HARARE — SW Radio Africa’sexposést the ZANU-PF MP for Mudzi West, Aquilinah Katsande as a killer. Between April and June 2008, she orchestrated a reign of terror that left many people with terrible stories to tell about her brutality.
Zimmetro — Today, I would like to announce that Dalumuzi Mhlanga is one of three winners of the 2011 College Social Innovator Contest—hosted jointly by the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative and the Common Good column at Forbes.com. The following winning essay is written by Mhlanga, an undergraduate student at Harvard College
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta cautioned global rivals on Sunday not to misjudge U.S. plans to slash military spending over the next decade, saying America would still field the world’s strongest military and nobody should “mess with that.”
HARARE — One of the best laws that our country has put in place in recent years is the total ban on the importation of second-hand underwear.
HARARE — In the evening gloom, the vast complex emerges into view. Beyond a high security wall, insects dance in the beam of a giant floodlight. Men are still hard at work in the skeletons of concrete tower blocks, and standing at the centre of it all is the arch of a Chinese pagoda.
Zimmetro — As clock struck 00:00AM in Hawaii and French Polynesia, the world’s last time zone entered the year 2012. From New Zealand to New York, Beijing to London, the world eagerly welcomed a new year Sunday with confetti-filled celebrations, glittering fireworks displays and star-studded festivities.
Zimmetro — I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leaders of our country, to you not just as one of the leaders of Zimbabwe, but above all, as Prime Minister of the Government of Zimbabwe as provided for by the Constitution, that you and me, as well as other leaders signed in December 1979.
HARARE — Musician, philanthropist and businessperson Tendai Mupfurutsa has died. He was 54. Affectionately known as “Prince Tendai”, the musician died at Dalfan Clinic in Borrowdale on Tuesday night after a long battle with a motor neurone disease that affected his mobility and speech after his Mercedes Benz sports utility vehicle was involved in an accident last year. Alex Goho, a family friend, confirmed the death, describing it as another sad chapter not only to the Mupfurutsa family, but also to the business community and the music industry at large.
Zimmetro — The world continues to be spooked by what Saudi Arabia dispersed to its children throughout the national curriculum. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there was an intense focus on Saudi Arabia and its educational teachings because almost all of the attackers were from the kingdom. Observers found widespread controversial, hate-incited and inflammatory languages in Saudi school textbooks, and pressed the issues to the helm of Western governments.
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions for his isolated communist nation dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69. Kim’s death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
