GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWEAN police on Sunday detained for more than two hours the opposition candidate in a fiercely contested by-election, marred by widespread violence during months of campaigning. The vote to replace the late MP and minister Border Gezi, who was a close aide of President Robert Mugabe, is widely considered a […]

THE Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest country outlook for Zimbabwe on Tuesday that the country’s GDP was estimated to have contracted by 6% in 2000 and was forecast to contract by 5,6% in 2001. Initially the main factor behind the slowdown was the overvalued exchange rate, which caused foreign currency shortages, made […]

THREE women have been raped and hacked to death with an axe in their house in Walmer township near Port Elizabeth in South Africa, reports said on Saturday. Their bodies were found early Saturday after a woman who lives nearby noticed blood on their doorstep and called for help, SABC public television news reported. “I […]

DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to the Sunday Times, the Pan Africanist Congress and the police are trying to find out what Daniel Ngwenya did with the R25 a head contributions he took from landless people, precipitating the recent Bredell land invasion. The invasion hammered both the rand and PAC credibility. The Scorpions […]

A NORTHERN Province man dubbed the “lover’s lane” serial killer was handed seven life sentences and an additional 45 years in a packed Thohoyandou High Court on Thursday. David Mmbengwa(37) was jailed for killing seven people – including an agricultural department official and two policemen – between May 1996 and January 1998 in the Thohoyandou […]

A PLAM to prevent and end conflicts within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was brought a step closer on Friday with the adoption of a draft mutual defence pact. Defence ministers from 10 of 14 SADC countries approved the draft at the end of a two-day meeting in Maseru, Lesotho, said South African Defence […]

VOTING in a hotly contested parliamentary by-election began quietly on Saturday in the rural Zimbabwean constituency of Bindura, after months of campaigning marred by widespread violence. The election is the latest test for President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, pitted against the two-year-old Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). MDC candidate Elliot Pfebve is again trying […]

THE blind Egyptian cleric jailed in the United States in connection with the World Trade Centre bombing in New York, could have a foot amputated because his diabetes has been neglected, his son claimed on Friday. “American prison authorities have neglected the treatment of my diabetic father, which interrupted the flow of blood to his […]