Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 8th February 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 & GruesomeS Africa: Widespread discontent is fueling communism, economic collapse looms
Friday 06-Feb-2009: Hi Jan [Came across this article today, it was written on the 3rd of February....nothing that we don't already know, but well worth a read. Me living in Vancouver had no idea what the ANC are promi (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Full State of Nation address by the president
Friday 06-Feb-2009: STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, KGALEMA MOTLANTHE TO THE JOINT SITTING OF PARLIAMENT Cape Town, 6 February 2009 Madame Speaker of the National Assembly; Chairper (By Jan)...[Humor] Van the farmer and the 'no so smart young yuppie'
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: A farmer named Van was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Limpopo when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young black man in an A (By Gairk)...S Africa: 'You are a traitor to your people, F W de Klerk' - fellow Afrikaner
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: Submitted by Adriana Stuijt: Sorry Adriana that I am so far behind. I'm going back and pulling the good articles now, so that they will show up in the AC archives. Hopefully it will bring people back (By JoAn)...S Africa: Black leaders woo Afrikaans voters with 'war of the songs'
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: Submitted by Adriana Stuijt: January 29 2009 -- The South African electorate is facing a presidential election early this year - and parties are gearing up to woe one of the least-liked electorates (By JoAn)...USA: The Financial Meltdown – Ron Paul on how Free Market Capitalism is the solution
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: [Our President, one generation out of Africa, has not yet demonstrated the political genius his followers claim. I am mildly encouraged. Comment from an American who sent this article to Joe Smith.] (By Gairk)...News - South Africa: War on crime turns deadly
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: By Fred Kockott There is a new war on the streets. Deadly shootouts between police and organised crime gangs are now a defining feature of police work and life in South Africa. In the past two w (By Jan)...S. Africa: TLU SA/TAU SA: Media Release
Friday 06-Feb-2009: Submitted by Kobie: Thursday, February 05, 2009 INVESTIGATION OF FERTILIZER PRICES Since the latter half of 2007 and the larger part of 2008, fertilizer prices showed a sharp increase, which i (By JoAn)...Pry the country from his grip: Zimbabwe cannot recover as long as Mugabe remains in power
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: South Africa demands that the West aid a 'unity' government under Robert Mugabe. How to answer? South Africa has won a round in its relentless campaign to preserve Robert Mugabe's hold over a dying (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: MDC - Tendai Biti & the MDC HARDLINERS - YOU ARE MY HEROES!!!!
Friday 06-Feb-2009: [My admiration for Biti has grown with time. I was told that the previous spokesman for the MDC was also an extremely hardline guy. He was murdered in prison - OBVIOUSLY! Because the STRONG can't be t (By Jan)...USA: The DOW Jones index finally crashes below 8,000 - Obama's rapid drop in popularity
Monday 02-Feb-2009: For many weeks now I've been waiting for the DOW Jones Index to crash below the 8,000 mark. And today I see the market is about 100 points below the 8,000 number. So now we need to watch to see if the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'They can try all they want to remain in power but regime change is well and truly on the way'
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: Regime change has to result in most of our present oppressors fleeing from Zimbabwe in fear for their lives’ It is now almost a year since the majority of the voters in Zimbabwe rejected Robert Mug (By Gairk)...Europe: Russian newspaper mourns another murdered reporter
Monday 02-Feb-2009: The dead loom over the morning editorial meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper. Novaya Gazeta's staff is trying to plan the next issue and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an underst (By Gairk)...Gazans tell Israeli investigators of Hamas abuses
Saturday 07-Feb-2009: Submitted by Aubrey: By YAAKOV KATZ Jerusalem Post 2 Feb 09 Nuaf Atar spoke about the use of Gazan schools to shoot rockets at Israel. Zabhi Atar revealed that Hamas used food coupons to (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Quarry blast wreaks havoc
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: A controlled explosion at a Centurion quarry turned into a disaster when rocks were hurled metres into the air before they ripped through a shopping centre and office complex, injuring three people, o (By Jan)...Viomak releases Christmas Box bundle for ‘Zimbabwe Circus’ Politicians
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: Music review by Harriet Chigege As Zimbabweans continue to chew bubbles and swallow air in anticipation of a quick and successful resolution to the sleazy political crisis ravaging the country, pro (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Air force called in as fires rip through Cape
Friday 06-Feb-2009: By Murray Williams and Luleka Damane Firefighters and the air force are battling another major fire in the Stellenbosch area - the second to hit the town this week and one of almost 100 fires that (By Jan)...[YouTube][Video] USA: Dumb, dumber, dumbest: Are you as retarded as Nancy Pelosi?
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: I laughed at this. How dumb can you be? Well, if you're a senior person in the American Govt, and you can't COUNT... that could be a problem. How's this: 500 million Americans lose their jobs every mo (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Alleged rapist beaten to death
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: An alleged rapist was beaten to death by a group of 21 women in Engcobo, Eastern Cape police said on Thursday. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said 21 women, aged between 21 and 70, were arrested following (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Farms seizure: government taken to court
Saturday 07-Feb-2009: Free State farmer Crawford von Abo is taking action in the Pretoria High Court to have the government forced to compensate him R80-million for the seizure of his 14 Zimbabwean farms, unless it acts to (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Just who is stalling the Zuma trial?
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: ANC President Jacob Zuma's lawyers have proposed August 12 as the date for his latest - and potentially last - court bid to quash the fraud and corruption case against him, a key part of which will be (By Jan)...Egyptian Security interrogate wounded Palestinians on homemade shells, arms smuggling
Saturday 07-Feb-2009: Submitted by Aubrey: Egypt has had enough of HAMAS Thursday January 22, 2009 by IMEMC News A number of injured Palestinians who received treatment in Egyptian hospitals and returned to Gaza sa (By JoAn)...News - South Africa: Should medical aids go?
Saturday 07-Feb-2009: Dr Kgosi Letlape stepped down as chairperson of the SA Medical Association (Sama) because his personal stance of scrapping medical aids had caused specialists in the association to want to form a diff (By Jan)...USA: President Obama, like a mosquito in a nudist colony & tired of the boring White House…
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: [This is the most interesting Obama commentary yet and it comes from a woman who absolutely hated George Bush. According to my American friend, Maureen Dowd is an arch Bush hater. My American friend w (By Gairk)...Robert Mugabe's wife Grace seizes Zimbabwe farm
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: Submitted by Lars Pluss: By Peta Thornycroft in Harare Mrs Mugabe, who at 43 is more than four decades younger than her husband, already has a string of properties across the country, taken aft (By JoAn)...UK/S Africa: Birds home to roost - Expats returning
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: Submitted by George: Due to jobs being shed in the UK as rapidly as scruples at an office party, the sappy Homecoming Revolution will soon be thinking it's Christmas all over again. The real pro (By JoAn)...USA: Is the stimulus Obama’s Iraq? A “dusty old wish-list of liberal spending priorities”
Monday 02-Feb-2009: As the $819bn stimulus bill passed the House on Wednesday, Mike Pence, the Republican congressman from Indiana, explained why it was doing so without the benefit of a single Republican vote. Mr Pence (By Gairk)...Fatah's Armed Wing Fires Another Rocket Into Israel; Israel Prepared For Second Gaza War
Monday 02-Feb-2009: Now this isn't such a big surprise that Fatah's armed wing known as the (By Lone Wolf)...S. Africa: Mbeki's AIDS-denialist Christine Masggiore dies of "pneumonia"
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: Old post but valuable to the archives, submitted by: Adriana Stuijt: Ran influentual lobbyist group which influenced ex-president Thabo Mbeki’s disastrous AIDS-treatment policies between 2000 and (By JoAn)...USA: If the Rich get Richer, does that cause the Stock Market to collapse?
Friday 06-Feb-2009: [This article raises a very interesting issue that I’m really curious about. The author claims that when the rich take an ever larger portion of the income of the USA, that it causes the stock markets (By Gairk)...Myths and Realities of UK Policy Towards Zimbabwe
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: (By Gairk)...South Africa: Broker's not so tall tale
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: Submitted by Grazy: 04/02/2009 09:11 ) Sonja van Buul, Beeld Vereeniging - A broker had a narrow escape on Tuesday when a giant willow tree fell on his boat while he was fishing on the V (By JoAn)...The ant story
Friday 06-Feb-2009: We’ve posted earlier versions of the Ant and Grasshopper stories in past years. White South Africans have been pointing out this madness for years quietly. Of course this is the modern African communi (By JanOlifant)...Fighting Organised Crime-Eeben Barlow
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: I am often surprised at the amount of companies, listed and/or private, that are haemorrhaging due to serious organised crime attacks. It seems that many companies prefer to keep quiet about the effec (By JanOlifant)...South Africa; Come listen to Mike Tellinger!
Friday 06-Feb-2009: [Does anyone know about this? Is this rubbish? Jan] Michael Tellinger – talks in South Africa Discovering the OLDEST Man-made Structure on Earth & The Ancient Stone Ruins of South Africa. Sci (By Gairk)...News - World: Horror of unrecorded Nazi massacres revealed
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: By Maria Danilova and Randy Herschaft Less known is the Holocaust By Bullets, in which more than two million Jews were gunned down in towns and villages across Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Thei (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Questions after suspects die in shootouts
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: By Fred Kockott In the past two weeks in and around Durban, more than 16 criminal suspects, and an innocent bystander, it seems, have been killed in shootouts with police, bringing to the fore the (By Jan)...News - Africa: Zanu-PF man loses farm to Grace Mugabe
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: There seems no end to Grace Mugabe's appetite for farms. But having seemingly run out of white farmers to plunder, Zimbabwe's First Lady has helped herself to one belonging to a pro-Zanu-PF High Co (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Crime buster killed on his way to help
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: A Pretoria father, who lived for his family and community, was shot and killed while on his way to help fellow residents caught up in an armed robbery at a late-night supermarket. Louis Viljoen, 39 (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Old tensions die hard
Thursday 05-Feb-2009: By Nathi Olifant & Sipho Khumalo Until this weekend, when the tense stand-off between the ANC and IFP in Nongoma ended in a gun battle, political violence in KwaZulu-Natal had become a phrase asso (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Suspect deaths 'kill full story'
Sunday 08-Feb-2009: By Fred Kockott] It's a blow to the criminal justice system. Dead men, like former Maphumulo taxi boss Bongani Mkhize - killed by police in Durban on Tuesday - tell no tales. So says KwaZulu-Nat (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Khoza still serves as Metro police chair
Tuesday 03-Feb-2009: By Heinz de Beer and Vivian Attwood Infuriated opposition parties have called for the suspension of prominent ANC councillor Vusimuzi Khoza, who continues to serve as chief overseer of the Metro Po (By Jan)...Icelandic Jews Facing Rise In Anti-Semitism
Monday 02-Feb-2009: Isn't this no major surprise, there are pro-Hamas feelings in Iceland of all places, where 70 percent taken in a poll by local citizens give praise to the Palestinians, while only three percent to Isr (By Lone Wolf)...News - South Africa: 'You could see the evil in their eyes'
Saturday 07-Feb-2009: 'They were the devil. You could see the evil in their eyes." This is the image that is stuck in the mind of Mnandi community watch member, Andre Erlank, who miraculously survived after being shot in t (By Jan)...News - Africa: Judge ends Zim opposition treason case
Friday 06-Feb-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - A judge ended the treason trial of a top opposition leader on Friday, an indication that President Robert Mugabe's party wants a proposed coalition government to work. Magistrate (By Jan)...News - South Africa: Jewish Board rejects Hajaig's apology
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: The row over allegedly anti-Semitic remarks by Deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig refused to die after she issued an "unequivocal apology" - which the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) immediatel (By Jan)...Understand Islam – Evangelise Muslims
Wednesday 04-Feb-2009: The new, expanded edition of (By JanOlifant)...[Audio] 2 podcasts of Jan Lamprecht and Jeff Nyquist
Monday 02-Feb-2009: Dear African Crisis supporters. Here are two more podcasts between Jan Lamprecht (our webmaster) and Jeff Nyquist (respected American geopolitical columnist). These podcasts contain extremely insightf (By Gairk)...
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