OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 5.30pm. ZIMBABWE could need food aid within months unless its government pushes through urgently needed economic reforms, Britain’s junior foreign minister, Peter Hain, warned on Monday. He told a Foreign Office press briefing that it was vital President Robert Mugabe began working with the World Bank and the International Monetary […]

FIVE women bus passengers were injured — two of them seriously — when gunmen opened fire on a bus in Khayelitsha on Saturday morning, Golden Arrow Bus Services spokeswoman Jeanne Welsh said. Welsh said the bus was driving in Block 23 around 7.15am when the incident happened. Three people sustained cuts and bruises from shattered […]

It would take decades and cost billions to map the human genome, they said. Tim Radford tells how it was done Scientists have just finished deciphering the genome – the book of human life. Their DNAblueprint will change everything. The once undreamed-of knowledge has already begun to alter agriculture, forensic science, archaeology, biology and medicine. […]

Chris Buchanan The liberation of our gambling laws, allowing a manifestation of mega casino resorts in metropolitan areas, has done very little for the architectural integrity of our new nation. Long have we strived for that identity that would render our commercial, retail and hospitality developments reminiscent of an African ethos, rather than a post-modern […]

Shaun de Waal NOT QUITE THE THRILLER OFTHEWEEK Tom Cruise has big plans for his Mission: Impossible franchise. The role of superspy Ethan Hunt offers him a well- paying action-movie base from which to venture in more challenging directions – Eyes Wide Shut, for instance, or his brilliant turn in Magnolia. Moreover, being co-producer as […]