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Former police deputy commissioner, Emmanuel Rozario, who retired last month after being convicted on a charge of contempt of court and being fined $800, was essentially not a corrupt cop…

The Botswana army has adopted a shoot-to-kill policy against suspected Zimbabwe smugglers -sometimes referred to as border-jumpers, seven of whom were shot dead recently, according to reports. The Zimbabweans are…

SWAZILAND, ruled as an absolute monarch, may soon be following the tide that is sweeping across Southern Africa as demands for democracy grow bolder and opposition political leaders come out…

AGITATING for change and ousting so-called undemocratic regimes may be easy but ensuring that the so-called democratic forces will indeed be democratic and bring about the needed change is something…

TALKS on constitutional reform in South Africa, now code-named Codesa, may be deadlocked but meetings still have to carry on and that means good business for those who have to…

THE recent admission by Catholic Bishop Eamonn Casey of Ireland that he fathered a child with an American woman, for which he paid the princely sum of one hundred thousand…

TWELVE years of Zimbabwe’s independence have witnessed the progressive marginalisation and domination of the Ndebele people by the majority dominant Shona groups.  From 1980 to 1987, this process of domination…

IN what has been described largely as a campaign budget aimed at boosting the fortunes of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi as the country heads towards a multi-party system, Tanzania’s…

PROSPECTS for peace in Mozambique are getting brighter by the day as it is increasingly becoming evident that neither the FRELIMO government nor the rebel RENAMO movement can win control…

The proliferation of political which kicked off with a national character but have degenerated into regional, tribal and other small cliques has solidified the fragile unity within the ruling ZANU-PF…