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Iran and six world powers plan expert-level talks next week to work out details of implementing a breakthrough agreement for Tehran to curb its disputed nuclear programme in return for…
Pope creates agency to tackle sex abuse
Pope Francis will establish a special commission to help protect children from sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, the archbishop of Boston announced on Thursday.
Comment: Mandela: A man who made positive global impact
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically-elected President had been ill for the past four years or so. He received the best medical attention South Africa could offer. Due to his…
Zimbabwe on threshold of economic boom
Stephen Mpofu The impact of foreign aid from the rich North to the poor South can crack smiles on shrunken faces, or it can turn faces into chopped steak.
Mandela’s greatness may be assured, but not his legacy
John Pilger When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited…
Zimbabwe: Beggars should not go for luxury
Joram Nyathi Once upon a time there was a man, one Hon David Coltart. He declined a ministerial Mercedes Benz on his appointment as Education Minister. This gesture elicited sneers…
Mandela legacy: Peace, but poverty for many blacks
IN the 10 years after he withdrew from public life, Nelson Mandela divided his time between a mansion in one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest suburbs and his ancestral home in Qunu,…
Goche quashes civil servants bonus rumours
Pamela Shumba Chronicle Reporter ALL civil servants will receive their bonuses this year, Public Service Minister Nicholas Goche said yesterday, quashing rumours that some government workers could miss out on…
President to grace Nkomo statue unveiling
Prosper Ndlovu Senior Reporter THE government yesterday released the programme for the official unveiling of the late Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s statue at the intersection of Main Street and 8th…
Mzila Ndlovu fights for freedom
Leonard Ncube Court Reporter MOSES Mzila Ndlovu, a former co-minister who threatened to shoot two firewood poachers before allegedly robbing them of $365, car keys, a cellphone and identity documents,…