Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 28th December 2008
| From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa. Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too. Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & Gruesome |
| Jimmy Carter's rotten job on Zimbabwe - His statement - and Our Comments on it... Friday 26-Dec-2008: [The Carter Centre put out a rather pathetic, and somewhat misleading piece about the situation in Zimbabwe. Those of us who remember Carter's intervention in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, have a number of thoug (By Jan)... | South Africa: Crime - Baby Rape - Two year old raped in Butterworth Saturday 27-Dec-2008: A two-year-old girl was raped at Zingqayi Village in Butterworth on Christmas day, Eastern Cape police said on Friday. "The child went missing after playing with a one-year-old boy," said Captain J (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Angry Ancestral spirits are attacking Mugabe's Torturers Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: This from Harare, the International community must help the citizens of Zimbabwe put a stop to this GENOCIDE! Potifa Bakaaimani, Marondera MDC District Chairman and Kainos Betera, MDC activist Mar (By Gairk)... | An AfricanCrisis Christmas Message & Analysis of 2008 & 2009 from Jan... Thursday 25-Dec-2008: Hi Everyone, Here's wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. I don't think many people are all that merry this year. There isn't that much to be merry about. But for us in southern Afri (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: South Africa cannot protect its weapons-grade nuclear material Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: [Prior to handing over South Africa to the ANC, the CIA did send a request to President FW De Klerk to destroy our 6 nuclear bombs. They did this. For more see Al Venter's book about how South Africa (By JanOlifant)... | Zimbabwe: Lavish life of Mugabe’s looter-in-chief Monday 22-Dec-2008: As starving Zimbabweans face their bleakest Christmas ever, the head of the state bank puts the last touches to his 47-bedroom palaceJon Swain, Harare. In the rich and leafy northern Harare suburb (By Gairk)... |
| News - South Africa: Durban's unsung heroes Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By R W Johnson Percey Mayer was born in Mauritius and studied engineering in London but moved to Tananarive, Madagascar, in 1934 to represent his family firm there. The business prospered and li (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Suburbia set to fight crime Saturday 27-Dec-2008: By Fiona Gounden Criminals are going to be given a "run for their money" in the new year with some Durban residents "armed and dangerous" as they get their crime-fighting mechanisms in place. Wh (By Jan)... |
| USA: Totally wild - The Links between the White Right & Muslim Terrorists in the Oklahoma City Bombing Monday 22-Dec-2008: I’ve been watching some documentaries on the history channel, really excellent ones. One was about TWA Flight 800 and it had tons of info on it supporting the evidence that this plane was shot down by (By Jan)... | Now Pirates in South Africa! Pirates target wealthier Cape Town families in speed boats Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Armed robbers in speed boats have started attacking and looting the middle-class families in Marina da Gama, a beautiful waterside community only 25 minutes away from Cape Town's central business dist (By JanOlifant)... |
| News - South Africa: The hour of maximum danger Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Patrick Laurence A testing time lies ahead for South Africa's young democracy in the New Year, a time that may determine whether it matures into greater strength and resilience or degenerates in (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Police refuse to release activists – Were they recruiting for an Army? Friday 26-Dec-2008: [I am curious about the mention that they were supposedly recruiting people to train for an army (referring to them as bandits). One can never be sure how true this is, but given their determination t (By Gairk)... |
| Zimbabwe: Tutu accuses South Africa over Mugabe Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused South Africa of losing the moral high ground by failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe. The Nobel Peace Prize winner told the BBC that using f (By Gairk)... | News - South Africa: 'South Africans excelling in Dubai' Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Brigid Ibell Not long ago Eugene de Villiers' sister was held up at gunpoint and robbed in Pretoria and a friend had his car stolen no fewer than five times. This and a curiosity about the w (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Family burned to death in 'witchcraft' attack Friday 26-Dec-2008: Eastern Cape police shot dead two men after two women and a six-year-old girl were killed in a Christmas day attack allegedly linked to witchcraft. Ntombizanele Combo, 45, was killed after the rond (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Cops 3, robbers 0 Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Baldwin Ndaba, Alex Eliseev and Barry Bateman In less than 24 hours, Gauteng police foiled three armed robberies - because they had been tipped off in time. Two robbers were shot dead in the (By Jan)... |
| Blood on Africa's hands: Zimbabwean tragedy is like a slow motion drama Monday 22-Dec-2008: The Zimbabwean tragedy is like a slow motion drama, started a couple of years ago by Robert Mugabe trying to cling to power at the cost of his country, his people and the Southern African region. W (By Gairk)... | COPE “More Of The Sameâ€: Boervolk Friday 26-Dec-2008: The international community should be cautiously optimistic about any “change†coming about from the creation of ANC-breakaway political party COPE, say Boer activists Dr. Lets Pretorius and Henry (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))... |
| Zimbabwe & USA: Mugabe 'has lost it' Monday 22-Dec-2008: Pretoria - The US can no longer support a proposed Zimbabwean power-sharing deal that would leave Robert Mugabe, "a man who's lost it", as president, the top US envoy for Africa told reporters on Sund (By Gairk)... | Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a ‘mad dictator’ Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: GENEVA - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is a "mad dictator" who has lost all sense of reality, UN human rights expert Jean Ziegler said, urging neighbouring South Africa to stop shielding Mugabe. (By Gairk)... |
| UN Security Council Must Hold Emergency Session on Government’s Rape Campaign in Zimbabwe Monday 22-Dec-2008: Boston, USA - December 5, 2008: AIDS-Free World has appealed to the United Nations Security Council for an emergency session on Zimbabwe in order to prevent President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party fr (By Gairk)... | News - World: How UN's Ban let loose on Mugabe Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Joe Lauria Ban Ki-moon has a reputation as a conciliator, a backroom operator unaccustomed to publicly berating any actor on the international stage. But he clearly stepped out of character (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Police defy court order, took Zimbabwean rights campaigner and eight activists to a maximum security prison Thursday 25-Dec-2008: Harare - Armed police took a leading Zimbabwean rights campaigner and eight activists to a maximum security prison on Thursday, defying a High Court order for their immediate release to a local hospit (By Gairk)... | News - South Africa: 'The bravery of Terror Lekota' Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Fiona Forde It was 1965 and Mosiuoa Lekota was earning a solid reputation on the soccer pitch at the Mariazell High School in Matatiele, a small town in the foothills of the western Drakensberg. (By Jan)... |
| Africa: It's time to break Mugabe's grip, build Zimbabwe - Why not excommunicate Mugabe? Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: [Why doesn't the Roman Catholic Church also add its moral voice to this matter and excommunicate Robert Mugabe? This was a suggestion given to me some months ago by a former CIA agent. I think in the (By Jan)... | In Zimbabwe, Survival Lies in Scavenging Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Submitted b y S. Bellizzi: From the NY Times: In Zimbabwe, Survival Lies in Scavenging Published: Dec 22, 2008 Author: Celia W. Dugger In Zimbabwe, Survival Lies in Scavenging By CELIA W. DUG (By JoAn)... |
| Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s backers operate freely in UK Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Businessmen who have been accused by the US Treasury of financially supporting Robert Mugabe were operating freely in Britain, the London Times reported today. This was in spite of UK Prime Ministe (By Gairk)... | News - South Africa: 'Role of police downplayed' Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Mary De Haas According to the media, a recent Institute of Security Studies report attributes the failure of the National Crime Prevention Strategy to its not being linked to underlying socio-ec (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Desperate Zimbabweans pour into SA Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Musina - In the blazing midday sun, Fungai Lindlela watches as her baby pushes a sticky ball of maize meal into her mouth in a makeshift refugee camp near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe. "I ne (By Jan)... | News - World: Iraqi Qaeda escapee killed in firefight: police Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Ramadi, Iraq - A local chief of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who broke out of jail has been killed in a police shootout while two prisoners on the run with him are surrounded by security forces, police said on Sa (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Pelindaba breach still a mystery Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Eleanor Momberg It has been a year since two armed gangs launched simultaneous attacks on the Pelindaba nuclear facility outside Pretoria, yet no one has been arrested for the crime that left on (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: What exactly is the real story? Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Debt-laden consumers could be in for a tougher in 2009 as the global economic crisis bites and a weaker rand takes its toll, according to a World Bank report. The bank warns that, in Africa, South (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Mugabe is 'a mad dictator' Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Robert Evans Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is "a mad dictator" who has lost all sense of reality, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday. The only way Mugabe can be removed (By Jan)... | News - World: Israel warns of ground offensive Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Gaza City - Israel warned on Sunday it could send ground troops into Gaza as its warplanes continued pounding Hamas targets inside the enclave where more than 270 Palestinians have been killed in just (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Democracy still triumphs in South Africa Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Virginia Tilley Times are tough in the morale department in South Africa. The ANC - that noble movement to which courageous people dedicated their lives and sometimes died - has hit a crisis. (By Jan)... | News - Africa: In search of hope in Zimbabwe politics Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Brian Raftopoulos Writing about Zimbabwe at the end of 2008 largely induces dystopic imagery. State violence, hunger, Aids, a devastated economy, cholera, an opposition under siege and a battere (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Zim in MSF's '10 worst' list Monday 22-Dec-2008: (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Concern as South Africa gives AID direct to Mugabe Saturday 27-Dec-2008: The South African government has gone against it’s word and provided the regime in Harare with farming inputs, forming part of the 300 million rand package it promised to dispense only when a unity go (By Gairk)... |
| News - Science: The curse of the Amazon Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Bradley Brooks The shotgun blast that tore through the chest of Chico Mendes made the Brazilian rubber tapper an environmental icon and his fight to save the Amazon a global crusade. But the (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe - Allan Boesak says it's time for Zimbabweans to take to the streets to get rid of Mugabe Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Christelle Terreblanche and Sapa-dpa December 23 2008 Cleric Allan Boesak says the time has come for Zimbabweans to "present their bodies in the street" as a challenge to President Robert Mu (By A Different Perspective)... |
| News - Africa: Mugabe slams 'stupid' Bush Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday dismissed US calls for him to quit as "stupid", saying they represented "the last kicks of dying horse" as George W Bush prepares to leave the Whit (By Jan)... | News - Africa: 'Millions of Zimbabweans need food aid' Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Some 5,5-million people in Zimbabwe - about half the population - need food aid, UN experts warned on Monday as they called for increased international help for the country which is battling a cholera (By Jan)... |
| Former British Envoy To Iran Wishes For Israel To Prevent Usage Of Sampson Option, Via Disarm Israel Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: It seems that the Iranians have their own Useful Idiot going by the name of (By Lone Wolf)... | News - South Africa: Cops foil armed robbery at Irene Dairy Farm Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Barry Bateman Without firing a single shot, police put the brakes on a 14-strong gang intent on securing a Christmas bonus for themselves from Irene Dairy Farm. Although six suspects did esc (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: The court soapies of 2008 Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: It was a year of tears, laughter, disbelief and relief in the various magistrates' courts in the Pretoria area as the drama of people's lives played out in the public eye. While the country was sti (By Jan)... | How Hamas, Islamic Jihad Send Seasons Greetings Toward Israel; With Barrage Of Rockets Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Now this isn't too surprising to find of how (By Lone Wolf)... |
| Zimbabwe: Christmas is missing Monday 22-Dec-2008: There will be very little to celebrate this Christmas in Zimbabwe if you're not a Christian. There is very little food - my trousers are all hanging on me as I have lost so much weight in recent mon (By JanOlifant)... | News - Africa: SADC holds key to Zim Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Is it time to declare the Zimbabwe power-sharing deal dead in the water? Certainly the United States government thinks it is. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer announced a maj (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Mugabe 'has lost touch' Monday 22-Dec-2008: The top US envoy for Africa said on Sunday Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal cannot work with Robert Mugabe as president, but the defiant 84-year-old has said he will not go to his "political death". " (By Jan)... | White Power As National Communism; Pushed By Rabid Anti-Semite And Supporter Of Communist North Korea Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Hmm, here's quite a horrible, yet interesting site I stumbled upon. It seems that the (By Lone Wolf)... |
| News - South Africa: 'A game the municipality will lose' Saturday 27-Dec-2008: By Jacques Breytenbach Christmas Day turned violent at Schubart Park as residents protesting poor service delivery stoned police vehicles and blockaded streets after more than two days without elec (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Take activists to hospital, Zim police told Thursday 25-Dec-2008: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - A Zimbabwean High Court judge ordered the immediate release on Wednesday of local human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko and nine other activists charged with plottin (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Flipping the coin that is Allan Boesak Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Allister Sparks The Congress of the People (COPE) has acquired a major drawcard in signing up the charismatic political cleric, Allan Boesak, who could swing a lot of votes their way at next yea (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: IOL readers hail crime prevention operation Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Wesley Buthelezi Festive season crime prevention operations are part of efforts to clamp down on (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: The aftermath of xenophobic attacks Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Mogomotsi Magome In March terrible reports and images appeared on the pages of this newspaper as the city - like other parts of the country - became gripped by violent attacks on foreigners. (By Jan)... | News - Africa: 'There is still hope for Zimbabwe' Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Top US envoy for Africa says Zimbabwe's (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: What got the consumers goat in 2008 Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: In January my inbox was flooded with e-mails from Vodacom subscribers who had sent scores or even thousands of smses - at R10 each - to enter the network's "100 BMWs in 100 days" competition. The t (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Two burnt alive in 'witchcraft' killing Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Eastern Cape police shot dead two men after two women and a six-year-old girl were killed in a Christmas Day attack allegedly linked to witchcraft. Ntombizanele Combo, 45, was killed after the rond (By Jan)... |
| News - World: World powers call for peace Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Major world powers called for an immediate end to violence after massive and deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday and rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. The European Union (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Breakthrough in French woman's murder Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Eleanor Momberg A team of detectives is closing in on the killers of a French woman found murdered in her Parkhurst, Johannesburg, home last week. The murder of the young mother, whose baby w (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Festive season crime stats 'concerning' - including 49 child rapes Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: A total of 1722 people were assaulted in KwaZulu-Natal and 111 people sustained gunshot wounds over the first 18 days of December, the provincial health department said. Another 493 people had bee (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Who commits crime in SA? Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Capetonians worn down by the seemingly relentless hijackings and robberies may understandably believe there is a steady influx of new criminals into the region. But police say evidence from the "wa (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: SA betrayed its legacy with Zim - Tutu Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has accused South Africa of betraying its legacy of struggling against apartheid by failing to take strong action against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Mugab (By Jan)... | USA: Thank Goodness I Live in a Free Country Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Submitted by S. Bellizzi: December 27, 2008 Thank Goodness I Live in a Free Country by Don Cooper, don@qaoss.com I was talking with some friends over the Christmas holiday break and they wer (By JoAn)... |
| News - South Africa: Inept heist gang show how not to do it Monday 22-Dec-2008: Police borrowed a security company's armoured van to chase down a gang of inept robbers who accidentally locked themselves in a stolen cash-in-transit vehicle after a freeway shootout on Sunday. P (By Jan)... | World: The Economic Meltdown - Maths masters blamed for financial crisis Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: [Computers are the future. Progress cannot be stopped. These systems will never be perfect, but there must be many benefits to them. No doubt much money was made using computer systems and models. The (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Xenophobic fears persist Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Jacques Breytenbach The xenophobic attacks that broke out in May this year have instilled a deep sense of fear in all foreigners living in South Africa. Many foreigners are still too traumat (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Two robbery suspects killed Monday 22-Dec-2008: Two suspected robbers were shot dead and six arrested during an attempted armed robbery in Woodmead, Gauteng police said on Monday. Captain Dennis Adriao said the surviving group were in custody af (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Gun-toting Santa opens fire, kills self Friday 26-Dec-2008: Los Angeles - A man dressed in a Santa Claus costume burst into a Christmas Eve party at his former in-laws and opened fire, killing at least eight people before taking his own life, US officials said (By Jan)... | News - Africa: 'Zim to prosecute white farmers' Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe will prosecute 140 white landowners on charges of failing to vacate their farms under the country's controversial 2000 land reform programme, state media reported on Sunday. "A to (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Review affirmative action - Boesak Monday 22-Dec-2008: The Congress of the People's newest leadership recruit, Allan Boesak, has charged that the ANC government's interpretation of affirmative action was putting "narrow ethnic considerations" before South (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Mugabe committed to land policy Monday 22-Dec-2008: Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says he will not allow a unity government to reverse his controversial policy of seizing white-owned land. Mr Mugabe made the statement a day after telling suppor (By Gairk)... |
| News - World: 60 Soldiers die in latest Sri Lankan fights Monday 22-Dec-2008: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Tamil Tiger rebels killed 60 Sri Lankan troops advancing toward their de facto capital, a pro-rebel report said. The government said 12 soldiers died. Meanwhile, the gover (By JanOlifant)... | ISM, PLO Run Front Group Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Supporting Gazan Terrorists; Accuse Israel Of 'Overreacting' Sunday 28-Dec-2008: In quite a typical fashion of Israel's own Fifth Column known as the (By Lone Wolf)... |
| News - World: 'No proof China supplied Zim arms' Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: A United Nations weapons expert has said that there was no evidence that ammunition flown from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Zimbabwe in August originated from China. "It's possible, but we h (By Jan)... | S Africa - Zimbabwe: South Africa gives Zimbabwe R300 million that could better have been used at home Friday 26-Dec-2008: [Why was it ever necessary for South Africa to be in a position where it has had to give R300 million to Zimbabwe for food. As I said in a comment earlier this week Mugabe is stiing back creaming it w (By A Different Perspective)... |
| News - South Africa: Next World Cup hosts get more time to prepare Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Clayton Barnes Fifa's executive committee has confirmed that it will announce the host countries of both the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments in 2010, giving the two countries eight and 12 ye (By Jan)... | News - World: Kim Jong II Accuses South Korea of Assassination Attempt Monday 22-Dec-2008: The clouds of suspicion and paranoia swirling over the world’s last remaining Cold War frontier darkened dramatically today when North Korea accused its southern neighbor of plotting to assassinate Ki (By JanOlifant)... |
| News - South Africa: Ghost of paedophile haunts Swartruggens Sunday 28-Dec-2008: The spectre of paedophile Gert van Rooyen has not been laid to rest. This time it is haunting the small town of Swartruggens in the North West province after a woman claimed her father was involved (By Jan)... | Terrorist Attack In Indian-Controlled Kashmir Foiled; Pakistani Soldier Among Held Thursday 25-Dec-2008: Now this is quite interesting to what's going on with the Kashmir conflict as it's being heated up since the (By Lone Wolf)... |
| News - Africa: Coup leaders announce interim government Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Conakry, Guinea - Coup leaders announced a 32-member interim government for Guinea hours after they said were in control of the mineral-rich West African country following the death of its dictator. (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Motorist shot as firefight erupts Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Bonile Ngqiyaza Three men were arrested in Tsakane, Brakpan, on Monday after a hijacking and a shootout with the police during which a passing driver was hit by a bullet. Police spokesperson (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: China helps Zim to fight cholera Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Harare - China has donated $500 000 in cash to Zimbabwe's government to fight a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 1 200 people, a state daily reported on Wednesday. "We initially intended to (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Xenophobia attacks to be investigated Monday 22-Dec-2008: The South African human rights body on Monday said it would soon begin to investigate the origins of anti-immigrant violence which claimed more than 60 lives in May. "We want to investigate the roo (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Words turn to shots as cops warn crooks Monday 22-Dec-2008: Seven men were arrested after an attempted robbery on a Coin Security facility in Edenvale on Sunday, police said. Captain Dennis Adriao said police received information that the facility would be (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: 'Good times are coming' Saturday 27-Dec-2008: By Bronwynne Jooste Cash-strapped consumers hit by high interest rates and rising fuel and food prices can expect some relief in 2009, according to economists. The petrol price is expected to d (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Rwandan Genocide Architects sentenced Monday 22-Dec-2008: Arusha — High ranking military officers at the time of the genocide have been jailed for life for their key role in the massacre of more than 800,000 people. The International Criminal Tribunal for (By JanOlifant)... | News - Africa: Five killed in Somali militia fighting Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Mogadishu - Five people were killed on Sunday in fighting between Somalia's radical Islamist Shebab insurgents and local militia over the control of a town in the country's central region, witnesses s (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Community reels after grisly 'Santa' massacre Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Los Angeles - A gunman dressed as Santa Claus who opened fire on a Christmas Eve party at the home of his ex-wife's family was planning to flee to Canada, police said, as a ninth body was recovered fr (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Is a rainbow coalition the answer? Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Dave Dalling There is nothing like an impending general election to focus the minds of politicians and political parties. And the unexpected emergence of a new political force so near to an e (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Economic worst still to come, says Obama Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Steven R Hurst Washington - President-elect Barack Obama named his economic brain-trust on Monday, as he acknowledged millions more American workers could lose their jobs in 2009 and played down (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: More suspected cholera cases in KZN Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Two more people have been admitted to hospital with suspected cholera in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the provincial health department said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Chris Maxon said the two were ad (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Musina at breaking point as refugees pour in Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: The border town of Musina is at the coalface of a humanitarian crisis, as residents and aid organisations battle to deal with a flood of sick, broke and hungry Zimbabweans. More than a 1 000 Zimbab (By Jan)... | News - World: Afghan suicide blast kills seven Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Khost, Afghanistan - A suicide attacker blew up a car bomb near a school and district government building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing seven people including four students, police said. (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: 'Tortured' Zim rights activists in court Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Peta Thornycroft After an orgy of torture and kidnapping by President Robert Mugabe's secret police, eight civil rights activists and Movement for Democratic Change officials were due to appear (By Jan)... | News - Africa: 2010 fans 'unlikely' to visit Zim Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Clayton Barnes The Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has intensified measures to market the country's tourism sector ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, despite Fifa's call for football suppo (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Three die in car crash on Christmas Day Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Three teenagers were killed and 13 seriously injured when a bakkie overturned near Swellendam on Christmas Day. But road fatalities are down two thirds on last year. So far, 48 people have died on (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Jet-ski kills teen on beach Friday 26-Dec-2008: By Irene Kuppan and Keith Ross There was a tragic start to Friday's Day of Goodwill after a 16-year-old boy died when his jet-ski landed on him near Blue Lagoon, Durban. Apart from this incident (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Cop and lawyer guard cash-depot seven Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: A lone police officer armed with an assault rifle was responsible for guarding a gang of seven - caught after a failed attempt to rob a cash-in-transit depot of R100-million. The seven - Robert Nza (By Jan)... | Next Dictator Of Guinea Is... Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: ...it seems that Guinea's long-time ruling dictator (By Lone Wolf)... |
| News - World: China attempts to improve relations with Taiwan Monday 22-Dec-2008: Is this further proof of Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' thesis? Janolifant --- Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- China offered 130 billion yuan ($19 billion) of loans for Taiwan companies opera (By JanOlifant)... | News - South Africa: 'Education is the key to a deeper democracy' Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Blade Nzimande Providing education is an essential condition for consolidating and deepening our democracy, and a cornerstone of our programme, the Freedom Charter. In a developing country l (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Medical aid fraud to top R8bn a year Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Medical aids are expecting a run on scam claims over the next few months as the economic squeeze gets tighter. The increase in scams by medical aid members - often colluding with medical service pr (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Mugabe 'a stain on Zimbabwe' Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: London - President Robert Mugabe is "a stain" on Zimbabwe and the world and must leave office, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday. "As long as Mugabe rules Zimbabwe, he rema (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Aid workers kidnapped in Somalia Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Mustafa Haji Abdinur Mogadishu - Two United Nations (UN) aid workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were abducted by armed men on Tuesday in southern Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks targetin (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Do explosives belong to Boeremag? Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Barry Bateman A large explosives and weapons cache believed to be linked to the Boeremag was uncovered in Rustenburg by Pretoria police searching for the remains of Gert van Rooyen's victims. (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Did he break the rules? Sunday 28-Dec-2008: The Independent Complaints Directorate is set to recommend that charges of negligence be brought against a police officer after two detainees were shot dead with his firearm. The police officer, at (By Jan)... | News - World: Cuba celebrates 50 years of Communism Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Havana - On 1 January, Cuba celebrates the 50th anniversary of its Communist revolution, which ushered in decades of enmity with the United States, fueling one of the world's most enduring and definin (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Bloody jailbreak kills 6 officers Friday 26-Dec-2008: Ramadi, Iraq - Six Iraqi police officers and seven Al-Qaeda militants were killed on Friday when the militants attempted a pre-dawn breakout from a police station in the western city of Ramadi, police (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Cape shines in SA economic forecast Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Gershwin Wanneburg The Western Cape economy should grow by at least one to two percent in 2009, even if the rest of the country slides into recession, says the Cape Town Regional Chamber of Comm (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: COPE's eager new girl on the block Monday 22-Dec-2008: Just two months ago, Lynda Odendaal was a "normal South African", literally and figuratively minding her own business, when a casual switch-on of her television set marked a turning point in her life (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Matrics will swell jobless Sunday 28-Dec-2008: Thousands of matriculants will join South Africa's millions of unemployed because schooling does not equip them with the skills to cope in the world of work. Salim Vally, a senior researcher at the (By Jan)... |
| Qassam Rocket Falls Short In Hitting Israeli Target; Kills Two Palestinian Girls, Wounds A Palestinian Man Friday 26-Dec-2008: Isn't this quite disgraceful here that the same vile anti-Israel crowd doesn't seem to care about something like this of a (By Lone Wolf)... | News - South Africa: Man wounded in armed robbery Friday 26-Dec-2008: A man was shot and wounded during an armed robbery at a mini supermarket in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, police said on Friday. Spokesperson Constable Seli Skhosana said two men, in their thirties, (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Loftus may miss 2010 Fifa deadline Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Barry Bateman The principal contractor responsible for the Loftus Versfeld upgrade has missed its own project completion deadline, but the Tshwane Metro Council claims everything is in order. (By Jan)... | News - World: Santa gets mad, kills eight Saturday 27-Dec-2008: By Christina Hoag Stinging from an acrimonious divorce, a man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party and slaughtered at least ei (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Bombs kill six, wound 18 in Iraq Friday 26-Dec-2008: Baghdad - A car bomb, followed in quick succession by another explosion, killed six people and wounded 18 in central Baghdad on Wednesday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in town on a visit, (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Threaten Mugabe with force, says Tutu Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: London - Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu says the international community must use the threat of force to oust Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Tutu told BBC radio on Wednesday he hopes the African (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Another N2 taxi crash after tyre blows Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Kamini Padayachee & Wendy Jasson Da Costa As the road death toll in KwaZulu-Natal continues to rise, police on Tuesday vowed to increase their visibility and enforcement for the busy days that l (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Partner pays undercover cop for hit Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: By Caryn Dolley More than a month before hearing that his business partner was planning to have him killed, a City Bowl Armed Response director filed a fraud complaint against his partner with poli (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Robbery suspects nabbed Monday 22-Dec-2008: Two suspected robbers were injured and six others arrested during an attempted armed robbery in Woodmead, Johannesburg on Monday, Gauteng police said. Constable Vidah Nhemo said eight armed men, wh (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: eThekwini's success stories Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Matthew Savides It has been a year of disputes, with anger over street renaming, ongoing Remant Alton sagas and rates and valuation problems proving some of the most controversial issues for Dur (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: SA move to send aid to Zim slammed Sunday 28-Dec-2008: By Fiona Forde The move by the government to channel aid to Zimbabwe, despite assurances that South African taxpayers' money would never go to Robert Mugabe's regime, has been slammed as grossly ir (By Jan)... | News - Science: Ebola kills again in DRC Friday 26-Dec-2008: kinshasa - A deadly Ebola outbreak in the central Democratic Republic of Congo has killed nine and infected 21, the UN-sponsored radio Okapi quoted the health minister as saying on Thursday. The ra (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Detained Zim activists 'remain in jail' Friday 26-Dec-2008: Harare - The Zimbabwean regime of Robert Mugabe has "no intention" of releasing a rights activist and several opposition figures accused of recruiting anti-government plotters, a lawyer said on Friday (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Ebola epidemic kills scores in DRC Thursday 25-Dec-2008: Kinshasa - A deadly Ebola outbreak in the central Democratic Republic of Congo has killed nine and infected 21, the UN-sponsored radio Okapi quoted the health minister as saying on Thursday. The ra (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Race driver dies trying to set new record Sunday 28-Dec-2008: By Bronwynne Jooste A leading Cape rally driver was killed in a horror crash at Killarney race track on Saturday. Ben Greyling was killed when his modified Ford Fiesta smashed into a barrier dur (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Joburg revellers 'not upset' by robbery Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: Revellers at Parkhurst, Johannesburg's, Jolly Roger pub carried on drinking on Tuesday despite the sound of automatic gunfire from down the road where a bottle store had been robbed. Two men fired (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Seven tourists dead in Egypt coach crash Tuesday 23-Dec-2008: Dahab, Egypt - Seven Russian tourists were killed when their coach overturned on a highway near the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Dahab, according to a new death toll on Tuesday. Eighteen other people (By Jan)... | News - Science: Deaths a mystery Monday 22-Dec-2008: By Lisa-Marie Els The deaths of hundreds of crocodiles at the Kruger National Park earlier this year still have scientists perplexed. In an attempt to solve the mystery, South Africa's leading r (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Oil continues to fall further Monday 22-Dec-2008: Oil prices on Friday tumbled near to a five-year low, trading below $35 a barrel, amid market doubts that Opec would deliver the full 2.2m barrels a day cut it promised earlier this week and fresh con (By JanOlifant)... | News - South Africa: Joburg police clamp down on crime Sunday 28-Dec-2008: A total of 217 people have been arrested over the Christmas period in Johannesburg for crimes ranging from drunk driving to murder, said Gauteng police. Police operations began on Wednesday and end (By Jan)... |
| News - A Step Beyond: Lady Luck smiles on lottery winner Saturday 27-Dec-2008: Hanover, Germany - Germany's state gambling organisation said a record-breaking 43-million-euro jackpot found a winner on Wednesday. Klaus Sattler, a spokesperson for the Baden-Wuerttemberg state l (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: 'Baby, keep quiet' Wednesday 24-Dec-2008: By Lesego Masemola An empty fridge, a bed without blankets and empty shelves bore evidence of a house robbery by six armed men at a plot in Dooringkloof east of Pretoria on Monday night. Relivi (By Jan)... |
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