Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 26th July 2009
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 26th July 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 |
| Zim: Chihombori speaks about the land issue and her status: 2 Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: "I like to consider myself a child of the world" Violet Gonda: We bring you part two of the land discussion with Dr Arikana Chihombori and John Worsley Worswick. Dr Chihombori is an American c (By Jan)... | Africa: Deconstructing Obama's Speech in Ghana Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Ama BineyReflecting on the US president's Accra speech in this week's Pambazuka News, Ama Biney finds Obama's dismissal of neocolonial explanations for Africa's difficulties worrying. Though apolog (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Obama's Approach to Zim Shameful Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Stephen GowansOttawa - Q: Is Obama better than Bush? A: It depends how you like your imperialism -- with a white face or a black one.US president Barack Obama's speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2 (By Jan)... | Africa Vs. the Arab World. Why does Obama treat the two so differently? Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Speaking in Ghana on Saturday President Obama lectured Africans on local repression, corruption, brutality, good governance and accountability. The startling contrast to his June speech in Cairo was r (By Gairk)... |
| The Zimbabwe-ification of South Africa. A change in land policy would wreak havoc on the economy Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: [This is what I have been saying since 2000… and little by little, in sneaky ways, despite the Western world watching and trying to strong-arm the ANC, we continue down this filthy little road. The AN (By Gairk)... | The Dark Roots of EUGENICS Saturday 25-Jul-2009: [I think it is important that people realize that seeking knowledge about what makes men and women tick, does not necessarily mean you then line up people in front of gas chambers or machine-guns. I a (By Gairk)... |
| Liberia: Memory And Politics - The TRC Report Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Lansana GberieAs Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) moves to address the country's troubled past, Lansana Gberie is entirely confused by the commission's direction and intent. With (By Jan)... | Who Really Has the Power to Make BEE Work in Namibia for Namibians? Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Pendapala HangalaNAMIBIA is a country that is blessed with numerous natural resources, beautiful scenery, sound financial institutions, excellent telecommunication and mobile facilities and a world (By Jan)... |
| SA farmers feel let down in Zim Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Digby Nesbitt has been hounded by a senior policeman, Edmore Veterai By Peta ThornycroftHarare - In a wry moment, South African farmer Louis Fick says his pigs deserve a bravery medal. The pig (By Jan)... | [Humor] Quotable quotes - the funny side of history Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Enjoy Folks: These insults are from an era before the English language was boiled down to four-letter words. The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give (By Gairk)... |
| What Does the Moon Smell Like? 11 Things You May Not Know About Apollo 11 Thursday 23-Jul-2009: In 1969, the Apollo 11 mission met John F. Kennedy's 1962 challenge to put a man on the moon. July 20 marks 40 years since the historic lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin took (By Gairk)... | Nigeria: Robbers Unleash Mayhem in Nsukka, Awka Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Emma Nnadozie, Tony Edike, Enugu Dennis AgboIT was like a war situation in Nsukka, the host community of the University of Nigeria, yesterday, when a dare-devil gang of armed robbers attacked four (By Jan)... |
| Angola: No Trickle Down From Oil, Diamonds - As I've predicted... Sunday 26-Jul-2009: [There is a tremendous irony in the way blacks rule themselves. Their leaders steal and waste much of the benefit which they should be getting from self-rule. Watch... in the end... in decades to come (By Jan)... | Bizarre History: The Good NAZI and the most brutal Japanese massacre of WWII… Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: [Here is an amazing piece of history that has been forgotten. Jan] Nanjing is a beautiful city with an ugly history. Stately plane trees line its long avenues, their graceful branches forming a gre (By Gairk)... |
| South Africa: The people first? Nah, the ANC values bling Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Remember the grainy television images of the 1980s of rocks and burning tyres in the streets, angry people throwing stones and petrol bombs and policemen firing into crowds? Those scenes depicted Unit (By Jan)... | South Africa: Dogs are your best defence against robbers Monday 20-Jul-2009: Around 77 percent of the house robberies in Gauteng are based on inside information from gardeners, domestic workers and visitors. This is the latest in crime intelligence research done by Dr Rudolph (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Robber 'Gift Tyres' Died as He Lived Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Freeman RazembaHarare - ZIMBABWE'S most-wanted criminal Gift "Tyres" Mwale (55) died as he had lived for the greater part of the last three decades in a hail of bullets.The "Godfather of Mufakose", (By Jan)... | South Africa: Three mall heists in 24 hours Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Lavern De Vries and Nikita SylvesterRobbers have struck three times in the past 24 hours at two Cape Town malls - twice at Canal Walk and once at Gardens Centre - bringing the number of robberies t (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Looting rampages to continue Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Mpume MadlalaProtesters behind the looting of two Durban supermarkets have pledged to continue targeting food retailers to highlight their hunger and desperation.One of the supermarkets has announc (By Jan)... | South Africa: Zille to probe cops' R19m suit Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Lindsay DentlingerPremier Helen Zille is to seek legal advice on an impending claim for damages from private investigators against her office.The Cape Argus reported yesterday that Niel van Heerden (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: Taylor Tells Court 'I am a Revolutionary' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Ex- Liberian President Charles Taylor Monday challenged anyone to find a bank account of his holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil war in Sierra Leone, saying that he is a revolutio (By Jan)... | Kenya: Police Lose Vital Files On Al-Qaeda Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Andrew Teyie And Kamore MainaNairobi - FOR the second time in six years, Kenyan police officers have lost the files of one of the world's most wanted terrorists, Haroun Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, rai (By Jan)... |
| Ghana: What Crime Has the Police Committed? Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The Ashanti regional police last week Tuesday gunned down eight suspected highway robbers on the Kumasi-Bekwai road. According to the story, the police got a distress call that the robbers had barrica (By Jan)... | Ethiopia: Fears Over New Anti-Terror Law Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Omaeyr RadoAddis Ababa - A little over 18 years ago, when the ruling Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power, people were so eager to exercise democracy that even chi (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Dogs are good deterrents - readers Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: It's a well-known fact that South Africa is grappling with one of the highest crime rates in the world.According to crime intelligence research done by Dr Rudolph Zinn, small dogs kept inside the hous (By Jan)... | Brilliant: South Africa: World celebrates Mandela's 2,000th birthday Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: [I am so SICK AND TIRED of Nelson Mandela's stupid birthday. The ANC are such super-hyper-hypocrits. For years the ANC said they despised "the cult of personality" and yet, nobody milks it more than t (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Okah - Standing in the Ceasefire Gap Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Maxwell OdittaPresident Umaru Yar'Adua might soon be congratulating himself that his ceasefire initiative in the Niger Delta is beginning to yield results.His agenda of holistic approach to the cri (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe unity deal at an all-time low Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Nyathi should have been Speaker, but Tsvangirai's unstrategic hot heads rejected that option Peta ThornycroftHarare - As a leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai must be enduring daily angui (By Jan)... |
| World: Suicide bomb squad hits Afghan Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Khan MohammadKhost, Afghanistan - Seven suicide bombers tried to storm state targets in a city in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one civilian in the third Taliban commando raid in a week, (By Jan)... | British Somali Fugitive Arrested In Somali Operation; Wanted In A Murder In Britain Used British Islamist Network To Escape Justice Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [While it's possible that a certain Mustafa Jama could probably be a terrorist suspect. It seems Jama was a simple British criminal who managed to be able to receive a passport to escape justice wher (By Lone Wolf)... |
| Africa: Speech by Stephen Lewis in Cape Town Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Stephen LewisCape Town - In my younger days, decades upon decades ago, we were consumed by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The forces of darkness, East and West, seemed in the ascendance. The D (By Jan)... | Science: Vaccine trial hit by recession Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Michelle FaulCape Town, South Africa - South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an Aids vaccine created by its own researchers, a proud moment in a nation where government denial, neglect and (By Jan)... |
| Africa: IAS Opening Address By Stephen Lewis Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Stephen LewisIn my younger days, decades upon decades ago, we were consumed by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The forces of darkness, East and West, seemed in the ascendance. The Doomsday cloc (By Jan)... | South Africa: Land Repossessions Threaten Hundreds of Black Farmers Friday 24-Jul-2009: Cape Town - Hundreds of South Africa's emerging black commercial farmers could face eviction in the next few months because of their inability to service government loans to buy the properties, grante (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Western envoys tough with Mugabe Thursday 23-Jul-2009: No takers for his racial-solidarity mantras By Zimbabwe Correspondent (author cannot be identified because of Zimbabwe's press restrictions)Harare - President Robert Mugabe is a bitter man. Wh (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Mr. President, The Country is Going Down Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Simon KolawoleLagos - Mr. President, I don't know how you would take this, but there is no nicer way of putting it - Nigeria is going down. I have watched, helplessly, in the last few months as thi (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Marcus, the right woman for a lousy job Saturday 25-Jul-2009: After an autumn of political content, August 1994 was chilly as the new Parliament shuffled into its seats. Even as its stars were being identified - with arch-negotiator Pravin Gordhan, primary white (By Jan)... | South Africa: SA farmers feel let down in Zim Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Peta ThornycroftHarare - In a wry moment, South African farmer Louis Fick says his pigs deserve a bravery medal.The pigs, about 1 000 of them, are regularly starved, and Fick can do nothing to help (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Private Sector Gaining Shape - Michael Porter Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Arthur AsiimweKigali - Renowned Harvard University Economist and Author Prof. Michael Porter visited Rwanda this week. The New Times Arthur Asiimwe interviewed the scholar whose academic objectives (By Jan)... | Chronology of Relations Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Luanda - The Republics of Angola and Cuba share historic cooperation and friendship relations since the early stages of the Angolan liberation struggle, stressing the support granted by Cuban internat (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: When the Cops Are the Robbers Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Harare - The demise of the all-but-worthless Zimbabwe dollar and its replacement with foreign currency is being mirrored by a rise in violent crime, perpetrated particularly by police officers.Rampant (By Jan)... | Opposition 'Riots' in Parliament Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Maputo - Riot police were called into the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday when a group of deputies from the former rebel movement Renamo seized the rostrum and tried to (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Attack On Atlas Cove - Matters Arising Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Daniel KanuA new dimension was added to the armed struggle of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) as the group, last week, extended its theatre of battle to Lagos, Nigeria's (By Jan)... | Nigerian 'Taliban' Sect Clashes With Local Police Leaving Nearly 40 Dead Sunday 26-Jul-2009: [Not much seems to be known about the Nigerian "Taliban" whom are attempting to copy the tactics of the Afghan Taliban movement. It seems the Nigerian Taliban could possibly be a radical, more Islami (By Lone Wolf)... |
| Uganda: Tracing the Root Cause of Hunger in Northern Uganda Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Evelyn LirriThe persistent food shortages and problems in the agricultural sector show that it is not enough to celebrate the country's natural gifts; they must be harnessed and used sustainably.Ne (By Jan)... | Africa: East Africans Will Trade and Visit Each Other Despite the Migingo Issue Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Emeka-Mayaka GekaraEastern Africans will trade and visit each other Migingo or no Migingo. You only need to look at the trade figures to realise that Eastern Africa is growing into a super economic (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Zuma help tycoon get sweet with Mugabe again Saturday 25-Jul-2009: A Zimbabwean-born South African business mogul, whose multibillion-rand business empire was nationalised by President Robert Mugabe in 2004, is on the verge of getting his empire back, thanks to Presi (By Jan)... | USA: The New Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options Saturday 25-Jul-2009: [NB: Check out the link which I've added to the Wikipedia graph of the US revenue and spending since 2000. Very interesting stuff here: (By Gairk)... |
| South Africa: Gang culture blamed for attack on baboon Friday 24-Jul-2009: The influence of American gang culture, in which thugs walk the streets with large vicious dogs, has been blamed for the attack on an ageing baboon in Kommetjie Road, near Ocean View.The SPCA's Alan P (By Jan)... | Science: SA tests Aids vaccine - African madness - What SABC TV did NOT tell the public Monday 20-Jul-2009: [Back in the 1980s when AIDS was first discovered, people did point out that you can't create a truly effective vaccine for it because it mutates. Here in South Africa this is not the first attempt at (By Jan)... |
| Zim: How Zuma helped tycoon get sweet with Mugabe again Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Businessman set to get his seized multibillion-rand empire back Basildon PetaA Zimbabwean-born South African business mogul, whose multibillion-rand business empire was nationalised by Preside (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Mugabe Bows Down Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Brian Mangwende and Njabulo NcubeHarare - THE inclusive government tottered on the brink of collapse this week after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara thre (By Jan)... |
| The Interim EPA - Why Country Should Not Sign Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Wallie RouxRecent reports in the media with regards to Namibia's so called "reluctance" to sign the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) have elevated the issue (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: The Sad Ode to the Country's Diamonds Story Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - UNEMPLOYED and desperate to feed his family as Zimbabwe's economy collapsed Albert Zhanje of Harare went to Marange diamond fields in Manicaland, in search of instant rich (By Jan)... |
| Firms Fuelling 'Conflict Minerals' Violence in DRC - Report Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Marina LitvinskyWashington - Several international companies are named as helping to prolong the more than 12-year conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a new report by the British- (By Jan)... | World: Afghan police kill burqa bombers Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Jason StraziusoKabul - Militants attacked several government centres in an eastern Afghan city on Tuesday in a complex attack that has become a signature of major Taliban assaults. Police shot and (By Jan)... |
| Africa: 'Armed gang' attack Nigeria police station Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Ardo HazzadBauchi, Nigeria - Security forces killed at least 32 Nigerians in northeast Bauchi state on Sunday after an armed gang attacked a police station in retaliation for the arrests of their l (By Jan)... | Sudan: The Deadly Cycle of Cattle-Raiding Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Akobo - Tutlow Ruot has yet to come to terms with the death of his two children, who drowned in a river as his village fled an attack by cattle raiders from the Murle community."They attacked us at 5a (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Malaria War - Any Consideration For the Environment? Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Roland OgbonnayaLagos - There are about 500 million cases of malaria each year, and up to 1.5 million deaths. Sub- Saharan Africa is home to an estimated 80 per cent of the world's malaria cases, w (By Jan)... | South Africa: Housing, Social Services Protests Turn Violent Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - Protesters have again brought violence to township streets throughout South Africa over state failure to deliver on longstanding promises of housing and social services for all, but the (By Jan)... |
| Science: Drought takes toll on Iraq revival efforts Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Missy RyanYusufiya - What was known as history's fertile crescent, where lush farmland and abundant water gave rise to civilisation, is today a dusty desert where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers cr (By Jan)... | Nigeria: 512 Kidnapped in Six Months Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Joe Nwankwo and Rafiu AjakayeAn estimated 512 persons have been kidnapped in Nigeria this year alone, Police Affairs Minister, Yakubu Lame, disclosed on Wednesday amid uncert (By Jan)... |
| World: Mumbai gunman tells of indoctrination Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Mumbai, India - An Indian court that heard a stunning confession from the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror attacks put a gag order on his latest testimony - a message to his handlers in Paki (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'I prayed he would wake up, but he never did' Friday 24-Jul-2009: On Wednesday Wim van den Bosch, whose parents were murdered in a house robbery on Good Friday, came close to losing his own life when he was shot as he and other residents raced to the rescue of a fri (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: A friend's response to a UK member of Parliament's response Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [Lord Mallock Brown, the Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responded to queries I raised through MP Mr Paul Burstow. I have attached a copy of my response to Paul Burstow f.y.i (By Gairk)... | East Africa: Landlords to Be Used in War Against Counterfeits Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Francis AyiekoNairobi - The fight against the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in East Africa is gathering momentum as the region moves to introduce a new law enjoining landlords of commercial p (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Fifteen arrested after violent crime Monday 20-Jul-2009: Within days of a bloody crime spree that left three Pretoria residents dead and four fighting for their lives in hospital, police have struck back.In the past four days three hijackers and house robbe (By Jan)... | Liberia: 'Sierra Leone Army Recruited Liberian Fighters' Friday 24-Jul-2009: Liberian nationals who fought in Sierra Leone during the civil conflict were recruited by the Sierra Leone army, Charles Taylor told judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone Juy 23.Mr. Taylor, tes (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: Fighters Were Recruited By Sierra Leone Army, Says Taylor Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayLiberian nationals who fought in Sierra Leone during the civil conflict were recruited by the Sierra Leone army, Charles Taylor told judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone today.Mr (By Jan)... | Science: Drought takes toll on Iraq revival efforts Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Missy RyanYusufiya, Iraq - What was known as history's fertile crescent, where lush farmland and abundant water gave rise to civilisation, is today a dusty desert where the Tigris and Euphrates riv (By Jan)... |
| World: 'We cannot be defeated by terrorism' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Jakarta - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sent a message of defiance on Thursday to the perpetrators of last week's deadly suicide attacks in Jakarta, saying the country would not be cow (By Jan)... | Substance Abuse a Growing Concern Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - Can Namibia still sell itself as a tourism destination, or is it becoming a country of shebeens with all the unsightly and imponderable consequences of it?The African off (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Another government official implicated in rising poaching crisis Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Alex BellYet another government minister has been implicated in Zimbabwe's poaching crisis, which is threatening to destroy conservation efforts. An unnamed government minister is said to (By Jan)... | Liberia: Taylor Dismisses Charges as 'Lies', Alleges CIA Involvement in His Jailbreak Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Tracey GurdAfter dismissing the case against him as "lies" and "misinformation," former Liberian President Charles Taylor implied the CIA freed him from a United States prison in 1985 only days be (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'Thora gang' linked to officer's death Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Shaun SmilliePolice reservist Brett Steele died saving the life of a pregnant colleague. Now, three years later, detectives are considering the possibility that he might have been the victim of a g (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Another Government Official Implicated in Rising Poaching Crisis Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Alex BellYet another government minister has been implicated in Zimbabwe's poaching crisis, which is threatening to destroy conservation efforts. An un-named government minister is said to have ord (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Mugabe's dirty ploy to poach power Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Peta ThornycroftZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is trying to regain the parliamentary majority he lost in the March 2008 elections by convicting and sentencing MPs of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvan (By Jan)... | Nigeria: How Niger Delta Militants Bungled Their Case - Tony Nted Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Getting Comrade Tony Nted, President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), down for interview can be a difficult task. He is a very busy person, essentially because of the nature of (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: SA to World Cup fans: Enjoy, then go home! Thursday 23-Jul-2009: South Africa, the strongest economy on the continent, has an estimated 3 million to 5 million undocumented African immigrants in a population of 47 million, according to the South African Institute of (By Jan)... | Science: 'Roots of SA Aids pandemic lie in the past' Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: The roots of South Africa's massive Aids pandemic, which is killing close to 1 000 people a day, lie in the country's colonial past, says scientist and Aids expert Dr Hoosen "Gerry" Coovadia.Industria (By Jan)... |
| Africa: No loot from Sierra Leone - Taylor Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Amsterdam - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor issued a challenge at his war crimes trial Monday to find any bank account owned by him holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil wa (By Jan)... | World: Hotel suicide bomber identified - reports Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Arlina ArshadJakarta - Indonesian media said on Monday that investigators have identified one of the Jakarta hotel suicide bombers and were taking DNA samples from his family, in reports police ref (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Soldiers to guard borders Sunday 26-Jul-2009: South African soldiers, now spread over the continent, may soon be deployed on yet another "peacekeeping" mission - this time to guard their country's leaky borders.There they would keep the peace bet (By Jan)... | Robert Mugabe calls for peace in Zimbabwe Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Sumptuous buffet, highly decorated desserts By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and Sebastien Berger Southern African CorrespondentRobert Mugabe – who has been accused of human rights abuses on a (By Jan)... |
| Science: Ecoli threat in ECape rivers Friday 24-Jul-2009: Dangerously high levels of E. coli, a bacterium found in the excrement of humans, are being recorded in many of the Eastern Cape's rivers.The Nahoon, Kubusie, Buffalo, Keiskamma, Yellowwoods, Komani, (By Jan)... | Africa: After years of violence, Algerians have fun Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Lamine ChikhiAlgiers - It's Sunday night in downtown Algiers and thousands of young people swarm the streets, cheering and dancing to the beat coming from a makeshift stage.This is a scene seldom w (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: HIV trials an Africa first Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteIn a ground-breaking move, human clinical trials for the first African-developed HIV vaccine are starting in Cape Town on Monday, hopefully taking researchers a step closer to stopp (By Jan)... | Liberia: Truth And Reconciliation Commission Rivalry Thursday 23-Jul-2009: When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia (TRC) was commissioned back in 2006, there was no question the eight commissioners will work in line with the mandate of the Commission to deliv (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'I thought I was going to be killed' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: For Anna Maleka, the second person in four days to be attacked by gunmen in a house robbery in Pierre van Ryneveld's Mustang Street, the thought of seeing her children again is a dream come true.Malek (By Jan)... | Kenya: Women's Demands on Land Rights Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Joyce MulamaNairobi - Joyce Mulama interviews EVELYNE OPONDO, senior programme officer, Federation of Women Lawyers - KenyaAfter years of delays, Kenya's cabinet has finally adopted a draft Nationa (By Jan)... |
| World: World War I veteran dies Saturday 25-Jul-2009: London - Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during World War I, died Saturday at the age of 111, his care home in Britain said.Patch, who fought at the notorious Battle o (By Jan)... | Kenya: Force Alone Cannot Eradicate Terrorism Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Sam MakindaThe suicide terrorist bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, last week were partly designed to remind security forces in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, including Kenya, of their inability to pro (By Jan)... |
| Africa: 'Bring the millions here, please' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Arthur MaxAmsterdam - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has challenged anyone to find a bank account in his name holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil war in Sierra Leone. (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Mutambara Call for an End to Political Violence Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Violet GondaThe Principals in the coalition government called for an end to political attacks, at the beginning of three days of countrywide prayers for national healing and reconciliation. The gov (By Jan)... |
| Zim: MDC activist brutally assaulted Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Saize accused of 'working for an uncooperative radio station' By Lance GumaA female MDC activist in Uzumba (Mashonaland East), Ebba Katiyo, is said to be battling for her life in a private hos (By Jan)... | South Africa: State will not tolerate violent protests Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Marius BoschSouth Africa's government will crack down on violent protests which erupted this week over delivery of basic services, a cabinet minister said on Thursday,Police fired rubber bullets an (By Jan)... |
| Researchers: Zimbabwe's crisis driving HIV decline Sunday 26-Jul-2009: "The richest countries are also those with the highest infection rates. You can't pay the sex worker if you have no currency" By Michelle FaulCape Town - Fewer Zimbabweans are getting infected (By Jan)... | No Fuel Price Rises, Government Promises Friday 24-Jul-2009: Sao Paulo - The Mozambican government has guaranteed that there will be no shortage of fuel in the country and that fuel prices will not rise until the end of the year, despite the increase in interna (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Crime rampage: business demands answers Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Pretoria residents and businesses demand accountability and answers following a wave of violent crimes that have gripped the city in the past week, resulting in three murders and four attempted murder (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Relatives Shun Robbers' Bodies Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Harare - Relatives of the three notorious armed robbers killed last week in a shootout with detectives near Snake World at Somerby Estates, have yet to claim the bodies amid reports they are afraid of (By Jan)... |
| Kenya: Equity Bank Wins Yara Prize for an African Green Revolution Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Oslo - Farmers’ organization and African banker win the highly coveted Yara Prize for their respective roles in transforming smallholder agriculture on the continent. With the economic crisis th (By Jan)... | Zim: Government dedicates three days to national healing Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Acknowledged that there was still violence going on in Zimbabwe By Violet GondaThe inclusive government has dedicated Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week as days for renouncing political vio (By Jan)... |
| Renamo Boycotts Parliament Again Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Maputo - On Monday parliamentary deputies of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo rioted in the parliamentary chamber, and on Tuesday they capped this by walking out en masse of the final session (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Lack of Knowledge Curtails Indigenous Farmers' Benefits Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Nelson ChengaHarare - SEVEN years after ratifying the United Nations International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), the majority of Zimbabwe's indigenous farmer (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: Charles Taylor - Guilty Before Charge Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Owei LakemfaCHARLES Ghankay Taylor stands charged before an international court in the Hague for war crimes. He faces an 11 count charge which include terrorism, murder, rape,torture, sexual slaver (By Jan)... | South Africa: Death threats weigh on Mpumalanga top cop Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Thabisile Khoza and Tshwarelo-eseng MogakaneIn Mpumalanga, some of the biggest gangsters wear police uniforms.In one fell swoop, the entire Nelspruit branch of the elite Organised Crime Unit has be (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Okiro Blames South East Governors, People For Rise in Crime Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Rotimi AkinwumiAbuja - Inspector General of Police (IG), Mike Okiro, has accused South East Governors and the people of being responsible for the escalation in armed robberies and kidnappings, whic (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Land reform a time bomb if not dealt with' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonareEquating land redistribution to "food insecurity" amounts to blackmail, and the land question will become a time bomb if not addressed, says ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe."I (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe's economic recovery needs political reform Monday 20-Jul-2009: "Not only in having tea together" By Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwe's new investment incentives may help efforts towards economic recovery, but analysts say the country will not prosper without (By Jan)... | South Africa: SA will wait for jobs increase - Zuma Friday 24-Jul-2009: South Africa will have to wait for an increase in job creation, because of the economic situation, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday."It is not likely that the current reversal will last as long a (By Jan)... |
| Tanzania: How Safe is Your Automated Teller Machine (atm) Card? Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Devotha JohnHow safe is your Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card?That is the big question pre-occupying the minds of thousands of commercial bank clients, who have been stunned to hear reports of s (By Jan)... | Kenya: Govt to Check Spread of Arms, Says Kibaki Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By PPSNairobi - Kenya President Kibaki has said the government will spare no effort in recovering illicit firearms in the hands of criminals.Such efforts will help arrest the wave of banditry attacks, (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Malema slammed for 'race card' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Gender activist Mbuyiselo Botha - whom Julius Malema branded as a puppet of white racists - has slammed the ANC Youth League president's accusations as "pathetic".Botha, who was left partly disabled a (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Robbed, raped and killed' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: A High court indictment has been served on a domestic worker and her boyfriend in the Atteridgeville Regional Court.The indictment served on Monday states charges of murder, robbery with aggravating c (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Thugs shoot CPF man Monday 20-Jul-2009: A Pretoria community policing forum member was shot and critically injured in a botched hijacking at about 7pm on Sunday night.Jan Botha, 51, had just returned to his Pierre van Ryneveld home when he (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Yar'Adua Panics Over South-South Govs' Threat Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Emma AmaizePresident Umaru Yar'Adua was rattled yesterday by the South-South Governors' threat to pull out of its amnesty programme for militants and has reached out to some of the governors to fin (By Jan)... |
| American Apartheid: 300 years of banning of Interracial Marriage Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [NB: I had to make a correction to this article. I spotted the following interesting excerpt from a history article about terms which originated during the American Civil War. The part that was of (By Gairk)... | South Africa: 'Peak Oil' Debate is No Longer on Hold Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - PUT a group of oil experts under one roof for a while and their discussion is likely to drift to the subject of peak oil - a point in time when maximum oil production is reached, after (By Jan)... |
| Global: The real issues between Russia & The West Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: [In a flamboyant but meaningless gesture to reduce OFFENSIVE weapons Pres. Obama has gotten snookered into stalling DEFENSIVE weapons. He is throwing former Soviet satellites back to their old master. (By Gairk)... | South Africa: Lotto winner denies killing friend Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Karen BreytenbachLotto winner Jason "Pang" Canterbury has denied conspiring to kill a friend on his property and says he told those who did to clean up the mess and get out of his life. Canterbury, (By Jan)... |
| World: Is it because I am black? Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Rupert CornwallLondon - Imagine, police arresting a professor at Cambridge, one of the most learned and best-known scholars of his generation, after forcing the door of his house when the front loc (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Industrial Clusters - Strategy For Realising Vision 2020 Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Gboyega AkinsanmiLagos - Upon discovery of crude oil, Nigeria's productive sectors have been on the steady decline since the 1970s, culminating in job losses, food shortage and social miseries. To (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: How Militants Bombed Lagos Flow Station Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Albert Akpor And Lamidi BamideleTo say that Lagos residents and by extension, the entire country was shocked beyond words as they woke up last week to the gory sight of a shattered Atlas Cove jetty (By Jan)... | Zim: Scramble to endorse Mugabe's stay begins Friday 24-Jul-2009: Moved quickly to reassure Mugabe that they are behind him, but deliberately did not make any pronouncement on other members of the presidium Constantine ChimakureA scramble to endorse Presiden (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Continent's Salvation Lies in Small-Scale Farmers Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By DR Namanga NgongiWhile in Ghana recently, US President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of good governance in building strong societies, and underscored the need for agricultural development (By Jan)... | World: Five Iranian pilgrims killed in bus attack Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Five Iranians were killed in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on a convoy buses taking pilgrims to Shi'a Muslim holy sites in Iraq, police in restive Diyala province said (By Jan)... |
| Sierra Leone: Time is Running Out Mr President Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Muctaru WurieFreetown - An event happened last week that took most of Africa by surprise, the world's most trendy leader visited Africa.His choice which had been well publicised for some time creat (By Jan)... | Zim: MDC official's mother viciously attacked with iron bar Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Pointed a finger at Mnangagwa's thugs in the area By Tichaona SibandaThe mother of a top MDC official based in Harare was savagely beaten over the head with an iron bar and left for dead in Mv (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: The Rising Wave of Kidnapping Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Hakeem JamiuThe phenomenon of kidnapping has taken an alarming dimension in Nigeria, such that it has become a big business. Kidnapping, hitherto known only in the Niger Delta, is now a daily occur (By Jan)... | South Africa: Rand Strength Hits Country's Gold Producers Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - THE strong rand will shrink the revenue received by SA's gold miners in the June quarter. With no or small production gains and rising costs their profits are likely (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cosatu has faith in Marcus Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Cosatu trusts that newly appointed SA Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus will be "guided by the spirit of Polokwane".It said the ANC's 2007 conference in Polokwane and the policies embodied in its elec (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: MDC Official's Mother Viciously Attacked With Iron Bar Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThe mother of a top MDC official based in Harare was savagely beaten over the head with an iron bar and left for dead in Mvuma on Wednesday evening.The attack on the defenceless Ath (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Fuel Prices Remain High Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Fanuel KangondoHarare - DESPITE some concessions by the Government in reducing excise duty on diesel and petrol, fuel prices in Zimbabwe still remain high as compared to other countries in the regi (By Jan)... | South Africa: Reserve Bank policies remain in place - ANC Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: South African economic policies will not change simply because there was a new head of the central bank, the ruling ANC said on Monday, dismissing fears inflation targeting will be scrapped.Policy was (By Jan)... |
| Not Enough is Being Done to Fight Violence Monday 20-Jul-2009: Windhoek - Namibians are not doing enough to combat gender or any other type of violence, says Dianne Hubbard, coordinator of the Gender Research and Advocacy Project at the Legal Assistance Centre (L (By Jan)... | South Africa: Policeman stabbed as son, 6, watches Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Caryn DolleyA police constable has been fatally stabbed in front of his six-year-old son because robbers apparently mistook the torch he was carrying for a weapon.Litha Mzukwa, 37, stationed at the (By Jan)... |
| Zuma Condemns Violence of Anti-Govt Protests Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Hajra OmarjeeRESPONDING for the first time to the spate of service delivery protests in the country, President Jacob Zuma last night acknowledged the right of people to take to the streets but also (By Jan)... | Liberia: Taylor Worked With Rebels Inside Sierra Leone Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not support Sierra Leonean rebels in the early 1990s, but worked with them inside Sierra Leone to fend off attacks from a rival armed group in Liberia, he told judges (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Three detained in Madagascan attacks probe Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Antananarivo - Three top officials in the government of Madagascar's ousted president Marc Ravalomanana wanted in connection with weekend attacks that left three dead have been detained, police said o (By Jan)... | South Africa: Jailed killer makes new confession Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa PetersA man already serving two life sentences for murder pleaded guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday to further serious crimes.Simphiwe Christopher Khesi pleaded guilty (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Rights Group Protests Indefinite Detentions Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Katie MatternWashington - A prominent human rights group is demanding the release or trials of five Ugandan detainees held by military intelligence for up to 16 months.The five detainees, four men (By Jan)... | Africa: Over 700 died in Nigeria unrest - report Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Lagos - More than 700 died last November in clashes in the Nigerian city of Jos, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday as it urged the prosecution of members of security forces it accused of "arbitrary (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe pleads for southern African power line Monday 20-Jul-2009: Zimbabwe's instability had been a wake-up call for the region, forcing it to dust off proposals for alternative transmission lines Hopewell RadebeZimbabwe pleaded with international investors (By Jan)... | South Africa: Suspended soldiers rake in millions Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Louise FlanaganThe military is struggling to win the battle of disciplinary hearings against its own members. The SANDF has spent millions keeping soldiers accused of crimes on its payroll - includ (By Jan)... |
| Africa: 'Consider compensation for Zim victims' Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said compensation must be considered for victims of Zimbabwe's political violence as the country held a weekend of national reconciliation."We can (By Jan)... | South Africa: Gang shooting linked to drug war - police Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Lavern de VriesA gang-related shooting at the weekend, in which one man died and five were injured, was linked to a feud over lucrative drug turf, Atlantis police have revealed.The shooting involve (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Bombshell as Spygate tape surfaces Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Lindsay DentlingerThe lawyer for former top cop Niel van Heerden and alleged spy Philip du Toit says he will use police video footage to prove that the discredited Erasmus Commission and police col (By Jan)... | Africa: Ban Ki-moon alarmed by Darfur violence Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: New York - UN boss Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned about rising violence in Sudan's West Darfur state and reports of bombings that threatened to escalate tensions between Sudan and Chad, his press off (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Militancy And Yar'Adua's Amnesty Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Michael JohnAs Nigerians, we should be used to amnesty and presidential pardons by now. So when President Umaru Yar'Adua offered amnesty to the militants, it ought not to have taken us by surprise. (By Jan)... | Somalia: Militia Orders Islamic Rules for Foreign Agencies Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Nairobi - Somali militant group Harakat Al Shabaab Al-Mujahideen has issued a decree which calls for all foreign agencies and humanitarian organisations to be registered based on an Islamic criteria.T (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Moves to Decrease Aids Funding Slammed Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - Voices warning against moves to decrease and limit spending on health - blaming the financial crisis - are increasing in volume at the 5th International AIDS Society Conference (By Jan)... | Africa: Phoney Choice Between Life and Death Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Kristin PalitzaCape Town - Failure to sustain funding for HIV/AIDS treatment programmes could lead to a rising number of deaths, particularly in Africa."We need 17 to 18 billion dollars per year, o (By Jan)... |
| USA: The radical shift in American foreign policy Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: [I do not share the same optimism as this black man over Obama’s influence. I would like to see Robert Mugabe put in his place. The man is an evil criminal, a murderer of his own black people and yet (By Gairk)... | South Africa: 'We could see a peak in protests this year' Monday 20-Jul-2009: Anger against inadequate municipal services boiled over after President Jacob Zuma's administration was elected in April, under pressure to deliver on election promises."This is a warning sign to ever (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: SA prisons are festering, experts warn Friday 24-Jul-2009: Experts have warned that the country's prisons are a ticking time-bomb and have urged the government to move swiftly to address the problem of overcrowding.A senior judge, a civil society group and a (By Jan)... | Assembly Passes Amended Domestic Violence Bill Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Tuesday passed the second and final reading of a bill on domestic violence against women, but with a clause tacked onto the end to (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'I saw the gun... I went blank' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: "When I the gun I went blank I didn't think. I just ran." These were the chilling words of Pretoria mother of two, Ronel Botha, as she described her family's ordeal at the hands of two gunmen who atta (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Obama's Sermon in Accra Friday 24-Jul-2009: Abuja - The much-talked about visit of the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, to Ghana has come and gone, but not without commentaries on different aspects regarding the (By Jan)... |
| Namibia: Global Financial Crisis Threatens Aids Funding Friday 24-Jul-2009: THE global economic crisis threatens HIV prevention and treatment gains made by 22 poor countries over the last few years, according to a new UNAIDS and World Bank report.The report said 22 countries (By Jan)... | South Africa: Taxi boss and body guards shot dead Friday 24-Jul-2009: A taxi association boss and his two body guards were shot dead in KwaZulu-Natal's Folweni area on Friday morning, police said.The taxi boss's ten-year-old boy and another body guard were seriously inj (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: 'Taylor Didn't Have Time to Support Rebel Forces' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor was occupied with events in Liberia in the early 1990s and could not have had time to support rebel forces and regulate what was happening in Sierra Leone, he told judges (By Jan)... | Nigeria: HIV Scare in Local Prisons Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Lekan Fadeyi, Lagos, and Alexander MedeAbuja - There is growing concern over the HIV status of inmates in Nigerian prisons as reports say there is an increase in the number of prisoners who are inf (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Rebels wants government to reciprocate Friday 24-Jul-2009: Lagos - Nigerian militants have freed six foreign crew members of a chemical tanker seized more than two weeks ago in the Niger Delta, the rebels and the ship's owners said on Wednesday.The Movement f (By Jan)... | South Africa: Where to Find a Million New Nurses? Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Kristin PalitzaCape Town - If developing countries want to succeed in improving their health systems, they urgently need to decentralise them and shift tasks from doctors to nurses and community he (By Jan)... |
| Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Needs Foreign Intruders to Leave, Says Church Head Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Fredrick NzwiliKinshasa - Foreign armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo must leave if the country is to lift itself from its current quagmire, a church leader in the mineral-rich central (By Jan)... | South Africa: Trauma mom's joy Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Five years after a Pietermaritzburg woman was viciously stabbed 43 times, raped, sodomised and left for dead, she has two reasons to live life all over again - her attacker was sentenced to 27 years' (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Banyarwanda Herdsmen in Uganda Attacked With Machetes Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Frank KanyesigyeMasaka - Banyarwanda herdsmen in Uganda's central District of Masaka are living in a state of fear after five of their members were hacked with machetes in clashes officials say are (By Jan)... | Africa: British aid worker shot during Darfur robbery Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Khartoum - A British man working for a Swiss aid group has been shot and wounded during a robbery in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region, a police official said on Tuesday.The 40-year-old who works for (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: Taylor 'Had No Knowledge' of Rebel Army Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not help plan the rebel invasion of Sierra Leone in March 1991, nor know about the existence of the revolutionary group that started the 11-year Sierra Leonean conflic (By Jan)... | World: Confession catches prosecution off guard Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Phil HazlewoodMumbai - The trial of the sole surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks was adjourned on Tuesday to give the prosecution more time to respond to his dramatic confession that he took p (By Jan)... |
| Kenya: Renewed Campaign to Protect Women's Land Rights Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Joyce MulamaNairobi - Pressure is mounting to include a National Land Policy that ensures equal access to land between women and men in Kenya's new constitution."It is important that the National L (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Some of your best friends are black?' Monday 20-Jul-2009: A senior Pretoria advocate was asked to apologise for his stint in the Conservative Party and defence of apartheid era perpetrators as the Judicial Services Commission's interviewed nominees for judge (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Optimism Over Stemming HIV/Aids Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - The world's largest open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS ended in Cape Town this week with a sense of optimism over future possibilities to stem the epidemic, outrage over fu (By Jan)... | Suspected Kanye Killer Dies in Police Cells Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Isaiah MorewagaeA prime suspect in the recent Kanye serial killings is believed to have committed suicide in Sejelo Police cells yesterday. The 35-year-old man of Metlobo village, in the Southern D (By Jan)... |
| Kenya: Agricultural Land Laws Should Be Reviewed Urgently Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Anne Kiunuhe & Karim AnjarwallaLand in Kenya is a very emotive issue. It has a special place in the hearts of most Kenyans.The Kenyan economy remains largely agricultural based. Perhaps due to this (By Jan)... | Sudan: Abyei Verdict - Flight, Fight, Prayers Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Badru MulumbaJuba - A decade and a half ago, Jacob Thon Deng walked several weeks and nearly three hundred kilometres to escape fighting in his home town, Bor - a marshy area at the eastern bank of (By Jan)... |
| Congo-Kinshasa: Concern Over Anonymous Witnesses Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Jacques KahorhaBogoro - Ituri villagers fear that ICC trials cannot be fair if witness identities remain secret.Villagers in Ituri province in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, which (By Jan)... | South Africa: Car dealer in hijack horror Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Angelique SerraoIt was a 70km hell ride that has left him traumatised, the "ferocious" faces of his hijackers forever etched in his mind.He was hijacked by two men dressed as police officers, stuck (By Jan)... |
| World: Cops probe school over hotel attacks Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Jakarta - Indonesian police on Tuesday were questioning teachers at an Islamic boarding school, amid reports a former student was one of two suicide bombers involved in last week's Jakarta bombings.A (By Jan)... | South Africa: Week of strikes, protests planned in SA Sunday 26-Jul-2009: South Africa is set for a week of no trains, buses and rubbish collectors, with transport, municipal and pharmaceutical workers ready to strike across the country.A strike in the rail sector was due t (By Jan)... |
| World: Bombings had group's hallmark - Manila Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Manila- Recent bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines appear linked and suggest a resurgence by regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, Manila's national security chief said on Thursday.Three rec (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Set for Talks With Zuma Over Outstanding GPA Issues Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is set to meet SADC chairman and South African President Jacob Zuma over the weekend, in an attempt to push the regional bloc to convene an urgent m (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Biti threatens to quit Monday 20-Jul-2009: "If I have to bring the Zimbabwe dollar back into circulation, I will go back to my law firm" By Kudzai KuwazaNyanga - Finance Minister Tendai Biti yesterday said he will quit the inclusive go (By Jan)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Thousands Uprooted By Fresh Fighting in East - UN Friday 24-Jul-2009: The latest outbreak of fighting in the troubled South Kivu province in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), pitting Government forces against Rwandan rebels, has forced 35,000 p (By Jan)... |
| Protests Over Municipal Services Rock South Africa Friday 24-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - SERVICE delivery protests have accelerated since April, in what may be an indication of growing impatience not long after the making of election campaign promises.Winter has always been (By Jan)... | Zim: MDC bemoans 'victimisation' of its MPs Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Suspensions carried out by Parliament's chief clerk Austin Zvoma, a Zanu PF member, were unlawful Harare - Controversy over the perceived selective prosecution of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangi (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Court Orders Release of Mobitel Chief Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Lagos - A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the immediate release of Mr. Johnson Salako, Mobitel's Chief Executive Officer by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commi-ssion (EFCC).The court (By Jan)... | Ethiopia: The UN's Developmental State Farce Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Ayenew HaileselassieAddis Abeba - After 20 years in power it is still very difficult to say that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has yet gained the love and admiration of his subjects. At best the feel (By Jan)... |
| Murder Trial Delayed Again Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesA FURTHER wait of close to a year for the start of their repeatedly delayed trial is in store for the two men charged with the execution-style murder of three people in Windhoek's Klei (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cops give up search for Rapeta Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Lesego MasemolaThe search by the police dog unit and flying squad into the disappearance of Ga-Rankuwa's top policeman, Detective Inspector Andrew Rapeta, has been put on hold.The units have failed (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Medical aids 'interfering' Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Eleanor MombergInterference by medical aids and medical administrators in clinical decisions by doctors is adversely affecting the care medical professionals are able to give their patients. Doctor (By Jan)... | Somalia: More Pirate Attacks Expected Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - The British commander of the European Union's anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia has warned that there could be a significant increase in pirate attacks on merchan (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Mall security managers mull safety concerns Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Fouzia van der FortThe recent spate of armed robberies at shopping malls across the Cape Town has had a serious knock-on effect on businesses and has raised huge safety concerns for shoppers, say m (By Jan)... | Africa: Yemen navy repels pirate attack on tanker Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Sanaa - The Yemeni navy repelled an attack by Somali pirates on a Yemeni oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, a military spokesperson said."Somali pirates on 14 boats tried to attack the oil tan (By Jan)... |
| GRN Suspends China Loans Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Jo-Maré DuddyGOVERNMENT has confirmed suspending US$100 million in credit lines with the Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China.Exim is the main financer of the controversial multi-million dollar scann (By Jan)... | Chad: UN Condemns Bombings on Sudan Border Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored reported bombings along or near the Chadian-Sudanese border and urged both countries to exercise restraint and improve their frayed bilateral relations ami (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Mtsweni's killer sentenced Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Lebogang SealeA desperate attempt by Florence Lukhele, accused of the murder of Govan Mbeki deputy mayor Thandi Mtsweni, to change her guilty plea to conspiracy to murder was too little, too late.B (By Jan)... | South Africa: Six die in Mpumalanga suicide shootings Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Mpumalanga police warned suicidal people to seek help and speak out on Monday following two unrelated shootings in which six people were killed in the province.The first shooting involved a police pro (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: New Police Inspector General Approved Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Kingsley Omonobi B & Daniel IdonorAbuja - MISTER Ogbonna Onovo, who was the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Administration, was, last night, named the 14th indigenous Inspector-General of Polic (By Jan)... | USA: Navy weapons unit produces a high-desert boomtown Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [A regular supporter of mine in the USA, and a friend from 1992, sent me this note about where he lives and the boom caused by a boom caused by weapons production!! Jan] While the rest of Californi (By Gairk)... |
| Nigeria: Security Beef-Up At Atlas Cove Over Fresh Threat Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Emma AmaizeLagos - SECURITY around the Atlas Cove jetty in Lagos was yesterday beefed up over fears that men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) may stage another attack (By Jan)... | South Africa: Apartheid-era cop 'not welcome' at memorial Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Family and friends of slain Bonteheuwel activists have slammed the ANC for wanting to invite a notorious apartheid-era police officer to a memorial service on Monday to commemorate the death of Ashley (By Jan)... |
| Somalia: Radicals Loot UN Buildings, Forcing Some Operations to Close Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Somali militants raided two United Nations compounds today, stealing equipment and vehicles and forcing the world body to close down one of its operations in the violence-wracked country.Al Shabaab mi (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Okah And the Amnesty Walk Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Edmond EnaibeWith the Monday, July 13, 2009 release of the MEND leader, Henry Okah, the amnesty jet can be said to be in full flight. Just hours before the declaration of amnesty for all militants (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe business must build its integrity Monday 20-Jul-2009: Zimbabwe is currently swamped by investor conferences Dianna GamesZimbabwe is currently swamped by investor conferences. The perception of rich pickings at rock-bottom prices and the search fo (By Jan)... | Rwanda: DRC Army Kills 22 Hutu Rebels Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Robert MugabeRubavu - Military officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Goma have said that their army has killed at least 22 FDLR rebels and captured several others.Speaking to The N (By Jan)... |
| Ghana: Lets Stand Up to Fake Drug Menace Friday 24-Jul-2009: At press time on Thursday, the Food and Drugs Board has issued a statement alerting the public of the presence of fake coartem malaria tablets in Kumasi.The statement said the confirmatory tests on th (By Jan)... | South Africa: Erin's alleged murderer refused bail Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Stellenbosch University student Jacobus Eksteen, the son of an Upington medical practitioner, was on Tuesday refused bail for the alleged murder of student Erin van Rensburg.He appeared in the Stellen (By Jan)... |
| Ghana: The Ball is in the Court of the Military Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By The EditorAccra - The Minister of Defence, Lt General Joseph Henry Smith last Thursday appealed to the media to leave the Ghana Armed Forces out of politics. He made the appeal at a media encounter (By Jan)... | South Africa: Motlanthe's Address Puts Back in International HIV/Aids Fold Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe took a massive stride last night (19 May) towards re-establishing the South African government's credibility in the eyes of the world's AIDS (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Presidency 'wanted Mboweni to resign' Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonareThe presidency's had planned to extend Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni's contract and allow him to resign.However, all along Mboweni was under the impression that President Jaco (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Another Farmer Murdered Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Nkululeko SibandaBulawayo - Another Gweru farmer was murdered at his home last week, a few days after a Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) director was killed by unknown assailants.The murders have rek (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Leaders Deplore Loss of Anti-Apartheid Struggle Values Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Ella SmookCape Town - Cape TownTWENTY years after MK members Robbie Waterwitch and Coline Williams died in a bomb blast in Athlone, former comrades Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Minister in (By Jan)... | South Africa: Zuma blasts violent protests Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Government is paying serious attention to the serious delivery protests, president Jacob Zuma said in Durban on Saturday. "We are paying serious attention to the protests," said Zuma in a speech pre (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 2010: Cape in bid for more tourists than rats Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Plans are under way to give NGO Men on the Side of the Road R1,5-million to ensure that there are more tourists than rats in Cape Town during the 2010 World Cup.This week a local radio station was flo (By Jan)... | Africa: UN Leaders Differ Over War Crimes Law Friday 24-Jul-2009: New York - The principle of ‘responsibility to protect,’ the international understanding to intervene to stop atrocities from taking place, could pose a threat to national sovereignty, Gen (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Forest Officer, Family Murdered Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Gerald Tenywa and Alex BukumunheKampala - TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Patrick Kalemera accepted an offer to patrol Nakalanga forest reserve in Mukono district hoping to earn good money to look after his f (By Jan)... | World: Great hopes for Obama fade to reality Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Nancy Benac and Trevor SimpsonWashington - The hope and optimism that washed over the United States in the opening months of Barack Obama's presidency are giving way to harsh realities.An Associate (By Jan)... |
| Guest Column: Uphold Africa’s Contribution to Human Rights Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Mohamed SahnounThis week the United Nations General Assembly is to debate the responsibility of nations and the international community to protect people around the world from crimes such as genoci (By Jan)... | South Africa: Rifts 'pose threat to ANC poll chances' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonareThe ANC has acknowledged that infighting over state resources and positions in some of its provincial structures and municipalities is affecting service delivery and poses a threat (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Mpumalanga's most wanted shot dead Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: A man listed as one of Mpumalanga's most wanted criminals was shot dead by police in Nkandla in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, police said."We traced him to his father's house where he was (By Jan)... | South Africa: Eskom to propose third power station Monday 20-Jul-2009: South African utility Eskom said on Monday it will propose a third power station in December and the first units of its Medupi and Kusile power stations are expected to be commissioned on time."We pla (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cops warn of more arrests after shops looted Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Fiona GoundenThe leader of hundreds of people responsible for looting shops in Durban this week should not think "she has got away with it", warned police, saying they are still conducting intense (By Jan)... | New Dangers, New Efforts to Protect Children Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - New channels like sms messages and social-networking application Facebook are just some of the tools government and civil rights groups will be using to encourage in (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Break the law and pay the price, vows Zuma Friday 24-Jul-2009: "There can be no justification for violence, looting and destruction of property or attacks on foreign nationals residing in our country. "The law enforcement agencies will continue to act swiftly an (By Jan)... | Africa: Congo violence leaves 24 dead Friday 24-Jul-2009: Kinshasa - Twenty-four people, including 16 civilians, were killed in a Rwandan rebel attack on the army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations mission in the DR Congo reporte (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cape Town mall robbed again Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Caryn DolleyRobbers have again struck Canal Walk Shopping Centre.This time five men robbed a jewellery store, the second jewellery retailer in the centre to be robbed in just over two weeks and an (By Jan)... | Frelimo Pledges to Fight Against Electoral Fraud Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Wednesday promised that it would take measures against any of its members involved in electoral fraud.Speaking to reporters after registering the party fo (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: 'One Million Barrels Oil Lost Per Day' Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Chuks Okocha and Ejiofor AlikeNigeria is still counting the losses inflicted by militancy in the Niger Delta, with the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, revealing that the countr (By Jan)... | Science: Australia starts flu vaccine trials Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Sydney - Australia on Wednesday began human trials for a swine flu vaccine, lending new urgency to global efforts to curb the pandemic after the death toll worldwide leapt past 700.As the trials start (By Jan)... |
| Kenya: Want a Sim Card? Show Your Identity Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Benjamin MuindiNairobi - Mobile phone users will soon have to register their personal details if they are to remain connected.Companies providing mobile phone services were on Tuesday given six mon (By Jan)... | Africa: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis-AfDB Invests U.S.$ 500 Million in Global Trade Liquidity Program Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis, African Development Bank (AfDB) invests up to USD 500 million in the Global Trade Liquidity Program. The AfDB Private Sector Department Director and his coll (By Jan)... |
| Chad: Tensions Along Sudan Border Exacerbated By Recent Violence - Ban Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Recent clashes have further destabilized the already insecure border between Chad and Sudan's volatile Darfur region, areas also facing a grave humanitarian crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said (By Jan)... | South Africa: SA border security ineffective - DA Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Security along South Africa's border with Lesotho is ineffective and citizens are forced to look after the safety of their own communities, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.DA shadow minister of (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Government Should Help Carroll Through Minefield Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - NOW that the noise around the appointment of the new chairman of Anglo American has died down, it's an opportune moment for the government to reflect on what kind of relationship it wan (By Jan)... | Africa: Somalia rebels attack AU forces Monday 20-Jul-2009: Mogadishu - Rebels attacked African Union troops in Somalia overnight, sparking a brief firefight in which two civilians were killed and seven wounded, officials and witnesses said on Monday.The Sheba (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Marshal killed as he flees skidding Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Leila SamodienA Killarney racing marshal was killed in what was described as a "freak" racing accident on Saturday when a speeding car smashed into him.Des Bisset, of Parklands, had seen the car co (By Jan)... | Uganda: Using a Mobile Phone to Reduce Farming Cost Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Ephraim KasoziWhat used to be an expensive and time consuming feat for farmers to access inputs and market for their products has now been allayed. The increased use of a mobile telephone among lar (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Greed and corruption plague the state - Tutu Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Michelle JonesAnglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has slammed the state of the government and country, asking whether the bloodshed of the struggle had been worthwhile.Tutu was speaking at a (By Jan)... | Africa: Universality of Corruption - Not a Justification for Acceptability Thursday 23-Jul-2009: The African Union ECOSOCC peace and security committee Chair, Professor Dole Kolawole has said that the universality of corruption cannot be a justification for its acceptability. Speaking on Wednesda (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: On the run for 10 years - caught for speeding Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Shaun SmillieDriving 24km/h too fast has ended a South African fugitive's flight from justice. Walter Wright, 68, was pulled over in Cool Springs, Tennessee, in the US last Friday evening for trave (By Jan)... | Nigeria: FG - Land Reforms Will Empower Citizens Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - The Federal Government yesterday said the ongoing land reforms process is intended to launch the large majority of Nigerians into economic empowerment by providing them with (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Minister Raises Concern Over Safety of Miners Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Rustenburg - The safety of miners came under the spotlight on Monday when Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu visited the site where nine mineworkers lost their lives.Nine mineworkers died at (By Jan)... | Zim: Another MDC-T MP jailed Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Any MP who misses six consecutive months of parliament forfeits his seat By Innocent RuwendeZaka North House of Assembly Member Ernest Mudavanhu was yesterday sentenced to an effective one-yea (By Jan)... |
| Gambia: Arrests Further Stifle Free Speech Says Amnesty Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Dakar - Unlawful arrests, detention, torture and unfair trials are increasing in the Gambia, repressing already restricted freedom of expression in the country, say journalists and human rights organi (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Failed Banks Debtors Monday 20-Jul-2009: Lagos - Today Nigerians know better why 13 of the nation's banks went under some years ago, leaving their depositors and staff in agony from which many of them have not recovered.Reports released the (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: COPE meeting 'illegal' Monday 20-Jul-2009: A week after COPE head of elections Simon Grindrod was suspended for writing a memo critical of the fledgling party, leaders of a disgruntled COPE group in the Western Cape have also been suspended fo (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Side-Marketing Threatens Contract Farming's Future Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Sharon TawuyaHarare - THE future of the contract farming system in the tobacco industry is under threat from farmers who are breaching their contracts through side-marketing, with the situation lik (By Jan)... |
| World: Bombs found aboard Philippine passenger ferry Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Manila - Twelve homemade bombs were found aboard a passenger ferry in the Philippines just before it left port with more than 300 passengers, the coast guard said Sunday.The explosives were found in a (By Jan)... | South Africa: Search on for police reservist shooters Saturday 25-Jul-2009: A manhunt is on for between six or seven men who shot and wounded a police reservist in Brackendowns after committing a robbery, police said on Saturday.Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Lunge (By Jan)... |
| Swaziland: Planning Oversight Halts Food Security Programme Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Mantoe PhakathiMbabane - A Food-for-Work programme, which cleverly aims to combat both environmental degradation and food shortages, has come to a halt due to lack of long-term planning.For the pas (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Rep in Coma After Brain Surgery Over Robbers' Attack Friday 24-Jul-2009: PAULINUS Igwe, a member representing Ezza North/Ishielu federal constituency in the House of Representatives has reportedly remained in coma one week after he was operated upon in the brain where robb (By Jan)... |
| Lameck, Co-Accused to Focus On Assets Fight Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesTHE three arrested key figures in a case of alleged corruption around a contract for the provision of Chinese-made security X-ray scanners to the Namibian Government, chose to forego a (By Jan)... | Africa: Trial of Continent's First HIV Vaccines Underway Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Sharon DavisDurban - The first candidate HIV vaccines to be developed in Africa have begun clinical testing at two sites in South Africa.The South African Medical Research Council's South African A (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook Thursday 23-Jul-2009: The African economic Outlook (AEO) is a flagship report produced by the African Development Bank (ADB), jointly with the OECD and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with a generous (By Jan)... | Kenya: Ongoing Battle for Resources in North Leaves 20 Dead Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Isiolo - Large numbers of security forces have been deployed to a town in northern Kenya after 20 people died in July alone during clashes.Tensions over water and pasture during a drought in the surro (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cop dies after robbery Thursday 23-Jul-2009: An off-duty police constable stabbed during a robbery in Du Noon died of his injuries on Thursday, Western Cape police said.Litha Mzukwa, 37, was walking to a shop with his six-year-old son on Wednesd (By Jan)... | Rwanda: Government on Track to Achieve EDPRS Targets Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Berna NamataKigali - The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has reported impressive performance in the first year of implementing the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDP (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Huge municipal services strike looms Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Bonile NgqiyazaResidents face huge disruptions in municipal services from Monday as more than 190 000 municipal workers countrywide are expected to begin an indefinite strike over wages.About 21 00 (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Mohadi's Workers Face Attempted Murder Charges After Brutal Assault Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaEIGHT workers for the co-Minister of Home Affairs, Kembo Mohadi, are facing attempted murder charges after they severely assaulted 11 villagers who were reportedly trying to recov (By Jan)... |
| Military Robot Could Eat Dead Bodies Monday 20-Jul-2009: The tree hugging liberal environmentalists have been bugging the Government to be more eniromentally-friendly...and now, as always, the US Government will deliver...I can just imagine the outcry from (By JanOlifant)... | South Africa: Cops arrest alleged robber Sunday 26-Jul-2009: A 26-year-old man accused of armed robbery will appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday, police said.Captain Cynthia Magoai said the man was arrested after he and four others allegedly (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Mafioso to be sent packing Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Italian fugitive Vito Palazzolo has broken several years of silence to fight back following the South African government's decision to press ahead with extraditing him to his home country.A fortnight (By Jan)... | Murder Suspect Commits Suicide Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesPOLICE officers investigating the murder of an Okahandja poultry farmer six weeks ago are looking for two more suspects after arresting two men in connection with the crime over the we (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Onovo Steps in as Okiro Bows Out Friday 24-Jul-2009: By George Oji, Yemi Akinsuyi and Ogochukwu ObiesieAbuja - The new Inspector General of Police (IG) is Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, who has made history as the first South-easterner to occupy the position.Onov (By Jan)... | Africa: We must promote tolerance, respect: Mugabe Friday 24-Jul-2009: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday called for an end to political violence, at the start of a weekend of national prayer meant to launch a still-vague process of national reconciliation.The so (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Man held for allegedly killing cop Friday 24-Jul-2009: A 24-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of an off duty policeman near Cape Town on Friday, Western Cape police said.Captain Bernadine Steyn said the man was arrested at his home in Du Noon (By Jan)... | Liberia: "Show Me the Money" - Taylor Challenges Friday 24-Jul-2009: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has challenged anyone to find a bank account in his name holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil war in Sierra Leone. In his second week of te (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Sizzlers broadcast appeal starts Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteA Broadcasting Complaints Commission tribunal was meeting in the city on Thursday to hear how a programme on e.tv's 3rd Degree about the Sizzlers massacre horrified the families of (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Clampdown On Smuggling Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Harare - THE highly organised smuggling of goods in and out of the country is a serious problem crippling our economy.The impact of this vice is quite huge and should not be underestimated at all as i (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Zapu to contest for former MDC-M seats Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: "Zapu has been following with keen interest developments in the MDC-M party" By Lizwe SebataBulawayo - Former Zanu PF stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa's Zapu party on Tuesday said it will contest by-e (By Jan)... | South Africa: ANC led Cosatu members to vote DA Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonareThe problems in the Western Cape ANC were so "grave" that some provincial members of Cosatu - its key ally - had voted for the Democratic Alliance, contributing "to putting it into (By Jan)... |
| Africa: World Leaders Urged to Continue Funding Aids Programmes Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - The world's foremost AIDS scientists last night (Sunday) accused the G8 countries of "astonishing delinquency", being "crazy" and "not just pathetic, but criminal" by failing a (By Jan)... | Africa: Three dead in overnight attacks Monday 20-Jul-2009: Antananarivo, Madagascar - Madagascar police say three people were killed in violence they blame on politicians linked to a government ousted by the military.Colonnel Richard Ravalomanana, in charge o (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: City strike standstill Saturday 25-Jul-2009: No trains and buses, minimal municipal services and bags of rubbish piling up on city streets.That is what South Africans are facing next week, if strike threats by six trade unions materialise. The p (By Jan)... | Ghana: Community 21 Farmers Fight TDC Over Lands Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Richard Kofi AttenkahTema - A group of people, calling themselves the Proposed Community 21 Landlords Association, are up in arms against the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) for re-allocating po (By Jan)... |
| World: Rape victim, 8, shunned by family Friday 24-Jul-2009: Authorities said that four Liberian boys aged between nine and 14 took turns raping an eight-year-old Liberian girl behind a shed for more than 10 minutes after luring the young victim with chewing gu (By Jan)... | Rwanda: DRC Forces Overrun Hutu Rebels' Stronghold Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Robert Mugabe and James KaruhangaGoma - Congolese troops backed by air and artillery fire captured the headquarters of FDLR in Lubero, North Kivu after two days of intense fighting, while more vill (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Teen fight ends in bloodshed Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Alex EliseevKing Edward VII schoolboy Mfundo Ntshangase was pinned against a car, held by his waist as fists rained down on his face and body. One of the boys attacking him picked up a glass bottle (By Jan)... | Africa: Madagascar political groups agree to meet Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Addis Ababa - Madagascar's four main political groups have agreed that they should meet to find a solution for the country's political crisis, a mediator told AFP Wednesday.Mozambique's former preside (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Two held for pit-bull attack on baboon Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Niemah DavidsTwo men have been arrested and face charges of animal cruelty for allegedly allowing their two pit-bull dogs to attack a 20-year-old baboon in full view of dozens of onlookers in Komme (By Jan)... | South Africa: Minister Shocked By Number of Young Offenders Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Boksburg - A visit this week by Correctional Services officials to a correctional facility in Boksburg, opened up the reality of the number of youngsters swelling the country's already overcrowded pri (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Minister Detained in Germany Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Hebert ZharareHarare - Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa was detained for six hours at Frankfurt International Airport in Germany recently -- culminating in his failure to attend (By Jan)... | South Africa: Pikoli warns against meddling politicians Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Axed national prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli has said politicians should stay away from interfering with decisions to prosecute. Pikoli told judges and academics at an international law conference at (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Gold One Starts New Drilling At 'Potential Flagship' Ventersburg Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - JUNIOR resources company Gold One International on Friday announced it had begun the second phase of drilling at its Ventersburg project in the Free State.Neil Froneman, (By Jan)... | Sudan: Uganda is Internationally Obliged to Arrest Bashir Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Agnes KabajuniKampala - LIKE in all international treaties, upon ratification, Uganda became party to the Rome Statute and thus has certain state obligations to fulfill. Fundamentally, these are tw (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Zanu PF thugs disrupt constitution talks Monday 20-Jul-2009: Biti refused to move, sitting stubbornly in the centre of the auditorium CommentJason MoyoZimbabwe's three political leaders have vowed to press ahead with negotiations leading to a new consti (By Jan)... | Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook Monday 20-Jul-2009: The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2008/09 will be launched at a ceremony which will take place on Tuesday, 28th July 2009, from 9:00 to 13:30 hrs., at the Kigali Serena Hotel Conference Centre.The AE (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cops' reckless habits exposed Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Alex Eliseev 225 accidents in one yearn 110 due to officer negligenceTaxpayers paid R88-million for a new fleet of cars for the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department but a damning report on the treatm (By Jan)... | South Africa: Sharks fans lock up Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Vivian AttwoodThe families of 50 men and two women arrested in Braam Fischer Road (formerly Ordnance Road) on Friday night in a police drink-driving blitz are furious with the SAPS for having thro (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Baby stolen from ward Sunday 26-Jul-2009: By Lynnette Johns, Leila Samodien and Vuyo MabandlaA two-week-old baby boy has been snatched from the maternity ward at Tygerberg Hospital, where his mother is lying in a coma, unaware her first-born (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Business Delegation Off to Botswana, South Africa Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Walter MuchinguriHarare - A HIGH-POWERED delegation of senior Government officials and members of the Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe is set to leave the country next week for Botswana (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'Prophets believe my husband is alive' Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Lesego MasemolaA prayer meeting was to be held on Wednesday for missing police officer Detective-Inspector Andrew Rapeta.Ga-Rankuwa police officers, religious leaders, traditional healers and leade (By Jan)... | Liberia: Taylor Used Children to Help War, But Not to Fight Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Tracey GurdChildren were not deployed as fighters in Charles Taylor's revolutionary force in Liberia during its civil war, but instead used to cook, carry rifles and search vehicles, Taylor said Th (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Over 500 Hutu Rebels Killed, Captured, Says Peace Mission Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUC, has revealed that more than 500 FDLR rebels have been killed or captured since the beginning of the ongoing (By Jan)... | South Africa: Researchers Launch HIV/Aids Vaccine Trials Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Brownywnne JoosteCape Town - The discovery of a safe, effective HIV/Aids vaccine will mark the biggest achievement in modern world history, says Medical Research Council president Professor Anthony (By Jan)... |
| Sudan: Recent Violence Worsens Along Chad Border Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Recent clashes have further destabilized the already insecure border between Chad and Sudan's volatile Darfur region, areas also facing a grave humanitarian crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said (By Jan)... | Somalia: Four Wounded in Central Somalia Fighting After Ethiopia Pullout Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Beletwein - At least four people were wounded Friday in central Somalia in an hour-long battle between pro-government forces and insurgents, Radio Garowe reports.The fighting erupted in Beletwein afte (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Maintain Funding for HIV/Aids Prevention Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Ntandoyenkosi NcubeCape Town - Health experts and scientists have accused the world's wealthiest countries of abandoning the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010." (By Jan)... | Former Dhlakama Guard Escapes Attempted Murder Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Maputo - A former bodyguard of Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has claimed that he was beaten up and buried alive by some of his former colleagues based in t (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Our Ultimate Demand - MEND Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Emma Amaize, Samuel Oyadongha and Wahab AbdullahTHE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, says its ultimate demand is "true fiscal federalism", which it insists is the only guaran (By Jan)... | Africa: Aziz denies election fraud Monday 20-Jul-2009: Nouakchott, Mauritania - The army general who led a military coup that toppled Mauritania's first elected head of state last August has denied opposition charges of fraud in claiming his presidential (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: New chief of police will be hired soon Saturday 25-Jul-2009: The country is likely to know within days who will be the next police chief.Suspended National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi's contract expires next week and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's offic (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: 5th MDC MP jailed Friday 24-Jul-2009: A fifth MDC Member of Parliament, Ernest Mudavanhu has been handed a two-year jail term after he was convicted of corruption. The ZAKA North MP will serve a year in jail after Harare magistrate Oli (By Gairk)... |
| Ethiopia: Anti-Terrorism Legislation Further Restricts Press Friday 24-Jul-2009: In a letter to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed serious concerns about increasing restrictions on press freedom in Ethiopia in the wake of (By Jan)... | Young People May Be Traitors, Warns Dhlakama Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Maputo - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo, has justified his continued leadership of the party on the grounds that, if younger people were to take over, they might (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Five convicted over albino killings Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Bujumbura - Burundi has condemned one person to life in prison and four others to jail sentences for murdering albinos and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft, a court said on Thursday.The (By Jan)... | Somalia: Three Killed in Attack on AU Peacekeepers Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Mogadishu - Islamist insurgents attacked the AU peacekeepers, known as AMISOM, stationed at the KM4 area at the center of the capital, witnesses said."We transported 14 wounded persons around the Baka (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Rajoelina 'looking for excuse' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Lovasoa Rabary-RakitondravonyAntananarivo, Madagascar - An aide to Madagascar's ousted president denied accusations that he and others were behind an alleged campaign of violence, and accused the i (By Jan)... | World: Obama faces true test as honeymoon wanes Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Washington - A new poll out on Monday suggested that amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, rising unemployment, and a ballooning deficit, the honeymoon could be wanin (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Fifteen years for teen who attacked farmer Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa PetersA teenager who took part in a robbery that left a 79-year-old farmer badly beaten and traumatised was sentenced to an effective 15 years imprisonment on Friday.Pietermaritzburg High (By Jan)... | Zim: Man sues Nkomo for US$2.5m over gunshot injuries Sunday 26-Jul-2009: The firearm was registered in Nkomo's name and he never reported it missing By Nkululeko SibandaBulawayo - A man who was shot five times by one of Zanu PF chairman John Nkomo's workers two mon (By Jan)... |
| Somalia: Kenyan Govt Campaigns Against Militia Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Oliver Mathenge And VppsNairobi - The Kenyan Government on Saturday launched a peace and security awareness campaign in North Eastern Province in response to the on-going conflict in Somalia.The ca (By Jan)... | South Africa: Police suspect home was petrol bombed Saturday 25-Jul-2009: A Mamelodi East family managed to flee their burning home on Saturday morning after a suspected petrol bomb attack, Johannesburg police said.Captain Johannes Maheso told Sapa the incident took place (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Leaders Question Chissano's Anti-LRA Proposal Friday 24-Jul-2009: Gulu - While the Ugandan government supports the recommendation by Joachim Chissano, the outgoing UN envoy for areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to use military as well as peaceful m (By Jan)... | World: Drownings probed for honour killings Friday 24-Jul-2009: Montreal - Canadian authorities on Thursday charged an Afghan immigrant, his wife and their oldest son with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three Montreal sisters and an older fema (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Cotton Producers Call for End to U.S. Subsidies Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Danielle KurtzlebenWashington - Representatives from four major cotton-producing African countries came to Washington this week to engage in a dialogue about what they consider to be unfair U.S. tr (By Jan)... | Middle East: Obama sweet-talks dictators, yet strong-arms Israel Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Dealing with U.S. President Barack Obama constitutes a major challenge for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been a long time since America last had a president as powerful as Obama, who contr (By Gairk)... |
| Nigeria: Africans Protest Nigerian Death in China Monday 20-Jul-2009: More than 100 Africans surrounded a police station in Guangzhou, China Wednesday after a Nigerian died during an immigration raid, state media said.Reports said he jumped out of a second floor shop wi (By Jan)... | South Africa: Sick people can commit crime - judge Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Karen BreytenbachAbdul Rudolph, who is accused of slitting his wife's throat and dousing her with petrol, may hear on Monday whether the Western Cape High Court thinks it should overturn a magistra (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Al-Qaeda suspect nabbed in Mauritania Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Nouakchott - A suspected member of Al-Qaeda's North African branch has been arrested after slipping through a police dragnet in Mauritania's capital, police said Saturday.Didi Ould Bezeid is believed (By Jan)... | South Africa: COPE protesters march against municipality Friday 24-Jul-2009: Several hundred people, mostly members of the Congress of the People, on Friday demanded that the Kopanong local municipality stop dismissing civil servants who belong to the party.The protest march i (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Strike season hits SA Friday 24-Jul-2009: No trains and buses, minimal municipal services and understaffed pharmacies.That is what South Africans are facing next week, if strike threats by no fewer than six trade unions materialise."There is (By Jan)... | South Africa: Boy stops speaking after seeing dad die Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Esther LewisSix-year-old Sandile Mzukwa idolised his policeman father, but since the trauma of witnessing his murder, he has stopped speaking.On Wednesday night the electricity supply to Du Noon, a (By Jan)... |
| Science: Hunt for H1N1 vaccine intensifies Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Washington - Governments and scientists around the world ramped up the hunt for a vaccine to battle the swine flu pandemic on Wednesday, with Australia launching human trials for a serum.US officials (By Jan)... | Dhlakama Re-Elected President of Renamo Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's largest opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Tuesday re-elected Afonso Dhlakama as its president on the final day of a Renamo congress in the northern city of N (By Jan)... |
| Mauritania: Election Results Challenged Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Ebrima SillahDakar - Coup leader-turned-politician General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz has been declared winner of Saturday's presidential elections by Mauritania's Interior Ministry.His main rivals, (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cash van robbed in Cape Town Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Several robbers got away with an undisclosed amount of cash during a cash-in-transit heist at a Caltex garage in Athlone on Tuesday, Western Cape police said.Spokesperson Inspector Carin Loock said th (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Teen car thief dies in shootout Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: A 17-year-old Mozambican died on Tuesday in a shootout with police trying to arrest him for possession of a stolen vehicle, said Mpumalanga police.Superintendent Abie Khoabane said Netstar alerted the (By Jan)... | South Africa: Gold dust worth R30 000 seized at mine hostel Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Gold dust worth R30 000 and equipment used to illegally extract the precious metal from gold bearing ore were confiscated in Welkom, Free State police said on Monday.Police spokesperosn Sergeant Maleb (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Swedish Gov't Okays Fugitive's Extradition Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Felly KimenyiKigali - In a major breakthrough that could see more of Rwanda's Genocide fugitives returned home to stand trial, Sweden has become the first country to endorse the extradition of a Ge (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Bankole - We'll Tamper With Oil Reform Bill Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuinLagos - The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the comprehensive bill proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to reform the oil and gas sector, may not have a smooth passage at (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: COPE bosses 'playing dirty' Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Political BureauDisgruntled COPE members in the Western Cape have accused interim provincial leader Mbulelo Ncedana of trying to sabotage a meeting they arranged to air grievances.This came after a (By Jan)... | South Africa: Boeremag case costs taxpayer R11m Monday 20-Jul-2009: With the defence still to present its case, the Legal Aid Board (LAB) has already forked out more than R11 million over the past four years for the defence of the 21 accused in the Boeremag trial.Thi (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Executive should tighten their belts - DA Sunday 26-Jul-2009: The DA is proposing a range of cost-cutting measures for the executive, including doing away with free trips on the luxurious Blue Train, removing the right to a state sponsored domestic worker and c (By Jan)... | South Africa: City man slain for nothing Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeThey took nothing from him, so why did they shoot and kill him? This is the question that the Blignault family in Moreleta Park are battling with as they struggle to come to terms w (By Jan)... |
| Sudan: Divisions Emerge Over Arrest of Bashir Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Rosebell KagumireKampala - Uganda is both member of ICC and African Union, which opposes court's indictment of Sudanese leader.Divisions have surfaced in the Ugandan government over whether to pres (By Jan)... | Kenya: Court Ends 20-Year Land Dispute Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Sam KiplagatNairobi - The Appeal Court has ended a 20-year-old land dispute pitting two communities in Naivasha district.In a judgment, the highest court in the land ruled that a group of Maasai pa (By Jan)... |
| World: N.Korea scoffs at US nuclear deal Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Phuket, Thailand - North Korea on Thursday spurned US offers of a package of incentives in return for scrapping its nuclear weapons programme, saying it could never trade security for cash.The North, (By Jan)... | EXACTLY as I predicted years ago: South Africa: State Land Restitution Drive Faces Shortfall of R3 Billion Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [For the last 9 years I've been warning that this would happen. I have stated many times that:- 1) The ANC land reform is financially unsustainable and they would run out of money (which they now hav (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Police mistake woman for a hijacker Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Angelique SerraoWhile busy tracking down a Toyota Fortuner that had been hijacked on Tuesday, police mistakenly chased the wrong car for some distance. A woman was on her way home when a police hel (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Bombed Atlas Cove Jetty Fixed, Says Govt Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Emma Amaize and Henry UmoruAbuja - THE Federal Government declared yesterday that it was not going back on its arrangement to deregulate the nation's oil sector, just as it said that the Atlas Cove (By Jan)... |
| Top Treason Cop Severely Injured in Road Accident Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesTHE car crash curse that has been be-devilling the Caprivi high treason case struck again in northern Namibia last week.A road accident left the Commanding Officer of the Namibian Poli (By Jan)... | South Africa: Mpuma police commander shot Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: The commander of the Middelburg organised crime unit in Mpumalanga was on Wednesday shot and wounded at his home, police said."The commander went outside to the dustbin. When he was returning to the h (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'Rigorous' probe for Impala deaths Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: The investigation into the mining accident at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations must be rigorous and thorough, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday.This followed the death of (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Govt Working on New Land Lease Format Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Harare - Government is working on a new and comprehensive format for 99-year agricultural leases to ensure that they are bankable and can be used as collateral in borrowing money from financial instit (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cop cars damged in service delivery protest Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Police fired rubber bullets to disperse about 200 hostel dwellers in Thokoza on the East Rand on Tuesday, who were protesting over service delivery.The residents had gathered at Khumalo Road leading t (By Jan)... | World: Nato aircraft crashes in Afghanistan Monday 20-Jul-2009: Kabul- A military aircraft used by Nato-led forces crashed shortly after take-off from a major base in southern Afghanistan on Monday, alliance officials said, the second crash at the base in as many (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Boeremag chaos could cost millions Monday 20-Jul-2009: The farce known as the Boeremag trial could last for years - and cost taxpayers countless millions.Defence lawyer Bernard Bandjes on Thursday told Judge Eben Jordaan he felt the trial was "getting out (By Jan)... | Science: Marshes make some good news for Iraq Friday 24-Jul-2009: Tokyo - Ancient marshlands in south-eastern Iraq drained by Saddam Hussein have rebounded to nearly half their former area, and progress should continue despite turmoil currently rocking the nation, U (By Jan)... |
| World: Go ahead and hang me, says Mumbai gunman Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Mumbai - The sole surviving gunman of last year's Mumbai attacks told the judge in his trial on Wednesday that he was prepared to be put to death after making a dramatic confession of his role in the (By Jan)... | South Africa: Death Toll From Implats Accident Rises to Nine Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - THE death toll at Impala Platinum's ( Implats ') Rustenburg operations climbed to nine after seven more bodies were recovered on Monday, making this one of the singl (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Don't shoot the protesters, Mchunu warns Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Do not shoot at unarmed service delivery protesters, KwaZulu-Natal local government MEC Willies Mchunu warned police on Wednesday."Pictures of elderly women and men with injuries sustained as a result (By Jan)... | World: Dutch couple identified as bomb victims Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Jakarta - A Dutch couple have been identified as victims of last week's suicide blast at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta, bringing the number of foreigners killed to six, police said on Tuesday.An I (By Jan)... |
| Somalia: Millions to Remain in Need of Aid, Says Agency Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Nairobi - Somalia's food security situation is not expected to improve over the next six months and the number of people in need of humanitarian aid will remain high through December, the Famine and E (By Jan)... | South Africa: Police seize 164 taxis Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Siphamandla MbewaPolice impounded 164 illegally operated taxis and arrested drivers in a provincial clampdown on unroadworthy taxis and illegal operators.Some of them had shared one permit with up (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Men held for alleged robbery at church Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Two men who allegedly robbed and assaulted two security guards at the Methodist Church housing refugees in Johannesburg were arrested on Tuesday, police said.The Zimbabwean men allegedly robbed two gu (By Jan)... | Liberia: GYUPD On Global Witness' Back Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The world's most far-reaching watchdog on good business practices and germane use of natural resources recently warned that a predatory concessionaire of Malaysia's fame is bidding to do logging busin (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Teacher nabbed for stolen meat Monday 20-Jul-2009: A school teacher received a "nasty shock" when police "swooped" on his house, confiscated his freshly chopped lamb and arrested him, Free State police said on Monday.The 50-year-old man had allegedly (By Jan)... | Nigeria: FIRS Director, Wife Murdered in Enugu Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Emmanuel NzomiwuTwo charred bodies suspected to be those of South East Zonal Director of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Fred Ifeora, and his wife have been discovered at Onyeama Coal Mi (By Jan)... |
| World: Civil war fear for Honduras Monday 20-Jul-2009: Tegucigalpa - An international mediator warned of civil war in Honduras after the failure of talks between representatives of the country's rival governments.Talks broke down late on Sunday after repr (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Raise Awareness On Environmental Impact of Gold Panning - Zwizwai Monday 20-Jul-2009: Harare - DESPITE various economic benefits that come with utilising the country's gold, there is need to raise the level of awareness of various stakeholders on the environmental impact of gold pannin (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Health Workers At High Risk for Contract TB Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - Healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal are almost six times more likely to contract drug resistant tuberculosis than the general population in the province, a poster presentation (By Jan)... | South Africa: Manhunt for cash van robbery suspects Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Police were searching for seven armed men who blockaded an SBV van near Brits on Saturday morning and fired at its occupants, Johannesburg police said.Captain Matthews Nkoadi said the SBV cash vehicle (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Canal Walk robbery: suspect held Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Weekend Argus ReporterA man has been taken in for questioning after the robbery at a Canal Walk jewellery store this week - one of three mall heists in the city the same day. Milnerton police spoke (By Jan)... | South Africa: Patta stands firm on gruesome crime footage Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteThe news boss of e.tv, Deborah Patta, has again defended the free-to-air channel's decision to broadcast graphic crime scene footage and re-enactments of the brutal Sizzlers massacr (By Jan)... |
| Africa: 'Unfair' French attacks on peace slammed Friday 24-Jul-2009: United Nations - The Ivory Coast's UN ambassador on Thursday slammed "unfair and unjustified" remarks by French officials on his government and the election process in the west African country.Address (By Jan)... | Africa: Rwanda Hailed as Continent's Success Story Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Ignatius SsuunaKigali - The democratization process that started fifteen years ago by the current leadership in Rwanda has been largely achieved, Andrew Mitchell, the British Conservative Party and (By Jan)... |
| Somalia: Shellings Targeted to Parts of North Mogadishu, Death Toll Rises 25 Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Mogadishu - Heavy shellings were targeted to parts of the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday morning as death toll of overnight fighting has risen 25.Several shellings landed in the nei (By Jan)... | Kenya: Raila - Food And Water Crisis Severe Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Peter LeftieNairobi - Kenya is facing a severe shortage of food and water with more than 10 million people requiring urgent assistance.Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday told Parliame (By Jan)... |
| Tanzania: Team Sent to UK to Bring Back Fraud Suspect Vithlan Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Ramadhan SemtawaThe Government has sent a high-powered team to the United Kingdom to pursue the extradition of fugitive businessman Sailesh Vithlan to stand trial for serious fraud cases running in (By Jan)... | Kenya: Pirates Lose Application on Termination Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Nairobi - A magistrate's court dismissed an application to terminate proceedings against seven suspected Somalia pirates.Defence counsel Mr Francis Kadima had made the application citing lack of juris (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: New Lease for PMTCT Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomReturning the focus to an HIV prevention method that has been known to work for over a decade holds the key to not just eliminating paediatric AIDS, but putting South Africa on the road to (By Jan)... | Africa: AfDB Approves 15 Million Loan for Economic Governance Reform Program in Seychelles Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Tunis - The EGRP is the Bank Group's first budget support operation in the Seychelles. The Program will facilitate reform implementation with a view to promoting macroeconomic stability and sustainabl (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: ANC to audit councillors and municipalities Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The ANC's top decision making body has decided to audit elected local councillors and municipalities in the aftermath of a wave of service delivery protests that hit the country, ANC secretary general (By Jan)... | South Africa: Snatched boys' trauma Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Mpume MadlalaA child kidnapped from KwaZulu-Natal nine years ago with two other children, and used to beg on the streets of Johannesburg, may at last be reunited with his family.The three children, (By Jan)... |
| Zim: June inflation quickens to 0.6 pct mth/mth Monday 20-Jul-2009: Increase in inflation attributed to rising prices of alcoholic beverages, transport, health and education costs Harare - Zimbabwe's inflation quickened to 0.6 percent month-on-month in June fr (By Jan)... | South Africa: Zuma gets his way with JSC choices Monday 20-Jul-2009: President Jacob Zuma's four chosen nominees for the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) have been appointed, prompting the DA to warn that the appointment of Constitutional Court judges later in 2009 co (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Taxi boss, guards slain at his home Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Nondumiso MbuyaziA KwaZulu-Natal taxi boss and his two bodyguards were shot dead on Friday morning and a woman and a 10-year-old boy were seriously injured in the attackPolice spokesman Senior Supe (By Jan)... | Africa: Antiretroviral Microbicides Enter Clinical Trials Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Evelyn HarveyCape Town - 'Next generation' microbicides containing antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) are in early clinical testing and may hold out the best hope of protecting women from HIV/AIDS, a conf (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Boyloaf Accuses Ijaw Leaders of Inciting Militants Not to Accept Amnesty Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Emma AmaizeWarri - TOP Niger-Delta militant leader, "General" Boyloaf, yesterday, pointed accusing fingers at some Ijaw youth leaders, who he said were visiting militant camps in the creeks and ins (By Jan)... | South Africa: 752 nabbed in police operation Friday 24-Jul-2009: About 752 people operating in crime syndicates have been arrested since July 1, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Friday.Mthethwa said at a media briefing in Pretoria that operation Washa Tso (By Jan)... |
| Another Deputy Abandons Renamo Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has lost yet another parliamentary deputy.Artur Vilankulo told Radio Mozambique on Wednesday that he was no longer a memb (By Jan)... | Africa: U.S.$ 50 Million to Support Zenith Bank PLC of Nigeria Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Tunis - Over the past 18 months, the impact of the global financial crisis has resulted in commercial lenders retreating from transactions and funding lines being withdrawn or cut drastically, causing (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Pirate attacks to increase in Indian Ocean Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Nairobi - The head of the European Union's anti-piracy force says he will move some air assets south to help counter the spread of Somali pirates to the Indian Ocean.Rear Admiral Peter Hudson says sta (By Jan)... | World: Clinton outlines how US may deal with Iran Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Bangkok - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on Wednesday to sketch out how the United States might cope with a nuclear Iran - by arming its neighbours and extending a "defence umbrella" o (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Vengeful employee gets life in jail Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: A 22-year-old man who recruited and led an armed gang to attack his former employer, was on Wednesday jailed for life by Pietermaritzburg Judge Ron McLaren.Sibonelo Thandazonke Duma pleaded guilty to (By Jan)... | South Africa: 99 appear in dock after running battles Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Shaun SmillieNomvula Mhlongo is 89 and she was on the streets of Siyathemba township taunting the police from behind a barricade of burning tyres. She was there because she still lives in the same (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Ecumenical Team Visits Angola, Mozambique Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Geneva - A team of church representatives from Portugal, Switzerland and Brazil is paying a solidarity visit to churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society organizations in Angola and Mozambi (By Jan)... | Zim: Mugabe's endorsement as supreme leader closes succession debate Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Dashed hope of him retiring soon By Alice ChimoraZimbabwe's leader, Robert Mugabe has been endorsed by his party Zanu PF as the Supreme leader in a move that has dashed hope of him retiring so (By Jan)... |
| Africa: Taylore denies invading Sierra Leone Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The Hague Netherlands - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says he played no part in forming the guerrilla force that invaded Sierra Leone in the early 1990s.Taylor is testifying before a war cr (By Jan)... | Kenya: Nation Faces Crop Failure Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Dan ObieroThe erratic weather patterns in Kenya has pushed the country to the list of countries likely to face crop failure.In a report released last week, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) c (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Judicial catfight looms Sunday 26-Jul-2009: A judicial catfight is looming with Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke reportedly back in the running to take over the top job when Pius Langa retires in October, putting a spanner in the campaign (By Jan)... | Walter Cronkite's OMISSIONS Helped Sink Rhodesia & South Africa Sunday 26-Jul-2009: [Walter Cronkite’s legacy for Rhodesia and South Africa as observed by Joe Columbus Smith (the American journalist who fought in Vietnam and Rhodesia) and a Rhodesian Special Branch Officer. Gairk] (By Gairk)... |
| South Africa: 'Kids left alone to starve' Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Meghan McCartyThree children found living on their own in a Mitchell's Plain home by Metro Police last Friday have returned home to their mother after being taken into protective custody. Accounts (By Jan)... | South Africa: Crime intelligence head's case postponed Friday 24-Jul-2009: Acting police crime intelligence head Mulangi Mphego has renewed his bid to have charges against him withdrawn in the Randburg Magistrate's Court, SABC news reported on Friday.This, after the State r (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Karamoja Disarmament 'Needs Re-Think' Friday 24-Jul-2009: Kampala - Efforts to recover illegal arms in the northeast Uganda region of Karamoja may not succeed unless disarmed communities can protect themselves, say officials."Originally we supported the disa (By Jan)... | South Africa: Government focussed on 500 000 jobs goal Friday 24-Jul-2009: The government is still committed to creating 500 000 job opportunities by December through its public works programme, the Presidency said on Friday.President Jacob Zuma on Thursday said South Africa (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Rwanda Army General Gets Darful Top Job Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Kezio-Musoke DavidKigali - A top Rwandan army officer, Lt. Gen. Patrick Nyanvumba has beaten other candidates from Nigeria and Ethiopia to be selected the overall Force Commander of thee peace keep (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cops under microscope for corruption, assault Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Thandi SkadeThe trial of three award winning Orlando police station officers accused of corruption, kidnapping and assault has been postponed.Superintendent Obed Tsheounyani, Sergeant Vusi Shongwe and (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: PM Challenges Cabinet's Role Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Hebert ZharareHarare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has challenged the role of Cabinet and is seeking to strengthen the functions of the Council of Ministers, which he chairs, The Herald has le (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Mobitel - EFCC Vows to Prosecute Fraudsters Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Wale IgbintadeLagos - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has vowed that no amount of "sponsored attack" on it would stop it from ensuring that those found culpable in the case against (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: The Ombudsman Should Be Honorable And Resign Thursday 23-Jul-2009: The recent report of the Ombudsman is awful on so many levels.First of all the Ombudsman's office used no known scientific method of research or surveys of public opinion to arrive at conclusions of w (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cops probe Randburg shootings Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Poloko TauA blood-soaked white hat and used medical dressings lay among shattered glass on Tuesday at a shooting scene outside the Randburg taxi rank on Jan Smuts Avenue.A few metres from the polic (By Jan)... |
| Renamo Congress Begins in Nampula Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Monday began its long awaited Congress in a cinema in the northern city of Nampula.Media estimates of how many people (By Jan)... | Zim: Victoria Falls hopes for World Cup revival Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The helicopters might prove to be another attraction Godfrey MarawanyikaVictoria Falls - A decade after the bottom fell out of Zimbabwean tourism, Victoria Falls wants to re-establish itself a (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Two die in crashes, cops crack down Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaTwo people died and 20 were injured in separate accidents involving minibus taxis in the province on Monday. In the first accident a minibus taxi travelling on the N2 near Manden (By Jan)... | South Africa: Service delivery fury grows Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Poloko TauThe sporadic firing of rubber bullets, the stench of teargas and black smoke from burning tyres were all signs that service delivery protests had spiralled out of control in Balfour, Mpum (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Start HIV Treatment Without Delay - Madzorera Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Bertha ShokoHEALTH workers involved in HIV and Aids management must use the World Health Organisation (WHO) treatment guidelines to start patients on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in order to preven (By Jan)... | South Africa: Family escape as arson attack Monday 20-Jul-2009: Four children had to be lowered out of windows of a flat in Wentworth, Durban, after a petrol attack early on Saturday.The owner of the flat, who did not want to be named, said she was reading her Bib (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Three killed in separate incidents Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Three people were murdered in Libode on Sunday, Eastern Cape police said.Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said a body of a woman was found near a river in the area on Sunday morning.It appeared the 35-y (By Jan)... | South Africa: Taxi body knows nothing about illegal Quantum Sunday 26-Jul-2009: The National Taxi Alliance on Sunday distanced itself from reports that it knows about some 4 000 Toyota Quantum panel vans having been illegally converted to taxis.The alliance was only involved in t (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Before the New Inspector General Takes Office Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim AudusonAbuja - The tenure of Mr Michael Okiro as the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police official comes to an end today. In line with civil service procedure provisions of the Police Se (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Don't Ethnicise Mend's Struggle, Soyinka Tells Yoruba Leaders Friday 24-Jul-2009: By By Emeka UmejeiLagos - Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has described the attitude of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) to the attack on Atlas Cove as an unnecessary ethnicisation of a genuine cause. (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Suspects lose bid for bid for bail Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Jade WittenThe two Eerste River brothers accused of murdering media expert and psychologist Klaas Jonkheid have been denied bail by a Stellenbosch magistrate.During judgment in their bail applicati (By Jan)... | South Africa: Book shines light on Bethal trial Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Kanina FossGoing into the trial, they knew they might get the death penalty. The judge was a notorious racist and apartheid supporter who had sent many before them to the noose. It was not them but (By Jan)... |
| Zambia: Govt Issues Tenders for Oil Exploration Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Patson PhiriZambia has issued an international tender for oil companies to explore 23 blocks in its North-Western, Western and Eastern provinces after samples collected in 2007 confirmed traces of (By Jan)... | Rwanda: Another Attack on Gisozi Memorial Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Irene V. NambiKigali - Two people yesterday, survived with mild injuries in a grenade attack that was once again aimed at the Gisozi Genocide memorial centre in Kigali.According to the police spoke (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Cape nukes Koeberg plan Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Anel LewisThe City of Cape Town has refused to approve a revised study plan to build a new nuclear plant at Koeberg, saying "critical issues" about residents' safety in a nuclear emergency and the (By Jan)... | Africa: AfDB and Transparency International Host Workshop on Strengthening Transparency and Reducing Corruption in Defense Establishments Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: In collaboration with the African Union, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Transparency International (TI) are organizing a workshop on strengthening transparency and reducing corruption r (By Jan)... |
| World: Jordan girl killed over alleged affair Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Amman - A 32-year-old Jordanian man was charged with premeditated murder after his teenage sister was shot dead on Monday over an alleged love affair in the northern city of Irbid, police said."He sho (By Jan)... | Ghana: DCE Lauds Establishment of Customary Land Secretariats Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Baba Kofi YaroBongo - The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Bongo District in the Upper East Region, Mr. Clement Akugre has commended the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources for the establ (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Provinces are bulwark of democracy - Zille Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: South Africa's nine provinces are a bulwark of democracy and should not be scrapped, DA leader Helen Zille said on Monday.Zille, in a speech at the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Manag (By Jan)... | Nigeria: New Antics of Robbers Monday 20-Jul-2009: On Sunday, July 19, drama ensued between men who posed as learners whereas they were armed robbers and motorists at Sango Ota, Ogun State.Around 6pm, there was this traffic jam that made cars stand st (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Robben Island 'a national disgrace' Monday 20-Jul-2009: But the World Heritage Site has become a national disgrace. In recent years it has been plagued by allegations of gross financial mismanagement, leadership battles, corruption, theft and environmental (By Jan)... | South Africa: Police operation nets 56 in Katlehong Sunday 26-Jul-2009: Fifty-six people were arrested in Katlehong, south of Johannesburg, for various crimes over the weekend, Gauteng police said on Sunday.Two of them were arrested for a murder committed on July 18, Capt (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Citizen Shot in DRC Clash Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Hope MafarangaKampala - THREE women, one Ugandan and two Congolese, were shot in Buguma market in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about 15km from the Ugandan border. Joyce Bujune from Rwebi (By Jan)... | South Africa: DA wants answers over Scorpions cash Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's office has accused the DA of "playing cheap politics" by insisting that he provide proof for his statement that R100-million had gone missing from the Scorpions. It is (By Jan)... |
| World: Plane's fiery landing kills 16 Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Tehran - Sixteen people were killed and 29 injured when an Iranian plane caught fire while landing in the north-eastern city of Mashad, the spokesman of the country's civil aviation organisation said (By Jan)... | Science: Bush fires blaze around southern Europe Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Ajaccio - Bush fires raged across swathes of southern Europe on Friday, with a prolonged spell of hot weather turning woodland around the Mediterranean coastline tinder dry.Hundreds of fires in Spain, (By Jan)... |
| Liberia: Rev. Brown Urges Citizens Not To 'Rush' on TRC Final Report Friday 24-Jul-2009: Comments and positions on the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from stakeholders in Liberia's drive for peace and reconciliation might had been hesitant and slow in coming (By Jan)... | Shalli Probe 'a Witch-Hunt' Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE suspension of Defence Force Chief Martin Shalli has all the hallmarks of a political witch-hunt, the official opposition party Congress of Democrats (CoD) said yesterday."Namib (By Jan)... |
| Nigeria: Army Protests U.S. Statement on HIV/Aids Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Juliana TaiwoAbuja - Nigerian Army has officially protested to the Ministry of Defence to use diplomatic means to get the United State Government to retract the statement that Nigerian peacekeepers (By Jan)... | Tanzania: Country Moves to Curb Mobile Phone Crimes Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Okuttah MarkWant to carry your mobile phone on your next trip to Tanzania?You must register with service providers, for the country has made it mandatory for all SIM card owners to be enrolled in a (By Jan)... |
| Floods Hurt Food Production Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Ndapwa AlweendoFOOD insecurity in Namibia's flood-damaged northern and northeastern regions has reached alarming new heights, according to a report compiled by the World Food Programme (WFP) and th (By Jan)... | Cycling: Armstrong hopes legs will take him to 2010 Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Samuel PetrequinBourg-Saint-Maurice, France - Lance Armstrong has already won his hand at the Tour de France. Five days before the race ends on the Champs-Elysees, the Texan has proved he can still (By Jan)... |
| World: Mumbai gunman's trial to continue Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Mumbai - An Indian judge on Thursday ruled the trial of the sole surviving gunman of the Mumbai attacks would continue despite the accused's confession to his role in the carnage.Judge M.L. Tahaliyani (By Jan)... | Rehoboth Man Killed in Knife Attack Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Denver IsaacsTHE 29-year-old grandson of the late Rehoboth Baster Kaptein Hans Diergaardt, was killed in an apparent knife attack at the Hardap town over the weekend.The younger Hans Diergaardt, af (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: R600m potato battle set to start Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Where R600-million is at stake, it is only to be expected that there will be a huge paper trail to follow. This was the case this week in the Pretoria High Court as lawyers for the National Potato Co- (By Jan)... | World: Russia offers to work with NATO Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Brussels - Russia has offered to coordinate the movements of its vessels hunting Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden with NATO, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.The offer was made at a meeting of amba (By Jan)... |
| Africa: France could use force to free hostages Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Paris - France's foreign minister says the country doesn't rule out sending commandos to try to free two French security advisers held hostage in Somalia.Bernard Kouchner says the two men are being he (By Jan)... | Somalia: Growing Insecurity Hampering Aid Access - UN Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Aid workers are finding it increasingly difficult to gain access and provide assistance to residents of the Somali capital because of the worsening conflict there, the United Nations refugee agency re (By Jan)... |
| Rwanda: Ibuka Honours Genocide Saviours Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Irene V. NambiKicukiro - Ibuka, an umbrella association for survivors, yesterday awarded certificates of recognition to individuals who saved the Tutsi during the 1994 Genocide.Nine Rwandans and on (By Jan)... | Uganda: Salim Saleh Heads Electricity Scam Probe Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Mathias MugishaKampala - GEN. Caleb Akandwanaho, known as Salim Saleh, has been appointed chairman of a special committee to investigate the current power tariffs with a view to bringing them down. (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: ANC violence accused get bail Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Two men accused of disrupting an ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) meeting in Rustenburg were granted bail of R500 each at the local magistrate's court on Monday, North West police said.Captain (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Amaechi Orders Closure of NLNG Jetty Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - The Rivers State Government has ordered the closure of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas jetty on the Eastern bypass, Port Harcourt and in Bonny over the bungling of a (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Bennett stranded: Tomana won't release passport Monday 20-Jul-2009: "A good case but had chosen a wrong route" By Kholwani NyathiRoy Bennett the deputy agriculture minister designate cannot attend urgent meetings in South Africa because Attorney General Johann (By Jan)... | Somalia: Heavy Fighting And Shelling Wounds 13 People in Mogadishu Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Hasan Osman FantasticMogadishu - At least 13 have been injured after heavy fighting and shelling between the transitional government soldiers and Islamist forces started in parts Hodan district in (By Jan)... |
| World: Gang matriarch charged with notorious murder Monday 20-Jul-2009: Melbourne - The matriarch of Melbourne's most notorious gangster family has been charged with murder over a daylight hit on her brother-in-law last month, police said on Monday.Victoria state police c (By Jan)... | Science: Eclipse pits superstition against science Monday 20-Jul-2009: Mumbai - Indian astrologers are predicting violence and turmoil across the world as a result of this week's total solar eclipse, which the superstitious and religious view as a sign of potential doom. (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Massive Banking Crime - Expert: SMS fraud a 'world first' Monday 20-Jul-2009: [Before everyone panics over this, let's put it in perspective. Not just anyone can actually commit this type of crime. The crime was committed by a specialist working for a cell phone company. He use (By Jan)... | South Africa: Men held after bodies found in trolley Monday 20-Jul-2009: Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of two people whose bodies were found in a trolley in Durban, police said on Monday."The men aged 25, and two aged 27, have been arrested and (By Jan)... |
| Zim: Border security in sorry state: DA Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Large sections of the borderline fence have been stolen Two defence spokesmen for the Democratic Alliance, who have been visiting the borders between South Africa and both Zimbabwe and Lesotho (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cops killed in car accident Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Four off-duty police officers were killed in a car accident in the Eastern Free State, police said on Saturday.Police spokesperosn Sergeant Mmsko Mophiring said the three police constables and a polic (By Jan)... |
| Zambia: Bandits Slay Lusaka Businessman Friday 24-Jul-2009: A LUSAKA business executive has been shot dead after being held captive and tortured by unknown people who are on the run.Police spokesperson, Bonny Kapeso said in Lusaka that investigations had been (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Schools are a huge market for selling drugs' Friday 24-Jul-2009: Schools were a huge market for selling drugs which compromised the safety of pupils and teachers, KwaZulu-Natal safety MEC Bheki Cele said.Presenting his department's 2009/10 budget at the KwaZulu-Nat (By Jan)... |
| East Africa: Sea Cable Ushers in New Internet Era Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Lee MwitiNairobi - The first undersea fibre optic cable went live in five African countries simultaneously on Thursday, marking the beginning of an era of faster and cheaper internet connections.A (By Jan)... | South Africa: Men nabbed 'on their way to commit robbery' Friday 24-Jul-2009: Three men were arrested in Killarney for possession of unlicensed firearms on Thursday, Hillbrow police said.Captain Bhekizizwe Mavundla said the men, aged between 27 and 28, from Alexandra, were arre (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Blitz on illegal buses Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Dasen Thathiah and Rizwana Sheik UmarMetro Police clamped down on illegal bus operators on Wednesday night, but a similar blitz on taxis was suspended as a result of Durban's failed bus transport s (By Jan)... | South Africa: Cops foil alleged get-rich-quick scam Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Caryn DolleyA Delft woman has been arrested for allegedly demanding R500 000 from the parents of a girl missing for more than 12 years in exchange for information of her whereabouts.The woman, a fr (By Jan)... |
| Uganda: Seven Local Girls Sold Into Slavery Missing Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Andrew PacuthoKampala - Seven girls who were lured into a slave racket in Iraq are missing, officials from the National Organisations for Trade Unions (NOTU) have revealed.NOTU boss Mr Wilson Owere (By Jan)... | Africa: HIV Prevention Needs More Attention Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - Scientists have renewed the call for more immediate and urgent effort to be directed towards HIV prevention amid the dominance of treatment interventions and the world-wide sea (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: MECs to report back on gunfire Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Ilse FredericksThe provincial cabinet was expected to hear today how gunshots disrupted a meeting on safety, attended by three MECs, at a Bonteheuwel school. Education MEC Donald Grant, Community (By Jan)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Greedy Firms Fuel War Chasing Profits Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: The campaign group Global Witness released a report today detailing how European and Asian companies have been buying minerals from DR Congo that are funding armed groups and fuelling the deadly confl (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: I was never a racist - De Vos Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Emsie FerreiraA senior Pretoria advocate was asked to apologise for his stint in the Conservative Party and defence of apartheid-era perpetrators as the Judicial Service Commission interviewed nomi (By Jan)... | South Africa: Missing Leah 'presumed dead' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Deidre CrawfordPelican Park residents have alleged the sewerage manhole which toddler Leah Arends fell into on Friday had not been securely covered despite them having repeatedly asked the city to (By Jan)... |
| Kenya: Firm Raises Hopes for Malnourished Adults On Antiretroviral Therapy Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Clifford AkumuPeople living with HIV/Aids, especially severely malnourished adults on anti-retroviral therapy are set to benefit from a new nutrition product soon to hit the market.After it champio (By Jan)... | Africa: Aids Medication Can Go to All, Says UN Expert Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Anso ThomCape Town - AIDS needs to removed from isolation and become an entry point to transforming society, attaining the Millennium Development Goals, uplifting health systems and ultimately maki (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Police arrest 140 in Katlehong Monday 20-Jul-2009: More than 100 people were arrested in Katlehong at the weekend, Gauteng police said on Monday.Some 140 people were arrested for crimes ranging from robbery, rape, possession of drugs and unlicensed fi (By Jan)... | Science: Second man on moon crashes down to earth Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Sam LeithThe computer on which I'm writing this review has a 500GB hard disk and a 2.33GHz quad-core processor. The computers which, in 1969, sent three astronauts safely to the moon and back had 7 (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Mine deaths a national disgrace, says Vavi Friday 24-Jul-2009: The number of deaths in South African mines was a national disgrace, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday."Urgent action is needed to put an (By Jan)... | South Africa: Pikoli moves to stop Zuma Friday 24-Jul-2009: Axed prosecuting head Vusi Pikoli has launched an urgent court attempt to stop President Jacob Zuma from appointing his permanent replacement.And Pikoli has warned that, should Zuma go ahead with appo (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: More Workers to Join Thousands On Strike Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Amy MusgraveJohannesburg - SA IS set to experience more strikes with workers protesting at Massmart Holding's retail stores tomorrow and Telkom employees threatening similar action next week.Alread (By Jan)... | World: 'Fascist' Lieberman slammed in Brazil Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Stan LehmanSao Paulo - Israel's foreign minister ran into controversy on the first day of a Latin American trip when an official of Brazil's ruling party reportedly called him a "fascist".Israel's (By Jan)... |
| Block 1711 Now Has Oil and Gas Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE treasure hunt for oil and gas along the Namibian coast appears to be heating up as Mines and Energy Minister Erkki Nghimtina found it opportune to announce in Parliament yester (By Jan)... | South Africa: Zuma presses on with successor to Pikoli Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: The Presidency has informed axed National Prosecuting Authority boss Vusi Pikoli that his permanent successor will be appointed despite Pikoli challenging his dismissal in court, the Business Day repo (By Jan)... |
| Sudan: Rwanda Army General to Head Darfur Mission Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Kezio-Musoke DavidNairobi - A top Rwandan army officer, Lt. Gen Patrick Nyanvumba has beaten other candidates from Nigeria and Ethiopia to be selected the overall Force Commander of thee peacekeepi (By Jan)... | South Africa: Deadlock in talks sparks workers' fury Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By AZIZ HARTLEYMunicipalities across the Western Cape province are to grind to a halt next week as 20 000 workers strike for better wages and working conditions.Negotiations with the SA Local Governme (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: 'How much longer must we live like this?' Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: By Alex Eliseev"This is the beginning," were the words of Johannes Lekhotla after a morning of mayhem around the dilapidated hostels in Thokoza, east of Joburg. They resonate with many others who took (By Jan)... | Science: Rwandan park of mountain gorillas on fire Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Kigali - A fire raging in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park since the weekend does not currently pose a threat to the world's last surviving mountain gorillas, officials told Radio Rwanda on Tuesday."T (By Jan)... |
| Sudan: Ruling On Oil-Rich Border Area Fraught With Tension Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Marina LitvinskyWashington - The international community, in particular the U.S., has a responsibility to ensure that this week's upcoming legal decision on the boundary of Abyei, an oil-rich and c (By Jan)... | Nigeria: 'Westaf, Greataf Offshore Vessels Belong to MRS Group' Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Abuja - The Westaf and Greataf offshore floating storage vessels are fully owned and operated by the MRS Group. They are safe and were not attacked by the militants, the company's Director in charge o (By Jan)... |
| Zimbabwe: Activists Bemoan Lack of CD4 Machines Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Moses ChibayaAIDS activists have warned that thousands of people suffering from the disease are dying prematurely because they cannot access CD4 count machines to determine their requirements for a (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Pretoria motorists beware' Monday 20-Jul-2009: Pretoria motorists beware. Your cards are marked. This is the message from the Gauteng Community Safety Department which at the weekend swarmed through the city in a crackdown on errant motorists.The (By Jan)... |
| Science: Stigma driving Aids crisis, say researchers Monday 20-Jul-2009: Paris - Rates of HIV infection among gays in some African countries are 10 times that of the general male population, and stigma, poor access to treatment or testing are to blame, doctors said in The (By Jan)... | Cycling: Armstrong to fight for 3rd place Sunday 26-Jul-2009: BY Samuel PetrequinAubenas, France - Lance Armstrong won't win the Tour de France in 2009 but has a last chance in Saturday's penultimate stage to dominate a mountain where he never triumphed in his e (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Truck hijackings on the increase Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Insurance investigators are investigating up to 40 truck hijackings a month - nearly double the case load they had last year. Insurers meanwhile are counting the cost in millions after the countrywide (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Rivalry and negligence' to blame Saturday 25-Jul-2009: By Vuyo MabandlaResidents in Cape Town's informal settlements say political rivalry and negligence by leaders over a number of years, - and not direct political influence - are behind the spate of vio (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Two die in dead-on collision Saturday 25-Jul-2009: Two people died and one was critically injured during a head-on collision on the N1 road outside Polokwane, Limpopo police said on Saturday."The driver of a Fiat Uno, travelling on the N1 North-bound (By Jan)... | Sierra Leone: Special Court Inspects Rwanda Prisons Friday 24-Jul-2009: By Edwin MusoniFreetown - A team from the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone is currently on a tour in Rwanda to assess the state of that country's prisons in anticipation of hosting the court's convic (By Jan)... |
| Zim PM, Zuma to meet over violations Friday 24-Jul-2009: Hundreds of Zanu PF breaches of the global political agreement Peta ThornycroftZimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office says he will meet President Jacob Zuma on Saturday about hun (By Jan)... | BPP Leader Cautions Against Tyrants Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Oarabile MosikareFrancistown - The Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) president, Bernard Balikani has said the country's political leadership has degenerated to the level of a typical African dictatorshi (By Jan)... |
| World: Cause of French fore dubbed 'imbecilic' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Marseille, France - A Foreign Legion drill instructor was suspended on Thursday after what was branded an "imbecilic" shooting exercise triggered a huge wildfire that threatened the outskirts of Marse (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'ANC strongly condemns all criminal acts' Thursday 23-Jul-2009: The ruling party has a "deep understanding" of the impact poor service delivery has on South Africans, spokeswoman Jessie Duarte said on Thursday."The African National Congress (ANC) has a deep unders (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Bank to review lending rule Thursday 23-Jul-2009: By Bheki MbanjwaThe KwaZulu-Natal government will review Ithala Development Bank's lending policy, particularly in terms of related parties. The bank has come under severe criticism especially from op (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Niger Delta and Crime Barons Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Lagos - Given the imperatives of peace in the Niger Delta, for which the Federal Government has granted amnesty to the militants, it would be expected that the same government would go all the way, sp (By Jan)... |
| World: Killer flu: Mexico City shuts down Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: By Sophie NicholsonMexico City - Concern was on the rise in Mexico and the United States Saturday after officials in both countries took emergency steps to contain a new multi-strain swine flu that (By Jan)... | South Africa: Shabangu shocked by deaths at Impala Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: The Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu expressed shock and deep regret at the loss of nine lives at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations.In a statement on Tuesday, Shabangu conveyed condo (By Jan)... |
| Ethiopia: Humanitarian Bulletin - 20 July 2009 Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: More Food Aid RequiredGiven the seriousness of the food security situation and significant resource shortfalls, the Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) on 13 July provided a bri (By Jan)... | Tanzania: Rural Technology Connection Monday 20-Jul-2009: By Ramadhani KupazaArusha - The Tanzania Development Vision indicates that "by 2025 the economy of the country will have been transformed from a low productivity economy to a semi-industrialized one." (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: DA lauds ANC leadership removal in North West Monday 20-Jul-2009: The Democratic Alliance welcomed the disbanding of the ANC's leadership structure in the North West, Chris Hattingh, DA provincial leader said on Monday.Hattingh said the step was long overdue."This l (By Jan)... | South Africa: R107m drugs found at airport Monday 20-Jul-2009: South Africa's underground drug world has been dealt another blow after the seizure of R50-million worth of narcotics at OR Tambo International Airport.Saturday's seizure of cocaine and ephedrine by S (By Jan)... |
| South Africa: Paralysed woman's dog poisoned Monday 20-Jul-2009: Days after Pat Beckmann was paralysed by a robber's bullet, her family dog has been poisoned.The family woke up on Sunday to find their dog, Jacey, battling to breathe in the lounge of their Constanti (By Jan)... | "Tshwane Beeld", or Pretoria Beeld...that is the question... Monday 20-Jul-2009: Waarde Heer Tog ironies dat “Tshwane” Beeld in sy voorbladberig (Woensdag 5 Julie 2009) ‘n hele verduideliking het waaruit dit baie duidelik blyk dat die hoofstad van die land se naam Pretoria is. (By JanOlifant)... |
| [Doc] FREE BOOK: A Black Man's Racial Theory: The Superior Race... Monday 20-Jul-2009: [I have mentioned this book several times over the years and eventually with the help of one of our volunteers we found a PDF version of it. I have discussed before the origins of this book and how I (By Jan)... | Osama's Son Saad Bin Laden Killed In Pakistan Thursday 23-Jul-2009: [Didn't Iran held Saad bin Laden a few years ago? Wonder if this brings into question of the Iranian-link with the Pakistani-based Taliban/al-Qaeda network. Lone Wolf.] Bin Laden Son Reported Kil (By Lone Wolf)... |
| YouTube Video: Chinese Muslims Protest Chinese Embassy In Turkey Sunday 26-Jul-2009: [Even though Turkey is an ally of Communist China it seems quite on the lines of the Non-Aggression Pact signed by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, that Communist China would eventually betray their tr (By Lone Wolf)... | Video: Its South Africa...its a Warzone! Sunday 26-Jul-2009: One would think this is some brilliant war movie, but unfortunately this is what South Africans in the 'new' South Africa have to put up with every day! Hats off to the brilliant men of the Special Ta (By JanOlifant)... |
| USA: The horrible move to Windows 7 – Is it time to abandon Windows? Friday 24-Jul-2009: [I have been getting ever more cold feet over windows ever since XP. What I DO NOT LIKE is the way Microsoft wants to invade our PCs, monitor us like criminals and start locking us down with their sof (By Gairk)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-07-2009) Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Please note that there will be no posting on Saturday this week as we are spending the day a few miles away at a Zimbabwean get-together. (By The BeardedMan)... |
| "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-07-2009) Friday 24-Jul-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. And a reminder that there will be no posting tomorrow as I am off galavanting...(!) -o00o- Police officers in Zimbabwe, under the Police Act, are (By The BeardedMan)... | YouTube Video: Racial Hiring Quotas To Be Promoted In Britain? Wednesday 22-Jul-2009: [I have heard about this in the USA with "Affirmative Action". Now it seems Britain may well be on its way of copying it. Lone Wolf.] (By Lone Wolf)... |
| End of a nation - "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom"... Thursday 23-Jul-2009: "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cann (By Gairk)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-07-2009) Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Howzit I was drinking my first coffee of the day when I read this - and very nearly choked! Mugabe really thinks that because of the situation within the country that some international protoc (By The BeardedMan)... |
| "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-07-2009) Monday 20-Jul-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rate updated... -o00o- It is not very often that any of Mugabe's colleagues, former or present, come out with anything worth listening to, but Enos Nkala has added (By The BeardedMan)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (21-07-2009) Tuesday 21-Jul-2009: Howzit Once again, a relatively short posting today - this time because I have a doctor's appointment later this morning. Thanks for understanding. -o00o- Robert Mugabe insists that the sa (By The BeardedMan)... |
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