regaining the English Premier League soccer title. Big Sam’s relegation-threatened Sunderland side lost…
Writing the harrowing lives of African children
Christopher Farai Charamba Literature Today I am a huge fan of short stories. Often they have a single exquisitely described setting, a limited number of characters who you immediately get…
‘Brussels’ attackers planned 2nd France assault’
PARIS. — The attackers who struck Brussels on March 22 initially planned to launch a second assault on France, Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office said yesterday. But the perpetrators were “surprised by…
Food shortages re-ignite GMO concerns
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story AS hunger stalks the land, forcing Government to seek to import more than 700 000 tonnes of the maize to feed 4 million people, we find…
Inside southern Libya’s lawless people smuggling hub
Tom Westcott Correspondent As warmer weather brings calmer seas, more and more migrants are setting off again from the Libyan coast in smugglers’ boats bound for Italy. Eight vessels containing 1…