adminKagame to run for third term
KIGALI. — President Paul Kagame has nodded once again to leading his political party in the August 4 presidential elections. After congratulatory speeches from representatives of major political parties across Africa…
Raging forest fires kill 62 in Portugal
LISBON. — Raging forest fires in Portugal have killed at least 62 people, many of them burnt to death in their cars, the government said yesterday, in the country’s worst…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Double-booking NSS deplorable
THE Warriors started their 2019 AFCON campaign in impressive style, with a 3-0 hammering of Liberia at the National Sports Stadium on the 11th of this month, with skipper Knowledge…
Zim Cricket shatters the political walls of Albion
Robson Sharuko Senior Sports Editor ZIMBABWE’S cricketers left Scotland yesterday after a short tour pregnant with more political, than sporting, significance as the wall of shame erected by some British…
Africa’s stake in Brexit
Carlos Lopes Correspondent As Britain focuses on what its relationship with the European Union might look like once it leaves the bloc, sometime during 2019, the rest of the world…
A levy in the AU could be a step towards independence
Amandine Rushenguziminega Correspondent MANY scholars and critics have commented on the African Union’s (AU) financial dependence on external partners. As Oyoo Sungu said: “The AU has the bark of a bulldog, and…
Bloomsday homage to James Joyce
Stanely Mushava Literature Today To hear his contemporaries separately, James Joyce is either the literary equivalent of Albert Einstein or the pesky schoolboy. His hunger for controversy and avant-garde approach…
Reading allegories in fantasy literature
Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader “A reader lives a thousand times before he dies.” These the words of the “Game of Thrones” scribe George R.R. Martin. The books, now turned…
When race places a wedge in love’s eye
Elliot Ziwira @ The Book Store Imagine a world without boundaries, where love knows neither race nor ethnicity, where everyone else is a friend regardless of age or level of presumed…
Cremer credits defeat for comeback
ZIMBABWE captain Graeme Cremer believes their shock defeat to Scotland in the first ODI was important for his team to find itself and play to something close to its potential…