ZIMBABWE’S Tourism Authority (ZTA) is offering free “educationals” to international tour operators in an attempt to revive the country’s devastated tourism sector. ZTA regional manager Zii Masiye said on Tuesday tour operators, travel agents and travel journalists from United Kingdom, South Africa and France have already been hosted on educational trips to resorts and game […]

HARARE | Wednesday TELEVISION authorities in Zimbabwe have banned a new live weekly talk show that was highly critical of President Robert Mugabe’s policies and actions, the local media reported on Wednesday. The discussion programme “Talk to the Nation”, sponsored by pro-government civic organisation the National Development Assembly (NDA), flighted just three times before it […]

TANZANIA?S vice-president Omar Ali Juma died late on Wednesday of a heart attack. , the country’s president announced on national radio. ?He was normal for the whole of yesterday and actively took part in the visit of DRC president Joseph Kabila and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni,” said president Benjamin Mkapa. Mkapa described Juma, a trained […]

JABU MHLABANE & SHARON HAMMOND, Pietersburg | Wednesday PAN Africanist Congress (PAC) youth in the Northern Province have taken a major step away from the controversial “one settler one bullet” war cry and extended an olive branch to farmers. The PAC’s youth wing, Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania (Payco) resolved at its annual congress […]

THE Zimbabwean government had dropped nine farms owned by the South African Oppenheimer mining dynasty from a list of commercial farms to be seized for land redistribution, the state-controlled Herald reported on Thursday. “Some 180 farms, among them six owned by foreign nationals and nine belonging to the Oppenheimer family, have been spared from acquisition,” […]

AUTHORITIES in eastern Nigeria have closed down a local government-run orphanage while an investigation is carried out into child trafficking and prostitution charges, an official said on Tuesday. The Umuoji Motherless Babies’ Home is run by officials of the Idemili North local government. Authorities had become suspicious last week and had raided the home and […]

TWENTY people were injured in Malawi on Tuesday when supporters of President Bakili Muluzi’s ruling party clashed with opposition supporters in the capital Lilongwe, witnesses said. The witnesses said the United Democratic Front’s youth wing – the Young Democrats – were targetting supporters of National Democratic Alliance, led by Brown Mpinganjira, a former cabinet minister. […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday DURBAN’S R10-million metro police video surveillance system has caught out a rogue metro cop – nearly three years after he attacked a handcuffed suspect for no apparent reason. This week the Mail & Guardian was given a copy of a police videotape that clearly shows an obviously defenceless suspect being […]

NAIROBI | Tuesday CONCERNS over the environmental and social effects of a Japanese-funded hydro-electric power project in Kenya are threatening to stall construction of the dam, a Japanese diplomat said on Tuesday. The first phase of the Sondu-Miriu hydro-electric power project in the west of the country is almost complete at a cost of $55-million. […]

DEFENCE lawyers on Tuesday finished their summing up in the case of two nuns accused by a Belgian court of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that claimed up to 800_000 lives. The two lawyers representing one of the nuns, Sister Kizito, rejected the testimony of prosecution witnesses, describing their statements as a […]