PEDZISAI RUHANYA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE’S Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Christopher Mushowe, has acquired a masters degree in Public Administration, but he failed the exam. High Court judge Elizabeth Gwaunza slammed the vice-chancellor of the University of the Zimbabwe, Professor Graham Hill, for awarding Mushowe a pass mark, even though he failed the […]

Former president Nelson Mandela made a strong plea for world peace after receiving the Newsmaker of the Decade award.

BEN MACLENNAN, ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday IN a day of high political drama, Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel was suspended from the New National Party on Wednesday after speaking out against its ”reckless and self-destructive” decision to leave the Democratic Alliance and co-operate with the African National Congress. On Wednesday night he was […]

Cape Town | Thursday AN application that the trial of five Pagad members for the murder of Cape ganglord Rashaad Staggie be declared a mistrial will continue in the Cape High Court on Thursday, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Defence lawyers for the five members of People Against Drugs and Gangsterism (Pagad) asked presiding […]

Paris | Thursday REFUGEES and farmers struggling to survive in a parched climate may one day bless a Namibian desert beetle which collects droplets of fog on its back in order to survive. The tenebrionid beetle thrives in one of the most hellish places on Earth thanks to microscopic bumps and troughs on its back, […]

THE Zimbabwe government has approved the commercialisation of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) into a public company wholly owned by the government. The Herald reported that the ZBC commercialisation Bill will soon go to parliament. The Bill intends to split the public broadcaster into two separate companies: one responsible for Broadcasting and the other for […]

TWO South African Airways flights were grounded on Thursday night, after flight attendants and personnel in Cape Town discovered a latex glove and “white powerdery substance” on a plane being readied for flight to Johannesburg. According to SAA, all personnel were ordered to leave the aircraft. The police were called, and chemical decontamination specialists Waste […]

THE South African government is concerned about the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan, and has called for constraint in the use by the US of military strikes, an official said on Tuesday. “While South Africa recognises the right of the United States government to track down the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks to […]

SIX staff members at the US consulate general in Durban, South Africa, were taken to a hospital for tests after an anthrax scare Tuesday, said public relations officer Amelia Broderick. She said the secretary to consul general Craig Kuehl opened a typed envelope, addressed to the consulate general, which contained “an unidentified white powder”. “We […]