Is love really worth dying for?
Love has often been described as a wonderful thing that every human being needs and yearns to find sometime in their lives. Even the great ancient philosopher Aristotle believed so much in love, which...
View ArticleUS, West’s inertia on Gaza smacks of hypocrisy
An injured girl is carried to a hospital in Rafah. — Getty PicturesBlessing Makwambeni A few days ago, Al Jazeera flighted a jarring and poignant image of a bloodstained but defiant Palestinian man...
View ArticleUS-Africa Leaders summit: Obama’s speed dating
The US-Africa Leaders Summit that brought together as many as 50 African leaders to Washington runs from August 4 to 8Correspondent THE first ever US-Africa Leaders summit which runs from August 4-8 in...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: 10 feared dead in accident
Passersby take a look at the wreckage of the Zupco bus while police keep guard on site. (Pic by Elita Chikwati)By Elita Chikwati Senior ReporterMore than ten people are feared dead after a Zupco bus...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Foreign Office Minister Resigns Over Gaza
Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has resigned saying she can no longer support the Government’s stance on Gaza. Lady Warsi, who is also Minister for Faith and Communities, announced her departure...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocks South Africa
JOHANNESBURG – An earthquake — originally thought to be just a tremor — was felt across most parts of South Africa early on Tuesday afternoon.It was reportedly also felt in Mozambique and...
View ArticleZBC salary cuts unlawful
Lawyers representing ZBC workers said the decision by the parastatal to unilaterally slash salaries to the levels of 2010 was unlawful and should be reversed immediately. In January ZBC, which had...
View ArticleUPDATED: 13 die in accident
Passersby take a look at the wreckage of the Zupco bus while police keep guard on site. (Pic by Elita Chikwati)Senior Reporter Thirteen people died in an accident while 18 others were seriously injured...
View Article13 perish in horror bus crash
A woman looks in disbelief at the wreckage of cross-border Zupco bus which plunged into a dry riverbed, killing 13 people along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway on Monday night. — (Picture by Justin...
View ArticleChombo turns down councillors’ allowances hike
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Dr Ignatius Chombo has shot down a request by Harare councillors to have their monthly allowances doubled....
View ArticleEDITORIAL COMMENT: At least for the people of Gaza
AT least something positive has come out of the US-Africa Summit underway in Washington DC, a 72 hour respite for the long suffering residents of the Gaza Strip manifest in the ceasefire called by the...
View ArticleHolding bay project faces hiccups
Senior Reporter Harare City Council’s project to move commuter omnibuses plying south-western suburbs-city routes to the holding bay along Coventry Road failed to take off yesterday as scheduled after...
View ArticleGovt commences Ebola specialists training
Paidamoyo Chipunza Health Reporter Government has started training of health personnel specialists to enable them to identify, contain and respond to the deadly Ebola virus as efforts to tighten...
View ArticleSA earthquake: Zim safe
Elita Chikwati Herald Reporter The Meteorological Services of Zimbabwe has assured people that they are safe from the earthquake that yesterday hit South Africa, killing a 31-year-old man in an old...
View ArticleZBC salary cuts illegal —lawyers
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Lawyers representing ZBC workers said the decision by the corporation to unilaterally slash salaries to the levels of 2010 was unlawful and should be reversed...
View Article‘Army committed to Zim-Asset success’
Lt-Gen Phillip Valerio SibandaFarirai Machivenyika and Susan Nyabunze Zimbabwe National Army commander Lieutenant-General Phillip Valerio Sibanda yesterday said the army will maintain a peaceful...
View ArticleChinese firm donates computers to Parly
Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Lin Lin (third from left) with Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma (right), Senate President Cde Ednah Madzongwe, Speaker of the National Assembly Cde Jacob Mudenda...
View ArticleEconet enhancing data connectivity
Technomag Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with the implementation of latest technology on fast data connectivity despite fears that Zimbabwe is not ready for such advancement. Econet`s chief...
View ArticleFinally, good question to Obama, but . . .
Barak ObamaTichaona Zindoga Senior Political Writer The sanctions were meant to make the economy of Zimbabwe “scream”, as Chester Crocker put it. To make the economy scream is to make the people, the...
View ArticleFactionalism a reality that cannot be ignored
Reason Wafawarova on Thursday There is no doubt that factionalism has a bearing on the stability of political parties, on the parties’ general institutionalisation processes, on their efficiency, as...
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