Malema speeding case handed over to national police

Johannesburg — Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema was still in police custody at 23:00 on Thursday after he was arrested for speeding, Gauteng traffic police said.

Angry India tells US ‘times have changed’

New Delhi — India angrily brushed aside fresh efforts yesterday by the United States to defuse a row over the arrest and strip-search of one of its diplomats, warning Washington…

Numsa cuts political ties with ANC

Johannesburg — Numsa, South Africa’s biggest union, will not support the ruling ANC in elections next year, its general secretary, Irvin Jim said yesterday, in a blow to President Jacob…

South-South Survival

Perspective Stephen Mpofu The chemistry of international dynamics is taking on an increasingly imperialistic, hegemonic tempo with even those in the West who were previously colonised taking a lead in…

Unveiling of Nkomo statue historic gesture by Govt

Opinion Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu The unveiling of Dr Joshua Nyongolo Nkomo’s statue at the intersection of Bulawayo’s Eighth Avenue and Main Street by President Mugabe tomorrow is a most welcome…

Comment: Using tax to discourage raw exports only way out

For a country to develop sustainably, it has to take near impossible sacrifices; forget immediate and typically less-enduring benefits and focus on more permanent ones.

Maintenance, men turn tables on women

Vaidah Mashangwa The issue of maintenance has suddenly taken a twist as more men seem to also claim maintenance from their former wives or partners. Traditionally if the father was…

Zim celebrates Dr Nkomo, unity

Gibson Mhaka   THERE is no doubt that calendars are replete with some events that we commemorate today, which happened many years ago and thousands of miles away, with little, if…

Should Mandela have done more?

Moses Magadza Nelson Mandela is indisputably an icon of resistance and his positive legacies should be evaluated alongside his negative legacies. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s founding president and world-acclaimed anti-apartheid…

Govt to regulate parastatals salaries

Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT is developing a framework that will regulate salaries, especially for top management in parastatals and local authorities as a way of reducing employment costs on those entities.