Awards will be bestowed on a musician, a judge and a former chief of state of protocol, Billy Modise, during next week's 11th national orders ceremony. Modise, United States musician and singer Harry Belafonte and Chief Justice Pius Langa are
A police officer demanding R5 000 to make a copper-cable theft docket disappear was arrested at a Wimpy restaurant in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, on Thursday, police said. The 35-year-old constable was assigned to the case last week after a 42-year-old man
The Norwegian government will help South Africa and the City of Johannesburg ensure it has a "green 2010 Soccer World Cup". This was announced on Thursday by Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the venue for
No HIV infections through blood transfusions have been recorded since 2005, the South African National Blood Service said on Thursday. Chief executive Loyiso Mpuntsha said the use of nucleic acid amplification technology has successfully reduced to five days the window
The draft Expropriation Bill will undermine property rights and could scare off foreign investors, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Thursday. The proposed Bill, tabled on Wednesday, also goes against United Nations guidelines on eliminating racial discrimination, said party
A LABOUR Court judge has ruled that a textiles firm should pay a paltry $7 000,24 in retrenchment packages to workers dismissed over a decade ago in a case that has been criticised by the country's labour experts as a
ZIMBABWE'S beef industry, one of the prominent casualties of a controversial agrarian reform undertaken by the government in 2000, remains subdued, an industry player revealed.
FORMER Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) board chairman Charles Nherera, who was jailed in August 2006 for two years after he was found guilty of soliciting for bribes, has been released from prison.
EIGHTEEN local companies have made it into the top 50 of the region's highflying corporates despite a biting economic situation in their backyard, a survey conducted by African Business magazine shows.
Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) as an organisation has strength in its permanent deployment of two monitors in each electoral constituency of Zimbabwe ensuring a grassroots presence. ZPP monitors work in the communities of their ordinary residence, which gives ZPP the
At the time of writing President Mugabe is refusing to engage with his reasonably supine fellow southern African leaders, concerned about the crisis and lack of declared results from the presidential elections. Instead he has chosen the path he knows
There is a need for a healing of the nation. The process of national healing and reconciliation is unlikely to proceed as long as society is still polarized. In addition, without also addressing past crimes, corruption, marginalization and poverty, it
South Africa is not in the position to interfere with a shipment of weapons reportedly from China en-route to Zimbabwe which is currently docked at the Port of Durban, says Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, Aziz Pahad.
IT is a Saturday and, a ZANU-PF supporter stands at Magunje Growth point guarding a very large drum, brimming with enough sadza to feed dozens. "I vote for the fist," a message on his T-shirt proclaims.
LONRHO Plc could increase its exposure in the Zimbabwean economy, with chief executive officer Geoffrey White indicating that at least three acquisitions were in the pipeline.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) so-called emergency summit held in Lusaka last weekend in many respects mirrors the Zimbabwean elections of March 29 whose aftermath necessitated the heads of states' jamboree in the Zambian capital.
After failing to mobilise demoralised workers to stay home to press for the release of last month's presidential election results, Zimbabwe's opposition is now left with few options as seeks to put pressure on embattled President Robert Mugabe to concede
