Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 15th February 2009
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 15th February 2009
| 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 |
| Zimbabwe: The Planned Murder & Torture of White Farmer, Roy Bennett – illegally detained Sunday 15-Feb-2009: UPDATE ON THE CONTINUED ILLEGAL DETENTION OF THE TREASURER GENERAL & DEPUTY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE DESIGNATE MR ROY [PACHEDU] BENNETT (By Gairk)... | South Africa: Excuses a-plenty after failure of ostrich farm Monday 09-Feb-2009: [Here’s something you can get your teeth into – I’ve thrown together this article from various snippets on the subject that appeared in Beeld. Typical of what happens when these “emmeging fammas” thin (By Gairk)... |
| Milking White Guilt forever? President Obama will sustain racism in the USA Monday 09-Feb-2009: [I believe that Obama will do more to sustain the racism in this country than almost any other act in the last 20 years, or more. Now, Stang can be rather rude, but he makes some valid points.......? (By Gairk)... | News - South Africa: Pretoria family awarded damages Friday 13-Feb-2009: The Safety and Security Minister and five police officers were on Friday ordered to pay R380 000 in damages for manhandling a Pretoria family after a rugby game. Pretoria High Court Judge Bill Prin (By Jan)... |
| World: 11 million Muslims killed, 90% killed by other Muslims Monday 09-Feb-2009: Arab-Israeli Fatalities Rank 49th The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the world’s most dangerous conflict – and, accordingly, Israel is judged the world’s most be (By Gairk)... | S.Africa: Jan replies to reader: Is it just me or is everything going for a ball of @#it? Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Hi Herman, I thought I'd post my reply also as a separate article. I am referring to your question here:- Is it just me, or is everything going for a ball of @#it? I'll put your statements in bol (By Jan)... |
| ME: Hamas, Hezbollah & their Molochian Divine Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Submitted by Aubrey: From the World Forum Fri Feb 06, 2009 By: Elias Bejjani* In Arabic contemporary history, there are four disastrous, pointless, destructive, and Don Quixote wars: In (By JoAn)... | Zimbabwe: the deal for Government of National Unity a fraud, Call for support from Zimbabwe Monday 09-Feb-2009: The Zimbabwe main opposition, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has entered into agreement for Unity government with Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime. The Unity government is going to be formed from (By Jan)... |
| Why the UN is Worthless to Human Existence Thursday 12-Feb-2009: [This is brilliantly said, and many of us in Africa would agree completely with this. Eeben Barlow will have a good laugh at this. He saw the UN's work close up in Africa and he spits on them in his b (By Jan)... | S. Africa: How the Negros deal with immigration Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Sent to me by a friend in Washington state: This report is from 2008 and the pages of American Journal Report from South Africa To see photos, follow the link at the bottom of the page. This wa (By JoAn)... |
| News - Africa: White farmer set to become minister Friday 13-Feb-2009: Harare - After three years in self-imposed exile, former lawmaker Roy Bennett is set to become Zimbabwe's deputy minister for agriculture - six years after his own farm was seized in controversial lan (By Jan)... | USA: Medical Science: Human Mongrels - The Genetics of Race - Race is taboo - Thoughts on how race really works Monday 09-Feb-2009: I was watching an episode of Medical Detectives which dealt with a bunch of black babies in Cleveland who mysteriously suffered from bleeding in their lungs. Then they described how they started inves (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Cele receives death threat Thursday 12-Feb-2009: Rogue elements in the taxi industry are planning to assassinate KwaZulu-Natal's community liaison and safety MEC Bheki Cele, according to police sources. Information from police officers has also r (By Jan)... | WWIII: Military exercise sparks earthquake panic in China Sunday 15-Feb-2009: A military exercise in southern China set off mass panic among local residents who thought an earthquake had struck with about 100,000 people fleeing their homes, state media reported Saturday. Fri (By Gairk)... |
| News - South Africa: 'Shoot first, ask questions later' Friday 13-Feb-2009: By Kamini Padayachee In the past two weeks 11 people have been shot dead by police. In the first incident, seven suspected robbers and an innocent bystander were killed in a shootout on January (By Jan)... | USA: Immigrants ravaging our basis of life Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Race/Multiculturalism 2009 National Journal, for the sake of truth and knowledge National Journal, first published: 01/02/09 Invasion USA Immigrants ravaging our basis of life $1.6 trillio (By JoAn)... |
| Does $65.5 trillion scare anyone? US Govt debt obligations exceed world GDP Sunday 15-Feb-2009: As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government alr (By Gairk)... | Zimbabwe: .... Antagonism towards the few remaining whites continues unabated Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: [We got this news from Zimbabweans. Names have been changed and places have been removed to avoid possible persecution.] Dear Readers, Below is an email I have just received from a friend from t (By Gairk)... |
| News - South Africa: Robber knocked down by victim Saturday 14-Feb-2009: A house robber was knocked down by his victim's car as he tried to flee after breaking into a house in Klerksdorp on Friday, North West police said. Captain Adele Myburgh said the man was one of si (By Jan)... | NEW REVELATIONS: Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989 20 Years Later Saturday 14-Feb-2009: [Here is something new that has only just come out into the open. At the source URL are links to many other documents and details. It tells a strange story. Jan] (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: 'We feel like we are arrested' Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Kameeldrift residents are furious and frightened after a neighbour was murdered in the northern Pretoria community, ward councillor Piet van der Watt said on Wednesday. "I want to sleep at night," (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Mugabe watches as rival raises his right hand Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe swore in his longtime rival Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister on Wednesday, ushering in a unity government in an extraordinary concession after nearly thr (By Jan)... |
| [Pics] Anatomy of Terror - a rare booklet - The Rise of Robert Mugabe Monday 09-Feb-2009: I was recently asked by a black Zimbabwean about the terror that took place in Rhodesia during the Liberation war. I then pointed him to the pages of "Anatomy of Terror", which was a Rhodesian Govt pu (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Lekota to fight loss of guards Sunday 15-Feb-2009: By Carien du Plessis Congress of the People (Cope) leader Mosiuoa Lekota is upset at the withdrawal of his bodyguards for a second time and has vowed to challenge the move in court. Lekota said (By Jan)... |
| S Africa: TLU/TAU Media release: Unfriendly agricultural budget Thursday 12-Feb-2009: Submitted by Kobie: Thursday, February 12, 2009 PG16/1/09/06 Unfriendly agricultural budget The budget by the Minister of Finance is not an agriculture-friendly budget. The president of TAU S (By JoAn)... | South Africa: Niehaus mortified? Friday 13-Feb-2009: Submitted by George: (Love it when a traitor bites the dust, especially when they have a high and mighty self righteous attitude. What is he morified about, his evil deeds of been exposed?) ANC (By JoAn)... |
| South Africa: Malema 'an ill-bred brat' Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: Submitted by Grazy: I wonder why I still like Mangosutho Buthelezi? Hi Grazy, I do believe you and I see eye to eye on this my friend. I like him too. In the early days of African Crisis, I spent ma (By JoAn)... | News - Africa: Tsvangirai to be sworn in Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: By Donna Bryson Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai takes the prime minister's oath on Wednesday as part of a power-sharing agreement with longtime President Robert Mugabe that Zimbabweans hope wil (By Jan)... |
| A cute Obama joke and a view of a 16 year old American lad who has eyes that see and ears that hear! Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Many thanks Rocky you've been a good and faithful friend to our family! I LOVED the Obama joke I posted below. You and I have been on the same page for a long while! I'm going to share a little pe (By JoAn)... | Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Demands Relase Of Detainees Before Swearing In Thursday 12-Feb-2009: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted that the release of all the political prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Prison remains a vital issue. He told a news conference in Harare on Tuesday that the (By Gairk)... |
| News - South Africa: 'I know I murdered my child' Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: By Esther Lewis Ellen Pakkies, the desperate mother who strangled her tik addicted son, spoke to the embattled Hanover Park community on Monday night, fighting back tears as she recounted her tragi (By Jan)... | Bizarre stories from WWI: The Angel of Mons & the Hounds of Mons - My Explanation for what really happened... Monday 09-Feb-2009: [I was very fascinated by the Angel of Mons in WWI. You will find many references to it and many apparent eye-witnesses. If you examine the stories, then you'll see the stories seemed to mostly origin (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Date rapists, wolves in sheeps clothing Saturday 14-Feb-2009: He has it all; he's good-looking, has the most expensive clothes and wears the best colognes. In fact, he's the kind of man that most parents would welcome as their daughter's date. But behind the (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: IMPORTANT! URGENT! Police fire Live Ammunition into a crowd demanding Bennett's release Saturday 14-Feb-2009: [I received this from a friend who received it from Wilf Mbanga, the Editor of THE ZIMBABWEAN. Mbanga is urgently asking everyone to circulate this. Please assist us. Send it to everyone you know. (By Jan)... |
| [Doc] Fun: Can you crack Einstein's code? Then add your name as number 175... Thursday 12-Feb-2009: [A Rhodesian sent me this. This is really quite neat. I did it and added myself as number 174 on the list. This spread sheet has been travelling the world. You will see names from Italy, Brazil, Zambi (By Jan)... | EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! S.Africans outside S.Africa can vote in the 2009 election Monday 09-Feb-2009: I just heard from a friend that the supreme court has said that South Africans living outside South Africa CAN VOTE in this election. The ANC killed that possibility dead back in 1994. I hope some of (By Jan)... |
| UK: Christianity in decline because of political correctness Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Submitted by Aubrey: THE TELEGRAPH FEB 11 09 Christianity is in decline in England because politically correct churches are more interested in accommodating other people's views than putting fo (By JoAn)... | Militants Storm Government Buildings in Kabul, Kill 26 Thursday 12-Feb-2009: Eight Taliban militants have attacked three government buildings in Kabul, in a brazen daytime assault that killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens of others. One group of attackers barricaded th (By Gairk)... |
| News - Africa: Tsvangirai: Now the work begins... Thursday 12-Feb-2009: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday by old enemy President Robert Mugabe and vowed to salvage the ruined econom (By Jan)... | USA: Time to end Black History Month? Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: Should Black History Month itself fade into history? Many have long argued that African-American history should be incorporated into year-round education. Now, claims that Black History Month is outda (By Gairk)... |
| News - Africa: Zim police to quiz Roy Bennett Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Harare - A Zimbabwe ministerial nominee who was alleged to have been arrested will reportedly be questioned by police on treason charges later on Saturday, his lawyer said. "A police officer from H (By Jan)... | S.Africa: Do we really need 60,000 Govt employees overseas? Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: A friend of mine told me that Govt admitted to having budgetted for "only" having 60,000 Govt employees living overseas! I said to him, even if we have embassies in 100 countries (many of which would (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Top DJ blows whistle Saturday 14-Feb-2009: By Christina Gallagher and Fiona Gounden Date rape has again been pushed into the spotlight this week after 5FM celebrity DJ Nicole Fox told listeners how she was drugged during a work function at (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Five dead, 32 injured in Iraqi blasts Friday 13-Feb-2009: Baghdad - At least five Shiite Muslim pilgrims were killed and 32 injured on Thursday when a bomb exploded in the holy city of Karbala, according to police sources. Sources said that the explosion (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: 'Arrest compromises Zim unity government' Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's new finance minister said Saturday a top opposition figure's arrest showed President Robert Mugabe's party was not ready to work with its former rivals in a freshly sworn in unity (By Jan)... | S Africa: ANC to relook empowerment Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Submitted by Grazy: ANC to relook empowerment 14/02/2009 14:43 ANC launches pro-poor manifesto Durban - South African minority groups also needed to be empowered to play their rightf (By JoAn)... |
| News - South Africa: Beaten to death with a walking stick Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: A Hekpoort pensioner has been beaten to death with his walking stick and the chain he used to secure the door to his home, Gauteng police said on Wednesday. Inspector Pogiso Khambula said a 16-year (By Jan)... | News - World: 'This is a mass murder' Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: By Tanalee Smith Whittlesea, Melbourne - Police declared incinerated towns crime scenes on Monday, and the Australian prime minister spoke of "mass murder" after investigators said arsonists may ha (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Mystery of Lynne's last tragic hours Sunday 15-Feb-2009: IT started off like any other day for the Hume family of Ballito - but nothing has been the same since. This is what Mark Hume, the husband of murdered estate agent Lynne Hume, told the Bloemfontei (By Jan)... | A Bizarre BBC Documentary: Was the Roman Emperor Nero a Singing Communist & bail-out ruler worthy of Bush & Obama? Monday 09-Feb-2009: I saw a BBC documentary which was utterly wild, but I'm a little leary of taking everything in the BBC documentaries at face value. In another BBC documentary on Julius Caesar it reported that he had (By Jan)... |
| Europe's economic slump deeper than expected Sunday 15-Feb-2009: Europe sank even deeper into recession than the United States in the closing months of last year, according to figures published Friday, as finance ministers of leading industrialized nations gathered (By Gairk)... | News - South Africa: Taxi groups clash over control of industry Saturday 14-Feb-2009: By Bronwynne Jooste The violent three-day taxi strike that plunged Cape Town into chaos and left scores injured has exposed simmering tensions between taxi unions that could flare up again soon. (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Pakistan Taliban kill Polish hostage Monday 09-Feb-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - Pakistani Taliban militants released a graphic video Sunday showing the beheading of a Polish engineer whom they said was killed because Islamabad refused to free detained insurge (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Hard realism as world greets new-look Zim Thursday 12-Feb-2009: London - Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler Britain, the US, Europe and the UN Wednesday hailed Morgan Tsvangirai's appointment as premier but said the ruined and divided nation faced a rocky road to re (By Jan)... |
| News - World: FBI turns to fraud after focus on terror Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Washington - With the economic crisis unrelenting, the United States is stepping up its fight against white collar crime, which has been trumped by the fight on terror. "Let's give our law enforcem (By Jan)... | Mexico authorities hunt gangs after killings Thursday 12-Feb-2009: By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press Writer Wed Feb 11, 4:56 pm ET Play Video AP Drug-related violence in Mexico kills 21 Play Video Video:Mexico's drug war soaring BBC Play Video Video: Juarez (By JoAn)... |
| News - South Africa: Mugabe's had a good innings: Tutu Monday 09-Feb-2009: President Kgalema Motlanthe has said that Zimbabwe, crippled by a record rise in inflation, can adopt the rand as its standard currency. It was reported last month that Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank gove (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe may adopt the South African Rand as currency Monday 09-Feb-2009: President Kgalema Motlanthe has said that Zimbabwe, crippled by a record rise in inflation, can adopt the rand as its standard currency. It was reported last month that Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank governo (By Gairk)... |
| News - South Africa: Is the ANC falling apart? Saturday 14-Feb-2009: By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Staff Reporters Opposition parties and political commentators are united in their opinion that the resignation of ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus on Friday after admitting to (By Jan)... | USA: Blackwater Worldwide Changes It's Name to Xe Sunday 15-Feb-2009: From my Paranoid Times List (Bond) Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More "Aviation Support" via cryptogon.com by Kevin on 2/13/09 Blackwater has prob (By JoAn)... |
| News - Africa: 'Address the urgent humanitarian crisis' Friday 13-Feb-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was set to swear in a new cabinet Friday, bringing his party into a fragile union with long-time adversary, President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe (By Jan)... | News - Africa: 'Attacking vessels with intent to hijack' Friday 13-Feb-2009: Kuala Lumpur - Heavily armed Somali pirates attacked six ships, including British, Indian and Singapore-managed vessels, earlier this week but all managed to escape, a global maritime watchdog said on (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Angry Selebi fights back Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: He wants affidavits used by the Scorpions NPA case documents given to Thabo Mbeki The diary of murder accused Glenn Agliotti Jackie Selebi believes his prosecutors are deliberately manipulating t (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: 'He pointed his gun, so doef, doef' Thursday 12-Feb-2009: An alleged armed robber was shot and another arrested by police in a success story that might end a series of attacks on residents in Bassonia, southern Johannesburg. A gang of three men targeted a (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Another Kameeldrift attack Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach All 67-year-old Reinier Boshoff wanted was a peaceful night's sleep. In part, this may be why he left the alarm in his home in Kameeldrift off on Monday night when he and his (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Drug rapists target men Saturday 14-Feb-2009: By Fiona Gounden In a sinister new development, a growing number of men are having their drinks spiked in nightclubs across South Africa. Previously, it was mainly women who were targeted, often (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Zim on the road to recovery? Thursday 12-Feb-2009: London - World leaders applauded on Wednesday Morgan Tsvangirai's appointment as Zimbabwe's prime minister but were wary of a rocky road ahead with President Robert Mugabe still in power. The Euro (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Boeremag duo admit role in blasts Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: In a dramatic turn of events in the Boeremag trial, two of the accused have for the first time since their arrest more than six years ago admitted their involvement in a series of bomb blasts in the c (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Man killed in Alexandra alleged robbery Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: A man was killed and two others, including a police reservist, were wounded in a shootout following a robbery in Alexandra on Tuesday evening, police said. Inspector Moses Maphakela said the reserv (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Prisoners tell the tale of drugs and booze Sunday 15-Feb-2009: By Thandi Skade At the height of his drug addiction Myles Meyjes, 29, was spiking heroin every 30 minutes, snorting 4-5 grams of cocaine and smoking R10 000-worth of crack a day. His insatiable, (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Does this ring true? Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: It has been about 20 years since South Africans began doing away with sticky labels on their products in favour of barcode scanning. The electronic system has all sorts of benefits for the retaile (By Jan)... | News - World: Journos attacked at Mugabes' Hong Kong house Sunday 15-Feb-2009: Hong Kong - Two journalists were attacked as they investigated a report about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe owning a luxury property in Hong Kong. Photographer Tim O'Rourke said two men and a (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Cops out in force in Cape Town Friday 13-Feb-2009: By Babalo Ndenze and Michelle Jones As the taxi strike entered its second day on Thursday, police were out in force to prevent further violence, as commuters switched to trains and buses. Since (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Tik, murder and the path to hope Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: By Esther Lewis Ellen Pakkies, the desperate mother who strangled her tik-addicted son, has recounted her tragic story to her local Hanover Park community in Cape Town. Pakkies believed God want (By Jan)... |
| News - World: 'Four Guantanamo prisoners in Iraqi custody' Monday 09-Feb-2009: By Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Qassim Abdujl-Zahra Baghdad - Iraqi officials are interrogating four Iraqis transferred here from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, two senior Iraqi security offic (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: SA woman in hospital after prison beating Sunday 15-Feb-2009: The South African government has requested a full report on an incident in a Mauritian jail where a South African woman was apparently stripped naked and badly beaten by a notorious security squad. (By Jan)... |
| News - World: Cops blame arsonists for deadly wildfires Sunday 15-Feb-2009: Alexandra, Australia - Arsonists lit a wildfire which killed 21 people and are suspected of starting another that razed a whole town and may have left up to 100 dead, Australian police said on Thursda (By Jan)... | The Tragedy of African Armies - Eeben Barlow Saturday 14-Feb-2009: Speaking to a friend of mine a while ago, I was somewhat taken aback when he intimated that he had a good chuckle whenever he was sent to do training in Africa. He was a serving soldier in a European (By JanOlifant)... |
| News - Africa: Rainy season may intensify cholera epidemic Friday 13-Feb-2009: By Laura MacInnis Geneva - Rainy season floods could make it even harder to stop Zimbabwe's epidemic of cholera that appears to be spreading across southern Africa, the World Health Organisation (W (By Jan)... | News - South Africa: Arrest cited in world press abuse list Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: By Joe Lauria The arrest of South African freelance journalist Hein Coetzee for reporting on police brutality at a raid east of Cape Town has been cited by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Security guards for KZN schools Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: By Rivonia Naidu and Sherlissa Peters Calls for metal detectors at schools were renewed after a pupil died after being shot in the head during a struggle over a gun at a Pietermaritzburg school on (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Live ammunition used against protesters Friday 13-Feb-2009: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwean police fired live ammunition in the air to disperse hundreds of opposition MDC supporters who had surrounded a police station where a party leader was bein (By Jan)... |
| News - World: New arson attacks suspected as Aus fires rage Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Yea, Australia - Australian police investigated fresh arson attacks and looting on Wednesday as angry survivors pressed for access to towns devastated by wildfires that continue to burn across vast ar (By Jan)... | USA: Costly bank rescue plan aims to increase trust Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: By POLITICO STAFF | 2/10/09 12:39 PM EST Photo: AP (follow the link) Well, I see we can take this one to the bank! I only had to read a paragraph to find that one out. Obama said he would (By JoAn)... |
| News - South Africa: Pupil killed after sneaking gun into school Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: By Sharika Regchand A father is reeling in shock after finding out that his 15-year-old son was killed with his gun at a Pietermaritzburg school on Monday. Mnsizwa Hlubi, of Imbali, Pietermaritz (By Jan)... | S.Africa: Was President FW De Klerk a traitor to Afrikaners? Monday 09-Feb-2009: [This is an important topic, and I wanted to take a comment I posted here: S Africa: 'You are a traitor to your people, F W de Klerk' - fellow Afrikaner and I thought it was worthy of a separate post. (By Jan)... |
| News - Africa: Rebels killed in Congo clash Friday 13-Feb-2009: By John Kanyunyu and Finbarr O'Reilly Goma - Congo's military said more than 40 Rwandan Hutu rebels had died in an air raid, as a three-week-old joint Congolese-Rwandan offensive sparked rebel repr (By Jan)... | USA: Black teen inspires with speech about a lack of academic achievement among African-American children Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: Asked to write a speech about a lack of academic achievement among African-American children, Faith Chennault Woodard presented a sobering assessment that likened school to the life-taking games of gl (By Gairk)... |
| News - Africa: Egypt tightening tunnel trade - smugglers Monday 09-Feb-2009: Rafah, Gaza Strip - In the dunes of rubble along the Gaza border work crews are excavating scores of bombed tunnels, but smugglers say Egyptian forces on the other side are gradually choking off their (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Lawyers held on eve of Tsvangirai swearing-in Wednesday 11-Feb-2009: Harare - Two leading human rights lawyers, one of them closely involved in defending illegally detained pro-democracy activists, were arrested Tuesday on the eve of the swearing-in of a new power-shar (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: Heavily-armed cops guard drugs suspect Tuesday 10-Feb-2009: By Rivonia Naidu Six heavily-armed police officers on Monday escorted a Croatian national who was recently caught in connection with the country's biggest drug bust as he made a brief appearance in (By Jan)... | News - Africa: Mugabe chooses allies for unity cabinet Friday 13-Feb-2009: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has appointed party loyalists from a previous cabinet he described as the "worst in history" to a unity government with Morgan Tsva (By Jan)... |
| News - South Africa: 'Hijacker' shoots cop Monday 09-Feb-2009: A policeman has been wounded while trying to arrest a taxi hijacker in Hillbrow, Johannesburg police said on Monday. A hijacker opened fire on him, hitting him in the arm, when the vehicle was pull (By Jan)... |
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