9 hours ago by Sébastien

Aujourd'hui, pour les vingt-deux ans de la libération de Nelson Mandela de prison, son deuxième successeur - aussi indigne de Madiba que le précédent - a dévoilé à la presse les prochains billets de banque d'Afrique du Sud. La coupure de cinquante rands et le portrait qui apparaîtra sur toutes les c ...

14 hours ago by AfricaTimes

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe could be barred from running for another term, according to the first draft of a new constitution that also seeks to trim presidential powers. However, Mugabe, who has been accused by the West of using death squads and violence to intimidate voters, will probably m ...

15 hours ago by Thripthi

Russian citizen earlier detained in Zimbabwe on violating visa regime has been released and is now on his way to Moscow, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The detainee had arrived in Zimbabwe on a tourist visa but worked for a mining company without a work permit, which is a serious off ...

18 hours ago by charlieray45

Anyone who has lived in or followed Zimbabwe since 2001 has in all likelihood been bombarded by propaganda claiming that the Zimbabwe Development and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA), passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, is the root cause of all the country’s problems. One can hardly argue that the int ...

22 hours ago by jonjermey

Okay, so she drinks like a fish... …either that, or they’re just thirsty. Orange UK A government minister in Zimbabwe says work has stopped on new reservoirs because workers have been scared off – by mermaids. Water resources minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo told a parliamentary committee that terrified ...

1 day ago by SW Radio Africa

On the Pulse with Zimbabwean dancehall music A growing number of youths in the so-called ‘ghetto’ suburbs of Zimbabwe are turning to dancehall music, with surprisingly successful results. On the show today Lance Guma focuses on some of the artists that have emerged, like Freeman, Terminator, Shingex ...

1 day ago by SW Radio Africa

Mkuru says there is much uncertainty in Zim at the moment, following ZANU PF calls to hold elections this year. Everyone knows this is practically impossible and that is causing a negative effect on the economy; while Vimbai says it’s clear Chihuri can’t be re-appointed as police commissioner by Mug ...

1 day ago by SW Radio Africa

Cathy Buckle writes: “This season the uncontrolled cultivation of urban and peri-urban areas, by anyone and everyone, wherever they want, is worse than it has ever been. As trees are cut down,undergrowth cleared and woodland turned into self apportioned maize and sweet potato plots, ground nesting b ...

1 day ago by SW Radio Africa

Beyond Protest, Clyde Mukono, President of The Zimbabwe National Students Union, talks about the refusal by Higher Education Minister Stan Mudenge to pay out student loans and grants, even though he was allocated the funds. Mukono and ZINASU Secretary General Tryvine Musokeri were arrested this week ...

1 day ago

Robert Mugabe’s spin doctor, George Charamba, was on Friday criticised by the MDC-T for being ‘wholly to blame’ for the deterioration in relations between coalition partners in the unity government.