Prime Minister, fiancée blow US$50k in New York

Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reportedly pampered his fiancée Ms Elizabeth Mazvita Gama (nee Macheka) by booking her into a US$5 000-a-night suite at New York’s exclusive Waldorf Astoria Hotel for a week.

Ten other family members, including sons and daughters-in-law and officials from his office, spent seven nights at the Double Tree Hotel which charges US$390 per head per night.

Prime Minister Tsvangirai was reportedly granted a US$2 000 discount at the Wald...

Probe, nullify disputed DCC polls: Politburo

Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
AN extraordinary session of the Zanu-PF Po-litburo met in Harare yesterday and resolved that national political commissar Cde Webster Shamu investigate disturbances that occurred in some provinces during district co-ordinating committee elections.

Where irregularities are revealed, Cde Shamu will nullify the results and conduct fresh polls.
There have been reports of imposition of candidates during the Zanu-PF DCC elections, especially in Manicaland and Masvingo provi...

Witnesses were paid, coerced at ICC: Taylor

FORMER Liberian president Charles Taylor yesterday accused the prosecution in his war crimes hearing at The Hague of bribing and threatening witnesses.
Taylor is the first African leader to stand trial for war crimes at a Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague.

He was convicted last month on 11 counts of aiding and abetting murder, rape, conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery during intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the prosecution alleged that more than 50 000 peopl...