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The switch over in the last few months from payment by banknote to payment by plastic has brought many benefits, as Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa told…
Why the ANC still needs to lead
Gugu Ndima Correspondent The final push of campaigning for local government elections is probably the most effervescent as we watch a collage of PR campaigns play out in a scramble…
After Democrats’ celebration of militarism, US warplanes bomb Libya
Bill Van Auken Correspondent Last week at the Democratic National Convention, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama delivered lengthy speeches filled with platitudes and bromides, but they did not bother…
Gupuro, a token to end marriage
Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday A WOMAN in our village wants a gupuro from her husband because he has been away for five years. Her name is Mai Jasi. She…
Borderless Africa: Want that African e-Passport?
Regina Jere Correspondent To the majority of ordinary Africans, over a billion of them that is — the launch (and hullabaloo ) as of now, remains cloudy and calls for…
Death of so-called revolutionaries
Stephen Mpofu Correspondent Façade-democracy dies once adversarial pressure is mounted on it as a litmus test of its staying power. And so like façade democracy, façade-revolutionaries die the moment the enemies…
Nigerian man arrested in $60m e-mail scam
LAGOS. — A Nigerian accused of scamming $60 million from companies around the world through fraudulent e-mails has been arrested after months of investigation, Interpol and Nigeria’s anti-fraud agency said…
Pope ‘opens door’ to female deacons
VATICAN CITY. — Pope Francis yesterday appointed a commission to study the issue of female Church deacons in a move seen as a potential first step towards women entering the…
Erdogan accuses West of ‘supporting coup plotters’
INSTANBUL. — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday launched his most bitter attack yet on Turkey’s Western allies over the July 15 attempted putsch, accusing them of supporting both “terror” and…
Activists demand justice after Kenyan hacks off wife
DAKAR. — A Kenyan man who chopped off his wife’s hands with a machete because she had not conceived a child must face the full force of the law to…