Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Saturday, 24th January 2009From 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 & GruesomeBlacks will dominate Whites for as long as we let them - The Black Security Guards who delighted in spiting me...
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: I had a very interesting series of incidents at my work in recent months which really tested my will to the limit. I work in various buildings and travel around in the course of my work. I never have (By Jan)...[Cartoon] President Obama's tax plan...
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: This is what Obama is going to do with your tax money... (Photo) (By Jan)...News - World: Mrs Mugabe allegedly punches photographer
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: Hong Kong - A British photographer said on Sunday he had been beaten up and punched repeatedly by the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as he was trying to snap photos of her in Hong Kong. (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe accuses the Whites of trying to Foment unrest - Campaign to Intimidate & arrest the last few Whites
Monday 19-Jan-2009: [In this article it mentions the arrest of 1,800 black people for conspiring to overthrow the Govt! I have a lot to say about the piece below, so let me get going:- Let's start with Eddie Cros (By Jan)...The Folly of Encouraging Terrorism by Eeben Barlow - The West's long role in bringing Terrorism to the World
Monday 19-Jan-2009: THE FOLLY OF ENCOURAGING TERRORISM The world has become consumed with the scourge of terrorism. It is a curse that is on virtually everyone’s lips. This almost unseen threat has led to governments (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: The world’s worst central banker. Hyperinflation now in the sextillions
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: In a moment of total and utter economic distress, Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono has recommended that the rand be informally adopted alongside the Zimbabwean dollar as inflation reaches (By Gairk)...[Humor] Utterly Brilliant: A Joke about Moses and the Palestinians…
Monday 19-Jan-2009: An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly and made the world community smile. A representative from Israel began: 'Before beginning my talk I want (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: SA at odds with Obama - Leon
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: South Africa was on a collision course with the new president of the United States, Barack Obama, because of his more enlightened approach to addressing human rights, DA foreign affairs spokesperson T (By Jan)...[Video] In Defense of Geert Wilders *PETITION*
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: We are continually told that we are blessed with 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' in the 'West', but do we REALLY have the freedom to say what we believe...or even more so, FREEDOM of EVIDENCE? Take for instance G (By JanOlifant)...Disregarding the Principles of War by Eeben Barlow - Shock & Awe & superior Technology do not always work
Monday 19-Jan-2009: DISREGARDING THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR I recall having to study the principles of war – along with those of the different phases of war – during my various military courses, especially on the Combat Te (By Jan)...The Fallacy of the Troop Surge Strategy - Fighting intelligently using the "Brain Surge" by Eeben Barlow
Monday 19-Jan-2009: THE “TROOP SURGE” STRATEGY Ban-Ki Moon and his UN peacekeeping cohorts have (hopefully) come to realise that upping the force levels in a conflict area is no guarantee for success. The UN’s poorly (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Gangsters get 53 years for robbery
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: A robbery backfired in the faces of its perpetrators when one of their mates was shot dead by the intended victim they intended to rob. But, as if that was not bad enough, the robbers will serve l (By Jan)...News - World: US government believes Mexico faces collapse
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Traci Carl Mexico City - Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents. This isn't Iraq or Pakistan. It's Mexico, which the US government and (By Jan)...The "Troop Surge" Strategy - Eeben Barlow
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Ban-Ki Moon and his UN peacekeeping cohorts have (hopefully) come to realise that upping the force levels in a conflict area is no guarantee for success. The UN’s poorly thought-out strategies for so- (By JanOlifant)...News - South Africa: Armed gang injured in house robbery
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Johannesburg - Vereeniging police are searching for a gang of four armed men who robbed a man in his home on Friday night, they said on Saturday. The men, who were all armed with pistols entered th (By Jan)...Disregarding the Principals of War - Eeben Barlow
Friday 23-Jan-2009: I recall having to study the principles of war – along with those of the different phases of war – during my various military courses, especially on the Combat Team and Battle Group commander’s course (By JanOlifant)...USA: President Obama: Will Americans still regard him as Mr 'Fix-it' 4 years from now? Free Lunches all the time
Monday 19-Jan-2009: I hear Obama, Obama, Obama like I used to hear Mandela, Mandela, Mandela. The Messiah has arrived, the world will be saved... glory hallelujah... But Mandela the old crock achieved nothing of note (By Jan)...News - World: Israel chooses Friedman to fight charges
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Jerusalem - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put the justice minister in charge of defending Israel against charges of war crimes during its 22-day Gaza assault, a government source said on Friday. D (By Jan)...News - South Africa: State deal nets Shaik R5m
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Schabir Shaik has received a R5-million windfall from the state in terms of a "secret" agreement signed late in 2008 between his lawyer and the government. In what is believed to be an unprecedente (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Racism lives on
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: The rows of black people stood back from the grave sides in deference to the cemetery. They were there to honour four dead whose tombstones were still covered in silken white shrouds. When Swartrug (By Jan)...News - South Africa: DA proposes direct election of president
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Gaye Davis Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has unveiled proposals to give the electoral system a shot in the arm - and voters more say over those they elect to public office. They incl (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Inflation at 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Submitted by Lars Pluss: JOHANNESBURG, 21 January 2009 (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe dollar now seems to have lost all its appeal, and calls for the adoption of a foreign currency to replace the struggling (By JoAn)...Zimbabwe: SADC set to throw in towel on Zim
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: SADC threatened to drop its mediation effort on Zimbabwe as another attempt to form a unity government in the country failed late yesterday. Prime minister-elect Morgan Tsvangirai described the failur (By Gairk)...Gordon Brown brings Britain to the edge of bankruptcy
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: [Britain deserves it for their madness and their betrayals. We Rhodesians tip our hat to the British and hope they end up in the toilet and down the drain. They deserve it. I hope the sane in Britain (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: New looters - Soldiers are the new illegal diamond miners
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Mutare - The vast Chiadzwa diamond fields, about 90km southwest of Zimbabwe's eastern city of Mutare, have come to resemble a military garrison since soldiers evicted scores of illegal miners. Preside (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, civil servants steal subsidised inputs
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Government will, by the end of this week, name, shame and prosecute Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, civil servants and other people accused of abusing subsidised inputs distributed to farmer (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: De Klerk: give South Africans abroad the vote
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Former president FW de Klerk called on Thursday for South Africans living abroad to be given the right to vote in the upcoming national election. In a letter to the chairperson of the Independent E (By Jan)...Pro-Hamas, Maoist Rally In Oakland High School; Also In 'Favor' Of Oscar Grant
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: It seems that in (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: The Star Newspaper Exposes Johannesburg's hospitals of shame
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: [I've been saying for years that the ANC has completely ruined and shattered South Africa's State hospital structure. Thank God for private health care, or we'd have no doctors and hospitals left. (By Jan)...News - Africa: Nkunda's arrest hoped to bring peace in Congo
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Kinshasa, Congo - In a stunning reversal of alliances, Rwandan troops captured Congo's most powerful rebel leader, a longtime ally who the Congolese government says was at the heart of years of war in (By Jan)...News - Africa: 'Rwandan forces will observe only'
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Dakar, Senegal - Congo's invitation to its longtime enemy Rwanda to deploy up to 2 000 troops marked an extraordinary reversal of alliances, but the Congolese government said on Wednesday the Rwandan (By Jan)...[Pic] US Congressional record recognises American dead in Rhodesia
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: [Captain Joe Smith, the American journalist who fought in Rhodesia made this discovery on the American Congressional record. He sent me this interesting email. I wish we Rhodesians could thank Senator (By Jan)...[5 Docs] EXCLUSIVE: UN Special Reports on Corruption in: Kosovo, Sri Lanka & also Indonesia during the Tsunami Disaster
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: Here are 5 United Nations Special Reports which are currently not in the public domain - yet. These are investigations into the nefarious activities of United Nations staff. We in Africa have seen (By Jan)...Are ALL Americans falling for Obama-mania?
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: [This is an email Jan received from Capt Joe Smith, the American journalist who fought in Rhodesia.] "You can be sure that I am not buying into ANY of this OBAMA NAUSEA. Just sent this to Jan. R (By Gairk)...USA: Obama selects president of the Islamic Society of North America to offer a prayer at the National Cathedral Tuesday
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Barack Obama isn’t wasting any time making an impression: he has selected the leader of a group that has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case to present a prayer duri (By Gairk)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: Johannesburg - My Pics of Street Children begging...
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: I took these two photos a few weeks back at a Chicken Licken in Cresta. I enjoy Chicken Licken. It is the "township KFC" of South Africa. It catered originally for a black audience. It was really chea (By Jan)...USA: President Obama's lies at his inauguration speech - junk policies based on junk knowledge
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: I want to point out some subtle lies in Obama's inauguration speech. I could have watched it, but frankly, I wasn't interested in him. He's pushing Big Govt, and that's no different to say, Robert Mug (By Jan)...ANALYSIS / The IDF model that failed in Lebanon succeeded in Gaza
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Submitted by Aubrey: 24-1-09 By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff FROM HA ARETZ It was almost inevitable that most Israelis would be left with a somewhat sour feeling at the end of the war in Gaz (By JoAn)...Noam Chomsky Defends Hamas, Linkens Israel To Nazi Germany
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: Now this is quite pathetic of how (By Lone Wolf)...USA: Kissinger affirms call for 'new world order'. Proposes globalism to solve current world economic crisis
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reaffirmed his call for the incoming Obama administration to use the current financial crisis to create a "new world order," in a commentary piece for the Int (By Gairk)...News - World: Rockets hit despite unilateral ceasefire
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched rockets into southern Israel on Sunday in defiance of the unilateral ceasefire that Israel declared ho (By Jan)...News - World: Hamas announces ceasefire
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Hamas said on Sunday it would cease fire immediately along with other militant groups in the Gaza Strip and give Israel, which already declared a unila (By Jan)...[Pic] Africa: Now this is what I call overloading...
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: I received this from a friend with no supporting information. The licence plate does not seem to be South African, but it might be Zimbabwean. The traffic Police uniform is definitely South African. I (By Jan)...UK:whites are the majority of racial crime victims
Friday 23-Jan-2009: [Media in the UK have a policy to play down any racist incident where the victim is white] (By Giuseppe)...News - South Africa: Family killed in Pakistan bomb attacks
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Peshwawar, Pakistan - Twelve people were killed, including five members of one family, when mortar shells struck homes and bombs targeted security forces in Pakistan's Swat valley, security officials (By Jan)...[Pic] S.Africa: ANC billboard... A better, er life...
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: A friend sent me this image of an ANC billboard. I suspect that someone took the image of this billboard and edited it to include the word crime. I think most of us would agree with this modification! (By Jan)...News - Africa: Rwandan troops to battle Hutu militia
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Kinshasa, Congo - More than 1 500 Rwandan troops have crossed into eastern Congo, joining Congolese forces in an effort to oust the Hutu rebels who participated in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, officials sa (By Jan)...Shocker: Does Zimbabwe want to adopt the South African Rand as its currency?
Monday 19-Jan-2009: [Actually, this is a topic I've discussed many times. I first floated this idea in May 2006. See: Will US Dollars & Rands become Zimbabwe's Currency? In practise, my prediction has already come true, (By Jan)...News - Africa: Zim breakthrough unlikely
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Donna Bryson Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's rival political leaders failed again this week to break their deadlock over power-sharing, and hopes are dim that an emergency regional summit on the crisi (By Jan)...Entire SAA crew arrested in UK for drugs - hohum!
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Entire S.African Airways crew arrested in UK for drugs Published yesterday, by ¡ Adriana Stuijt Article Comments (3) Share Voters Entire S.African Airways crew arrested in UK for drugs by Adria (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: 'Cops winning war against crime'
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Police use a decline in the murder rate to illustrate that they are winning the war against crime. Statistics show that countrywide, murder has dropped from a high of 26 877 in 1995/96 to a low of (By Jan)...[Pic] USA: The latest member of the Democratic party...
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: I saw this photo some time back with the caption that this bear is member of the Democrats. This is Obama's type of supporter... kicking back and waiting for socialism to do everything for you. (That' (By Jan)...[Cartoon] Brilliant: Obama stepping into George Bush's shoes...
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Here is one more reason why I think Zapiro is the best political cartoonist on the planet. Its too bad he's such a lefty. But he definitely is the most talented lefty around. He hated Bush, but Bush, (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Back-to-tribal-roots move sparked by Zuma?
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Donna Bryson Traditional Zulu healer Zweli Hlongwane wears a Rado watch on his wrist next to a twist of goat hair that reminds him of his pact to be guided by his ancestors' wisdom. A former (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Government fails to pay disgruntled soldiers on time - January pay late
Monday 19-Jan-2009: The cash-strapped government this week failed to pay soldiers their January salaries on time amid reports that it has also ruled out paying them in foreign currency in the near future - a move that ha (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: Robbers target farms and homes in Constantia
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Leila Samodien Police believe that a syndicate is targeting homes in Constantia and its surrounds after a spate of robberies in the area in recent weeks. Five robberies have taken place in Gr (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Crime Stop need your help...
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Shootings that left two people dead and another two injured, a drugs seizure and the arrest of a police constable for attempted robbery, rape and murder are just some of the incidents police attended (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Scorpions' sting poised as Selebi case builds
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Alex Eliseev The Scorpions have played their next card in the run-up to Jackie Selebi's trial by hauling police crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego into the dock. Mphego, the head of oper (By Jan)...News - World: Cops net al-Qaeda man
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Islamabad - Pakistani forces on Wednesday arrested a Saudi, senior al-Qaeda operative allegedly wanted in connection with the 2005 attacks on London in a lightning raid in the country's lawless tribal (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: British kill entire elephant herd. Groups of hunters permitted to track and kill whole herds
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: British hunters, including a prominent Harley Street surgeon, have been paying the Zimbabwean authorities thousands of pounds each to take part in a mass elephant cull. They are among groups of hunter (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: Bullets fly as armed gang take on guards
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Alex Eliseev With a rifle in hand, a robber walked down Johannesburg's Oxford Road, shielded by a Nissan 4x4 rolling slowly next to him - while firing at security guards at a Total garage a few (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Zuma ally gunned down
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Nompumelelo Magwaza and Sipho Khumalo Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi, who was gunned down in Umlazi on Thursday, has been described as no ordinary traditional leader, but an advocate for peace and deve (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Singer determined to put HIV saga behind her
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: A 25-year-old Cape Town singer is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after she was hastily deported by Chinese authorities when a blood test showed she was HIV-positive. The mother of a three (By Jan)...News - Africa: Twelve killed in Mogadishu fighting
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Mogadishu - Twelve Somalis, many of them civilians, were killed and 19 wounded in clashes between government forces and Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu, officials and witnesses told reporters on Wedn (By Jan)...News - Africa: Hunt for Kony, rebels fail to stop attacks
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Faradje, Democratic Republic of Congo - Honore Tadri, 20, was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town's residents had gathered for a co (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Plucked from death - at a price
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: It's Friday night and ward 163 at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg swells with the injured and the maimed. Darkness has fallen over Joburg and the number of ambulances speeding to (By Jan)...News - South Africa: DA names 'the country's five worst hospitals'
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: Rats and cockroaches, discarded wheelchairs, and babies sharing incubators are just some of the things the Democratic Alliance has found at the "five worst public hospitals in South Africa". DA MP (By Jan)...News - World: Israel plans Gaza pullout
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Amy Teibel and Ibrahim Barzak Jerusalem - Israel hopes to pull all of its troops out of the Gaza Strip by the time Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States on Tuesday, Israe (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Criminal case may cramp Zuma presidency
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Michael Georgy The revived corruption case against South Africa's presidential front-runner Jacob Zuma will hinder his ability to govern and increase the chance he shifts closer to the leftist a (By Jan)...News - Africa: Leon calls for sanctions against Mugabe
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Cape Town - Diplomatic isolation and stepped-up sanctions are the key to stopping Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's tyranny, Democratic Alliance foreign affairs spokesperson Tony Leon said on Thurs (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Pikoli sticks to his guns
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Axed national prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli insisted before Parliament on Tuesday that he was a political victim, sidelined by former president Thabo Mbeki for refusing orders not to prosecute the na (By Jan)...News - Africa: Mugabe threatens to break off talks
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe threatened on Sunday to break off power-sharing talks if the opposition declines a deal when South Africa again tries to broker a compromise on a unity govern (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Mbeki 'right to sack Pikoli'
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Deon de Lange Former president Thabo Mbeki acted swiftly - in accordance with intelligence only he possessed at the time - to avert a national security crisis when he suspended National Prosecut (By Jan)...News - Africa: Mugabe 'government illegitimate'
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Paul Simao Johannesburg - Graca Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday described Zimbabwe's government as illegitimate and said regional leaders had allowed hundreds of thousands of pe (By Jan)...News - World: Gaza ruins shock UN leader
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Louis Charbonneau Gaza - Voicing shock at stark scenes of destruction, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Israel was poised (By Jan)...Zimbabwean spy in the pay of Mugabe arrested in Botswana - seeking MDC Military training camps?
Monday 19-Jan-2009: [This is most interesting. This is another white man in Mugabe's pay. Do you remember many years ago Mugabe had a spy, a piece of Jewish trash from North America who claimed there was a plot against M (By Jan)...News - South Africa: COPE proposes 'stabilising fund'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: A "stabilising fund" is needed for industries under pressure due to the global financial crisis, the Congress of the People said on Friday. "One proposal is, it is important to have a stabilising f (By Jan)...Fifteen members of a South African Airways cabin crew arrested after cannabis was found in baggage
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: [Any bets on who these "Ambassadors" of South Africa can be - pre 1994 or post 1994 employees? Gairk] HM Revenue and Customs said 50 kilos (110lb) of the drug was found on a flight which came in fr (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: Irene Village Mall hit again
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: It took only 11 minutes for a gang of robbers to help themselves to hundreds of thousands of rands worth of luxury clothing and cosmetics in a daring attack on Irene Village Mall during the early hour (By Jan)...News - South Africa: 'Mbeki did not interfere in Selebi case'
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Vusi Pikoli was sacked as head of prosecutions because he had courted a national security crisis by moving too fast to arrest police chief Jackie Selebi, the government said on Wednesday. The direc (By Jan)...News - Africa: Fresh talks on Zimbabwe may not yield results
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Johannesburg - Southern African leaders are planning their seventh summit on Zimbabwe since elections last March, and analysts said the latest diplomatic push stood little chance of faring better than (By Jan)...News - Africa: Regional leaders aim to break Harare deadlock
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Harare - Regional leaders will next week resume efforts to break Zimbabwe's political impasse after marathon talks failed to get President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai to form a unity gov (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Accuser 'enjoyed sex with Zuma'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Esther Lewis and Andisiwe Makinana ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Thursday suggested that the woman who accused ANC president Jacob Zuma of rape had a "nice time" with him. "When (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Mall robbery blamed on ANC
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: A gang of 14 heavily armed men robbed the Irene Farm Village Mall of clothes, shoes and perfume in the early hours on Tuesday, Pretoria police said. The audacity of the robbery demonstrated crimina (By Jan)...Saudis Offer One Billion Bucks For Gaza Reconstruction; Money Really To Go To Gazan Palestinians?
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Now this one billion dollars offered by the (By Lone Wolf)...News - South Africa: Constitution will be defended - Cope
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: The constitution will be "fearlessly defended" and the rule of law upheld by a Cope government, said the party's election manifesto launched in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Congress of the People pr (By Jan)...News - World: US kill 15 militants in Afghanistan
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Kabul - US-led coalition forces Saturday said they killed 15 armed militants in eastern Afghanistan, but local legislators say the casualties were civilians including women and children. The forces (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Reward posted for the arrest of N14 killers
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Friends and family of murdered German national and Good Samaritan, Dieter Furrutter, 63, have posted a reward for the arrest and successful prosecution of his killers. The R20 000 reward comes as p (By Jan)...News - Election 2009: COPE to put funding issue in spotlight
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: With the ANC still wrestling with how to deal with corruption charges hanging over ANC president Jacob Zuma, the Congress of the People (COPE) is expected to ratchet up the ante by challenging the ANC (By Jan)...News - Africa: MDC leader optimistic ahead of fresh talks
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Nelson Banya Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday he was hopeful a regional summit next week could end the deadlock in power-sharing talks with President Robe (By Jan)...News - Africa: Hunt for Hutu rebels continue
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Goma, DR of Congo - Hundreds of Rwandan troops entered the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday to join the hunt for Rwandan rebels at the heart of more than a decade of instability in the region. (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Two crime busters wounded in shootout
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Police are investigating whether the shooting of two members of the Organised Crime Investigation Unit is linked to the crime they were investigating in Gugulethu when they were wounded. On Monday (By Jan)...News - World: Full text of Barack Obama's speech
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: What do you think of the new president's speech? My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by (By Jan)...News - Africa: Briton shot dead in Freetown robbery
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Freetown - A Briton was shot dead in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown during an apparent robbery at his residence in the west of the city, police said on Wednesday. Senior police officer Chris Cha (By Jan)...News - World: Obama vows to 'leave Iraq to its people'
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Baghdad - Five people died and at least 14 were hurt in a string of attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, highlighting the continuing violence as new US President Barack Obama pledged to "leave Iraq to its (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Motlanthe asked to order Zuma, Shaik probe
Monday 19-Jan-2009: President Kgalema Motlanthe has been asked to set up a commission of inquiry into the legal battles of ANC President Jacob Zuma and his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik. The Society for the P (By Jan)...News - World: Gaza calm as Israeli troops begin pullout
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Gaza City - Gaza was enjoying a second night of calm on Monday as Israeli troops began withdrawing after their deadly 22-day onslaught in the battered territory was halted by a fragile ceasefire deal. (By Jan)...News - Africa: Somali suicide blast kills 14
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Mogadishu - At least 14 civilians were killed on Saturday when a suicide car bomb targeting African Union peacekeepers in Somalia hit a bus south of the capital Mogadishu, an official said. The ex (By Jan)...Putting an end to Piracy - The only way - Eeben Barlow
Friday 23-Jan-2009: I am astonished at the world’s response to the continuing piracy problem off the East African coast. Pirates are criminals – there is no “nicer” or “softer” or even “politically correct” manner to (By JanOlifant)...News - South Africa: KZN's battlefields plundered
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Wealthy local and overseas people are enticing poor South Africans to plunder battlefields and rob graves of artefacts, conference delegates were told in Dundee on Monday. "They pay these people a (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Blue light cop faces murder rap
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Lesego Masemola A policeman from the Presidential Protection Unit has been charged with murder after he allegedly shot dead a suspected thief. The 27-year-old police constable shot dead one o (By Jan)...Investment: Gold soars above $900 on safe-haven demand
Friday 23-Jan-2009: [Gold is becoming ever more acceptable. 10 years ago people were pooh poohing gold. Not so any more! Jan] NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rallied above $900 an ounce Friday to their highest (By Jan)...News - Africa: Mugabe issues an ultimatum
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Harare - President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will meet on Monday for talks aimed at implementing a power-sharing agreement for Zimbabwe signed in September but stalled by d (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Armed robbery foiled
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: An armed robbery was foiled in Morula complex, Mabopane after a cash box exploded, Ga-Rankuwa police said on Tuesday. Captain Solly Marindi said a Coin security guard collecting a cash box from a S (By Jan)...News - Africa: 'I'm a successful Somali pirate'
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Abdiqani Hassan Yassin Dheere is a 39-year-old Somali who took to piracy five years ago and has made a fortune from the mushrooming business. A hulk of a man, he towered over his bodyguards (By Jan)...News - Africa: Tribal chiefs held after ritual murder
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Freetown - Fourteen people, including several tribal chiefs, have been arrested in connection with an alleged ritual murder of a young woman in southern Sierra Leone, authorities said Monday. "The (By Jan)...UK:Smear campaign agains the British National Party
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Anyone reading African Crisis knows about the British National Party and how it is the only party committed to save Britain by stopping immigration,withdrawing the UK from the European Union,ending po (By Giuseppe)...Investment: Gold rises 1.8% on worries recession will deepen
Friday 23-Jan-2009: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rose Tuesday for a second session, ending above $850 an ounce for the first time in more than a week as worries that the global economic recession will deepen ra (By Jan)...News - World: Iraq is prepared for early US pullout
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Marwan Ibrahim Baghdad - Iraq said on Thursday that it is prepared for an early drawdown of American troops after President Barack Obama asked the United States military to draft plans for a wit (By Jan)...USA: How Conservatives Should Celebrate the new President's Inauguration
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power (By Gairk)...News - Africa: No progress seen in Zim power-sharing talks
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Zimbabwe, Harare - Southern African leaders pressed President Robert Mugabe and his longtime rival to implement a stalled power-sharing deal Monday but both Zimbabwean leaders appeared intransigent. (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Sexwale slams COPE for using 'witchcraft'
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Caiphius Kgosana Businessman and ANC leader Tokyo Sexwale fiercely attacked Congress of the People for parading "old women" on TV, using them as witchcraft to attract support. Sexwale was spea (By Jan)...News - South Africa: SA moves to avoid World Cup blackouts
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Charlotte Plantive South Africa, still scarred by the memory of paralysing blackouts one year ago, wants at any cost to avoid a repeat of the national power cuts when it hosts the football World (By Jan)...News - Africa: Army blocks UN peacekeepers
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Herve Bar Munigi, DR of Congo - Congolese troops shut out UN peacekeepers, aid workers and journalists on Wednesday from witnessing a joint operation with Rwandan troops to hunt down a Rwandan H (By Jan)...News - World: Sunni leader killed in suicide bombing
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Mosul - A suicide bomber in northern Iraq killed four people on Monday, including a senior Sunni politician, in the latest violence to hit the country ahead of provincial elections, police said. Th (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Alleged Zim bid to adopt rand
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Fiona Forde and Special Correspondent A dubious document purporting to be the handiwork of the Zimbabwean Reserve Bank governor strongly recommends the adoption of the rand to help recover their (By Jan)...South Africa: TLU SA/TAU SA: Fertilizer Price Fixing
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Submitted by Grazy: Friday, January 23, 2009 PG16/1/09/04 FERTILIZER PRICE FIXING On 17 June 2008 TAU SA formally requested the Competition Board to investigate high fertilizer prices. The (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Man left to die on N14 highway
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: A good Samaritan, shot through the neck, bled to death in front of a friend moments after stopping to help his pal on a notoriously dangerous road outside Pretoria. The gunning down of German natio (By Jan)...Zimbabwe unveils $100-trillion note: 14 zeros and soon to be worthless
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Zimbabwe will introduce a Z$100-trillion note, in its latest attempt to keep pace with hyperinflation that has left its once-vibrant economy in tatters, state media said Friday. The new $100 000 000 0 (By Gairk)...News - Africa: Cholera death toll in Zim rise
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: By Independent foreign Service Health experts fear that cholera, which has already wiped out at least 2 755 people in Zimbabwe, could kill thousands more in the next few weeks. Deaths and infec (By Jan)...News - South Africa: No cash back for Shaik - readers
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Ainsley Daniels After Judge Hilary Squires found Schabir Shaik guilty of fraud and corruption, the NPA's Asset forfeiture Unit ordered to confiscate R34-million from Shaik. Schabir Shaik has (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Agliotti attackers jailed
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Alex Eliseev Glenn Agliotti has welcomed the end of a long - and often bizarre - trial of the men accused of terrorising him and his family at their Sandton mansion in 2007. On Wednesday, th (By Jan)...News - Africa: Cholera threat shifts to rural areas
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is spreading to rural areas because people with the preventable disease have quit heavily-infected urban centres for the countryside, an agency official said on We (By Jan)...USA: President Obama's campaign slogan is a Third World insult to America - The Pepsi Parable
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: I was chatting to a friend of mine, tonight and I mentioned to him that Obama's campaign slogan of "we can" really is not suitable for America. Anyway, what is the slogan? "We can..." ... well? What? (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Cholera outbreak puts nurses under pressure
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: The cholera outbreak in South African provinces is putting strain on nurses already faced with "abnormal responsibilities" in health facilities, a nurses' organisation said on Tuesday. The Democrat (By Jan)...News - Africa: African leaders push ahead with Harare talks
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Harare - A regional bid to resolve Zimbabwe's unity government deadlock got under way in Harare on Monday as opposition leaders arrived for talks with President Robert Mugabe and southern African medi (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Students must fight to defend Zuma - Malema
Friday 23-Jan-2009: By Anel Powell ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema has told students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology to defend the ruling party and its president, Jacob Zuma, against th (By Jan)...News - Africa: What does Obama mean to Africa?
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Aubrey Dhlamini Barack Obama, a man with strong links to the African continent, is currently in the spotlight. Although I've never met him, he is familiar to me for what he stands for: triumph a (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Police on gang alert after Belhar shootings
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Caryn Dolley Belhar police are on high alert, as they fear tension between the 26s and 28s gangs in the area may lead to more violence after a child and teenager were wounded in a gang-related s (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Limpopo mayor slammed for cholera deaths
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Community members attacked their mayor over cholera deaths in the Greater Tubatse Municipality in Limpopo, police confirmed on Monday. Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba said Mayor Ralepane Mamekoa wa (By Jan)...News - South Africa: 'Racist' road rage attack in Pretoria
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Three Pretoria men had a harrowing experience when two youths armed with an unlicensed gun and sporting fake police equipment allegedly opened fire on them in what has been described as a racially-mot (By Jan)...News - South Africa: 'Transport woes menace SA food security'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Poor road and rail transport networks in South Africa may threaten its food security, hampering the country's ability to import, process and distribute basic food stuffs, a newspaper said. South Af (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Five suspected robbers killed in KZN
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: KwaZulu-Natal police shot dead five suspected robbers and arrested four others in Camperdown on Wednesday. Superintendent Henry Budhram said police received a tip-off about nine armed men on a mini (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Should MPs reveal their HIV status?
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: HIV-positive members of parliament should publicly disclose their status to overcome the stigma associated with HIV and Aids and to encourage communities to test, says National Assembly Speaker Gwen M (By Jan)...News - South Africa: COPE makes gains in KZN
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Wendy Jasson Da Costa and Jeff Wicks Several members of the ANC's Groutville branch have crossed the floor to join the Congress of the People and were welcomed into its fold by party leader Mosi (By Jan)...News - South Africa: DA leader slams ANC for 'rewarding criminals'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Opposition leader Helen Zille on Friday accused the African National Congress of rewarding crime by putting Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Tony Yengeni on the party's election nomination lists. "Bot (By Jan)...News - South Africa: SAA seeks answers after drug bust
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Kate Dyall and Shaun Smillie The SAA crew, including three pilots, arrested in London on suspicion of drug trafficking and detained for 24 hours have been released on bail until March 23. The (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Zuma graft case: ANC wants role
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: The ANC national working committee has resolved to "become fully involved" in presidential front-runner Jacob Zuma's graft case, the party said on Tuesday. "We intend to become fully involved. The (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Showdown looms as Cape gangs get tough
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Lavern de Vries A three-year gang feud for control over some of the Western Cape's townships has left some communities in despair. Police have described the situation in the townships as "ten (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Ngculu may defect
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Former Western Cape ANC chairman James Ngculu has given a clear indication he is about to defect to the Congress of the People. Ngculu has joined the crowds headed to Port Elizabeth for Cope's mani (By Jan)...News - Africa: African leaders 'must intervene in Zimbabwe'
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Johannesburg - Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on African leaders to intervene in Zimbabwe's political deadlock, saying Robert Mugabe's government was responsible for the country's humanitarian (By Jan)...[Pics][Doc] The rotten Israeli's in Gaza, murdering the little Arab children... the Photos they never show you...
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: The Israeli cross-border raid into Gaza was really pleasing to watch for me. It reminds me of the days when Rhodesia and South Africa engaged in those extremely successful cross-border raids of theirs (By Jan)...News - World: 'The last children to die in Gaza'
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Janaliya, Gaza Strip - In a quiet courtyard hidden down a maze of alleys, the Abu Eich family gathers to mourn their four girls killed by an Israeli shell just hours before Israel halted its assault o (By Jan)...News - Science: Bird flu threat in China rises
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Beijing - A 16-year-old boy on Tuesday became the third person to die of bird flu in China in January, authorities said, fuelling concerns of more deaths as the nation prepares to celebrate the Lunar (By Jan)...Mexican Government Condemns Two Pardons Of Outgoing President
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Now this is quite a typical response from the (By Lone Wolf)...News - South Africa: Monks reeling after second armed robbery
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Still reeling from shock after a previous armed robbery, residents at a Roman Catholic Church monastery in Mariannhill endured another harrowing armed robbery on Monday morning. Ten gunmen assaulte (By Jan)...News - South Africa: 'Highway robbery'
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Big businesses south of Durban, which will be "seriously affected" by the proposal to toll the N2, have joined forces to fight the controversial plan and have warned that the costs will be passed back (By Jan)...News - South Africa: KZN stock thefts keep police busy
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Sharika Regchand Members of the Pietermaritzburg stock theft unit had their hands full over the festive season, tracking down syndicates that had stolen hundreds of animals. In December, 98 h (By Jan)...News - South Africa: ANC calls for speedy arrest of MPL's robbers
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has called for the speedy arrest of five men who allegedly robbed MPL Belinda Scott at the weekend. Scott, along with her new husband and guests, was robbed during her wedd (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Health crisis goes beyond cholera to Aids
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: While cholera may be the most visible face of Zimbabwe's problems, a group of experts say the deterioration in the country's healthcare system over the past decade is also exacerbating the country's H (By Gairk)...A British Nationalist View of the Obama Phenomenon
Friday 23-Jan-2009: [I'm sure many wondered what was the opinion of the British National Party about Barak Obama.Well,you have got one.You may not agree but at least it offers a different view that the one' pushed by all (By Giuseppe)...News - South Africa: Four escape from police in E Cape
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Four men awaiting trial for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder are on the run in the Eastern Cape after escaping from custody on Friday, police said. They made their break for freedom whil (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Six held after dramatic police swoop
Friday 23-Jan-2009: A suspected Pretoria housebreaker was shot and five others arrested during a desperate dash for freedom from police across Waterberg mountain. Using a helicopter, police chased after the gang that (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Cartel link to SAA drug bust
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Crime intelligence operatives have arrested two people in connection with a multimillion-dollar international drug-smuggling syndicate that uses airlines to traffic narcotics across the world. It i (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Bullet cartridges littered scene of shooting
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi, the grandson of a famous Zulu King and a strong ally of African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma, was shot dead in Durban's Umlazi township on Thursday morning. Zondi wa (By Jan)...News - World: Iran hangs 10 murderers
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Tehran - Iran has hanged 10 men convicted of murder in a mass execution in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, the government Iran newspaper reported on Thursday. The executions of the men, aged betwee (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Crack squad set up to hunt for killers
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: A team of highly-specialised detectives have been put together to track down the killers of German national and good Samaritan, Dieter Furrutter, 63, who was gunned while helping a friend on a notorio (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Readers not bothered by ANC 'rifts'
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Ainsley Daniels Reports have surfaced that members of the ANC leadership are unhappy with President Kgalema Motlanthe. IOL asked readers: "Is the reported rift between President Kgalema Motla (By Jan)...News - South Africa: ANCYL blames the media for Motlanthe crisis
Monday 19-Jan-2009: The African National Congress Youth League has accused the media of waging a "concerted effort" to create a crisis around the personal and private life of President Kgalema Motlanthe. "The levels o (By Jan)...Tribal Healers Politically much more Powerful in South Africa now
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Submitted by Adriana Stuijt: January 22 2009 - All the schooling at two South African village shools has been disrupted for a week --after five tribal seers, “sangomas’ , placed a spell on the scho (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Call for MPs to disclose HIV status
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: HIV-positive members of parliament should publicly disclose their status to overcome the stigma associated with HIV and Aids and to encourage communities to be tested, said National Assembly Speaker G (By Jan)...Singapore Islamist Admits Attempted Major Terrorist Attack On Local Airport In Singapore
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: It seems that one of (By Lone Wolf)...News - South Africa: Mbeki never meddled in Selebi case - Chikane
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: The government on Wednesday vehemently denied claims by Vusi Pikoli that former president Thabo Mbeki suspended him to prevent the arrest of Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi. "It is wrong to say t (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Enough is enough, say senior police officers
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Botho Molosankwe Senior police have harshly criticised corrupt officers who tarnished the image of the SAPS and heaped praise on those who daily risked their lives protecting citizens. Speaki (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Joburg's suspected billboard bandit
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Alex Eliseev A polite accountant by day and a blade-wielding billboard bandit by night? This is the question most are asking themselves. Welcome to the suspected double life of Phillip Hasla (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Cholera claims 19 lives in Mpumalanga
Monday 19-Jan-2009: The cholera death toll in Mpumalanga has reached 19 since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in December 31 last year, the provincial health department said on Monday. Spokesperson Mpho Gabasha (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Zuma's lawyer maps out his next moves
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Fiona Forde Ever since he signed Jacob Zuma onto his books almost four years ago, Michael Hulley has been slowly creeping into the public eye. But the Durban-born attorney shies away from public (By Jan)...News - South Africa: ANC desperate, says COPE
Friday 23-Jan-2009: The ANC's holding an Eastern Cape election manifesto rally at the same time as the Congress of the People is a sign of desperation, COPE Deputy President Mbhazima Shilowa said on Friday. "They deci (By Jan)...News - Africa: 'Lubanga trial will open eyes'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: The Hague - Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo hopes to alert the world to the plight of child soldiers when he finally faces Congolese militiaman Thomas Lubanga next week at the International Criminal Cou (By Jan)...Political assassinations soar in battle for power in South Africa
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Submitted by Adrian Stuijt: January 22 2009 - Following Jacob Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and ex-president Thabo Mbeki's resignation in 2008, those Mbeki-supporters who failed to (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: ANC E Cape rally not aimed at derailing COPE
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: An ANC election manifesto rally in the Eastern Cape this weekend is not an attempt to derail the COPE manifesto launch in Port Elizabeth, the ruling party said on Thursday. "The ANC dispels any mis (By Jan)...News - Africa: MDC leader laments 'dark day'
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwe's power-sharing talks ended without a deal on Monday and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said no progress was made on what he called the "darkest day of (By Jan)...News - Africa: Death toll rises as LRA rebels stalk Congo
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Joe Bavier Faradje, Congo - Honore Tadri, 20, was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the Congolese town's residents had gathered for (By Jan)...News - World: Tamil rebels kill 51 soldiers: website
Sunday 18-Jan-2009: By Krishan Francis Colombo - Tamil Tigers killed 51 Sri Lankan soldiers in fierce fighting in the island's north, a pro-rebel website reported on Saturday. The military denied dozens of troops died (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Another person arrested in SAA drug probe
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Police arrested a South African Airways cabin crew member on Thursday, the second person to be taken in after 50kg of dagga was allegedly found in the crew's bags at London's Heathrow Airport. Spok (By Jan)...News - World: Obama's first day in office
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Stephen Collinson Washingotn - President Barack Obama on Wednesday confronted the grim realities of the multiple national security and economic crises dogging the United States, in his first ful (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Pikoli should get his job back - readers
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Ainsley Daniels Suspended National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli is attempting to convince MPs that President Kgalema Motlanthe erred in axing him. IOL asked readers: "Do you think V (By Jan)...News - South Africa: 'Doctor' a suspected fraudster
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Always immaculately dressed, a 35-year-old suspected fraudster lived the high life. He checked into some of the best lodges around Johannesburg, pretending to be a doctor whose accommodation was to (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Power struggles delay voting
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa and Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Five days before the ANC goes into its crucial national list conference, the struggle for power within the ruling party has caused disruptions and some del (By Jan)...News - World: Hong Kong police eye Grace Mugabe
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were on Monday investigating whether an alleged assault by the wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a shopping trip was captured on video. Investigators w (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Twelve killed in Wellington crash
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Devin Hermanus Twelve people were killed and 12 others injured in two separate accidents at the weekend in the Western Cape's roads. On Saturday, 12 people, many of them on their way to a fun (By Jan)...News - World: Obama reverses abortion policy
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: Washington - US President Barack Obama continued his march to reverse contentious Bush administration policies, ending the ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Suspects identified in Zondi killing
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Police have identified three suspects in connection with murder of traditional leader Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi, the SABC reported on Friday. The broadcaster quoted KwaZulu-Natal safety and security (By Jan)...News - Africa: Council staff down tools in Harare
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - City workers in Zimbabwe's capital began an indefinite strike on Friday, demanding to be paid in hard currency. The strikers - including mortuary attendants and trash collectors (By Jan)...News - Africa: Kabila decision incensed Congolese
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Kinshasa - President Joseph Kabila's decision to allow Rwandan troops into eastern DR Congo for a joint military operation to rid the region of armed militias has sparked anger and apprehension across (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Mphego in court over Selebi affidavit
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Acting crime intelligence head Mulangi Mphego appeared in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday charged with defeating the ends of justice, said the National Prosecuting Authority. "He was wa (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Two ATMs bombed in North West
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: An undisclosed amount of money was taken when two ATMs were bombed at Marikana near Brits, North West police said on Thursday. Inspector Wilmarie van der Merwe said the machines were bombed around (By Jan)...News - South Africa: TAC slams China for deporting HIV+ musician
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has condemned the deportation of a Cape Town musician who was kicked out of China due to her HIV-positive status. The woman, who refused to be named, has since r (By Jan)...News - Africa: Ten Ugandan rebels killed, commander captured
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: By Godfrey Olukya Kampala, Uganda - Ugandan soldiers have killed 10 members of a brutal northern Ugandan rebel group and captured a rebel commander, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday, a day a (By Jan)...News - South Africa: COPE names defectors
Saturday 24-Jan-2009: The Congress of the People has announced about nine defectors and new members, including the sister of the late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - but there are still no big names as speculated. (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Rape accused denied bail
Friday 23-Jan-2009: A Pretoria doctor accused of raping and indecently assaulting a 14-year-old female patient, was on Thursday denied bail in the Pretoria Sexual Offences Court. Magistrate Dawn Neethling said the 62- (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Suspected robbers nabbed in Soweto
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Two suspected robbers were arrested after a high-speed chase with police in Soweto, Johannesburg metro police said on Thursday. Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said metro police patrolling on El (By Jan)...News - Science: Fish poison in low doses won't damage ecology
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: CapeNature could use the controversial fish poison Rotenone to kill alien fish in four selected rivers without significant harm to the river or land ecosystem. This was the finding of the environme (By Jan)...News - Science: Orangutans under threat
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Robin Mcdowell Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives. It was chimpanzees for Ja (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Should Nofemela get parole?
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Louise Flanagan Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has ducked making a court-ordered decision on parole for an apartheid hit-squad killer - and used his own department's inefficiency (By Jan)...News - World: Washington goes into security clampdown
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Washington - US Secret Service and police tightened a security clamp on Washington on Monday, closing major traffic arteries and throwing up a rigid downtown cordon on the eve of Barack Obama's histor (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Tourists allegedly robbed in Kosi Bay
Monday 19-Jan-2009: Police have launched a massive search for men who robbed tourists of valuables and cars in Kosi Bay in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning. Several men held up three armed security guards at g (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Poaching syndicate: probe into KZN links
Monday 19-Jan-2009: By Arthi Sanpath Police bust a rhino poaching syndicate and are now hoping to link the men to a spate of poaching incidents in KwaZulu-Natal. To date 11 people have been arrested and charged fo (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-01-2009)
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Whilst the rest of the world is looking for some sort of peaceful compromise to the Zimbabwe crisis, Mugabe's top general is tabling - once a (By The BeardedMan)...News - Africa: Has the AU failed Zimbabwe?
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Addis Ababa - The African Union (AU) has failed the people of Zimbabwe by turning a blind eye towards human rights abuses, a Zimbabwean rights group said on Thursday. Representatives of the Zimbabw (By Jan)...News - Africa: 'AU has failed Zimbabwe'
Friday 23-Jan-2009: Addis Ababa - The African Union (AU) has failed the people of Zimbabwe by turning a blind eye towards human rights abuses, a Zimbabwean rights group said on Thursday. Representatives of the Zimbabw (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Guard shot during school robbery
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: A security guard was shot dead during an armed robbery at a pre-school in Parkmore on Thursday, Johannesburg police said. "Two armed men approached the guard at the front gate of the Park on Fourth (By Jan)...News - World: Tainted milk scandal: China gets tough
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: By Lucy Hornby Shijiazhuang, China - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for their role in the production and sale of melamine-tainted milk that killed at least six children and (By Jan)...News - World: Virginia student stabbed to death
Thursday 22-Jan-2009: Blacksburg, Virginia - A female student was stabbed to death on Virginia Tech's campus, the first killing at the school since a deadly mass shooting there in 2007. The killing on Wednesday night tr (By Jan)...News - South Africa: No thanks, Vavi tells ANC
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: Zwelinzima Vavi, the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, has declined his nomination as an ANC representative in the National Assembly. "I am deeply moved and honoured (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Tempers flare at hearing into Pikoli sacking
Wednesday 21-Jan-2009: By Deon de Lange Dead man walking. This is how one journalist described the probable fate of suspended National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Vusi Pikoli after he was aggressively grilled for (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Firefighters battle Cape fires
Tuesday 20-Jan-2009: Cape Town firefighters were monitoring mountain and bush fires at Red Hill and near Athlone on Tuesday, the city said. Table Mountain and National Parks fire manager Philip Prins said the fire bega (By Jan)...Demonstrators In Germany Wave Hamas, Hezbollah Flags; Salute To Terrorist Groups
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