Cheryl Cole’s image has taken a battering -Gamu

She’s been the nation’s sweetheart for a year or so and is looking for an X Factor winner’s hat trick. But things have turned a bit sour for Cheryl Cole since Gamu-gate. So in a bid to woo back the viewing public, Cheryl is finally preparing to bare her teary soul to Piers Morgan on [...]

EU says Zimbabwe ambassador row is serious matter

The European Union has expressed “great concern” over President Robert Mugabe’s unilateral appointment of new Zimbabwe ambassadors to the bloc as well as to other institutions and capitals “It is important that the ambassadors be fully empowered to speak on behalf of the whole government,” said a spokeswoman for EU diplomacy chief Catherine Ashton. Prime [...]

Mtabaruka chides Zimbabwe for adopting the US dollar

HARARE – Jamaican dub poet and singer Mutabaruka says the introduction of the United States dollar in Zimbabwe has taken the country backwards. Mutabaruka spoke in an exclusive interview with The Daily News soon after his presentation on the topic Poetry and Social Transformation held at the Book Café, Harare yesterday. “Where is the Zimbabwean [...]

Zimbabwean man jailed for gun weilding rampage in UK

BIRMINGHAM, UK – A Zimbabwean man who went on a rampage with a gun targeting motorists and a shopkeeper has been handed an indeterminate sentence after being branded ‘very dangerous’. Birmingham Crown Court heard how Craig Cervi, from Zimbabwe, left one victim believing she would be killed. Judge William Davis QC, imprisoning Cervi for public [...]

Zimbabwe woman charged over toddler and mother fire deaths

MILTON KEYNES, UK – An innocent mum and her three-year-old daughter perished in a house fire in Milton Keynes, England, after being caught up in a love squabble between a Zimbabwean couple, a court heard. Zimbabwean Barbara Zhanje, 48, from Rockingham Road, Corby, Northamptonshire, was charged with two counts of manslaughter when she appeared at [...]

UN gives 13 million books to Zimbabwe schools

HARARE — The UN Children’s Fund on Wednesday launched a scheme to provide 13 million textbooks to Zimbabwe’s students, in a 50-million-dollar effort to revive the struggling school system. Zimbabwe’s schools were once among the best in Africa, but a decade of economic and political crisis saw teachers fleeing classrooms that had few books or [...]