Pot calling the kettle black SMARTING from the outspoken attack by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon upon Zimbabwe’s political hierarchy, that hierarchy and its […]
Archive | December, 2007
MuckRaker
December 21, 2007 in Editorial
Concorde cruising or crashing home? WE were interested in President Mugabe’s call to the recent Zanu PF congress to be wary of candidates intent on buying votes. Did this include […]
Candid Comment
December 21, 2007 in Editorial
Zanu PF taking MDC down the garden path THE Sadc-initiated talks between Zanu PF and the MDC that started in March to find a lasting solution to Zimbabwe’s political and […]
Comment
December 21, 2007 in Editorial
Too little, too late THE government of President Mugabe was this week flaunting its democratic credentials after fast-tracking through parliament four Bills amending a raft of contentious pieces of legislation.
Byo gallery launches outreach programme for kids
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
FOR 11-year-old Alidy Muntanga harmony is fair play in a soccer match where players neither engage in rough tackles nor cause physical harm to opponents. Nine year old Talent Gwarazimba […]
Hallo, I’m Mary Christmas!
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
“MERRY Christmas to you, Mary Christmas.” That’s what the former Mary Young is hearing this holiday season, after she married Brian Christmas earlier this year. “It was meant to be,” […]
How the Grinch stole China’s Christmas trees
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
A CHINESE city has beaten the Grinch at his own game, banning Christmas trees from shopping malls, restaurants and other public places because they pose a fire hazard, a newspaper […]
100 arrested for not having toilets
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
Local authorities have arrested at least 100 Ugandans for failing to build toilets in their homes in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed 8 people and infected […]
Same Xmas card for 29 years
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
A COUPLE have been sending the same Christmas card to each other for the past 29 years. Stephen and Glynis Woolner first sent the cards in 1978. They packed the […]
It’s a weird world
December 21, 2007 in Entertainment
FRIDAY: An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday” and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he […]
