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Archbishop Ncube said starvation stalked Zimbabwe A prominent Roman Catholic archbishop in Zimbabwe has called for mass street protests to force President Robert Mugabe from power.The Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, told a news conference in Harare that he was willing to stand in front of "blazing guns" if necessary. Scores of opposition activists have been arrested since police broke up a banned rally on 11 March in Harare. There is increasing discontent over the country's deepening economic crisis. Archbishop Ncube said that if Zimbabweans took to the streets in their thousands to demand that President Mugabe step down,...

The second student-built satellite in the NCube project has likely met an even worse fate than the first. A Russian launch rocket carrying the Norwegian project and a dozen others from around the world most likely crashed into a desert in Kazakhstan on Wednesday evening. "Rudolf" was launched from rocket base Baikonour in Kazakhstan at 9:43 p.m. Norwegian time on Wednesday evening. Oslo engineer Eystein Sæther, technical coordinator of the NCube project, believes that the second attempt to get the special satellite into orbit is now buried in the sand. "Something went wrong during the launch. For 110 seconds all...

Johannesburg - Should South Africa disconnect Zimbabwe's electricity supply, it could bring the Zim government to its senses. President Thabo Mbeki, however, feels inferior to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and supports him rather than put pressure on him. This is the opinion of Pius Ncube, outspoken Roman Catholic archbishop of Bulawayo, expressed in an interview in Pretoria where he attended the meeting of the conference of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) and strongly attacked Mbeki regarding his handling of the Zimbabwean question. He had expected the South African government to exert pressure on the Mugabe regime but instead...

IT'S EASY TO SEE why Zimbabwe's Archbishop Pius Ncube calls for a "people power" uprising in his country. The parliamentary elections on Thursday have been rigged so comprehensively that it's unlikely President Robert Mugabe will be unseated no matter how much his 25 years in office have harmed his countrymen. At least 1 million of the 5.7 million names on Zimbabwe's voter rolls are thought to be fictitious; the ballot boxes are made of transparent plastic; the polling stations will be run by pro-Mugabe thugs from his security forces. The campaign, though less violent than some previously, has featured brutal...