LONDON – The UK will have to significantly increase defence spending if it is to maintain influence with Washington and Nato allies, MPs have warned. A Commons Defence Committee report says the defence budget should rise from 2% of GDP (£40bn) to 3% (£60bn). Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has reportedly demanded an extra £20bn for…
JOHANNESBURG – Pressure has been building on the Nelson Mandela Foundation to withdraw an invitation to former US President Barack Obama who is scheduled to travel to South Africa next month to deliver the NGO’s annual lecture, which this year marks the late anti-apartheid icon’s birth centennial. In an open letter, the Cage Africa advocacy…
HARARE – After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in Bulawayo on Saturday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is due to institute a top-to-bottom review of security agencies’ protocols after the bombing incident exposed serious lapses in his close security. [Adz]
JOHANNESBURG – Firebrand EFF leader Julius Malema has lashed out at the way Africans are perceived when talking about white or Indian racism, calling some black reporters who are critical of his party “house n****rs”. Addressing a crowd after a brief appearance in the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court on Monday, Malema defended his comments that the…
HARARE – CAPS United have become the latest team to join the race to sign Shabanie Mine striker David Temwanjira, who is also a target for several Castle Lager Premiership teams. Temwanjira is the current Castle Lager Premiership top goal scorer after netting nine times for Shabanie Mine and has since emerged as one of…
MUTARE – Tanganda Half Marathon winners’ medals have changed hands for the third year running with seasoned campaigner Canisious “Navara” Nyamutsita and unheralded Caroline Mhandu being crowned male and female category winners. Last year, without Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) athletes Kelvin Pangiso and Patience Murove to defend their titles the unpredictable duo of…
HARARE – White City Stadium was yesterday turned into a no-go-area as top security officials continued to comb the scene of the weekend’s bomb attack for leads. This followed a blast that rocked a star rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday, which left 41 injured, among them senior politicians. Part of the investigation…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office yesterday denied stage-managing a bomb blast in the second capital as a pretext to hunt down and silence political opponents linked to the country’s sulking former leader Robert Mugabe who is said to be stepping up efforts to get back at his successor. This comes after Mnangagwa narrowly escaped…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is likely to amend the Constitution to enable him to stand as a presidential candidate for three terms following his recent pronouncements in Gweru that he will lead the country until 2030, political analysts have said. Currently, the Constitution does not allow an incumbent to stand as a presidential candidate…
HARARE – Tucked in the arid parts of the south east Lowveld, away from the public glare, refugees from elsewhere on the continent trickle into Tongogara Refugee Camp — an overcrowded cantonment in Manicaland Province. The majority of children living in this camp cannot go to school while the girl child cannot access basics such…
