HARARE, Zimbabwe – Former trade-unionist, Gibson Sibanda, a veteran labor activist and co-founder of Zimbabwe’s former opposition party, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 66, MDC-M has said. In 2005, Sibanda left Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change over sharp policy differences, and joined the Mutambara-led MDC. He had been deputy leader in Tsvangirai’s party until he joined a breakaway faction and became a senator in the Harare parliament and a minister of state for the splinter group after disputed elections in 2008. As a labor leader in the colonial era before... Continue Reading
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LUSAKA – The United States questioned Zambia’s commitment to fighting corruption on Saturday after authorities said they would not appeal a court’s refusal to allow recover funds from former President Frederick Chiluba. In 2007, a British judge ordered Chiluba to repay $58 million to compensate for money he was accused of stealing during his 1991-2001 stint in office. A Lusaka high court ruled last week that Zambian laws did not allow the enforcement of rulings made in London, causing an outcry from the main opposition Patriotic Front (PF) and anti-corruption groups. Information Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha said the government had accepted... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – The Gerald Fox Memorial is set for 7.00am on 12 September at the Johannesburg Zoo and is set to be the best of fun races so far. The 5K fun run has been altered so as not to cross the main race. The fun run course remains totally within the Zoo and includes more of the animals than the monthly Zoo Trot which has been run by Saul Levin (with the help of Leuba and occasionally others) so able for the last 3 years. An innovation this year is the Company Charity Challenge which... Continue Reading
LONDON – The British government has urged Libya not to organize any official celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the release from jail of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. “Any celebration of Megrahi’s release will be tasteless, offensive and deeply insensitive to the victims’ families. We have made our concerns clear to the Libyan government,” a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said. Al-Megrahi is the only man ever to be convicted of the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December, 1988, in which 270 people died. Most of the dead were... Continue Reading
