UGANDAN police will this week begin searching for more bodies in the home of a leader of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are planning to go to a house at Namasuba in Kampala. There is some suspicion about it and we have picked an […]

THE rand sank through a key resistance level on Wednesday to trade at R6,83 to the dollar, hit by fresh selling sparked by news that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wanted whites to leave the country. “The rand traded at R6,83 to the dollar on Mugabe’s comments — but it might top out at around the […]

MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition party has criticised President Joaquim Chissano’s government for excluding its members from a delegation to an international conference on grant aid for the flood-hit southern African nation. Vicente Ululu, a senior official of Renamo said in an interview with state radio that “our technicians should have been included in the government team […]

ZIMBABWEAN officials have let South African photo-journalist Obed Zilwa, held in connection with a bomb blast at a newspaper’s offices, return home, saying they have no plans to prosecute him. Zilwa, a photographer for the Associated Press agency, was arrested by police last week on suspicion of taking part in the bomb attack at the […]

SCOTLAND Yard detectives held talks in New Delhi on Wednesday with top officials on the match-fixing scandal surrounding disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje and a London-based Indian businessman. K.K. Paul, deputy commissioner of New Delhi police, said that he met with the two British detectives, Sergeant Martin Hawkins and Detective Brook Hollburry. “We have […]

RAIN prevented any play on the second day of the four-day cricket match between Hampshire and Zimbabwe on Friday. Hampshire have scored 131, while Zimbabwe replied with 19-1.

THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have announced that Uganda has qualified for $1,3-billion dollar in debt relief. The amount includes interest due on $660-million, or about two-fifths of Uganda’s total international debt. The announcement Tuesday brings Uganda’s total debt relief to $2-billion, supplementing relief already granted under an earlier version of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe issued a sharp warning to whites on Wednesday that war veterans occupying their farms are there to stay, as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party. He has also declared that his government wants to seize half of the country’s white-owned farmland. […]