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CAPE TOWN. – President Jacob Zuma has told cabinet that he doesn’t own a house in Dubai. The Sunday Times published a report alleging that recently leaked e-mails confirmed that a…
Hichilema to remain in custody
LUSAKA. – Zambia’s opposition leader and UPND president Hakainde Hichilema and five others will face a High Court trial over treason charges and remain in police custody, a magistrate ruled…
SA homes torched
CAPE TOWN. – Up to 10 000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said. Military equipment was…
Britain votes in shadow of terror
LONDON. – Britons streamed to the polls for the third time in two years yesterday after a campaign overshadowed by terror attacks and the uncertainty of Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa May…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Success comes with commitment
The year continues to be very promising for Zimbabwe, for it is a year when the nation is coming out of the woods to take its rightful position on the…
Rigging by recommendation
Joram Nyathi Spectrum The inimitable Nathaniel Manheru opined last week in his Saturday column that Zimbabwe faced a real prospect of a national by-election next year. That’s instead of a…
UK and the needless election
Marina Hyde Correspondent The 2017 general election campaign for yesterday’s snap election was Theresa May v Jeremy Corbyn — a battle between two leaders whose personal appeal is what might…
Cde Patrick Zhuwao is out of order
Tichaona Zindoga Political Editor Recent utterances by Zanu-PF Politburo member and Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Cde Patrick Zhuwao, that “Zanu-PF (is) full of idiots” (The Standard, May 14,…
The phoenix must rise again
Victoria Ruzvidzo In Focus The World Bank has revised the country’s economic growth projection to 2,5 percent from 3,8 percent earlier in the year while the African Development Bank was…
Zim changing Africa’s social climate
Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye While US-EU imperialism’s global media apparatus and its neo-colonialist converts made a feeble yet predictable attempt to mock President Mugabe’s visit to Cancun, Mexico, for the…