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COMPUTER fraud has shown obvious appeal. Experts say only one out of 22 000 computer criminals is sent to prison. They estimate that only one percent of all computer crime…

A FOUR-WAY row has erupted in Lusaka over the attempts by more than 200 Zambian women married to African National Congress cadres to join their husbands in South Africa. The…

BOTSWANA’s reputation as a democratic, corruption-free country has been shattered by recent scandals which forced three ministers, including the Vice-President, to step down. Even President Ketumile Masire conceded in a…

Zimbabwe's economic structural adjustment programme which was already six months behind schedule has been torpedoed by the current drought whose severity is becoming more obvious by the day. Cereal production…

Former Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, Garfield Todd, who has long been associated with the struggle for black rule and participated in the first independence Parliament, has expressed hope that the…

The government's reluctance to accept that the country was facing a severe maize shortfall until it was too late has also cast doubt on whether it has put into place…

Queues, now the order of the day in the country, are likely not only to arouse political unrest but racial unrest as well if two recent letters in the local…

Recent statements by the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation that it may be forced to lay off some postmen because of the shortage of postage stamps should strongly be condemned. For…

Margaret Dongo only joined Parliament in 1990 as a ZANU (PF) candidate. Her entrance into the contest for the parliamentary seat in itself indicates she was a survivor because most…

- management stealing left, right and center The once bustling Wankie Colliery Company, which was taken over by the government from the giant Anglo-American Corporation, is now making losses. This…