Zimbabwean writer wins Caine Prize

Entertainment Reporter
One of Zimbabwe’s finest writers, NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. Bulawayo, who has

The strange silencing of liberal America

By John Pilger
HOW does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, “Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia”, was

Indian industrial output slow

NEW DELHI.
India’s annual industrial output growth slowed unexpectedly in May, data showed yesterday, in a further sign Asia’s third-largest

Singh criticised over cabinet reshuffle

NEW DELHI.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under renewed fire after he failed yesterday to make sweeping changes to his

German police nab runaway jumbos

BERLIN.
Two runaway circus elephants in Germany surprised passersby and police by showing up at a bus stop during a brief bid for

Oil demand to grow slower: OPEC

LONDON.
World oil demand is likely to grow more slowly in 2012 because of a fragile global economy and deepening decline in

France, Libya in official talks

PARIS.
French and Libyan officials talked up yesterday the chances of negotiating Muammar Gaddafi’s withdrawal from po-wer and

Tsvangirai: To think or not think before speaking

ONE telling public stance which has characteristically come to define Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s totally

Harare keen to adopt Namibian model

Municipal Reporter
HARARE City council is keen on adopting a housing model copied from Namibia, which puts emphasis on densification as

Govt redraws boundaries

Municipal Reporter
Government is redrawing boundaries to demarcate Zimbabwe’s chiefdoms following raging wars between and among different