KHAMA BILLIAT ISN’T A SAINT, BUT HE IS BY NO MEANS A DEVIL

Sharuko on Saturday ON November 13, 1861, an American priest, Reverend M R Watkinson sent a letter to the United States Treasury, petitioning the department to add a powerful statement…

Editorial Comment: Let’s back Chunga’s Kidznet dream

THE Young Warriors ended their nightmarish 2017 Cosafa Under-17 Cup adventure in Mauritius without a single point to their credit after losing all their three group matches. Coach Moses Chunga…

On Kariba’s shores

Lifestyle Writer The breeze from Lake Kariba sifts through rooms at Caribbea Bay Resort to announce the arrival of a new day. The resort, which is on the shores of…

WB sets aside $600m for Zambia

LUSAKA. – The World Bank has set aside $600 million for Zambia to invest in agriculture, energy, rural roads and budget support over the next three years.

FOOTBALL RETURNS HOME

Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter THE capital’s two biggest football clubs — CAPS United and Dynamos — will lead the way as the Castle Lager Premiership road show returns to Rufaro…

Africa’s ancient kingdoms through the eyes of Africans

EARLIER this year secessionist group, Bundu dia Kongo (BDK)’s self-styled leader, Ne Muanda Nsemi, was imprisoned in the Makala jail, Kinshasa, for allegedly insulting President Joseph Kabila and for inciting…

Authorities seize 3 tonnes of pangolin scales in Cote d’Ivoire

ABIDJAN. – Authorities in Cote d’Ivoire have seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales worth an estimated $82 000, in what officials on Thursday called a “massacre”.

‘Zim inundated with grain import inquiries’

Elita Chikwati THE INTERVIEW Farmers have already started delivering grain to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) with volumes intensifying every week. Our Senior Agriculture Reporter, Elita Chikwati (EC) talks to…

Colonial dinosaur refuses extinction

Stephen Mpofu Correspondent Many decades after African countries successively romped home in independence elections to break the yoke of colonialism, it could take many more decades for the European colonial…

Granny (69) takes a crack at literacy

Leroy Dzenga Features Writer She clutches to a pencil as though her life depends on it. Semi-circles and linear drawings dominate her characters. As expected of a Grade One pupil,…

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