Southern Africa in Crisis
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Sunday, 30th August 2009From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & GruesomeZim: Jacob Zuma tells Robert Mugabe: Curb your deviant behaviour
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: No longer have the "luxury of adolescent behaviour" Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg and Jan Raath in HararePresident Zuma of South Africa begins his first state visit to Zimbabwe today with a (By Jan)...Video: Commemorating the South African Heroes who fought on the Border
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Many of our men, the brave heroes they were and still are, today believe that all their pain, suffering and hard work on the borders of Angola, were all just a waste, as the communists still ended up (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Teenager held after killing of policeman
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Staff ReporterAn 18-year-old is among three suspected police killers under arrest within days of the slaying of veteran police sergeant Charles Komba, but not before they shot at police and initial (By Jan)...Namibia: Land Reform Reaping Fruits Despite Problems
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichWindhoek - Almost two decades after independence Namibia's land reform shows positive results and is guided by fair laws, but bureaucracy, slow progress in transformation of land o (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Obstacles 'Can be Overcome' - Zuma
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Harare - The inclusive Government has made great strides in addressing the challenges in Zimbabwe and the remaining issues in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement can be overcome, Sout (By Jan)...South Africa: Teens arrested for gang rape
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Seven boys, aged 14 to 18, were expected to appear in the Evander Magistrate's Court to face charges of raping a 15-year-old girl in Kinross, Mpumalanga police said on Monday."The incident took place (By Jan)...South Africa: War between SAPS and SANDF
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Graeme Hosken Gallery: SANDF members protest at the Union Buildings Bloodshed erupted on Pretoria's streets outside the Union Buildings as police and protesting army soldiers openly clashed in run (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Country Being Forced to Cede Diamonds to the West
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Olley MarumaHarare - For as long diamonds have existed, wherever they are discovered there is an influx of illicit miners, buyers and smugglers of the precious gems. So when diamonds were discovere (By Jan)...South Africa: TAU Media Release: SA look to all aspects of agriculture
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Submitted by Kobie Nel: Friday August 28, 2009 English translation below TLU SA ontleed alle aspekte van landbou TLU SA berei hom voor vir ’n besondere algemene jaarkongres met besprekings en (By JoAn)...Nigeria: Only Military, Not Amnesty Can End Militancy - Sagir Mohammed
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Tina Akannam, DutseALHAJI Sagir Mohammed, a Jigawa born former military intelligent officer, leader of defunct Arewa People congress (APC) and a stalwart of PDP, spoke with Vanguard over the linger (By Jan)...Nigeria: Our Problem With Herbalists On HIV/Aids -Naca D-G
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Kemi YesufuLagos - Professor John Idoko is the newly appointed Director-General of the National Agency For the Control of AIDS (NACA). Idoko is recognised as one of the leading experts in the resea (By Jan)...South Africa: Death in the suburbs: crime grips the wealthy
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Bianca Capazorio and Vuyo MabandlaA police officer was gunned down and a man seriously injured on Saturday morning in a dramatic and bizarre shootout in upmarket Constantia, an area that has seen a (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Writing Its Own Obituary?
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Ayenew HaileselassieAddis Ababa - Into a dreary and cold small Southern village in Kembata a young man was posted as a teacher in a local government school. Those were the dark days of fear under a (By Jan)...South Africa: Black Economic Empowerment Has Failed, Says Author Mbeki
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Stephanie NieuwoudtCape Town - Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, believes that the government's centrepiece policy of black economic empowerment was in fact the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s health woes yet to be confirmed
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change are yet to comment about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s health after media reports claimed that he has been admitted to a Dubai hospital because he (By Gairk)...Zuma came, saw, showed Zim he cares
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Zuma, a regular visitor to Zimbabwe when he was in exile in Lusaka, could not have avoided seeing evidence of the collapse of agriculture Peta ThornycroftChoosing his words carefully, and smil (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Trigger-happy bastards' warned
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Karyn Maughan, Louise Flanagan and Shaun SmiliePolice chiefs are pushing for urgent changes in the law that will make it easier for officers to shoot suspects - and more difficult for them to be su (By Jan)...Nigeria: Arisekola, Otedola, Alex Ibru Visit EFCC
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Babajide KomolafeThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday recovered N19 billion from bank debtors, while Ibadan-based businessman, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola, Chairman of Zenon Oi (By Jan)...USA: Air Force prepares drones to end era o fighter pilots
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Submitted by Kobie N. Picked up from Jeff Rense US Air Force prepares drones to end era of fighter pilotsThe Pentagon aims to robotise 15% of US armed forces by 2015 Buzz up! Digg it Edward H (By JoAn)...The Khama Logic And the Fight for the Soul of the Bdp
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Until Barata-Phathi realise that they are dealing with a soldier they will not win, writes Tshireletso Motlogelwa."Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two va (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Taylor Claims Approval for Giving Asylum to Rebel Chief
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor last week told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges that he had the approval of the international community to grant political asylum to Sam Bockarie after the rebel comm (By Jan)...USA: 1,000 Banks to fail in the next two years
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May. “We’ve already lost 81 this year,” K (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Officials to Arrest Bank Debtors
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Innocent Anaba and Abdulwahab AbdulahLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, led by Farida Waziri, will today storm Lagos with 100 operatives and two Mobile Police units to arre (By Jan)...Uganda: Separated at Birth - Mothers Cry Foul Over Baby Theft
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Eunice RukundoMany mothers labour a whole nine months hoping to give birth to their own babies. However, some never really share that experience. Eunice Rukundo writes about the vice of baby theft (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Commiserating With Bereaved - Lessons From President Mugabe
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Tendai Hildegarde ManzvanzvikeHarare - IT IS one of his most noble and enviable characteristics which do not seem to be appreciated. Maybe members of the public do not understand why he does it tim (By Jan)...Zim: Mangwana says land reform backfired on Mugabe regime
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: "We don't want to walk that road again†By Alex BellA key architect of Zimbabwe's indigenisation laws, which paved the way for violent land invasions in the name of ‘reform', said on Monda (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops should shoot to kill - readers
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Ainsley DanielsSouth Africans are under seige from violent criminals who show scant respect for human lives, including those men and women who serve in the South African Police Service. Police chi (By Jan)...South Africa: A Nation Killing Itself
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Kerry CullinanA Cuban doctor once told me that South Africa's national sport was hurting one another. The chapter on violence and injuries, South Africa's second biggest killer after HIV/AIDS, is a (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Militia Leader Held Without Trial
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Héritier MailaLubumbashi - A lack of political will, combined with a financially-crippled judicial system, has meant that a militia leader from the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Co (By Jan)...Baathist Syria Behind The Recent Baghdad Attacks?
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: [Sounds like there is an obvious suggestion that Baathist Syria might be behind the recent deadly wave of bombings that happened in Baghdad. More importantly, Syria was the base of operations which a (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Central Banker Promises Double Digit Growth
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLondon - The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yesterday in London expressed optimism about the country's macroeconomic prospects, saying that Nigeria is (By Jan)...South Africa: 'SA is a health hazard'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: South Africa has the dubious distinction of having some of the worst health indicators in the world - a massive tuberculosis epidemic, the biggest HIV-positive population in the world, one of the wors (By Jan)...WWIII: Did Mossad hijack Russian ship to stop Iran arms shipment?
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Was Israel's secret service behind the unexplained hijacking of a Russian freighter, to foil a secret attempt to ship cruise missiles to Iran? The mystery surrounding the hijacking of a Russian fre (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: Government Denies Mugabe is in Poor Health
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Lance GumaUn-named government officials have rubbished reports that Robert Mugabe missed the burial of the late nationalist Richard Hove because he was unwell and had flown to Dubai for treatment." (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Impatient With Mugabe Deadlock
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma told President Robert Mugabe to show more flexibility in resolving outstanding issues in the inclusive government during private meetings (By Jan)...Workers' World Party Shills For Libya After Terrorist Is Flown Back Home
Friday 28-Aug-2009: [Disgusting. The Workers' World Party still refers the USA and the West to be "imperialists". Even when the suspect behind the bombing of Pam Flight 103 is sent home and the dictator of Libya still (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: Land Reform Architect Says It Backfired
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Alex BellA key architect of Zimbabwe's indigenisation laws, which paved the way for violent land invasions in the name of 'reform', said on Monday that the land redistribution system was 'erroneous (By Jan)...World: Suicide bombing leaves 21 dead
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed at least 21 police officers in Pakistan's north-western tribal region on Thursday, after a US strike from a drone aircraft killed eight Taliban militants, (By Jan)...South Africa: The Bottom Line - Gold And Oil Draw Strength From Weak Dollar
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Johannesburg - IF THE bad times saw a retreat into the comparatively safer embrace of bonds, oil and gold, then surely, now that the good times appear to be somewhere around the corner, the gold price (By Jan)...South Africa: '40% of SA men violent'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Deaths from violence and injuries in South Africa are almost double the global average, while the death rate of South African women killed by their intimate partners is six times the world norm.Some 3 (By Jan)...World: Bodies found in Swat revenge attacks
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - The bullet-riddled bodies of 11 more suspected Taliban rebels believed killed by avenging residents have been found in Pakistan's north-west Swat valley, officials said on Tuesday (By Jan)...Desmond Tutu Endorses Hamas Terrorists
Friday 28-Aug-2009: [No surprise here that a "former" terrorist Desmond Tutu would want to embrace Hamas. Lone Wolf.] Archbishop Tutu tells Ma'an: World must engage Hamas Ramallah - Ma'an - Israel and other partie (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Is It a Crime to Owe? (i)
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Lagos - Last week has been one of the most tumultuous in the history of banking in Nigeria. The scale of uncertainty, panic and losses in the financial system has surpassed the period between 1994 and (By Jan)...Ghana: Women Score Victory against Gender-Based Violence
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiAccra - Women are celebrating a hard-won victory for gender rights after intense public protests led to the re-arrest of the country's police boss - a self-confessed wife-kill (By Jan)...Zim: Military ignores threat of diamond trade suspension
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Access to the Chiadzwa diamond fields was blocked by armed soldiers and police Chiadzwa - The militarization of Zimbabwe's diamond fields is still a fact of life, despite a report by the Kimbe (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers more brazen in face of tight security
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Lavern de VriesInstalling burglar bars and hi-tech alarm systems in your home could make you more vulnerable to armed robbers, provincial police have cautioned.Although police would not say whether (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Rights Groups Call for Trials for Top Officers
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Taylor Toeka Kakala and Blake Evans-PritchardGoma - Human rights groups say more should be done to prosecute crimes committed by the upper echelons of the military, despite the recent conviction of (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Unit Enters Into Repayment Schedules With Debtors
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Innocent Anaba, Babajide Komolafe and Albert AkporLagos - It was an anti-climax yesterday, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which had promised bank debtors and former bosses h (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Military Ignores Threat of Diamond Trade Suspension
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Chiadzwa - The militarization of Zimbabwe's diamond fields is still a fact of life, despite a report by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow (By Jan)...Liberia: TRC Advisor Grills Report, Points to "Irregularities" and "Anomalies"
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Where's The Reconciliatory Process Headed? When the Final (Unedited) Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia was released in early July this year, Commissioners Sheikh Kafum (By Jan)...South Africa: TAU Media Release: Return of old political ideologies?
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Submitted by Kobie N.: Tuesday August 18, 2009 English translation below Die terugkeer van ou politieke ideologieë? TLU SA is teleurgesteld in pres. Jacob Zuma se verklaring dat die gewillig (By JoAn)...Nigeria: Court Orders Release of Two Bank Chiefs
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Innocent Anaba, Henry Umoru and Ifeanyi OkolieLagos - For two weeks running, the dust raised in the nation's banking sector refused to settle with events happening in quick succession.Only yesterda (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Hillary Clinton Works Toward Banishing Sexual Violence
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Hillary Rodham ClintonSecretary of State Hillary Clinton may be taking some well-earned R&R in Bermuda this week, but last week, the former First Lady and U.S. Senator wrapped up a grueling seven-n (By Jan)...Uganda: Why Are Tenants Turning Their Guns On Landlords?
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Joshua KatoKampala - Makukulu village in Kayonza sub-county, Kayunga district, has always been peaceful, with residents going about their chores without any problem. But today, many of them are on (By Jan)...Nigeria: Oil Militants Surrender Rockets, Guns
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Yenagoa - A top militant leader and 1,000 fighters surrendered to the Nigerian government Saturday, turning in their weapons in the biggest hand_over since an amnesty began two weeks ago, but other fi (By Jan)...Kenya: Continent's Big Men Mess Up and Pay Image Cleaners in Washington
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Nairobi - The Kenyan government has reportedly retained a top Washington public relations firm to improve its image in the United States at a reported cost of Sh129 million ($1.7 million) over the nex (By Jan)...Guinea: The People And Their Military Leaders
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Dakar - Recently a commercial billboard near Guinea's presidential palace featured three towering question marks on a white background. That image matches the way many Guineans describe their country' (By Jan)...South Africa: Abalone poachers, cops in shootout
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Violence erupted in Hawston on Tuesday night when a handful of police and conservation officials were ambushed in the house of suspected abalone poachers, who hurled rocks through the windows, slashed (By Jan)...Nigeria: Living Large On Depositors' Funds
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Mojeed JamiuLagos - For the sacked managing directors of the five banks, life can never be the same again, not even if by any chance or luck, they find their ways back into the cozy ambiance of the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Ally Accused of Sodomy
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiNairobi - A Zimbabwean man has been arrested after making a police complaint that he was sodomised by a top ally of President Robert Mugabe in what is as seen an attempt to eliminat (By Jan)...Zim: Nkomo's sodomy accuser fears for his life
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Asked whether his claims are not politically motivated, Twala laughed Nqobile BhebheThe man at the centre of sensational sodomy allegations against National Healing minister and Zanu PF chairm (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bad Loans and CEOs Arrests May Lead to Central Bank Takeover
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Omoh Gabriel and Emma OvuakporieLagos - More facts emerged yesterday from bankers on the likelihood of eventual takeover of the five banks whose Managing Directors and executive directors were sack (By Jan)...South Africa: Crooked cops still at work
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Caryn Dolley and Lyndon KhanPolice officers charged with or even convicted of crimes in the Western Cape are being allowed to stay in their jobs, in contravention of national police policy.At least (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Mutinous Soldiers Add to Civilian Fear in East
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Kinshasa - A mutiny over pay, by a section of the army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Uvira territory, is restricting population movement and heightening fear, say officials.Meanwhi (By Jan)...Iranian Intelligence Behind Al-Qaeda In Iraq?
Friday 28-Aug-2009: [It seems the Iraqi leadership is rather a bit defensive of this report of any hint of Iranian involvement in the insurgency. Lone Wolf.] Intelligence Report: Iran Financing Al-Qaeda in Iraq A (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: More Bank Debtors Arrested
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Ayodele AminuLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the six non-executive directors of Intercontinental Bank Plc including its chairman, Mr. Raymond Obieri.They we (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma will raise 'deviant behaviour' in Harare
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Johannesburg - South African President Jacob Zuma will discuss what he sees as "deviant behaviour" in Zimbabwe when he visits Harare this week for talks on the power-sharing government, his party said (By Jan)...Zim: Zuma the Peacemaker?
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: "President Zuma is coming tp open the agricultural show, not to resolve the MDC's issues" Harare - South Africa's president Jacob Zuma, current chairman of the Southern African Development Com (By Jan)...Uganda: Thousands Flee Renewed LRA Rebel Raids
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Juba - Fresh attacks by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Southern Sudan have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and created a worrying spike in humanitarian needs, UN officials and a (By Jan)...World: Iraq ministry bombers 'recently freed by US'
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: The suicide bombers who killed 95 people in devastating attacks at Iraqi government ministries on August 19 were recently released from US custody, a senior interior ministry official said on Sunday.T (By Jan)...Nigeria: 60 Debtors, 16 Bank Chiefs Now in EFCC Custody
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Innocent Anaba, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Albert Akpor, Ifunanya Okafor & Ifeanyi OkolieLagos - The Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was a beehive, yesterday, with the (By Jan)...World: Powerful shi'a leader dies
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Baghdad - Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channelled rising Shi'a Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most powerful politicians, died (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma the Peacemaker?
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Harare - South Africa's president Jacob Zuma, current chairman of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), is scheduled to make his first state visit to Zimbabwe on 27 August 2009.Zuma has m (By Jan)...Zim: MDC asks for probe into political murders
Monday 24-Aug-2009: There was no immediate response from the AG's office By Simplicious ChirindaHarare - Zimbabwean Premier Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party has written to the country's Attorney General to investiga (By Jan)...South Africa: The Recession Bites - Some Recession Indicators - Property Sales, Motor Cars and Strikes
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: PROPERTY SALES WAY DOWN I was reading my weekly Saturday morning newspaper, Johannesburg's "Saturday Star" yesterday. It has a weekly property supplement with the properties for sale and rental in (By A Different Perspective)...Zim: Super-Liars: Will Zuma get tough with Mugabe? - Blacks die & flee from Zim- Zuma lies as much as Mbeki did...
Friday 28-Aug-2009: [Its too bad President Jacob Zuma isn't in Hollywood where they could pay him tens of millions for all these lies he is telling. Yawn! I am quite bored at the moment watching Zimbabwe. Ever since Zuma (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Rooting out crime begins within police force
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: South Africa is reaching a dangerous state where murders and rapes are almost part of normality, says the national Commissioner of Police, Bheki Cele.But he has pledged to change that apparent norm an (By Jan)...Africa: Habyarimana: Witness changes story
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Paris - A key witness whose testimony backs up French charges that Tutsi guerrillas killed Rwanda's ex-president Juvenal Habyarimana, triggering the 1994 genocide, has retracted his claims in an inter (By Jan)...Nigeria: EFCC Declares Ibru, Akingbola Wanted
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Alexandra Mede, Emmanuel Zomiwu and Emeka UmejeiAbuja/Lagos/Lagos - Former Oceanic Bank Managing Director (MD), Cecilia Ibru, and former Intercontinental Bank (MD), Erastus Akingbola, have been dec (By Jan)...South Africa: Massive Twin Burden of HIV And TB
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Kerry CullinanAlthough South Africa has just a 0.7% of the world's population, it has 17% of the global HIV burden. In addition, our tuberculosis epidemic is one of the worst in the world, and is f (By Jan)...Nigeria: Officials Dismiss Militants' Threat
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By George Oji and Idowu SowumiDefence Minister, Major General Godwin Abbe (rtd), and Governor Timi-pre Sylva of Bayelsa State have spoken out forcefully against threat of renewed attacks by the Moveme (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe support plunges
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: "Even if all 'don't knows' voted for Mugabe, the MDC would easily win" By Peta ThornycroftSupport for President Robert Mugabe has plunged since the formation of a unity government six months a (By Jan)...Zimbabwe/Namibia: Only Reform Will Bring Investment
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: PRESIDENT Mugabe this week took ministers and senior government officials to Namibia to attend the launch of the Boundless Southern Africa expedition, a regional initiative to promote tourism in trans (By Jan)...Africa: Steamrolling the WTO Doha Negotiations
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Michelle PressendSince the last World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting took place in Hong Kong in 2005, the WTO Doha negotiations have remained at an impasse. Attempts to revive negotia (By Jan)...South Africa: 'He put up a hell of a fight'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: A Pretoria pensioner was found butchered in his ransacked and bloodstained city home by his daughter and police days after he was hacked and beaten to death with kitchen and okapi knives and a hunting (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Trapped By the Events of 6 June
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Birao - As head of the village, Omar Fotor feels responsible for more than 40 families now sheltering in an improvised camp inside Birao, in the far north. "We are blocked in here," Fotor told IRIN. " (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Loses U.S. $1.2 Billion Over Closure of Soku Gas Plant
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku, Ejiofor Alike and Onyebuchi EzigboLagos/Abuja/ - A total of 80 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargoes, each worth about $15 million ($1.2 billion) has reportedly gone down the d (By Jan)...CIC Energy to Shed Equity in MEP
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Thato MosekiCIC Energy, the principal equity holder in the multi-billion pula Mmamabula Energy Project (MEP), plans to shed its shareholding in the project to allow investors to pump in funds neede (By Jan)...USA: Economy worse than thought
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's e (By Gairk)...South Africa: Sisulu criticises 'disgraceful' soldiers
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Soldiers who protested at the Union Buildings on Wednesday were "disgraceful" and "unbecoming" and had placed the nation in danger, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu said in Cap (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe support plunges
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Peta ThornycroftSupport for President Robert Mugabe has plunged since the formation of a unity government six months ago, according to two polls, the results of which have only now been leaked.Les (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farming Inputs Dilemma
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Elita ChikwatiHarare - IN the aftermath of the land reform programme, Zimbabwe should take farming as a serious business.Business by its nature involves inputs, output and profit. A successful busi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Demystifying Mutambara
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Prof Jonathan Moyo, MPHarare - ONE of the most unfortunate consequences of the inconclusive outcome of the March 29, 2008 general election and the subsequent inter-party dialogue which led to the s (By Jan)...Africa: Militants use many tactics to woo Americans
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Minneapolis - One young man attended secret meetings in Minneapolis. Another got a phone call, urging him to leave Minnesota and go to Somalia to fight. Terrorist training videos featuring English spe (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Body Declares Two Former Bank Chiefs Wanted
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - In a bid to get all the sacked chief executives of the five troubled banks to account for their roles in the huge debt profile of the banks, the Economic and Financial Crimes C (By Jan)...South Africa: Vigilantes Battle Police Over Anti-Drug War
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Sandiso Phaliso And Yugendree NaidooAlmost a score of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) members have been imprisoned, some of them for murder, yet the organisation has experienced growin (By Jan)...Disharmony in the Dock in Taxi Driver Murder Trial
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Werner MengesTHREE murder and armed robbery suspects who are charged with killing and robbing a Windhoek taxi driver near the end of 2004 traded accusations with each other when they got their turn (By Jan)...Israel: Brainwashing: Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu & the Elders meet Israeli Youth
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: [This is just a load of nonsense. The Youth, normally, are optimistic and because of their lack of experience they are targeted by these cunning old liars who try to fool them with sweet talk. Jimmy C (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe support plunges
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Support for President Robert Mugabe has plunged since the formation of a unity government six months ago, according to two polls, the results of which have only now been leaked. Less than 10 percent o (By Gairk)...Nigeria: How Man Fleeced 86 Year Old Grandma of N200 Million
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Emma NnadozieThese are not the best of times for an octogenarian close political associate of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The Chieftain of defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and grand daughter of (By Jan)...South Africa: Murder accused attacks his lawyer
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A man accused of killing retired Austrian soccer player Peter Burgstaller turned on his lawyer and accused a journalist of assaulting him during proceedings in the Durban High Court on Monday.Mthokozi (By Jan)...South Africa: President Zuma Concludes Inaugural State Visit to Angola
Monday 24-Aug-2009: President and Mrs. Sizakele Zuma have today, 21 August 2009, concluded the first State Visit by President Zuma to Angola. The two day State visit was at the invitation of President Jose Eduardo dos Sa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Acknowledges Unity Govt Problems
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Violet GondaSouth African President and SADC chair, Jacob Zuma, arrived in Zimbabwe on Thursday evening to try and break a political deadlock between the rival parties in the inclusive government. (By Jan)...Nigerian Bank Gets Local Licence
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Jo-Mare DuddyThe four commercial banks in Namibia may soon face stiff Nigerian-backed competition after the Bank of Namibia (BoN) on Friday granted a provisional banking licence, the second one thi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Intercept Truck Load of Arms in Abuja
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Yemi Akinsuyi, Paul Obi and Ogochukwu ObiesieAbuja - The police have intercepted a truck full of arms and ammunition at the Jabi Motor Park in Abuja. It is believed that the large cache of arms bel (By Jan)...Somalia: Aweys Urges War, Army Commander Threatens Opposition
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Somalia's top army commander has threatened that the war will continue if the opposition does not stop fighting, while rebel leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys urged his supporters to continue fighting, (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman jailed for helping boyfriend to kill
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A 22-year-old Pietermaritzburg woman wept in court on Monday when told she would spend her best years in prison for helping her boyfriend to kill his brother.Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Kate Pil (By Jan)...Hague Court Prepares Trials on Kenya's Poll-Election Violence
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - The International Criminal Court has begun preparations for trials on Kenya's post election violence as efforts towards a local tribunal are frustrated by political wrangles.T (By Jan)...Africa: The Continent's Alliance for a Green Revolution a Hoax
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Gertrude KabusimbiKampala - THE term "Green Revolution" was coined in 1968 by then director of the United States Agency for International Development. He coined it to describe the so-called success (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Use of Foreign Money Becoming Political Football Again
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Ignatius BandaTsholotsho - Dorothy Tembo wears a look that tells a story of years of hard work. She dotes over her grandchildren and enjoys talking about the past. A keen observer of the history ha (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: SADC Tribunal Rules Farm Repo By Agri Bank of Zimbabwe Illegal
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE SADC Tribunal on Friday ruled that the repossession of a black Zimbabwean's farm by a bank that sold it to recoup a loan was "illegal and void".Farmer Luke Tembani (71) had tak (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Welcome, Cde President Zuma!
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Harare - NGIYAKWEMUKELA Msholozi! Welcome to Zimbabwe Cde President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma.We are honoured to be the third African country to host you in your capacity as president of the brotherly (By Jan)...When Constitutional Powers are a Problem
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Ephraim KeorengThe on-going furore in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) which has seen the Barata-Phathi faction squaring up against party president Ian Khama and in which they accuse the latter (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Colours of SA's Angolan dawn
Monday 24-Aug-2009: PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma and his large political and business entourages wrapped up their high-profile blitz of Angola at the weekend, with much back-slapping over its diplomatic and commercial successes (By Jan)...Nigeria: Pay Up Or Face Arrest, EFCC Tells Bank Debtors
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Alexandra Mede and David AgbaPay up or face arrest, period. That is the warning Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Farida Waziri, has given to the debtors of the five trouble (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants in Rivers State and Their Past
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Jimitota OnoyumeMilitants in Rivers state are embracing the presidential amnesty. No fewer than eighty have so far gone for it. Some of them are Solomon Degbara a.k.a Osama Bin Laden, Soboma George (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Graft Body Recovers Outstanding Debts
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Davidson Iriekpen and Eugene AghaLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)'s onslaught against troubled bank chiefs and debtors may have yielded bountifully.Yesterday, the commiss (By Jan)...World: Afghans pay tribute to bomb victims
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Kandahar - Afghans on Thursday slaughtered eight bulls in a public sacrifice at a bomb site to pay tribute to 43 civilians killed in the country's worst militant attack in over a year.The massive truc (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Dismisses UN Report on Sierra Leone As 'Disgraceful'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayA 2001 United Nations Expert Panel Report, which accused Mr. Taylor of fueling the conflict in Sierra Leone through diamond and arms trade with Sierra Leonean rebel forces, took center (By Jan)...Another Boon for Borrowers as BOB Cuts Bank Rate Again
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Brian BenzaFollowing the decline in the annual inflation rate to 6 percent last month, the Bank of Botswana on Tuesday announced a further slashing of interest rates, a development widely seen a bo (By Jan)...World: More power given to China's security force
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Beijing - China on Thursday passed a law officially tasking the country's main domestic security force with putting down often violent incidents of social unrest, state media reported.The People's Arm (By Jan)...Africa: Climate Change Will Hit Africa Hardest, Says Ping
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Jean PingAddis Ababa - Opening statement by Dr. Jean Ping, chairperson of the African Union Commission, to a meeting of the representatives of the Conference of African Heads of State and Governmen (By Jan)...East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi Dismiss Rebel Recruitment Claims
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - International media reports that rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), are recruiting former Burundian rebels into their ranks have been dismi (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops probe teacher's killing
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Michelle JonesA school principal was shot dead inside her office, as teachers worked just down the corridor on Monday afternoon.Police are now searching for the two men suspected of killing Nomzoxo (By Jan)...Islamist Rebels Unite for Battle in Southern Somalia
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Abdulkadir KhalifNairobi - In a surprise move, fighters of Hizbu Islam in Gedo region in Southern Somalia shifted their loyalty to Al-Shabaab, the strongest Islamist movement opposing the Transitio (By Jan)...Somalia: Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a Forces Capture a Murderer in Central Somalia
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Somalia - The Islamist forces of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a administration have captured a murderer man who killed his brother-in-law in Abudwak town in Galgudud region, officials told Shabelle radio on Fri (By Jan)...South Africa: Mantashe praises Zuma government
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The Zuma administration has suspended more bureaucrats for corruption in its first 100 days than former president Thabo Mbeki's did in 10 years, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Thursday." (By Jan)...South Africa: Transforming Caster's victory into tragedy
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Mokgadi Caster Semenya was let down badly by Athletics South Africa (ASA) president Leonard Chuene, by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. They should be ashamed (By Jan)...South Africa: Court scores victory in fight against terror
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Lynnette JohnsThe conviction this week of two Pagad members for bombing the Lansdowne police station is one of the biggest successes so far in the State's long fight against urban terror in the Wes (By Jan)...Nigeria: Osun - Still on the Police Report Forgery Saga
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Lagos - In this report, Wale Olaleye revisits the purportedly forged Police report in the on-going retrial of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition and posits that the development may have div (By Jan)...Africa: 50 Million Need Help With Food
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Stephen LeahyBrooklin, Canada - In a world of paradox and plenty, 852 million people are starving while one billion people are overweight, with 300 million of them considered medically obese.And th (By Jan)...Africa: Zim's problems can be resolved - Zuma
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Nelson BanyaHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma has told Zimbabwean leaders the problems facing their fractious unity government can be overcome.Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and rival (By Jan)...South Africa: Nun raped, suspect killed
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Mercury reporterA robbery and rape suspect died when he attacked interrogating policemen, while two co-suspects have appeared in court.Meanwhile, the American missionary they are alleged to have at (By Jan)...Nigeria: Scarcity of HIV/Aids Drugs
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Lagos - The distressing report that there has been an upsurge in the incidence of the HIV/AIDS scourge because of scarcity of anti-retroviral drugs ought to worry all lovers of mankind.The Director-Ge (By Jan)...World: Netanyahu seeks economic pressure on Iran
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Berlin - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Thursday for "crippling sanctions" against Iran to stop its disputed nuclear work, on a solemn visit to Berlin marked by Holocaust remembra (By Jan)...Africa: French hostage escapes from rebels
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Abdi SheikhMogadishu - One of two French security advisers kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month escaped on Wednesday and fled to the presidential palace in Mogadishu.Police said the former (By Jan)...Kenya: Nothing to Fear in Regulation of Petroleum Prices
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By George WachiraEarly this month two of us drove over 4,000kms to Tanzania through Namanga and back to Nairobi via Isebania. Being a petroleum industry focused person, I took an interest in issues to (By Jan)...World: 'Model killer' found dead
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Hope, British Columbia - For Ryan Jenkins, life ended in a suicide in a remote Canadian motel room, and police who had sought the reality show contestant in the killing of his ex-wife hunted on Monday (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: An Opportunity The Country Could Rue
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Harare - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma's visit this week to officially open the Harare Agricultural Show could have provided the climax of efforts by South African businesses to invest in Zimbabwe.Regional lea (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: State Assistance to Farmers Should Not Discriminate
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Renson GaselaHarare - THE statement by the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, that the government intends to provide inputs to communal farmers is very positive. By 1983, the maize production by com (By Jan)...South Africa: Girl, man shot dead: cops connect the dots
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Leila SamodienA 17-year-old girl and a man have been killed in two separate gang-related shootings in Elsies River, which police believe are connected.On Friday night Riancha Geduld was gunned down (By Jan)...South Africa: Ruby guilty of 'masterminding' murder
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Jade WittenRuby Marais, the mastermind behind her husband's death, was a "dangerous liar", Judge Daniel Dlodlo said in finding her and three others guilty of murder.Judge Dlodlo on Tuesday convicte (By Jan)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Creeping Economic Nyayo (2)
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Okello OculiAbuja - The outgoing Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, reported that "35 per cent of Nigerians operating bank accounts have no access to micro-finance services". (By Jan)...South Africa: Officer gunned down in broad day light
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Niamah Davids and Esther LewisThe weekend murder of Metro Police sergeant Charles Komba brings the number of attacks on law enforcement officers in busy Lansdowne Road to three in less than a month (By Jan)...Nigeria: Global Financial Flu Finally Catches Up With Africa
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Carol MusyokaNigerian financial institutions are in the grip of their own banking crisis. And if you deposit your hard earned money in a bank rather than under your mattress, then you need to be wo (By Jan)...Somalia: Seven Killed in Bloody Fight Among Government Soldiers
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - The fighting erupted around Mogadishu's KM4 area after government police on patrol ordered a group of armed men to surrender their weapons.The group, identified as the bodyguards of Somali (By Jan)...World: Pakistan launches air attacks on Taliban
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Hafiz WazirWana, Pakistan - Pakistani helicopter gunships stepped up attacks on Taliban positions in the South Waziristan region on Wednesday, a day after militants confirmed that their leader was (By Jan)...South Africa's Lethal Cocktail of Epidemics
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Kerry CullinanA special series of the Lancet focusing on South Africa spells out in painful detail how many of our health indicators are the worst in the world. But while our health system is litte (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma to visit Zimbabwe
Monday 24-Aug-2009: South African President Jacob Zuma is set to visit Zimbabwe this week to speak at a farm trade show, a spokeswoman said on Monday, amid tensions in the fledgling unity government.Zuma's trip, his firs (By Jan)...Uganda: Kibaale Landlords to Be Paid Sh19 Million
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Ben Okiror and Chris KiwawuloKampala - Absentee landlords in Bunyoro will be paid between sh12.8m and sh19.2m per square mile, so that their land can be redistributed to landless indigenous people, (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Seed Project Threatened as Farm is Seized
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaHarare - A MASHONALAND East farmer who has been producing 520 tonnes of maize seed for Pannar Seeds annually is on the verge of losing his farm to a Zanu PF supporter as disturban (By Jan)...Nigeria: Waziri And Her Anti-Graft Campaign
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Tayo AgunbiadeLagos - US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Nigeria and opened a door for our anti-graft body to reassert itself. How did she do this? She made a few comments on the (By Jan)...Zim: Zuma put pressure on Mugabe in talks
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: "Meeting benchmarks should be a priority in the inclusive government" Stanley GamaPresident Jacob Zuma left Zimbabwe yesterday after reportedly putting real pressure on the three leaders of th (By Jan)...Nigeria: Tjhe Country's Detainees in Libya
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Lagos - The recent revelation by the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora that some 200 Nigerians in Libyan detention camps might soon be secretly executed by the North African security (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema takes aim at the media
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Bheki MbanjwaANC Youth League President Julius Malema has called for "some form of control" to be exercised over the South African media, an institution which he says remains hostile to the ANC. "T (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Faces Challenge Over Iraqi Oil Deal
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Kgomotso MatheJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma could face his first real test in responding to the findings of the Donen commission into the role of several South African companies in the United (By Jan)...Rwanda: Antiretroviral Therapy Saves Lives
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Yolande ColeAfter six years of free HIV/AIDS treatment for Rwandans, an official with the organization that administers the antiretroviral therapy (ART) says the program has created a new sense of (By Jan)...Rwanda: Art Treatment Saves Lives But Many Patients Are Still Excluded
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Yolande ColeAfter six years of free HIV/AIDS treatment for Rwandans, an official with the organization that administers the antiretroviral therapy (ART) says the program has created a new sense of (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC mourns death of US senator
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: US senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy will forever be treasured for his contribution to the struggle for South Africa's liberation and the building of its democracy, the ANC said on Wednesday."Kennedy was (By Jan)...Kenya: Power Shortage Sparks Big Shift in Petroleum Market
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Zeddy SambuA deepening electricity supply crisis in the middle of an economic slowdown is shaking Kenya's petroleum supply chain, opening new avenues for small players to grab market-share, the lat (By Jan)...World: Iran cemetery denies secret burial rumours
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Tehran - The manager of a Tehran cemetery denied it carried out secret burials of people who died in post-election unrest, as alleged by some reformist media, the Mehr news agency said on Monday.Pro-r (By Jan)...South Africa: SACP slams Malema
Monday 24-Aug-2009: The SACP has come out in defence of the cabinet's economic cluster and dismissed criticism of the racial composition of ministers who serve in the cluster.ANC Youth League president Julius Malema rece (By Jan)...Africa: Fighting kills 3 in Mogadishu
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - Fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces in Somalia killed at least three people on Thursday when the insurgents attacked a base on the outskirts of Mogadishu, witnesses said (By Jan)...Africa: Somali pirates open fire on US helicopter
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Manama - Somali pirates aboard a captured vessel have opened fire on a US navy helicopter on the high seas as it carried out a surveillance mission on the boat, the navy said on Thursday.There were no (By Jan)...Senegal: 'Heaviest Fighting in Years' Hits Casamance
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Ziguinchor - Residents of Senegal's Casamance region are shaken by some of the heaviest fighting in years between the army and alleged separatist troops, staying away from their plantations and closin (By Jan)...Africa: High-Risk Status Dents Continent's Share of Global Mining
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Thato MosekiResearchers in the mining industry say Africa's plethora of operational risks is the biggest factor reducing the continent's share of global exploration spending in the industry.Accordi (By Jan)...South Africa: Three killed in shootout with police
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Solly MaphumuloWhen seven robbers hit a warehouse in Midrand, specialised police units pounced, and within minutes three thugs lay dead and four were in custody.Provincial police spokesperson Super (By Jan)...Sudan: UNAMID Commander Undermines Darfur's Genocide
Friday 28-Aug-2009: According to various August 26th news sources, UNAMID Commander Mr. Agwai, the leader of the African United Nations joint mission in Darfur, stated to media representatives that the Darfur region shou (By Jan)...Uganda: Land Repurchase Programme Requires Second Opinion
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Your columnist is indebted to the senior management of the Ministry of Lands and the Senior Presidential Adviser on Land Matters, Dr Silver Atwooki Kasirivu, for shedding light on the activities of th (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Cops put me in a body bag'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: At the age of 12, he was tossed into a police cell, forced into a body bag and humiliated for six hours because he did not do his homework.These are the allegations the boy's mother has made in Cape H (By Jan)...South Africa: How clerk stole cop guns
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Alex EliseevPolice clerk Aubrey Tshamano allegedly took sick leave to execute his plan of selling six state-owned R-5 rifles to a criminal gun dealer.He's also accused of abusing the trust of work (By Jan)...Khama Launches New Bank Notes
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Patricia MaganuPresident Ian Khama launched the new Pula bank notes at the Bank of Botswana on Friday morning. The new notes, including the P200 note, are already in circulation.Speaking at the lau (By Jan)...Birds and Powerlines - A New Project Takes Flight
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Liz KomenEelctricity distributors worldwide have had to look at and design ways to minimise the impact of birds' flight, perching and nesting on the structures of an electricity network.Birds can c (By Jan)...South Africa: Durban link to arms case
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The South African captain of a cargo ship linked to gun-running in the Philippines is believed to hail from Durban.Lawrence John, arrested on arms smuggling and immigration charges last Thursday when (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Africans Benefit More From China, India - Research
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Fikremariam TesfayeAddis Ababa - Most African countries are benefiting more from the relationships with China and India than with Western donors and multilateral financial institutions, the finding (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: White Farmer Seeks to Evict Six Beneficiaries
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Harare - A white commercial farmer recently surprised resettled farmers in Mazowe after he sought a High Court order to evict six beneficiaries of Government's land reform programme from part of the H (By Jan)...World: US bracing for possible al-Qaeda attacks
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Washington - Al-Qaeda remains "very capable" of attacking the United States, the senior-most US military officer said, as he tried to boost waning US support for the conflict in Afghanistan.Nearly eig (By Jan)...South Africa: SA Health Professions Council warns of bogus doctors
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: [See the article South Africa: 'Fake' doctor paid R35 000 for jail work . South Africa has truly become a country of criminals and opportunists. Whilst full of high-sounding morality and righteous in (By A Different Perspective)...Libya: Lockerbie Fiasco Will Block Path of Justice
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Sam MakindaThe fact that the recent release from prison of the convicted bomber of an American passenger jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988, has been greeted with criticism and clai (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma calls for 'greater progress' in Zimbabwe
Friday 28-Aug-2009: BY STANLEY GAMAHARARE: South African President Jacob Zuma is determined to end the political impasse in Zimbabwe by putting pressure on the three principals to the controversial and fragile unity agre (By Jan)...Nigeria: Squatters in Their Own Land
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Reuben BuhariLagos - Families of some Fulani herdsmen living on the land the Kaduna State Government gave the Federal Government for the building of the new Petroleum Collage in Kaduna State have b (By Jan)...South Africa: Striking soldiers to get boot
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Thousands of soldiers who clashed with the police in running battles outside the Union Buildings - after protests over salary increases - are to be dismissed.This was a visibly outraged Defence and Mi (By Jan)...World: Police officer arrested on wartime charges
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Sarajevo - Bosnian police arrested two Bosnian Serbs on Thursday, including a police officer, suspected of taking part in the massacre of about 200 Muslims and Croats in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, the s (By Jan)...South Africa: Provoked, so he stabbed wife to death
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: He was insanely angry because his wife pulled a knife on him and she would not speak to him. "I then ran after her and stabbed her in the back," a 51-year-old Lynnwood man told the Pretoria High Court (By Jan)...South Africa: 'He shot himself in the head but did not die'
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeIn a bizarre shooting that is suspected to have been caused by a car deal gone wrong, a 23-year-old Pretoria man was killed in Villieria on Wednesday night by a suspect who shot him (By Jan)...Africa: Kidnapped agent freed
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - One of two French intelligence agents kidnapped by hardline Islamist rebels in Mogadishu in July is free, Somali and French authorities said on Wednesday.Officials from a hardline group in (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe in hospital
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The official line from the president's office yesterday was that Mugabe was on a “private visit to Dubai†Moses Mudzwiti, Sipho Masondo and SapaZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is receiv (By Jan)...World: Documents reveal CIA's real war on terror
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Steven Hurst and Devlin BarrettWashington - CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mot (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: RioZim Records Growth in Gold Output
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Bright MaderaHarare - GOLD, diamond and coal producer, RioZim registered growth in gold output during the first half of the year, shrugging off the harsh economic environment that dogged the entire (By Jan)...South Africa: Presidency mum on oil-for-food report
Monday 24-Aug-2009: The Presidency has declined to comment on a leaked report which has fingered Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe as being privy to information relating to controversial businessman Sandy Majali's oil d (By Jan)...Hlophe announcement casts a dark cloud over South Africa's judiciary
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: The Judicial Service Commission's decision to end its inquiry into the conduct of Cape Judge President John Hlophe flies in the face of its earlier commitment to investigate thoroughly the gravely ser (By Gairk)...Ghana: 'African Farmers Benefit When They Organise Themselves'
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Research into an initiative to improve the lot of Ghanaian farmers shows how important it is that farmers organise themselves to improve their bargaining power with buyers.The initiative comes from th (By Jan)...Zim: Public vents anger at tedious state media
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Every Wednesday now, about 60 000 copies are circulated around the country. “We are the biggest newspaper in the country, and we are nowhere near meeting demand†By Jan RaathThe Harare con (By Jan)...World: Neighbours shocked by captor's dark secret
Friday 28-Aug-2009: San Fransisco - A woman kidnapped when she was only 11 has been reunited with her family after an 18-year ordeal during which she was kept in a hidden backyard and had two children with her abductor.J (By Jan)...South Africa: No bail for alleged killers
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Four people accused of a Pietermaritzburg professor's murder were denied bail by the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday.Five people are currently before court for the murder of Professor (By Jan)...Kenya: Toposa Raider Shot Dead in Cattle Attack
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Peter Ng'etichNairobi - A suspected Toposa raider was on Wednesday shot dead by Kenya Army soldiers after attackers struck at a village in Turkana West District.Another raider was seriously injured (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe back in Zim
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Harare - President Robert Mugabe has returned home from "a private visit" to Dubai, government officials said on Wednesday, contrary to reports that he was undergoing treatment there.An official who r (By Jan)...World: Brown breaks his silence on Lockerbie bomber
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday that he was "angry" and "repulsed" at Libya's welcome home for the Lockerbie bomber, as he finally broke his silence on the controversy.But (By Jan)...Police Promise Crackdown On Increasing Stock Theft
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyCOMMERCIAL and communal farmers throughout Namibia have suffered losses of at least N$600 000 due to stock theft since the beginning of the year, according to the daily crime bulletins (By Jan)...Kenya: CCK Cracks Whip On Mobile Phone Thieves
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Justus OndariNairobi - That stolen mobile phone handset could soon be of no use to both the thief and the second hand dealer as the industry regulator cracks the whip on the illegal trade.The Commu (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Courting the Nile Goddess
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Ayenew HaileselassieAddis Ababa - North Korea keeps shooting its long range missiles now and then. These missiles do not just reach all important targets; they can also deliver a nuclear message. I (By Jan)...Zim: Lights out as Zuma arrives
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Vehicles had to direct their headlights so that Zuma's party could disembark Focus on Mugabe's failure to stick to his side of agreementPeta Thornycroft and Stanley GamaHarare – On the surf (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Mugabe Faces Tougher Scrutiny'
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma arrives in Harare today amid speculation that President Robert Mugabe is gravely ill and a promise from his party that he will be more vocal in cr (By Jan)...Liberia: 'Notorious' Robber Flogged to Death
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Roland PerryAn alleged notorious criminal, believed to be in his 30, was found dead early Thursday morning in the Lakpazee community.Several burnt and flogging marks covered his body as people trou (By Jan)...South Africa: 60 000 kids die in SA every year: report
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: About 60 000 children, aged between a month and five years, die in South Africa each year, according to a report released at health summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday."Many of the children die at home (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma's Final Communiqué to Angola
Monday 24-Aug-2009: At the invitation of HE Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of the Republic of Angola, HE Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa paid a State Visit to the Republic of Angola from the 19t (By Jan)...Eyewitness: Zimbabwe school of fear
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: A local Zanu PF official is the prime suspect in the violence One of Zimbabwe's many unqualified teachers talks about her fears about returning to work after the current holidays, saying she f (By Jan)...Somalia: Four Killed in Mogadishu Battle
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - At least four people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday after insurgents attacked an important government checkpoint, Radio Garowe reports.Eight other people were woun (By Jan)...Government Misses UN Deadline On Mass Graves
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Christof MaletskyTWO months after the expiry of a deadline set by the United Nations for the Namibian Government to shed more light on the alleged disappearance of people following the 2008 discove (By Jan)...Africa: War in Darfur is over - peacekeeping chief
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Andrew HeavensKhartoum - Sudan's Darfur region is no longer in a state of war and only has one rebel group capable of mounting limited military campaigns, the head of the area's peacekeeping force (By Jan)...South Africa: Protesting Soldiers Threaten Strike
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Siyabonga KalipaSouth African National Defence Force members aligned to the South African Security Forces Union (Sasfu) are threatening strike action.This comes after 12 Sasfu representatives unsuc (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops probing violent soldier protest
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Police were investigating the illegal protest by soldiers which turned violent at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday.Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa "strongly condemned" the violence in a (By Jan)...Africa: Sudan mulls immunity for kidnappers
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Andrew HeavensKhartoum - Sudan is considering offering legal immunity to the kidnappers of two aid workers in Darfur as part of a new push to free the women during the holy month of Ramadan, a mini (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Time for Grand Bargain
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Ejeviome Eloho OtoboLagos - Developments in the Niger Delta are freighted with global significance. Many multinational oil firms have huge investments in the Niger Delta. The abduction of foreign o (By Jan)...Nigeria: Central Bank Takes Bold Action
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Jaco MaritzSince the collapse or near collapse of many of the world’s foremost financial institutions last year, there has been much talk about the health of Nigeria’s banking sector. T (By Jan)...South Africa: Wage dispute: protests set to soldier on
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Soldiers will continue protesting until the Minister of Defence tables a decent wage offer, the South African National Defence Union (Sandu) warned on Friday."We call on the minister to table a decent (By Jan)...Zuma's big task on Zim visit 'is to allow economy to start recovering'
Friday 28-Aug-2009: "We will not get loans or aid for reconstruction while some of Mugabe's guys remain as ministers, for example, of mining" Peta Thornycroft Harare - Much hangs on President Jacob Zuma's officia (By Jan)...Government Expects Price of Fuel to Rise
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Chamwe KairaWindhoek - The government says it expects the price of fuel to rise modestly over the coming few months."The softening of international crude oil prices could be transitory; hence the i (By Jan)...Tanzania: Old Women Bear Brunt of Witchcraft Murders
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Paulina David And Jane Kajoki MwanzaOver 90 per cent of elderly persons killed in witchcraft-related incidents in Mwanza Region were women, the Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Mr Abbas Kandoro, said (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bad Loans - It is The Economy, Stupid!
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Ebuka-Chukwu EzeuchegbuLagos - The expression comes from former US president, Bill Clinton. He chose to contest the presidency at a time Bush was celebrating the successful prosecution of the Wulf (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema back in court
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is expected to be back at Johannesburg's Equality Court on Monday for the continuation of a complaint about remarks he made about a woman who accused President (By Jan)...South Africa: Traumatic ordeal for hijacked family
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: A Sea Cow Lake woman who was held at gunpoint and hijacked last Monday evening is convinced a burgeoning informal settlement, a lack of police patrols and failure by the local municipality to stamp ou (By Jan)...Nigeria: Nafdac Takes Anti-Fake Drugs Campaign to India
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Lagos - Any fake and counterfeit drug offender apprehended for dealing on fake and spurious pharmaceutical products faces a life sentences in India, if current moves by the country's Drug Regulatory A (By Jan)...DTA Blames the President for Crime Wave in Country
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Christof MaletskyPRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba's reluctance to release the findings by several commissions of inquiry into white-collar crimes is partly to blame for the increase in crime in Namibi (By Jan)...Cellphone Robber Gets Four-Year Term
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Werner MengesAN unemployed Windhoek resident who stole a cellphone in a street robbery in Katutura ten months ago got his comeuppance in court on Monday, when he was sent straight to prison for fou (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Graft Unit Recovers More Bank Debt
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Yemi Adebowale, Davidson Iriekpen And Eromosele AbiodunLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday recovered an additional N19 billion from loan defaulters of the five troubled b (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I should have gone to the police'
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: A fifteen-year-old Delft schoolgirl was beaten to death with an electric cord, allegedly by a relative angry that she had skipped school.Ncebakazi Poleki, a Grade 8 pupil at Leiden High School, was ju (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers face dismissal
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The soldiers who embarked on illegal and violent protests at the Union Buildings will be dismissed following legal processes, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Lindiwe Sisulu, said on Thursda (By Jan)...Africa: Zanu-PF blames sanctions for Zim woes
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Harare - Western sanctions on Zimbabwe are interfering with the work of the new unity government, President Robert Mugabe's party said on Thursday ahead of a visit by South African leader Jacob Zuma." (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma condemns soldier protest
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Thursday condemned a violent protest by unionised members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) at the Union Buildings in Pretoria."I don't think it is acceptable (By Jan)...South Africa: A Diagnosis of SA's Health System - Living With Aids # 402
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Khopotso BodibeRespected medical journal, the Lancet, has published a special series of articles assessing the challenges of the South African health system. HIV and Tuberculosis, plus a lack of pr (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops held for robbery, abduction
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Caryn DolleyTwo Flying Squad policemen have been arrested, suspected of assaulting, abducting and robbing a Salt River shop owner and his assistant under the guise of a drug raid.And investigators (By Jan)...Nigeria: IGP's Statement on Arrested Thugs Misleading, Edo Govt
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Gabriel EnogholaseBenin - Edo State government in Benin expressed grave concern over what it described a misleading statement from the Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, on the purpor (By Jan)...Africa: Zimbabwe doctors call off strike
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Harare - Doctors at Zimbabwe's state hospitals on Wednesday called off a crippling two-week strike, broken by the reality that the government had no money to meet their wage demands, their union said. (By Jan)...Africa: Zim doctors end strike
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Harare - Doctors at Zimbabwe's state hospitals on Wednesday called off a crippling two-week strike, broken by the reality that the government had no money to meet their wage demands, their union said. (By Jan)...South Africa: COPE slams Malema's 'paranoia'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The ANC hijacked the return of athletes from the IAAF World Championships in Berlin and turned it into a political rally, COPE said on Wednesday.It also criticised ANC Youth League president Julius Ma (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Says UN Report on Diamonds and Guns was Biased
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today said that a 2001 United Nations expert report, which accused him of providing military and financial support to Sierra Leonean rebels in exchange for diamonds, cont (By Jan)...Africa: Insurgents vow to fight on during Ramadan
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - Somali insurgents have dismissed an appeal for a ceasefire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, saying they will continue their push to oust the Western-backed government.Insurgent gro (By Jan)...South Africa: Bakkie passenger killed in crash
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A one-year-old baby was among 10 people, who included her mother, who were seriously injured in an accident outside Pretoria which claimed the life of a bakkie passenger. The accident occurred at the (By Jan)...Nigeria: Investigators Declare Two Bank Chiefs 'Wanted'
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Abuja - The furore that followed the sack of Boards and Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of five banks and subsequent release of highly controversial list of bad debtors of the banks by the Central Ban (By Jan)...Science: US wildfire grows, threatens thousands
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10 000 homes.The blaze nearly tripled in size in the heat Sa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Calls for 'Greater Progress'
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Stanley GamaHarare - HARARE: South African President Jacob Zuma is determined to end the political impasse in Zimbabwe by putting pressure on the three principals to the controversial and fragile u (By Jan)...Time to Tackle Alcohol Abuse
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The abuse of alcohol in Namibia underlies some of our most pressing social problems, and it is high time that a concerted national campaign to curtail this evil is given the precedence it deserves.The (By Jan)...Namibia: Govt, India to Sign MoU On Diamonds, Gold, Uranium
Friday 28-Aug-2009: INDIA and Namibia will work together in exploring mineral resources, including gold, diamonds and uranium, as the Indian government approved an agreement to be signed between the two nations shortly, (By Jan)...Nigeria: Former Bank Chief Surrenders to Anti-Corruption Body
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Davidson Iriekpen and Eugene AghaLagos - Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic International Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru, yesterday finally submitted herself to the Economi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Fear Grips Orile-Iganmu Residents Over Claims of Search for 24 Human Heads
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Ifeanyi OkolieResidents of Orile Iganmu, a suburb of Lagos State have been thrown into disarray following reports of desperate search for 24 human heads allegedly by some traditional religious wors (By Jan)...Science: SA health bedevilled by inequities - report
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Johannesburg - South Africa has a "cocktail of four epidemics" - HIV and Aids, tuberculosis, violence, and poor maternal and child health - along with a rise in chronic diseases. This is according to (By Jan)...World: Rebels blow up Indian rail station
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Patina, India - Suspected Maoist rebels blew up a train station and a wedding hall and torched more than a dozen vehicles in eastern India on Tuesday, police said.No casualties were reported in the tw (By Jan)...World: Putin backs Kadyrov in Chechnya
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Dmitry SolovyovMoscow - Vladimir Putin visited Russia's restive Chechnya region on Monday, showing support for a local leader accused by rights groups of abuses and demonstrating Moscow's presence (By Jan)...South Africa: Three held for cop killing
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Three men have been arrested for the fatal shooting of Cape Town metro police officer Sergeant Charles Komba, Western Cape police said on Monday.Superintendent Andre Traut said two of the men were wou (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants Surrender 300 Weapons in Bayelsa
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Osa Okhomina And James UmeYenagoa - The Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee recorded a huge success yesterday as repentant militants in Bayelsa State surrendered over 300 rifles, and two (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bombing Oil Facilities Resumes Sept.15 - Mend
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By From James Ume And Osa OkhominaYenogoa - Serial attacks on oil facilities by militants will resume in September. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) stated this yesterday in (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged gang leader shot by police
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Police shot a gang leader who stabbed a policeman while resisting arrest in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, the community police forum said on Monday.Police chased the man and his gang after a robbe (By Jan)...Zim teachers call for strike
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: "Lots of promises have proven to be a non-event" By Patricia MpofuHarare - Zimbabwe's teachers on Friday called for a nationwide strike starting next Tuesday until government meets their deman (By Jan)...South Africa: Two killed while chasing alleged robber
Friday 28-Aug-2009: After witnessing a Riebeeck West shop being robbed and two people shot and wounded, two men gave chase and tried to force a getaway vehicle off the road, but both vehicles overturned, killing the purs (By Jan)...South Africa: Three arrested after R20 000 robbery
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Three men were arrested on Monday after robbing a man of R20 000 he had just withdrawn from a bank in Springs, Gauteng police said.The 56-year-old man was followed from the bank at around 11am. He dr (By Jan)...South Africa: Pauper burials for illegal miners
Monday 24-Aug-2009: The bodies of 24 illegal miners killed underground at a disused mine in Welkom in the Free State in June 2009 would be buried this week, police said on Monday.Free State police spokesman Captain Steph (By Jan)...Rwanda: Agricultural Sector Grows Despite Economic Crisis
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Sam RuburikaEconomic crisis? What economic crisis? Rwanda's economy, it seems, is impervious to the economic woes that rocked the globe last year, registering a historic growth rate of 11.2%. This (By Jan)...World: Girl's 18 years as sex slave
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way on Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a co (By Jan)...South Africa: Police Fire on Striking Soldiers at Zuma's Office
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Henri Du PlessisTHE violent confrontation between police and striking soldiers in Pretoria was a potential threat to national security and could lead to future friction between soldiers and police, (By Jan)...South Africa: American tourist in hijack ordeal
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Alex Eliseev and Beauregard TrompAn elderly American tourist leaving OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday found himself trapped in a minibus with a gang of hijackers who kept him hostage for (By Jan)...South Africa: Crime statistics expected soon
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Political BureauSouth Africa's official crime statistics will be released next month.Police Ministry spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi confirmed on Monday that the statistics would be released in Septemb (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Deputy Prime Minister Disrupts Retreat
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Sydney Kawadza and Morris MkwateNyanga - Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday caused disruptions at the Second Ministerial Retreat to review the 100-Day Plan here after his attack on Pr (By Jan)...South Africa: Food prices 'hit record high in August'
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Food prices in South Africa's largest supermarkets hit record-high levels in August, Solidarity said on Monday."Solidarity's research shows that food prices have increased every month from January to (By Jan)...Zimbabwe cabinet review progress
Monday 24-Aug-2009: "A waste of time and money" Harare - Zimbabwe's cabinet retreated to a holiday resort on Saturday to review the performance of a unity government set up to repair a battered economy, but analy (By Jan)...South Africa: Taxi was 'coffin on wheels' before crash
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Poloko TauThe shock absorber of a taxi involved in a crash in which two people died was tied to the vehicle's wheel with a piece of wire.In addition, the brake fluid pipe was disconnected from the (By Jan)...South Africa: Man convicted for killing wife
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: A Pretoria father deliberately planned to murder his wife who was stabbed to death, the High Court in Pretoria found on Thursday.Acting Judge Andre Louw convicted 50-year-old Larry Burt Phillips of th (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Pinnacle, Co-Operatives in Land Dispute
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Harare - MORE than 5 000 stand owners risk losing out in Harare South peri-urban area following an ownership dispute pitting Pinnacle Property Holdings and Jetmaster (Pvt) Ltd on one hand and a compan (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Boss Meets New Bank Chiefs on Debtors
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Emma UjahChairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Tuesday met with all the newly- appointed managing directors of the five bailed out banks with a vie (By Jan)...Fidel Castro Can Not Get Enough Of Obama
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: [This is incredible. I can not believe how stupid the American voter is in electing Barack Obama for President. Retired Communist tyrant Fidel Castro is sounding just like one of Obama's strongest s (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Malema tells Semenya to 'relax'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Join the Caster Semenya support group on FacebookBy Kevin McCallum After a week of the highest highs and lowest lows a female athlete can experience, a shy smile lit up the face of Caster Semenya as s (By Jan)...South Africa: Couple claim police assaulted them
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: A Leondale couple who went to Vosloorus police station to lay charges against a man who owed them money claim they were assaulted by the police.Neo Seale and her fiance, Joseph Maluleke, were beaten u (By Jan)...World: Alleged ETA hiding places found in France
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Paris - French police have discovered three underground hiding places believed to belong to the Basque separatist group ETA in southern France in a widening crackdown on the militants, a judicial sour (By Jan)...Court to Decide Inmate's Right to Vote
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiThe test case in which Gaborone Prison inmate, Thomas Sibanda is challenging the Electoral Act, will be heard at the Lobatse High Court today.Sibanda is seeking relief from the co (By Jan)...Uganda: Land Wrangle - Security Beefed in Kayunga
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Fred MuzaalePolice have deployed in Kayunga District to watch out for any land-related violence in the wake of the current wrangles between landlords and tenants.The Inspector General of Police, Ma (By Jan)...Uganda: Government to Use Oil Revenue to Fight Poverty
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Peter LokerisKampala - THIS is the edited speech made by the Minister of State for Mineral Development, Peter Lokeris, recently during an advocacy clinic on promotion of transparency, accountabilit (By Jan)...South Africa: Call on R50m scam victims to call cops
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Victims of an alleged R50 million housing scam have been urged to call police this week to complete sworn affidavits.Police said they suspected about 1 500 people had fallen prey to the scheme, in whi (By Jan)...Unions Must Pull Up Their Socks
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyUNIONS must commit themselves again to the "core values of trade unionism" if they intend dealing with the increasing labour problems that come with the growing presence of Chinese com (By Jan)...South Africa: Security guard shot by angry customer
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A security guard supervisor was critically injured when a shopper, who apparently took offence to being questioned by guards at a shopping centre outside Pretoria, opened fire on him.Father-of-eight A (By Jan)...Nigeria: Fired Bank Chiefs to Face Charges
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Olawale OlaleyeLagos - The sacked Managing Directors of five banks affected by the new reforms by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), their executive directors and managing directors of some of thei (By Jan)...South Africa: Surfer dies after shark attack
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Leila SamodienA surfer had his lower leg bitten off by a shark while surfing at Glentana Bay in the Southern Cape on Saturday, and died later in hospital.Gerhard van Zyl, 25, a Mossel Bay local, wa (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma pleads for more aid for Zimbabawe
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Harare - South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday urged donors to give more development aid to Zimbabwe to help the unity government revive an economy shattered by years of hyper-inflation."We hav (By Jan)...Nigeria: Pastor, Others Killed as Assailants Invade Ilorin
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Abdullahi OlesinIlorin - Barely a year after they first surfaced and threw residents of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital into panic, a group of unknown assailants recently resurfaced throwing reside (By Jan)...World: ETA weakened after cache discoveries
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By James MackenzieParis - A series of arrests and arms seizures in France have dealt a heavy blow to Basque separatist group ETA, but the militants still pose a threat, French and Spanish officials sa (By Jan)...South Africa: Bogus cops 'targeting job seekers'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Job seekers must watch out for con-cops promising to get them employment for a fee, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) said on Wednesday.ICD spokeswoman Grace Langa said such a con artist wa (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops 'turning away sex abuse victims'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The police are turning away "numerous" sexual abuse victims as reports of physical abuse soar, parliamentarians heard on Wednesday.Joan van Niekerk, the manager of advocacy and training at the Childli (By Jan)...South Africa: Fight over posts probed after killing
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Esther Lewis and Francis HwesheBasic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has ordered an investigation into allegations of low morale and conflict between teachers, following the murder of a principa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma to Deal With Unity Govt Deadlocks
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Violet GondaSouth African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Zimbabwe on Thursday to open the Harare Agricultural Show and to also consult with the partners in the inclusive government in his capa (By Jan)...South Africa: Oil Groups to Ask for Easing of Competition Restrictions
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SOUTH African oil groups would seek exemption from competition authorities to revive joint planning and co-ordination in the industry, the SA Petroleum Industry Associa (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang's reign of crime foiled
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Botho MolosankwePolice in Primrose, Germiston, believe they foiled a mall robbery or cash-in-transit heist with the arrest of a man and the confiscation of three fire-arms, including an AK-47. The (By Jan)...Africa: Lesotho PM attack case postponed
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Eight men sought in Lesotho for an alleged attempted assassination of Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili in April 2008, appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.The matter was (By Jan)...South Africa: Wage offer secured for Implats workers
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By James MachariaImpala Platinum said on Monday its operations were running normally a day after South Africa's biggest union said it had suspended a strike after securing an improved wage offer.South (By Jan)...Elections 2009 - Frelimo Finalizes Electoral Manifesto
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican ruling party Frelimo has finalized its electoral manifesto for the forthcoming general elections to be held on 28 October, declared on Saturday, Edson Macuácua, spokespe (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma to 'raise issues' with Zim leaders
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma will discuss issues raised by Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai when he visits Zimbabwe in the next two days."The fact of the matter is the prime minister had come here (By Jan)...Zimbabwe doctors call off strike
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: "We realise the government does not have money to finance our demands" Harare - Doctors at Zimbabwe's state hospitals on Wednesday called off a crippling two-week strike, broken by the reality (By Jan)...Nigeria: Foreign Banks Suspend Funding Nigeria's Oil Sector
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Ejiofor AlikeLagos - Upstream and downstream activities in Nigeria's oil and gas sectors are set to nosedive as major foreign lending institutions have suspended funding the sectors, following the (By Jan)...South Africa: Oilgate man in another scandal
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Special Correspondent and Motswako MediaSandile Majali, the enigmatic man at the centre of the Oilgate scandal, faces arrest.The pending arrest has nothing to do with the Oilgate scandal that erupt (By Jan)...Africa: Bank scandal rocks Lagos
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Lagos - Nigerian authorities on Wednesday arrested two dozen people wanted over massive debts owed to troubled banks in a scandal that has rocked the country's financial industry.The country's anti-gr (By Jan)...Africa: Peacekeeper found dead amid abuse probe
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Monrovia - An American United Nations peacekeeper under investigation for sexual exploitation and abuse of minors in Liberia has been found dead in his house in the West African country, the United Na (By Jan)...No ban on Zimbabwe diamonds, Surat happy
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Zimbabwean diamonds are cheaper by 25 per cent Surat, the world's biggest diamond polishing centre, heaved a sigh of relief this week when news came that Zimbabwe will not be suspended from th (By Jan)...Kenya: The Country's Mining Industry Eroded
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Investor confidence in Kenya's mining industry is being eroded by an upsurge of unlicensed people invading concession areas targeting especially gold and gemstones. The pra (By Jan)...Angolan Jailed Over Cocaine in Shoes
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Werner MengesAN Angolan national who was arrested in Windhoek at the end of last month after he was found in possession of shoes in which more than half a kilogram of cocaine had been hidden was se (By Jan)...Africa: Blood diamonds watchdog washes its hands
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Luanda - Angola on Friday denied reports of rape and brutality against illegal foreign miners in its diamond fields, as a team of international experts wrapped up a fact-finding visit.The United Natio (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Riozim Predicts Rapid Growth
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Munyaradzi MugowoHarare - RIOZIM Limited, Zimbabwe's largest listed resource corporation, says it will recover at a faster pace than the economy, even though the country predicts the mining industr (By Jan)...South Africa: Fish seller wins claim against police
Friday 28-Aug-2009: A 36-YEAR-OLD Bonteheuwel fish seller, who sued the Minister of Safety and Security for R1.03 million after he was shot in the back and bitten by a police dog, is to receive a quarter of the amount in (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Cosatu cannot have its cake and eat it'
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Political BureauCosatu has accused the police of using excessive force in quelling the rampage by protesting soldiers at the Union Buildings, but opposition parties backed Defence and Military Vete (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma, opposition discuss oil deal report
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: A report on the role senior government officials played in suspect oil deals with Iraq was raised in discussions with opposition leaders on Thursday, President Jacob Zuma said.Democratic Alliance parl (By Jan)...Nigeria: World Bank Lauds CBN's Searchlight on Banks
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Abuja - The World Bank Country Director in Nigeria, Mr Onno Ruhl, has praised the CBN for beaming its searchlight on the nation's banking sector.Ruhl said at the Nigeria -South Africa Chamber of Comme (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Custom Slow to Yield to New Law On Inheritance
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Mohamed FofanahFreetown - They told her after the 40-day ceremony to mark the death of her husband. M'ballu Kamara's in-laws said she would be taken care of by her husband's younger brother. It too (By Jan)...South Africa: Zimbabweans held for robbery
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Three Zimbabwean nationals were arrested for allegedly robbing a man and a woman in Berea on Wednesday, central Johannesburg police said."Patrolling police officers in the area arrested the three men (By Jan)...Science: Aboriginals see rise in Aids cases
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Rod NickelWinnipeg, Manitoba - Aids is spreading faster among Canada's aboriginal people than in the general population, and a strong cultural stigma and links to rising drug use make the problem d (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Sacking of Darul-Islam
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Mohammed HarunaLast Saturday, the Federal Government seemed more than glad to oblige the request by the Niger State Government for the sacking of the Darul-Islam (the land of Islam) community that (By Jan)...Guinea: Military Junta Loses Popularity
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Conakry - A young girl hangs on Lamine's* shoulder, whispers to him and lingers until he gently tells her to go back to playing with her friends."You see that?" Lamine says, throwing up his hands. "My (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: In Bukavu, third journalist murdered since 2007
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Following the brutal murder on Sunday of radio journalist Bruno Koko Chirambiza in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo-the third journalist to be slain in the restive region since 2007-the Committee (By Jan)...Uganda: Tobacco Farming Killing Food Production in West Nile
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Denis Lee OguzuDuring the recent Jinja Agricultural Trade Show, I went to the World Food Programme (WFP) stall to find out if our small farmer groups in West Nile can benefit from P4P initiative su (By Jan)...World: Bus bombings claim 10 lives
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Ali al-AlaakKut, Iraq - Four women and two children were among 10 people killed when bombs exploded on two buses near the southern Iraqi city of Kut on Monday, underscoring the nation's volatile se (By Jan)...World: Athens residents beg for help
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Athens - Emergency services battled to save a monastery and other historic sites on the outskirts of Athens on Monday while wind-whipped wildfires caused further devastation in Greek coastal resorts.W (By Jan)...Somalia: Naval Patrol Seizes Weapons From Pirate Suspects
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Naval patrols fired warning shots to stop suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden at the weekend, later seizing ladders, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.The European Union Naval Force for Somalia s (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Fake' doctor paid R35 000 for jail work
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Fred KockottIt would have taken just a call to the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPSCA) to establish that 51-year-old Ann Nosizwe Mbodla is not registered as a medical practitioner, (By Jan)...South Africa: Freedom for Derby-Lewis 'not on the cards'
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is not setting a precedent for convicted murderers such as Clive Derby-Lewis by granting parole to apartheid era hitman Butana Almond Nofemela.Ma (By Jan)...South Africa: Team Zuma tough on corruption, says Mantashe
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The Zuma administration has suspended more bureaucrats for corruption in its first 100 days than that of former president Thabo Mbeki did in 10 years, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Thur (By Jan)...Nigeria: Banks Close Shop in Awka Over Frequent Robbery Attacks
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Vincent UjumaduAwka - For the second day running, banks in Awka, the capital of Anambra state, yesterday shut their gates against customers, apparently due to the frequent robbery incidents in the (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops bust 'Mr Gold'
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Magolide - or Mr Gold - who has been evading police since June 16 after allegedly killing a man was finally caught while appearing in court on another charge, Soweto police said on Thursday."The 18-ye (By Jan)...Nigeria: Mum Gave Me Cocaine, Says Lady Who Killed Her Mother
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Bola OjuolaLagos - The 26 year old lady, Adebukola Adefisayo, who was arrested by the police in Lagos on Monday for the murder of her 62 year-old mother whom she accused of wrecking their family wi (By Jan)...Liberia: Suicide in Sex Ring - Top US-UNMIL Man Stabs Himself
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: He served in Sierra Leone, in charge of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone or UNAMSIL's general supply. There, there are allegations he was tied to the same circle-sex with under age children recruited by (By Jan)...South Africa: 'He stabbed her with all of his might'
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A Pretoria student on Monday wiped away tears as he told the city's High Court how his father had chased and stabbed his mother to death.Howard Phillips, 20, testified in the trial of his father, Larr (By Jan)...World: Lawmakers question Lockerbie bomber's release
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Alice RitchieEdinburgh - Scotland's justice minister faced an angry grilling from lawmakers on Monday over his decision to free the convicted Lockerbie bomber - and the ensuing furious backlash fro (By Jan)...South Africa: Police superintendent 'klapped me'
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A senior police officer was arrested last night after showing up at the scene of a metro police arrest with sirens blaring from his state-owned Mercedes, then allegedly racially abusing and slapping t (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Children's Agency Spotlights Sexual Violence
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) came face to face with some of the young victims of rape and violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as she continued he (By Jan)...South Africa: Body to 'get rid of' anti-circumcision NGOs
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Vuyo MabandlaThe National House of Traditional Leaders has vowed to continue with the customary circumcision of young Xhosa and Sotho men, and has warned "intrusive NGOs" opposed to the practice to (By Jan)...Kenya: Country Steps Up War On Small Arms
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Mathias RingaNairobi - The Kenya government has started harmonising crime laws to boost the war on small arms.Solicitor-general Wanjuki Muchemi said the Organised Crime Bill, Terrorism Bill and Int (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers' protest turns violent
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Tshwane police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse around 1 000 soldiers attempting to gain access to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the defence department said on Wednesday.When a group of (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: We Don't Need Another Land Audit
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Harare - GOVERNMENT'S fascination with land audits never ceases to amaze us.Two or three already in the bag, now US$31 million is required for another round of land audit. There is nothing wrong with (By Jan)...World: Man jailed for killing Jesuit
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Moscow - A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 14 years in jail for bludgeoning a Jesuit priest to death amid bizarre circumstances in October, Russian news agencies reported.Mikhail Orekhov, (By Jan)...Africa: Half of Somalia in need of aid - study
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Daniel WallisNairobi - The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 17,5 percent in a year to 3,76 million or half of the Horn of Africa country's population, an authoritative (By Jan)...Save Us from Criminals
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Theron KolokweWindhoek - Shops in and around Town Square Shopping Mall in Windhoek's central business district have sent out an SOS saying that they are being robbed by criminals at will.Shops are (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops scaling new heights to be armed
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By NIKITA SYLVESTERSCALING walls, carrying 70kg loads and crawling under low barriers are among the obstacles that police officers have to take on in order to qualify to carry a firearm.That was the w (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Says, International Community Has Already Made Up its Mind
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayFor almost a decade, the international community has seen Charles Taylor's role as one which fueled Sierra Leone's civil conflict through gun running and drug smuggling, he lamented to S (By Jan)...South Africa: Battle to control brothels in suburbs
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeFrustrated Durban suburbanites have threatened to expose the men who frequent the brothels operating in their neighbourhoods.Police Superintendent Anton Booysen, of the KwaZulu-Nat (By Jan)...South Africa: Two die chasing gunmen
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Two men died in a car crash while chasing four gunmen in Cape Town on Thursday, Western Cape police said.Captain Bernadine Steyn said the four armed men arrived at a tuckshop at a house in Riebeek Str (By Jan)...Somalia: Displaced Facing Food Crisis
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Nairobi - Two months after food deliveries to Somalia's south-central town of Jowhar were halted, several thousand internally displaced persons (IDPs) are facing a food crisis, sources said."The littl (By Jan)...South Africa: Commuter groups enter taxi strike fray
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Kanina FossOrganisations representing public transport users and supporting the implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system say they disagree with threats of disruption made by the taxi in (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Bus to Hobbescity (ii)
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Muhammad Al-GhazaliAbuja - The IAAF World Athletic Championships concluded in Berlin over the weekend, provides a fitting metaphor for what has become of our dear nation in recent times. Once again (By Jan)...Kenya: State Could Force Farmers to Plant Trees On Their Land
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By John GachiriThe government may soon require farmers to put 10 per cent of their land under trees as part of a set of measures to save the shrinking forest cover.This action will be taken as a last (By Jan)...Somalia: Half of Population Could Go Hungry, UN Warns
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Half of Somalia's population is in need of humanitarian assistance, according to a new United Nations report which finds that the conflict engulfing the Horn of Africa nation is pushing increasing num (By Jan)...South Africa: 'They should've killed us both'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: He was staring up at the patchy sky, his mouth agape. One after the other, sometimes in groups of three or four, men swaddled in coats approached him, bending slightly to peak into the powder blue Toy (By Jan)...South Africa: City takes on illegal abortion 'doctors'
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Ntokozo MfusiThe eThekwini Municipality appears to be winning the battle to rid the city of people performing illegal abortions.Hoosen Moola, acting deputy head of the Inner-Thekwini Regeneration a (By Jan)...South Africa: Dead girl was being abused - neighbours
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Quinton MtyalaThe threat of rubber bullets could on Sunday not deter a community angry that yet another child had been killed in their midst.Fifteen-year-old Ncebakazi Mpoleki's lifeless body was r (By Jan)...World: 'He had to use force for sexual satisfaction'
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Martin Griffith Phillip Garrido spent the 1970s on one debauchery after another: LSD trips, cocaine binges, pot smoking, public masturbation. Then in 1976, he found a new way to indulge his twiste (By Jan)...Kenya: Villager Killed in Cattle Raid
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Edwin Nyarangi and Anthony KitimoNairobi - A villager was shot dead and four cows stolen during a raid in Kehancha, Kuria West District.Mr Peter Rioba, 28, was killed by cattle rustlers as he peepe (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Chairman John Nkomo Faces Sodomy Charges
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Lance GumaA 31 year old Bulawayo man, Mncedisi Twala, has sensationally claimed that ZANU PF National Chairman, John Nkomo, molested him in April 2002.After first fleeing to South Africa Twala says (By Jan)...South Africa: Mantashe scoffs at opposition threat
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Meetings of opposition party leaders to discuss future co-operation are nothing but a desperate and futile attempt to defeat the ANC, says party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe.Addressing the Cape To (By Jan)...Science: Climate change protesters pitch green camp
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Peter GriffithsLondon - Environmentalists demanding an overhaul of the world economy to help save the planet met in London on Wednesday for a week-long camp, one of the biggest tests of the capital (By Jan)...South Africa: Land Claim Purchases On Hold
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE Land Claims Commission has placed a moratorium on buying land under claim until money can be found to bail it out."There will be no new sale agreements signed u (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Nice time' turns to rape turns to perjury?
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: An 18-year-old girl who allegedly opened a false gang rape case while she in fact secretly spent time with her boyfriend, will have to attend a diversion programme if she wants to avoid criminal prose (By Jan)...Africa: Continent Should Increase Agricultural Productivity
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Joachim ChissanoKampala - MORE than any continent, Africa is blessed with abundant natural water resources. Our continent is home to the world's longest river, large fresh-water lakes and countless (By Jan)...South Africa: 'King of Bling' to seek bail again
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: The "King of Bling", William Mbatha, will again apply for bail on Wednesday, next week.Appearing in the Germiston Regional Court on Wednesday, the court heard that an identity parade still had to be h (By Jan)...Police Assumes Sabotage in the Theft of Firearms in Mabalane
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican police confirmed during a press conference in Maputo on Tuesday that there was indeed sabotage on the part of the corporation, and two police officers have been arrested in con (By Jan)...Nigeria: Repentant Militants to Get Jobs in Oil, Gas Sectors
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Kingsley Nwezeh and Ahamefula OgbuAbuja / Port Harcourt - The Federal Government has continued to seek ways to quell the Niger Delta conflict. And the latest effort is geared towards providing job (By Jan)...Africa: Trade Carbon for Food Security
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Busani BafanaNairobi - Forget the view of climate change as impending catastrophe for a moment: if negotiators can recognise sustainable agriculture by African smallholders and forests as mitigatin (By Jan)...Africa: UN should probe death of journalist - group
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Kinshasa - A Congolese media watchdog called on Monday for the United Nations mission in the country to join an official probe into the murder of a journalist for a private radio station in the restiv (By Jan)...Somalia: Islamist And Government Officials Talk Latest Clashes in Mogadishu
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - Sheik Muse Abdi Arale, the secretary of Hisbul Islam organization has said on Sunday that their bases in parts of the capital were attacked by the government soldiers backing by AMISOM tro (By Jan)...Food Security Improving
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Maputo - The Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) states that food security situation in Mozambique shows signs of improvement, and this is seen by a decrease in the numbers (By Jan)...South Africa: Cabinet condemns soldiers' rampage
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Cabinet on Thursday condemned the rampage by soldiers at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, saying attempting to "invade the seat of government is totally unacceptable"."Cabinet condemned in the stronge (By Jan)...WWIII: General's scathing attack on Ministry of Defence over its handling of the war in Afghanistan
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: General Lord Charles Guthrie said our brave servicemen and women were starved of single-minded leadership because of ministers who "sit frozen in indecision". The former UK Chief of Defence Staff s (By Gairk)...World: Eccentric farmer exploited then banished
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The horrific details of how an eccentric farmer was left to die emaciated and malnourished after being swindled out of his estate by a callous conwoman have emerged.Vulnerable David Cooper, 51, had al (By Jan)...Africa: Niger opposition leaders released
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Niamey - Eight Niger opposition members arrested at a weekend march to protest the extension of President Mamadou Tandja's tenure have been released, their lawyer said on Thursday.The eight, including (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape Town Cracks Down on Land Use Violations
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Peter LuhangaThe City of Cape Town's Land Use Enforcement Policy, adopted by the Planning and Environmental Portfolio Committee (Pepco) and enforced since the beginning of the year, has resulted in (By Jan)...Nigeria: Neiti Report - Persistent Quest For Transparent Cash Cow
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI formally released its Audit Report on the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry last week in Abuja, which brought cr (By Jan)...Nigeria: On President's Power to Remove the IGP
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Lagos - WE WELCOME the proposal by the Constitutional Review Committee of the House of Representatives and the House Sub-committee on Amendment of Police Act to strip the President of the power to rem (By Jan)...South Africa: SA focused on road safety plan - expert
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: South Africa was on the right track when it came to road safety, expert in the field Dr Pieter Venter said on Wednesday.Venter was speaking on the fringes of the international road traffic safety mana (By Jan)...Uganda: Court Bailiffs Resume Land Evictions
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Al Mahdi SsenkabirwaCourt bailiffs are to resume clearing court eviction warrants relating to land disputes that were suspended a month ago, Daily Monitor has learnt.Police's Land Protection Unit h (By Jan)...South Africa: Confusion reigns as crack covert unit is shut
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: A controversial but successful covert tactical crime intelligence assault unit used to fight heavily armed criminal gangs across South Africa has been disbanded with immediate effect, according to its (By Jan)...Africa: Tycoons must repay banks now - Waziri
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Lagos - Nigeria's anti-graft agency warned a group of influential tycoons Tuesday that their time was up to repay debts to ailing banks or face arrest in a row that has shaken the country's financial (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Ribadu in Lamido Sanusi
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Rotimi FasanThere is something about the new Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, that reminds me of the former Chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu. First there is that physical resemblance, a lanky (By Jan)...South Africa: Man killed, private parts cut off
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: A man was shot dead and his private parts removed on Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.Inspector Mbongeni Mdlalose said the 56-year-old man was killed on Tuesday morning in Mbongolwane near Eshowe."T (By Jan)...Africa: Militant group urged to consider amnesty
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Camillus EbohAbuja - Nigeria's main militant group should rethink its threat to resume attacks on the Opec member's oil industry and instead lay down its weapons and accept an amnesty, a government (By Jan)...South Africa: Buses complete maiden voyage
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: The Rea Vaya coaches were the new celebrities in town as they completed their first journey from central Johannesburg to Soweto on Sunday.As the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system buses travelled along th (By Jan)...Africa: Madagascar crisis talks collapse
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Charles MangwiroMaputo - Crisis talks to end months of political turmoil in Madagascar collapsed on Friday as the parties failed to agree who should hold key posts in a transitional government.The (By Jan)...World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital r (By Gairk)...Somalia: Humanitarian Situation 'Worst in 18 Years'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Nairobi - Somalia is facing the worst humanitarian crisis of the past 18 years, with an estimated 3.76 million people - half the population - needing aid as security deteriorates, officials say."The r (By Jan)...Zuma to meet with Zim leaders
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: "President Zuma is expected to travel to Zimbabwe for a working visit, during which he will hold meetings with that country's leaders" By Bathandwa MbolaPretoria - President Jacob Zuma is expe (By Jan)...South Africa: Ritcher murder accused fails to pay bail
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Baldwin NdabaCeliwe Mbokazi, charged with the murder of her 88-year-old husband and owner of Heia Safari Ranch Franz Richter, failed to pay bail and spent the night in custody.Mbokazi, 35, Johnson (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bank Bailout - The Country's Credit Rating Downgraded to B-Plus
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Ayodele Aminu With Agency ReportLagos - Standard & Poor's yesterday cut Nigeria's sovereign credit ratings by a notch to B-plus from BB-minus, citing its costly rescue package of N420 billion for f (By Jan)...South Africa: President Zuma Concludes Angolan Visit
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Luanda - President Jacob Zuma on Friday concluded his first-ever state visit to Angola, cementing ties of friendship between the two countries.The two-day excursion, which was the President's first st (By Jan)...South Africa: Burglary gangs target two areas - police
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Durbanville and Bellville police are warningresidents to be on high alert and to ensure that they set their house alarms at night - even when they're inside the house.Police say a number of burglary g (By Jan)...South Africa: President Jacob Zuma's Address At a Gala Dinner in Zimbabwe
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Your Excellency President Robert Mugabe and Mrs Grace Mugabe,Your Excellency, Vice-President Mujuru,Honourable Prime Minister; Morgan TsvangiraiHon Deputy Prime MinistersHonourable Ministers;Members o (By Jan)...Zim: Stalemate beckons as Zanu PF reneges on governors
Friday 28-Aug-2009: "The date of the swearing ceremony is the prerogative of the president†By Loughty DubeControversy surrounds the appointment of provincial governors from the two MDC formations next month af (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG May Hike Gas Price
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Hamisu MuhammadThe price of gas may go up from 40 cent to between $1 and $2 per thousand standard cubic feet, Daily Trust reliably gathered. A senior official in the ministry of power who pleaded f (By Jan)...Lawyer Quits Group Sex Case
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Isaiah MorewagaeTwo of the convicts in the long running group sex case were left in the cold after their attorney Langwane Langwane ditched them at the last minute.Hence the two former Special Cons (By Jan)...South Africa: Fatal fire 'was premeditated'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The woman accused of setting her family home alight, killing five people including three young nieces, took the time to douse her personal belongings in water before starting the fire. This was the te (By Jan)...South Africa: Firefighters overcome close call in Fish Hoek
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Caryn DolleyIt was a close call for firefighters and some Fish Hoek residents on Monday night when a controlled burn suddenly jumped a firebreak and "very high flames" raged close to homes.But the (By Jan)...South Africa: Judge's battle for top job
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The judge who reportedly disputed 99,9 percent accurate DNA results confirming his paternity of a teenage boy wants a job at the highest court.And, in his attempt to secure one of four vacant position (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: U.S. Envoy Damns Corruption in Country
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Rachel HornerFreetown - United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone on Monday said corruption at every level in the country is completely intolerable.June Carter Perry spoke while welcoming the Captai (By Jan)...South Africa: Five suspects held as cops raid chop shop
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachCullinan police pounced on a chop shop on a plot north-east of Pretoria on Monday, arresting five men and recovering four stolen vehicles. Apart from the two stripped Mazdas, a V (By Jan)...Africa: 'Hutu rebels cross into Burundi'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Bujumbura - The Burundian army said on Monday that about 10 Rwandan Hutu rebels had entered the country from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo but did not pose a threat to peace.It said the re (By Jan)...World: Sri Lanka foils suicide bomb plot: police
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Colombo - Sri Lanka is hunting a team of Tamil Tiger suicide bombers alleged to have plotted the death of the president's brother, who is also the island's top defence official, police said on Monday. (By Jan)...South Africa: Senior cop out on warning after assault
Monday 24-Aug-2009: A senior SAPS superintendent who allegedly assaulted an Ekurhuleni metro policewoman was released on a warning after his court appearance on Monday.Johannes Andre Dawson, 47, would appear in the Kempt (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops make R600 000 dagga bust
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Special CorrespondentTwo men will appear in court on Monday after being found in possession of dagga worth R600 000.Two cars were also confiscated.According to police, one of their flying squad pat (By Jan)...Nigeria: Now This is Official - Ibru, Akingbola Wanted - EFCC
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Boco EdetAbuja - Two former bank chief executives sacked by the central bank penultimate week have been formally declared wanted over alleged fraud, insider trading and money laundering, after they (By Jan)...Africa: Junior Bongo in line for power?
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: By Linel KwatsiLibreville - Voters in Gabon turned out in large numbers on Sunday to elect a successor to long-time leader Omar Bongo, and the late president's son was tipped to take power in the Cent (By Jan)...South Africa: Missing Woodlands woman found dead
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: A Pietermaritzburg woman reported missing earlier this month has been found dead, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Sunday.Kitty Elizabeth Mahaley's decomposing body was found lying in a field along Otto' (By Jan)...WWIII: Russian Missiles Intercepted by Mossad
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: [The bloggers are saying these guys are "Petrov's" i.e. Latvians and Estonians with Russian surnames. This incident was far too sophisticated to pin onto some amateurs. Gairk] According to a Galei (By Gairk)...South Africa: Judge Hlophe cleared
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Gaye Davis and Karyn MaughanCape Judge President John Hlophe has been cleared of gross misconduct on grounds of insufficient evidence - just days before he presents himself for an interview to beco (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Thousands Still Fleeing Ugandan Rebel Attacks in East - UN Agency
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to suffer at the hands of a notorious Ugandan rebel group, whose attacks have forced at least 125,000 people in Orientale pro (By Jan)...Cameroon: Illegal Chimpanzees Traffickers Arrested
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Nwa (Donga and Mantung Division)- The Regional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife for the North-West Region is reported to have arrested three traffickers in Kurt village in Nwa, Donga Mantung Divisi (By Jan)...SADC Waits for Country's Election Date
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Bame PietThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) is waiting for President Ian Khama to announce the date of general elections before deciding the number of its observers for the polls.SAD (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Over 6,000 People Attend Show
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Harare - OVER 6 000 people attended the show yesterday, up from 3 120 people who visited the Exhibition Park on Tuesday.Zimbabwe Agricultural Society spokesperson, Mrs Heather Madombwe-Mubape said the (By Jan)...Science: Satellite lost after flawed launch
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Seoul - A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket is thought to have burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere after missing its designated orbit, officials said on Wednesday.Seoul vowed to pr (By Jan)...South Africa: President 'absolved' in pardons fiasco
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Louise FlanaganThe president says granting or refusing pardons is solely his responsibility, but he is not taking the blame for a six-year wait for decisions by hundreds of applicants.The legal bat (By Jan)...Nigeria: U.S.$231 Million Scam - Representatives Ask EFCC to Probe Korean Oil Firm
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Tordue SalemThe House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating activities in the oil and gas sector has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to further investigate th (By Jan)...South Africa: Semenya Saga - She's So Good-Looking, She Looks Like a Man
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - What does one make of the extraordinary case of the new world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya, who has been asked by the International Association of Athletics Fede (By Jan)...Namibia Warned Against 'Soft Loans'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA should "insist" on conditions that benefit its development agenda when dealing with partners such as China, Finance Permanent Secretary Calle Schlettwein said yesterday.If not, (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Cops did nothing to save my son'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: The police are refusing to act against a circumcision school that allegedly kidnapped boys without their parents' consent, demanding R1200 each for their return, a 30-year-old mother told Sapa on Tues (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister meets apartheid era killer
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has met apartheid era police hit squad member, Butana Almond Nofemela, as she considers his parole after 21 years in prison.A statement from corr (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops fudge distress call
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Hannes MyburghA 19-year-old lay hidden under a blanket and sent a desperate SMS to a friend: "Call cops. Emergency please... They're robbing us at home".Her friend didn't recognise who the text had (By Jan)...South Africa: Thousands expected for athletics' arrival
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: South Africa's athletes are expected to be greeted by thousands of supporters when they arrive at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport from Berlin on Tuesday proudly bearing their two golds a (By Jan)...Science: 'Cyber traffic' up in endangered species
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Reinnier KazeYaounde - Advertisements on the Internet to woo buyers into taking "playful primates" from Cameroon into their homes have become one of the primary means of further threatening already (By Jan)...Africa: Ukrainian sailors plead for help
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Nairobi - The Ukrainian crew of a cargo ship held for more than three months by Somali pirates pleaded on Sunday for authorities to speed up efforts to gain their release and urgently evacuate a femal (By Jan)...South Africa: Poverty plagues soldiers - union
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Low salaries are causing soldiers to have their homes repossessed and are breaking up their families, a union said on Sunday.The South African Security Forces Union vowed to fight to have soldiers' be (By Jan)...South Africa: Closed arms meeting to hide dodgy deals: DA
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Closing a meeting between Parliament and government arms committees to the public later this week is a "deliberate attempt to cover dodgy arms deals", the DA said on Sunday.The public had a right to k (By Jan)...South Africa: Khashane's wife not a suspect: police
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: The wife of Bona editor Force Khashane, Palesa, is not a suspect alongside the three men arrested for his murder, Gauteng police said on Sunday."The suspects are all men and as far as I know she is n (By Jan)...South Africa: Three killed in chopper crash
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: A 49-year-old pilot and two young girls were killed when their private helicopter crashed in White River, Mpumalanga on Sunday, police said.The aircraft fell to the ground and exploded near a Eucalypt (By Jan)...Uganda: Peacekeepers to Hunt LRA Rebels in Sudan?
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Henry MukasaKampala - THE United Nations is considering revising the mandate of its peacekeeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan so that they can join the hunt for LRA (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Accused Leader Free, But Where to Go?
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Eugène Bakama BopeAccused war criminal Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has been granted conditional release pending his trial but a coun (By Jan)...DTA Blames Government for Crime
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - DTA chairman, Johan de Waal, is blaming the Head of State for the crime levels in the country, saying President Hifikepunye Pohamba, and Government in general, "has lost the w (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG - The Country's Oil Reserves Rebound, now 37 Billion Barrels
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By George OjiAbuja - The Federal Government has disclosed that the nation's current crude oil reserves stand at 37 billion barrels. The reserves, which stood at 35 billion barrels before the Niger Del (By Jan)...South Africa: DA questions millions on hospital security
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: The Gauteng hospitals' security bill of R141-million is a rip-off, said the Democratic Alliance on Thursday.Security costs for Gauteng's 34 state hospitals had more than tripled in three years, from R (By Jan)...Somalia: Islamists Ban Selling Explosive Things, Warn People Not Sell Cooked Food
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Kismayu - The Islamic administration of Kismayu town 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu has banned selling the explosive things that the children play and warned to the people not to (By Jan)...South Africa: Disabled tenants trapped in flats
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Slindile MalilekaDisgruntled wheelchair-bound and elderly residents of Elwyn Court in Mahatma Gandhi (Point) Road say they are fed-up with being prisoners in their own homes.The lifts at the former (By Jan)...Rwanda: 61 Students Set for U.S. and China
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Irene V. NambiKigali - With a view of enhancing the country's science and technology human resource base, the Student's Financing Agency of Rwanda (SFAR) in partnership with Chinese and US universi (By Jan)...World: New ETA caches found
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Paris - French police found two more ETA explosives caches on Monday and Tuesday, taking to 12 the number discovered since three suspected Basque militants were arrested in the Alps last week.The bigg (By Jan)...BPC's Solar Power Dream Takes Shape
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Thato MosekiWith a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for a 200-megawatt solar thermal power station completed, the Botswana Power Corporation's (BPC) pioneering solar power project is taking shape.The PF (By Jan)...Nigeria: GUO Transport Boss, Godwin Okeke Kidnapped
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Vincent UjumaduAwka - BARELY a week after the kidnap of a popular Nollywood actor, Chief Pete Edochie in Onitsha, Anambra state, another notable figure in the state, this time, a popular Onitsha ba (By Jan)...Russia Trying To Find An Excuse To Invade Ukraine?
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: [It seems here that Russia maybe trying to use the same baseless excuses that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan applied toward their targeted nations to be invaded. Among what the Nazis and the Imperia (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Group Pleads For Stay of Execution
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Francis IwuchukwuLagos - Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to the African Union (AU) Chairperson Muammar al-Gaddafi, asking him to immediately order a sta (By Jan)...Uganda: Odoki On the Money About Land Matters
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki's warning to judicial officials not to issue land eviction orders carelessly is timely.The Judiciary has been variously described as corrupt by especially President Yoweri (By Jan)...Tanzania: Ex-Army Man in Plea to End Ethnic Clashes
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Anthony MayungaTarime - A retired army officer has urged his former colleagues to assist in finding a lasting solution to ongoing ethnic clashes and cattle rustling in Tarime District, Mara Region. (By Jan)...Cameroon: Laquintinie Blood Bank Drained!
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Martin NkematabongHospital administrators say donors dread being tested HIV positive.A hue and cry was last weekend raised via the local media about the empty blood bank of the Douala Laquintinie h (By Jan)...Uganda: Two Billion Barrels of Oil Confirmed in Uganda
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Ibrahim Kasita and Els De TemmermanKampala - THE petroleum resources in the Lake Albertine Graben is about two billion barrels, the energy ministry has said.Dozith Abeinomugisha, a senior geologist (By Jan)...South Africa: Four caught red-handed in poaching bust
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Wildlife officials have made a major breakthrough following a spate of rhino poaching that occurred nationwide.Four men were caught red-handed while they attempted to flee from Imfolozi Game Reserve w (By Jan)...South Africa: Man and woman charged with kidnap, murder
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaA man and woman were arrested on Thursday after allegedly kidnapping a month-old baby and killing a woman believed to be the baby's mother in the Hibberdene area.Superintendent Z (By Jan)...Five Malagasies Detained in Maputo Carrying Illegal Firearms
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican Police (PRM) has detained in Maputo on Wednesday a group of five Malagasies who are accused of carrying illegal firearms.According to the state Radio Mozambique (RM), the suspe (By Jan)...South Africa: Body found in petrol tank
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: The body of a man was found hanging from a petrol tank at the department of public works in Vereeniging on Thursday, said Vaal Triangle police."His upper body was inside the petrol tank, while the res (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers to appear before military tribunal
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Two SANDF soldiers arrested for public violence during an illegal strike in Pretoria would soon appear before a military tribunal, a community safety spokesman said on Thursday.The pair were handed ov (By Jan)...South Africa: Implats strike spreads
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By James MachariaSouth Africa's biggest union said a strike at Impala Platinum's (Implats) biggest mine may spread to the entire company after wage talks broke down on Wednesday.Workers at the world's (By Jan)...South Africa: Taxi strike slammed
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: The Gauteng ANC, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party on Wednesday criticised the taxi industry's threatened strike in a bid to halt the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system."To this intended str (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe 'in good health'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe on Wednesday said President Robert Mugabe had returned from a one-week visit abroad in good health, denying reports that he had been taken to hospital in Dubai."The president came ba (By Jan)...South Africa: Game customers intimidated
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Nondumiso Mbuyazi and Rizwana Sheik UmarEmployees of Game and the SA Post Office will continue with their strike action on Wednesday.Durban Game store customers were on Tuesday barred from entering (By Jan)...South Africa: Judgment in Ruby's murder trial expected
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: The murder case which rocked the sleepy Southern Cape town of Swellendam nearly three years ago is drawing to a close. Businesswoman Ruby Marais and three others are accused of conspiring to murder he (By Jan)...Africa: Cancer Hits Africa Hard
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Anso ThomDublin - Africa will be hardest hit by cancer - projected to be the biggest killer in the world by 2010 - with a massive treatment gap leading to people dying painful and undignified death (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Cash Crunch Hits Farmers As Planting Season Nears
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Bernard MpofuZIMBABWE'S summer cropping season could be under threat as farmers do not have the money to procure agro-inputs.Already expecting a disastrous winter season harvest due to poor plannin (By Jan)...Nigeria: PDP Armed Militants for Elections - MEND Commander
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By James UmeA leading member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Nwaeze Adiele, who was in charge of the Tombia front as well as serviced weapons for militants, yesterday surrende (By Jan)...Zim: Cabinet retreat collapses as ministers storm out
Monday 24-Aug-2009: "This is not the first time he has done it and we felt that this was unacceptable" Harare - A cabinet retreat by Zimbabwe's unity government collapsed this weekend as President Robert Mugabe's (By Jan)...World: Obama seeks shelter from the storm
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts - President Barack Obama flew into the millionaire's playground of Martha's Vineyard on Sunday, seeking respite from a gathering political storm on his first vacation since t (By Jan)...Africa: 'This is a historic moment'
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Libreville, Gabon - For the first time in more than 41 years, Gabonese casting their votes Sunday will not know ahead of time who their next president will be.Eighteen candidates are vying to replace (By Jan)...Somalia: Somaliland Troops 'Seize Parliament'
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Hargeisa - Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed "Irro," Speaker of Somaliland's lower house of parliament, the 82-seat House of Representatives, told reporters in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa that he was "inform (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Give Multi-Currencies a Chance
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Chester MhendeHarare - RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono should be commended for inviting constructive debate over the fate of our national currency, the Zimbabwe dollar.I make my co (By Jan)...South Africa: Flying Squad cops charged in unfolding saga
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Jade WittenTwo Flying Squad police officers charged with robbery and the kidnapping of a Salt River café owner have appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court.It is alleged that Chumani Mady (By Jan)...Nigeria: Chinese Man Kills Co-Worker in Abuja
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: By Misbahu Bashir And Usman A. BelloA Chinese man allegedly pushed his fellow national to his death from atop a hill on the edge of the capital city, Abuja.Witnesses said Ji Jingyun and Chen Zhiqing, (By Jan)...South Africa: Everyone in taxi dies in crash
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: All seven occupants of a taxi including the driver were killed their taxi collided with a truck on the N2 road near Empangeni in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday, police said."One of the drivers of th (By Jan)...South Africa: Implats managers draw line in the sand
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By James MachariaSouth Africa's Impala Platinum said on Thursday it could sack thousands of striking workers, escalating a wage dispute that miners threatened to spread to all the company's operations (By Jan)...South Africa: State unable to run Eskom: DA
Friday 28-Aug-2009: The government was unable to run state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as Eskom in the public interest, the opposition Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.It was commenting on the electricity parastata (By Jan)...South Africa: Four poachers arrested
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Four men were arrested after they were caught red handed with a .303 rifle and two freshly taken rhino horns, Ezemvelo KwaZulu Natal Wildlife said on Thursday."In the late afternoon of Wednesday EKZNW (By Jan)...South Africa: School security to be reviewed
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Ilse FredericksA review of whether schools are managing their existing security resources effectively is being planned by the Western Cape Education Department's Safe Schools division. And the teac (By Jan)...South Africa: Traditional healers, cops clash
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Police used pepper spray on traditional healers when they stormed the health department offices in Pretoria on Thursday in an attempt to force the director general to accept their memorandum.They push (By Jan)...World: Protests were planned before vote - Khamenei
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Zahra HosseinianTehran - Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday he did not believe the leaders of opposition protests that erupted after the country's June presidential vote were agents of foreign (By Jan)...South Africa: Ngcobo is my preferred candidate - Zuma
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday promised to consider the opposition's objections to the appointment of Judge Sandile Ngcobo as chief justice, but shrugged off criticism that his office had botched t (By Jan)...Iran's Connections To The Balkan Wars?
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: [It seems that there might be another reason why a certain Wesley Clark doesn't want war with Iran. It was because he allowed Iranian operatives from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to help smuggle (By Lone Wolf)...Somalia: Somaliland - Don't Throw Out the Baby With the Bathwater
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Abdullahi DoolThe English wisdom (Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater) teaches us what is important in life; what to treasure and what to throw away. Our people in Somaliland are travelling (By Jan)...Kenya: World Food Body Appeal for 3.8 Million in Need
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Nairobi - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for at least US$230 million to provide emergency food assistance in the next six months to 3.8 million Kenyans affected by drought and subseque (By Jan)...Sudan: New Campaign Calls on President Obama to 'live up to his words'
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Today a coalition of anti-genocide advocacy organizations announced the launch of a bold new campaign called Sudan Now: Keep the Promise. The campaign will challenge President Barack Obama and top U.S (By Jan)...South Africa: Corpses found in Hout Bay
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: A body recovered by rescuers and police divers was identified as that of a Hout Bay resident who had probably been out walking when he slipped and fell into the water, police said. On Tuesday two bodi (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma stands firm on Ngcobo
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma promised on Wednesday to consider the opposition's objections to the appointment of Judge Sandile Ngcobo as chief justice, but shrugged off criticism that his office had botched t (By Jan)...Africa: Experts Say Continent Can Feed Itself
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Sammy CheboiNairobi - Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to feed itself and produce enough for the world were it not for poor agricultural policies.Global food security dominated discussions at t (By Jan)...World: Kennedy death puts family dynasty in doubt
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Jason SzepBoston - Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of grav (By Jan)...South Africa: Racism alleged at school
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Allegations of racism and unprofessional conduct have been levelled against a Tongaat school principal after he allegedly asked a parent to leave his office because she did not know how to speak Engli (By Jan)...Africa: Dos Santos captured in Mozambique
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's most wanted criminal, Anibal dos Santos Junior, convicted of murdering a high-profile journalist, has been recaptured after more than eight months on the run, police said on Tues (By Jan)...South Africa: Miners accused of public violence
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Ten miners were arrested for public violence during a strike at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg on Tuesday, North West police said.Two cars were set alight and police fired rubber bullets to disperse cr (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'The Nation Lacks Enough Extension Workers'
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Abubakar K. MommohAbuja - What were the specific challenges you met on assumption of office?As the only institute that conduct research on extension delivery service as well as supporting all the 3 (By Jan)...Sudan: New Campaign Calls on President Obama to "live up to his words"
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Today a coalition of anti-genocide advocacy organizations announced the launch of a bold new campaign called Sudan Now: Keep the Promise. The campaign will challenge President Barack Obama and top U.S (By Jan)...Ya Nangoloh to Sue Swapo Paper
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Christof MaletskyTHE executive director of the National Society for Human Rights, Phil ya Nangoloh, is suing Swapo's mouthpiece, Namibia Today, for N$250 000 after he was called a "pathological lia (By Jan)...Sudan: U.S., Africa Step Up Darfur Peace Drive
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Diplomatic efforts by both African and Western nations to bring peace to Darfur are intensifying as President Barack Obama's special envoy for Sudan comes under increasing domestic pressure over his a (By Jan)...Uganda: Landlords, Tenants Should Resolve Impasse
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Kampala - VIOLENCE due to conflicts between landlords and tenants has of late increased, particularly in the central region. A number of landlords, surveyors and land dealers have been attacked and so (By Jan)...South Africa: IFP defends accusations against Cele
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Irene KuppanMonths after the elections former transport and safety MEC Bheki Cele is still battling it out in court with the IFP over comments made by some of the party's leaders regarding Cele's a (By Jan)...South Africa: Two held for execution-style killing of brothers
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Jason WarnerPolice have made headway in their investigation of the double execution-style murder of two brothers in Bishop Lavis - arresting two alleged members of the infamous 28s prison gang.Bish (By Jan)...US$6m AfDB Package for Zim
Monday 24-Aug-2009: The money will be used to re-equip the Central Statistical Office By Our StaffThe African Development Bank (AfDB) has given Zimbabwe US$6 million in technical assistance to reboot key ministri (By Jan)...Somalia: Police Stop Soldiers Carrying Illegal Weapons
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiMogadishu - The Transitional Federal government police department officials have said that they banned from the soldiers to have unlawful weapons through the Somali capital Mogadis (By Jan)...South Africa: Petrol Price to Increase By 36 Cent
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Pretoria - Motorists, who are already struggling with the high cost of fuel, will have to fork out an additional 36 cents a litre for fuel, as from next Wednesday.The Department of Energy announced on (By Jan)...South Africa: Two killed in taxi smash on M1
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Jabulile NgwenyaTwo people were killed in a taxi accident on the M1 South, opposite Gold Reef City. Traffic was backed up for several kilometres in both directions as passers-by tried to catch a gl (By Jan)...Nigeria: JTF Nabs Nine-Man Kidnap Gang
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Emma ArubiWarri - OPERATIVES of the military Joint Task Force, code-named Operation Restore Hope, yesterday morning arrested a 9-man heavily armed militant group at a popular hotel along Otu-Jeremi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Lagos And Self Sufficiency in Fish Production
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Stella OduemeLagos - Fish is an essential food component and one of the cheapest sources of protein. Due to its low cholesterol level, it is medically acceptable to both the young and old. Unfortun (By Jan)...South Africa: Wheelchair-bound woman stabbed to death
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Nondumiso MbuyaziA wheelchair-bound 85-year-old woman, who was staying at a retirement home, was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning.Sheila Hesk, of Durban, who was staying was at Sandown Village (By Jan)...South Africa: Mantashe: You will make or break the ANC
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Louise FlanaganIf ANC councillors fail to deliver, they could cost the ANC the next local government election, warns ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe."You will make or break the ANC, individual (By Jan)...Nigeria: Quelea Birds Invade Farms in Adamawa
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Ibrahim MuhammadYola - Flocks of quelea birds have invaded farmlands in some parts of Adamawa state, destroying crops that were due for harvest, with the state government saying it will partner wit (By Jan)...South Africa: Millions spent on trashed schools
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Ilse FredericksThe Western Cape Education Department spent R2,9-million of its emergency maintenance fund on repairing vandalised schools in the 2008/09 financial year. This is less than in the 200 (By Jan)...South Africa: Man sentenced for killing uncle
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: An 18-year-old man was sentenced in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday to eight years in prison for his uncle's murder.Siphesihle Mahlaba was sentenced two days after his 22-year-old girlfri (By Jan)...Zambia: Max Nkole Removed
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: TASK Force on Corruption executive chairperson, Maxwell Nkole's contract of employment has expired and he has with immediate effect vacated his position, Secretary to the Cabinet, Joshua Kanganja has (By Jan)...South Africa: Central Rand Rises On Confirmed Gold Deposit At CMR
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - CENTRAL Rand Gold 's share price jumped 22% to 300c on the JSE yesterday after it released its first reserves report showing a confirmed deposit of 270900oz of gold (By Jan)...World: Obama makes moral case for reform
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Washington - President Barack Obama on Wednesday said America, as the world's richest nation, had a moral duty to offer health care to everyone, in a fresh bid to bolster support for his top domestic (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunmen had bags of cash - police
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Three men were arrested after being found with R35 000 in cash and a stolen German sedan in Katlehong on Tuesday, Ekurhuleni police said."The suspects managed to evade a chopper which had been chasing (By Jan)...Uganda: Teso Famine Victims' Food Stolen
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: By Sheila Naturinda and Ismail Musa LaduKampala - Opposition Parliamentarians from the Teso sub region yesterday petitioned Parliament over the alleged theft of yet-to-be-computed quantities of relief (By Jan)...Uganda: Congolese Abduct Ugandan Fishermen
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Amlan Tumusiime and Henry MukasaKampala - ARMED Congolese on Friday raided Rukwanzi Island on Lake Albert and abducted eight Ugandan fishermen, whom they accused of fishing in "their" waters. The i (By Jan)...Africa: Lockerbie bomber to pen tell-all book
Monday 24-Aug-2009: London - The Lockerbie bomber is planning to write an auto-biography to "proclaim his innocence" by disclosing new information behind Britain's deadliest terrorist attack, a report said on Monday.Abde (By Jan)...Africa: Gunmen abduct 8 in disputed oil region
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Kampala - Armed Congolese have abducted eight Ugandans from a disputed island on Lake Albert, a government newspaper reported on Monday.Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been clashing f (By Jan)...South Africa: Metrorail strike fizzles out
Monday 24-Aug-2009: By Aziz Hartley and Michelle JonesThe Metrorail strike has fizzled out without train drivers and technical staff winning any of their demands.They return to work this morning (Monday), even though the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe in hospital
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has received treatment in a Dubai hospital after falling ill, a South African newspaper reported on Wednesday. But there was no official comment and The Times new (By Gairk)...WWIII: Missing Cargo ship may have been carrying a more sensitive cargo than first stated
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: [I think the cargo was Nuclear material on its way via Algeria, with an ultimate destination of Iran. Think about it. Why would the Russians go to so much trouble and expense to find the ship, and all (By Gairk)...USA: Attack on Obama riles Beck's advertisers, 33 Fox News advertisers pull out
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel on Monday after a vacation with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a rac (By Gairk)...[Pic] USA: Impeach President Barack Obama - Are you nuts? You flipping RACIST you?
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: A good friend of mine sent me some stories about President Obama, and in it, he included the image below, of the Communist Hammer and Sickle with the "Russian-type" words: "Impeach Obama". Here it is: (By Jan)...Introduction of the Earthship to Orania
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Ludwig & Retha Everson have returned to Orania, South Africa to build an 'Aardskip' (Earthship). The Earthship is basically an environmentally friendly self-sufficient home, built from recycled materi (By JanOlifant)...Science: The Incredible knowledge that Archaeologists have of distant human history...
Friday 28-Aug-2009: I always used to think (in my ignorance), that there is no way of tracing the events that are mentioned in the Bible or in the history of ancient Europe before Jesus. Yes, I was aware that here and th (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers suspended after march
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Soldiers who were dispersed with rubber bullets and teargas following an illegal march on Wednesday, will be immediately suspended without pay, Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said.Between 1 000 and 2 (By Jan)...[Humor] [Afrikaans] S.Africa: If Bands had Afrikaans names…
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: This is simply hilarious! The internet abounds with crazy English to Afrikaans translations, and this is another great one. Enjoy! IF BANDS HAD AFRIKAANS NAMES 1. Pet Shop Boys - Troeteldierwi (By JanOlifant)...Lukashenko Tricks Pope Into Being A 'Humanitarian' Figure By Using Third Son
Friday 28-Aug-2009: [It seems that a certain Alexander Lukashenko, the tyrant whom rules Belarus is quite content knowing that a certain Pope Benedict XVI happily leigitmized his regime on the fact that he had a "humanit (By Lone Wolf)...Video & Audio: The new voice of the White African
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Bok van Blerk probably became most famous for his international hit 'Delarey'. The song brought together the Afrikaans community and celebrated its wonderful culture but also history, and at the end t (By JanOlifant)...YouTube Video: Red Chinese Organ Harvesting Of Its Own People Versus Israel 'Harvesting' Organs From Palestinians
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: [This is an old report of the Red Chinese allegedly harvesting organs from their own people, especially from those locked up in concentration camps. There is a recent contraversy fabricated by a Swed (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (27-08-2009)
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: Howzit "The oldest President in the world Robert Mugabe is back from his Dubai medical trip. Men like Mugabe make 80 years look like the new 65. He arrived in Harare on Tuesday from Dubai where (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Toyota to shut first assembly plant in its 72-year history
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Toyota Motor Corp. will shut an assembly plant for the first time in its 72-year history after the failure of a joint venture with General Motors Corp. New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in Fremon (By Gairk)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-08-2009)
Tuesday 25-Aug-2009: Howzit Rumours that Mugabe is unwell have often done the rounds in Zimbabwe and most of it is wishful thinking. It wasn't that long ago that he made a trip to the Far East to see a urologist and no (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-08-2009)
Monday 24-Aug-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- "Mberengwa senator and former Cabinet minister Richard Chemist Hove has died. Hove (77) died at St Anne’s Hospital in Harare on Friday e (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-08-2009)
Friday 28-Aug-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Reading through the various stories this morning, I was rather taken by the article about the trial of an MDC deputy minister for the theft o (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-08-2009)
Saturday 29-Aug-2009: Howzit So Zuma came and went - and nothing was resolved with regards to the crisis in Zimbabwe. Why am I not surprised? Many of the reports that you will read today will suggest a 'hope' for the (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-08-2009)
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It is more than apparent that this article was written by a reporter from the pro-Mugabe newspaper, The Herald. Whilst I have no wish to sp (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-08-2009)
Sunday 30-Aug-2009: Howzit Since when did anything 'illegal' work against ZANU PF? It makes no difference what they do, the party members are permitted by Mugabe's presence to do anything that they wish... Just yes (By The BeardedMan)...
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