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By Jan Raath

Harare - An elderly white Zimbabwean farmer severely tortured with his wife and son-in-law a fortnight ago to force him to withdraw an international legal challenge to President Robert Mugabe's violent farm seizures is pressing ahead with his case, a relative said Tuesday.

The 10-person tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the regional bloc, is set to sit in the Namibian capital Windhoek on Wednesday to hear a petition by Mike Campbell, ...

By Bathandwa Mbola

Pretoria -The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Officer Bearers has recommended an increase of 11 percent in remuneration levels for public office bearers.

This increase is effective form the 1 April 2008. This is an adjustment of the 7.5 percent which was recommended by the commission in April.

The commission, headed by Judge Dikgang Moseneke, is an independent body created in terms of the ...

Let them eat cake


A brand-new contribution in your favourite online community in this brandnew year. Welcome it. There are brickbats and kudos (where such are deserved). And, hopefully, you will chuckle about some of the stuff penned down.

Let’s start with this with the skunk of the Western World: His Excellency, The Terminator of Zimbabwe, Bumbling Bob the First (and hopefully the last).
With the news last year that the baked bread was getting as ...

I believe in serendipity, that is the luck in making unexpected discoveries.

Maybe I should rather use the term “synchronicity” for what I want to write about.

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related.

The first of these experiences went by without much bother. It was when my family and I were at the Maerua Mall shopping centre (in Windhoek) some time ago and I saw a certain ...

People who know me also know that my computer and I might as well have been Siamese twins.

In essence this means that although I care for my family (wife and kids), but you will not have to go far to look for me when I happen to have disappeared. You will find me behind the keyboard in front of my screen.

It also means that I have a fair knowledge of computer and that is where today's gripe comes in.

Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, complains about ...