Southern Africa in Crisis
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Sunday, 6th September 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 & GruesomeGroundbreaking: Letters of support for White Refugee status to Canadian Authorities
Friday 04-Sep-2009: The very response of the ANC to a White male receiving refugee status, is RACIST. Think about it, the ANC only went in protest because Mr Huntley was white, while they idiotically cry out that they ar (By JanOlifant)...Africa: Continent's Expectations of Obama Are Unfounded
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Sehlare MakgetlanengGiven US President Obama's Kenyan ancestry, hopes have run high that his administration would change the nature of America's relationship with Africa, writes Sehlare Makgetlanen (By Jan)...South Africa: Unsavoury Military Manoeuvres And the Country's Coercive Disarray
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Anthony ButlerJohannesburg - MANY South Africans were alarmed by last week's violent confrontation between soldiers and police officers in the grounds of the Union Buildings in Pretoria. After all, (By Jan)...South Africa: SA's 604 overseas refugees
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Candice BaileyBrandon Huntley, South Africa?s white refugee who 'fled' to Canada to escape being targetted by 'black criminals' is not alone.The Saturday Star can reveal, as diplomats scramble to r (By Jan)...Farmer's elderly wife killed in latest Zimbabwe murder of whites
Monday 31-Aug-2009: "We are political fair game" Harare - The 75-year-old wife of a farmer on a smallholding in central Zimbabwe has been murdered in the fourth recent killing of whites on isolated holdings as vi (By Jan)...USA: Bill Cosby says the truth is hard to accept
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [Thanks Joe… Yeah, people must just keep on telling it like it is. Jan] [Bill Cosby nailed it perfectly. It's been this way for 43 years now but has not always been this way in the black community. (By Gairk)...EU on Zim sanctions
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Do you think it's time to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe? Journalist Violet Gonda presents this week's Hot Seat and her guest is Member of the European Parliament, Geoffrey Van Orden, with an insi (By Jan)...Is Mugabe losing control of Zimbabwe?
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Mawere has tried to open negotiations directly with Mugabe Court documents show two ministers are defying President Robert Mugabe in a power struggle over control of a mining companyBy a corre (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Farmers' Lawyers Dismiss Government's Pull-Out of SADC Tribunal
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Alex BellLawyers for the group of farmers who challenged the seizure of their land in the human rights court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), have dismissed the government's mo (By Jan)...South Africa: Law Failing Lesbians On 'Corrective Rape'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Nathalie Rosa BucherCape Town - "Women are getting killed in the Western Cape," says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her "cabin" in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town.The project is nam (By Jan)...South Africa: Canada refugee decision racist - ANC
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The ruling ANC on Tuesday condemned a Canadian decision to give a white South African refugee status from the crime-ridden country, rejecting it as "racist", "sensationalist" and "alarming"."The Afric (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC slams refugee ruling
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Michael GeorgyCanada's decision to grant refugee status to a South African who said he was persecuted because he is white drew accusations of racism from the country's ruling ANC on Tuesday.Race is (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Border Dispute - Time for Ecowas to Intervene
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Lansana GberieOnce again, the source of an African conflict can be traced back to unsustainable demarcations of territories arbitrarily drawn by colonial powers and the resulting civil war, argues (By Jan)...Burkina Faso: New Claims on Sankara Killing
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Silvestro MontanaroAstounding allegations have come forth about the 1987 assassination of the former president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, through a documentary aired on Italy's public channel (By Jan)...Nigeria: Political Reverberations of a Bank Reform
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Daniel Kanu, Austin Oboh and Michael JegedeLagos - A wave of politics is in the air. This time, it is not geared winning elections or any form of partisan politics. This one appears of a different (By Jan)...Uganda: Leave Land Conflicts to the Police, Courts - Mengo
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Kampala - The Kabaka recently appealed to the Lukiiko in Mengo to avoid bloodshed over land wrangles between landlords and tenants.How are you going to do this?As a kingdom, we are going to encourage (By Jan)...Zim: A crisis driven by greed
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Scores of those aligned to Zanu PF are currently on an invasion spree of white-owned commercial farms and are literally reaping where they did not sow CommentDewa MavhingaI had not realised th (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Memories of War - The August 18th Uprising
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Karim BahTwelve rainy seasons have passed since youths and students all over the major cities in Sierra Leone came out to protest against one of the most brutal military regimes ever seen in Africa (By Jan)...Zim: Besieged farmer's house burned down in apparent arson attack
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: “We have literally been left with the clothes on our backs†click here to view image #2click here to view image #3By Alex BellA beleaguered commercial farmer in Chegutu, who has faced mont (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Besieged Farmer's House Burned Down in Apparent Arson Attack
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Alex BellA beleaguered commercial farmer in Chegutu, who has faced months of intimidation and attack by land invaders this year, was on Monday night without a home, after his farmhouse was burned d (By Jan)...Africa: Continent And the Global Food Crisis
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Olivier De SchutterIn an interview with Afroline, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter discusses the global food crisis, the 'intolerable' link between agricultural produc (By Jan)...South Africa: Asylum should be granted on race - readers
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Ainsley DanielsA South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada, where an immigration board found "clear and convincing proof" he was persecuted for being white.Most IOL readers though (By Jan)...Africa: 'No more people on their land to kill'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Sarah El DeebCairo - The outgoing UN peacekeeping chief in Sudan's Darfur region said the world should no longer consider the long-running conflict a war after a sharp decline in violence and death (By Jan)...Southern Africa: The United States and the Future of HIV/Aids Prevention and Treatment
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The following is a letter by the Treatment Action Campaign and AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about recent policy changes in the direction of P (By Jan)...South Africa: Constable dies responding to crime report
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Caryn DolleyYet another family is in mourning, more children have been robbed of a parent, and scores of police officers are said to be "traumatised" after a shooting in which a constable was died (By Jan)...Uganda: When Land Disputes Turn Very Violent And the State is Helpless to Act
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Jenny VaughanOn the evening of December 1, 2007 Byron Taremwa and Richard Kakuru returned home from a party where they were met by a group of bodaboda drivers in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb. Within m (By Jan)...South Africa: Climate Change Tool Helps Identify Vulnerable Farmers
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Johannesburg - The production of maize, South Africa's staple food, could drop by as much as 30 percent in another two decades as climate change brings more intense droughts, but little is known about (By Jan)...Zim: Another house burned down as campaign against farmers heats up
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Part of a deliberate drive click here to download image #2click here to download image #3click here to download image #4click here to download image #5By Alex BellThe renewed offensive to driv (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Another House Burned Down as Campaign against Farmers Heats Up
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Alex BellThe renewed offensive to drive the remaining commercial farmers off their land stepped up a level this week, with yet another farm house on a besieged farm in Chegutu being burned to the g (By Jan)...South Africa: Tea party for killer cop
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Fatima SchroederA friend of killer cop Marius van der Westhuizen is hosting a tea party and prayer meeting in Bishopscourt today to drum up support for the policeman before his sentencing later thi (By Jan)...USA: Senator Ted Kennedy the Traitor dies - good riddance... Too bad Mugabe isn't dead too....
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [Joseph Smith, the American Journalist who was in Vietnam and who fought in Rhodesia sent me a note about the death of Senator Ted Kennedy and what a traitor he was to America. The American Liberal me (By Jan)...Africa: Threat to Walk Out of Climate Talks
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Argaw AshineAfrica's climate negotiators led by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, threatened to walk out of talks if the December climate summit in Copenhagen failed to consider Africa's posi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Dances to Own Tune
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Tichaona ZindogaHarare - JUST a couple of weeks after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed hope that South Africa would "use its influence to mitigate the negative effects of the continu (By Jan)...South Africa: I was fired for doing my job, says Eseta man
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: A former Energy Seta employee has accused his bosses of mismanagement and misappropriation of funds. He has even claimed the Seta's chief executive has so few computer skills he can't download documen (By Jan)...South Africa: TAU International Bulletin; What Are They Doing In Their Jobs Then?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Submitted by Kobie Nel: September 1, 2009 TAU SA is the oldest agricultural union in South Africa and has been in existence since 1897. The mission of the union is to ensure a productive and safe (By JoAn)...South Africa: ATM robbers 'using new methods'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Arthi SanpathWhile bank card fraud is reflecting a downward trend, criminals are using increasingly dangerous methods to defraud and rob bank customers - some have resorted to using using sedatives (By Jan)...Uganda: Killings - Govt Fears the Truth, Says Muntu
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Emmanuel GyezahoMaj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu is a former army commander and a member of the East African Legislative Assembly. Emmanuel Gyezaho spoke to him about the alleged role of the NRA in the kill (By Jan)...South Africa: Blacks also 'persecuted'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Clare Byrne, DPAThuli Ndlovu doesn't buy the claim of fellow South African, Brandon Huntley, the country's first-known "crime refugee", that he was singled out by criminals because he was white.Can (By Jan)...Uganda: 'Strong Leaders Will Stop Acholi Land Grabbers' Museveni Has Broken My Country'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Yasiin MugerwaAs rumblings resulting from land disputes in Acholiland continue to be heard, Sunday Monitor spoke to Aswa County MP, Reagan Okumu. Mr Okumu is also vice-chairman Acholi Parliamentary (By Jan)...Kenya: Global Land Grab Takes Root Amid Growing Poverty
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Alexandra SpieldochClose to a billion people in the world are hungry, and there is growing poverty, unemployment, and displacement in the rural sector. The world community is in widespread agreemen (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldier violence 'verged on terrorism'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Graeme HoskenDefence and military analysts have slammed the violent action by striking soldiers, saying their actions, which could drastically escalate if they get hold of weapons as promised, verg (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Victims' Participation in Militant's Trail Raises Questions
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Rachel IrwinThe Hague - The participation of victims in the trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga has fundamentally changed the course of the proceedings, observers say.A total of 99 vic (By Jan)...South Africa: Four robbers killed in police ambush
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Alex EliseevThose who witnessed it said it was like watching a movie - a gang of robbers ambushed by police officers after pulling off a brazen Sunday afternoon robbery at a supermarket. When the b (By Jan)...Stoop Murder Suspects in Court
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesA YOUNG woman and two brothers made a first court appearance in Windhoek yesterday in connection with the alleged murder and robbery of Windhoek resident Koos Stoop in his home on Frid (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: The Scandal over S.Africa's first White Refugee in Canada - This Blog wants YOU
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: [This is important, please spread it around. This is a good subject to discuss. Our racist black Govt is now freaked out now that a court in a First World, top class country has finally agreed that a (By Jan)...S.Africa: Johannesburg: Our Worthless Nurses - My Mom very ill in hospital...
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: [My mother got very ill the other day. I was worried whether I should keep her at home and take her to the doctor the next day. She was delirious and was running a high temperature. I'd never seen her (By Jan)...South Africa: Price Fixing Can Land Company Directors in Jail
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Sybrandus AdemaCape Town - A series of high-profile cases in which big South African companies have been found guilty of fixing the prices of even basic foodstuffs have led to the adoption of a new (By Jan)...USA: Slavery Reparations and Comment
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: This piece was sent to us by Kobie Nel:It was first posted a number of years ago, but to this day it is still relevant, perhaps even more so. It came off the Free Republic site which Jan and I both sp (By JoAn)...Africa: South Africa wants faster Zimbabwe talks
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Giles ElgoodSouth Africa wants long-running power sharing negotiations in Zimbabwe to move ahead more quickly, a senior member of South Africa's ruling ANC said.Thandi Modise, deputy secretary-gene (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Sanctions Pose Threat to GPA'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Harare - THE illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West are the biggest threat to the survival of the inclusive Government and economic turnaround efforts, President Mugabe will tell his fellow (By Jan)...SA wants Zimbabwe powersharing to move ahead
Friday 04-Sep-2009: More than three million Zimbabweans were placing a huge strain on South Africa's resources South Africa wants long-running power sharing negotiations in Zimbabwe to move ahead more quickly, a (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Moe, the spy'
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Nathi OlifantShould Moe Shaik get the nod as the country's top spook, his appointment will be part of a pattern of handpicked allies from KwaZulu-Natal who manage President Jacob Zuma's most sensit (By Jan)...Africa: The Gift And the Curse - A Review of the African Blogosphere
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Dibussi TandeIn this week's review of the African blogosphere, Dibussi Tande looks at Africa's inability to meaningfully exploit its natural resources, corruption in Cameroon, the ongoing water cri (By Jan)...Nigeria: Mallam Sanusi And His 'Northern Agenda'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Simon KolawoleLagos - Three issues are of immense interest to me in the latest banking shake-up. One is the recovery of nearly N45 billion after an unprecedented name-and-shame saga.Where did the m (By Jan)...Science: Syringe attacks spark new protest
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Beijing - Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety on Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethn (By Jan)...Nigeria: Robbers Kill 2, Injured Others in Bank Raid
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Kolade LarewajuHell was virtually let loose yesterday in Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, as dare devil armed robbers attacked a new generation bank and later clashed wi (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema: I would never undermine women
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema described himself as a defender of women who would never promote hatred towards them, when he testified in the Equality Court in Johannes (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema: I defended women
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema described himself as a defender of women who would never promote hatred towards them, when he testified in the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Monday."I am (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Zuma Takes Tougher Line on Zimbabwe
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Harare - "Quiet diplomacy", the mantra used by former South African president Thabo Mbeki in his dealings with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, appears to have fallen by the wayside and been replac (By Jan)...Nigeria: Petroleum Subsidy And its Global Phenomenon
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Okafor LorettaLagos - "A healthy nation is a wealthy nation" says the adage. The future of any country's survival, and that of its corporate institutions, depend largely on how healthy or otherwise (By Jan)...South Africa: Food prices are still rising
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Daily News ReportersEven though the surge in prices is slowing, food price inflation continues at high levels and basic food item prices remain high, with consumers about to be hit by a new set of (By Jan)...Disgraceful Treason By Noam Chomsky; Chomsky Meets With Hugo Chavez
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [How disgusting here that we have someone like Noam Chomsky obviously meeting with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. If Chomsky loves Communism so much, why doesn't he actually go and live in a Communist cou (By Lone Wolf)...Africa: Gaddafi blasts Israel
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Tripoli - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted Israel at a special African Union summit on Monday on the eve of celebrations to mark his 40-year rule, accusing the Jewish state of causing all the woe (By Jan)...Uganda: Killings in Acholi - Who is to Blame?
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Risdel KasasiraFollowing MP Reagan Okumu's release of a list of names of Acholi killed during the two-decade war in northern Uganda, people are asking pertinent questions including who, especially (By Jan)...Somalia: Analysis - Who is Fighting Whom
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Nairobi - Somalia has experienced conflict since 1991 when the late President Mohamed Siad Barre's government was overthrown by opposition forces. Up to 2006, the fighting was largely between clan-bas (By Jan)...South Africa: SA sucks, says crime refugee
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Craig McKuneBrandon Huntley is the South African who was granted asylum in Canada because of the violent persecution he claims he faced for being white.He believes the SA governme (By Jan)...Liberia: Pres. Sirleaf Agrees with U.S. Again
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: When US President Barack Obama stated during his trip to West Africa that Africa's progress lies in domestic fight against corruption, democracy and governance that derive their powers from laws and s (By Jan)...South Africa: Sharp shooting saves guard's life
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Alex EliseevAnother shopping mall robbery ended in bloodshed as cash-in-transit guards shot a robber after an attack at a busy clothing store on Monday. A guard working at the Southgate Mall was wo (By Jan)...Nigeria: PIB Should Create Better Opportunities for Indigenous Companies - Tinubu
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Mr Jubril Adewale Tinubu needs little or no introduction. As the Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, he has led a team of indigenous professionals to position the company as Nigeria's fastest (By Jan)...Ghana: Police Unhappy With Bail for Suspected Armed Robbers
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Kwaku AntwiKade - The Kade police have expressed dissatisfaction about the manner the Kade Magistrate court granted bail to four alleged armed robbers who appeared before the court some months ago. (By Jan)...South Africa: 'They would've been shot for mutiny'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: The recent clash between about 1 000 soldiers and police in the capital does not signify wider unrest in military ranks, the commander of the army said yesterday, vowing that he won't tolerate a lack (By Jan)...Africa: Tsvangirai urges regional pressure on Mugabe
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called on next week's summit of regional leaders to push President Robert Mugabe to fulfil a power-sharing agreement and to speed up reforms.Bitt (By Jan)...South Africa: 2010 Soccer World Cup May See More Snorting Than Kicking
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Stephanie NieuwoudtCape Town - It is the middle of the day but 25-year-old Lyle Arendse of Athlone on the Cape Flats, Cape Town's sprawling hinterland, is at home. He left school nearly 10 years ag (By Jan)...South Africa: War crime warning to SA
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Deon de LangeAbout 75 South Africans serving in the Israeli Defence Force could face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) if South African authorities decline to prosecute t (By Jan)...South Africa: SA worries about World Cup immigrant boom
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Courtney BrooksGodfrey Smith left his native Malawi last year to hunt for a job in Johannesburg, certain that the 2010 football World Cup would bring a wave of opportunity.Now he's hawking handbags (By Jan)...South Africa: Axe falls on 2 000 soldiers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Graeme HoskenThousands of soldiers who took part in last week's violent clashes with police on the lawns of the Union Buildings have been "provisionally" fired.The dismissal of more than 2 000 sold (By Jan)...SADC Tribunal refers Zim case to leaders' summit
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The regional court ordered Harare not to evict the 78 farmers click here to download image #2click here to download image #3click here to download image #4click here to download image #5click (By Jan)...South Africa: Lesbian rape case exposes SA as grimly macho
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: by Justine Gerardy Delmas - Songs for Eudy Simelane filter into the courtroom where dozens wait, with flasks of coffee and endless patience, for the men accused of the lesbian footballer's gang-rape a (By Jan)...Nigeria: Officials Examine Remaining Banks
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Lagos - As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rounds off its special audit of 11 of the remaining 14 banks in the country, THISDAY can report that there are no surprises at this time to warrant major s (By Jan)...World: Needle stabbings spur marches in China
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Christopher BodeenUrumqi, China - Thousands marched through the city of Urumqi in western China on Thursday after a series of stabbings with hypodermic needles further unnerved residents already ji (By Jan)...South Africa: Principals and teachers living in fear
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Angelique SerraoA 59-year-old teacher is living in his car in a Joburg park after being forced out of a teaching post. He claims he was dismissed because he is white.This is just one of several pro (By Jan)...South Africa: Breeding Men, Not Tigers - Living with Aids No. 403
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Khopotso BodibeThe stereotype that most South African men are abusers who spread HIV and are incapable of loving and caring, is being challenged. A new campaign in South Africa, "Brothers for Life" (By Jan)...Zambia: Suspect Mohan Flees
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: INKTEK managing director Mathew Mohan, who is facing charges of murder, has escaped from police custody after appearing for mention at the magistrate court complex in Lusaka.Mohan is charged with two (By Jan)...Ghana: Country Begins to Move on Toxic Loans
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Stung by the drastic actions of the Economic and Financial Crime unit and the revolutionary cleansing role of Lamido Sanusi (Central Bank of Nigeria Governor) in dealing with the culpable actions of t (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops injured protesting worker - Cosatu
Friday 04-Sep-2009: A protesting postal worker was injured when police opened fire on marchers in Braamfontein on Friday morning, said the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)."There was not the slightest just (By Jan)...Nigeria: Wiwi And Quela Birds Invasion - Katsina Communities Face Hunger Threat
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By From Lawal Sa'iduKatsina - Agriculture is the mainstay of rural communities in Katsina State. The rural communities in the state, that make up about 80 per cent of the population, depend largely on (By Jan)...South Africa: Death in the Suburbs - Crime Grips the Wealthy
Monday 31-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)...IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe amid worries that Mugabe party will grab funds
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: "Gono has tried to take the money" David Smith in JohannesburgZimbabwe's crippled economy received a boost when the IMF sanctioned a $510m loan, its first to the country in a decade. But the m (By Jan)...South Africa: Radebe stonewall questions on arms deals
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Justice Minister Jeff Radebe told MPs on Wednesday he would not discuss details of arms deals involving nations like Syria, prompting accusations that he was stonewalling questions on weapons trade wi (By Jan)...Zim: Cops won't help, say farmers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Land Pannar uses was invaded yesterday Whites in Zim are still targeted - and SA investment is under threatPeta ThornycroftHarare - Sophie Hart, an elderly white farmer, has been murdered in c (By Jan)...Africa: Sudan clashes: 25 killed
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Twenty-five people have been killed and several more wounded in clashes in the tense oil-rich Upper Nile region of south Sudan, a military spokesman said on Saturday.Heavily armed fighters attacked an (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Split Challenges Regional Summit
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Faith ZabaHarare - THE Sadc Summit to be held next week in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has a difficult task in convincing President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai to bring to finali (By Jan)...USA: Obama critics will be labelled as "Right Wing Domestic Terrorists"
Friday 04-Sep-2009: They are tightening the ropes on our necks, and I advise Americans to stock up on weapons and ammunition, while you can, as is your RIGHT! Janolifant --- By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Enugu Now Coal City, Not Coal Camp
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Ibudialo NwakaezePort Harcourt - Someone once described leadership as the ability to inspire ordinary human beings to perform extra-ordinary feats. This serves the basis for one of the qualities of (By Jan)...Africa: Climate Change 'Threatens Continent's Security'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Leonie JoubertCape Town - Africa is the canary in the mine of global security, as climate change threatens to redraw the maps of the continent and the world.A shift in global climate will reshape c (By Jan)...South Africa: SA seeks review of refugee case
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Wendell RoelfSouth Africa wants a judicial review of a decision by an independent Canadian board to grant a white South African refugee status because he suffered racist attacks at home, a governme (By Jan)...Zim: Tsvangirai looks to SADC
Friday 04-Sep-2009: If Zuma's plan had been to win the confidence of all sides, he succeeded CommentJason MoyoIf President Jacob Zuma's plan had been to win the confidence of all sides in Zimbabwe's coalition dur (By Jan)...Somalia: 9 Dead During Insurgent Attack on African Peacekeeper Base
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - The fighting erupted overnight Thursday around ex-Jalle Siyad College compound, where African Union peacekeepers from Burundi are stationed. The AU force, known as AMISOM, has been serving (By Jan)...Govt, India Sign Diamond, Uranium Deals
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyAGREEMENTS paving the way for Namibia to share in India's US$30 billion nuclear industry, as well as their world-class diamond polishing sector, were signed between President Hifikepun (By Jan)...Strategy Game: Total War: Empire - My Review which I posted on Amazon.com
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [I am fascinated by good historical strategy games, and here is a review I wrote which I posted on Amazon.com. Jan] I have been meaning to buy this game all year, but held back because prior to its (By Jan)...Science: Why do so many planes fall out of the sky?
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Michael HanlonThree hours into the flight, none of the 216 passengers would have had any reason to be concerned. As the dinner plates in business class were being cleared away, the beaches of north (By Jan)...South Africa: Taxi bosses liable for violence
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Taxi operators will be held responsible for any damage to property and injury resulting from attacks on buses, the Gauteng provincial government said on Wednesday."The attacks were clearly incited by (By Jan)...South Africa: Land Reform Programme Unsustainable
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Johannesburg - South Africa's government has acquired thousands of farms to redress racially skewed land ownership, but more than half have failed, or are failing, Rural Development and Land Reform Mi (By Jan)...Africa: 'I don't feel free in my country'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: A Zimbabwean woman described being raped for three days because she volunteered for the opposition before her country's elections last year, joining activists on Tuesday in warning new votes may mean (By Jan)...Uganda: MP Okumu Lists Acholi 'Killed By Army'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Yasiin Mugerwa and Gerald BareebeThe Acholi Parliamentary Group Vice Chairman, Mr Reagan Okumu, yesterday raised the stakes in the debate over whether the army committed war crimes against innocent (By Jan)...Outspoken Zimbabwean archbishop says government still wants him dead
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: "They planted a bomb in my car. A priest used my car" By Gunther SimmermacherCape Town - The former archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, said agents of his country's government still want to assa (By Jan)...GROUNDBREAKING: South African man gets asylum in Canada for being white - Proof of Persecution of Whites
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: [This is brilliant. The newspapers in South Africa noted that this is South Africa's first OFFICIAL "White Refugee". Of course, well over 1 million whites have fled from South African since 1994. The (By Jan)...Nigeria: Barkindo - N37 Billion Crude Lost to Militant Attacks
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Eugene AghaLagos - Nigeria has lost N37 billion worth of petroleum products to militant attacks, which highlights the costly nature of the Niger Delta conflict.Group Managing Director of the Nigeri (By Jan)...Russian Federation Communist Leader Gennady Zyuganov Sings Praise Of Gaddafi
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: [This is simply disgusting. It seems that Russian Federation Communist Party leader is singing praise of Libya's Gaddafi, congradulating him on his socialist revolution in Libya. How is it to why th (By Lone Wolf)...Africa: 'Obama Not Doing Enough to Pursue U.S. Interests in Africa'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Kevin J. KelleyNairobi - A former US Africa policy chief is accusing the Obama administration of not doing enough to advance American military, political and economic interests on the continent.In (By Jan)...Africa: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Isolda AgazziGeneva - A group of 125 non-governmental organisations from 50 countries is calling on the governments participating in the mini-ministerial trade talks in India over the next two days (By Jan)...South Africa: Ministers Stonewall Arms-Deal Questions
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The government rolled out the heavy artillery yesterday in the form of three senior ministers to stonewall questions about allegedly dodgy arms deals in Parliament's defe (By Jan)...Uganda: Globalisation Must Connect With African Opportunity
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Robert B. ZoellickThe Great Lakes region of Africa reveals the continent's challenges. I went there recently to see the effects of the economic crisis, countries coming out of conflict, and integra (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Claims Ignorance Over Arms Flow
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesaySignificant shipments of weapons, intended for use by rebels in Sierra Leone's 11-year civil conflict, could have been transported through Liberia without Charles Taylor's knowledge, the (By Jan)...South Africa: Pregnant mom raped, twice
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Lavern de VriesA pregnant Beaufort West woman was allegedly raped twice at the weekend by someone known to her, while her year-old son lay sleeping in the next room, police said. She is believed to (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers target Pretoria jewellery stores
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Barry BatemanJewellery stores at two Pretoria malls have become the latest targets in a spate of mall robberies across the province, prompting retailers to rethink their approach to security around (By Jan)...South Africa: South Africa, I'll take your questions now...
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: United States president Barack Obama made his first sub-Saharan visit in July this year when he travelled to Ghana. He did not visit South Africa, but did promise Indepdendent Online readers that he w (By Jan)...A History Lesson: Gloves do not work in Africa... Was Napoleon delusional?
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: JoAn, our American volunteer pointed out an interesting concept in an email she got from an Afrikaner. The point made to her by the Afrikaners was that "Gloves do not work in Africa". He was referring (By Jan)...Somalia: How Diaspora Funds Somali Pirates
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Githua KiharaSomali pirates may be receiving support from foreign sources, including their kin in the diaspora, some of whom provide critical intelligence and other information on shipping expediti (By Jan)...Africa: Gabon rocked by violence after polls
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Ousmane Niapa and Patrick FortPort-Gentil - Gabon's government on Sunday threatened to impose emergency powers to quash unrest in its second city Port-Gentil after three people were killed in post- (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: A Crisis Driven By Greed
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Dewa MavhingaI had not realised the true extent and impact of the Zimbabwe crisis on ordinary Zimbabweans until last weekend, when I embarked on a four and half hour drive from Johannesburg to Kabo (By Jan)...World: Brown feared death of Lockerbie bomber
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: London - A British minister told Libyan officials that Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not want the Lockerbie bomber to die in prison, according to documents released on Tuesday.The then foreign offic (By Jan)...Nigeria: Akoko Edo Rerun Witnessed the Highest Level of Thuggery in Edo History - Onolememen
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Luka BinniyatA Former Minister of State for Defence (2006/7), Mr. Mike Oziegbe Onolememen, cannot hide his anger over the outcome of the Akoko Edo Constituency rerun election which the Independent (By Jan)...South Africa: Millions on brink of despair
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Eleanor MombergMore and more South Africans are being left without lights and water as they struggle to pay utility bills. Debt counsellors, customers and economists believe the 27 percent increase (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Crimes Body Orders Detained Bank Chiefs to Surrender Shares
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Omoh GabrielDetained banks' chiefs, yesterday, alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC's operatives were asking them to bargain for their freedom with their shares in the fi (By Jan)...World: Brown names dead hostage
Friday 04-Sep-2009: London - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday named a dead hostage whose body was handed over in Baghdad this week as Alec MacLachlan, one of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in 2007.A day after Lond (By Jan)...Nigeria: A People Kidnapped
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Owei LakemfaKIDNAPPING was an occasional crime. Usually, it involved the hypnotisation or enticement of a kid. So parents, guardians and teachers taught children not to talk to strangers or accept (By Jan)...Africa: Smoking Threatens Africa With Cancer Epidemic
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Cindy ShinerTobacco use in Africa is growing faster than in other continents, says Dr. John Seffrin, who has been on the frontlines in the war against cancer for several years and now serves as the (By Jan)...Nigeria: Why We Published Bank Debtors' List, By Sanusi
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Emeka MamahKaduna - Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, gave reasons why the apex bank revealed the names of big bank debtors, saying that this was (By Jan)...Ethiopia: A Country Behind Bars
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Etyopian SimbiroEthiopia has been behind bars since its start as a state: Its people the prisoners, its rulers as jailers.First, the feudalist system incarcerated the poor people, kings and nobles (By Jan)...Zim pulls out of SADC Tribunal
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: "The court does not exist by law and as such Zimbabwe will not appear before it anymore" By Mabasa SasaZimbabwe has formally withdrawn from any legal proceedings involving the SADC Tribunal un (By Jan)...Uganda: We Are Helping Dairy Farmers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Catherine BekundaKampala - Uganda has been experiencing a milk shortage in the last three months. Catherine Bekunda interviewed the state minister for animal industry, Bright Rwamirama, about the g (By Jan)...Uganda: Child Sacrifice Prevention is the Answer
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Peter NkhonjeraBy now most, if not all, Ugandans will be aware of the latest and perhaps most despicable brand of crime threatening a child's right to life in Uganda: child sacrifice!In 2008, the p (By Jan)...Africa: Conference on "Promoting Financial Capability and Consumer Protection
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Accra, Ghana - "Promoting financial capability is about raising awareness, promoting knowledge, building trust, and changing behavior", says Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Honourable Minister of Finance and Eco (By Jan)...South Africa: Residents hand over gang war suspect
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Lavern De VriesThe Elsies River community has heeded a call from police to help them quell gang-related violence, by offering up a suspect implicated in the death of a matric pupil in a gang shooti (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Circumcising Men in Hospitals a Shortcut?
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Roselyne SachitiHarare - MALE circumcision is a complex and emotive health issue that continues to generate infinite debate in communities and the medical profession.Different communities perform m (By Jan)...South Africa: Outrage over killing of taxi boss
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele expressed "outrage" on Saturday, for the murder of a senior official of the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) who was gunned down."We want to express ou (By Jan)...South Africa: SA wants answers on white refugee
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Murray WilliamsThe South African government has ordered its ambassador to Canada to approach the Canadian government about its decision to grant a white South African "refugee" status, with the Afr (By Jan)...South Africa: Criminals not racist: Cele
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Criminals do not target people because of their skin colour, national police commissioner Bheki Cele said on Wednesday."Criminals in South Africa... they look at what you have, rather than looking at (By Jan)...Sudan: Women, Children Increasingly Targeted in Southern Clashes
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Nairobi - Women and children are being increasingly targeted in the escalating attacks against communities in Southern Sudanese states, exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation, say officials."We (By Jan)...South Africa: 40 soldiers arrested - but what did they do?
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Graeme HoskenMystery surrounds the arrest and questioning of 40 soldiers who were rounded up at an infantry base outside Johannesburg in a pre-dawn raid by military police.Although the defence forc (By Jan)...Nigeria: Central Bank Governor Defends Banks Bail-Out
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Luka Binniyat, Abdulwahab Abdulah and Tordue SalemThe Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, rose, yesterday, in stout defence of the N420billion he injected into th (By Jan)...South Africa: DA vows to fight Maynier's expulsion
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The Democratic Alliance accused the ANC of trying to intimidate MP David Maynier for exposing arms sales to "repressive" regimes by calling for his removal from the portfolio committee on defence on W (By Jan)...South Africa: 'So it's a war!'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Alex Eliseev Gallery: Rea Vaya bus attackedThey threatened war. And on Tuesday night they fired the first shots. At least two Rea Vaya buses came under attack in what appears to be a drive-by shoot (By Jan)...South Africa: Who's who in Zuma's office
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Former ANC spokeswoman Jessie Duarte is the latest addition to President Jacob Zuma's team in the Presidency. Political Correspondent Sibusiso Ngalwa takes a closer look at all the president's men and (By Jan)...Nigeria: Gani, Conscience of the Nation, is Dead
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Olawale Olaleye And Ndubuisi UgahLagos - Renowned lawyer and frontline human rights activist, Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), yesterday morning succumbed to a long fought battle with cancer o (By Jan)...Tanzania: Three Arrested over Death of ICTR Attorney
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Zephania UbwaniThree people have been arrested in connection with the death of a senior attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), police said yesterday.Acting Arusha regi (By Jan)...South Africa: Rapists smile as woman breaks down
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Some of the men found guilty of gang-raping a Tembisa woman smiled as the victim's sister wept in the witness stand of the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday.The woman, who cannot be named to protect (By Jan)...World: Mobile home slayings have police puzzled
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Brunswick, Georgia - An eighth person died on Sunday from grievous wounds suffered in an attack at a Georgia mobile home, with police acknowledging they didn't know if a killer was on the loose.The l (By Jan)...Africa: Election protests flare up again in Gabon
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Port-Gentil, Gabon - French oil giant Total pulled its foreign staff out of Gabon's second city on Saturday as security forces clashed again with protesters opposed to the election of Ali Bongo as pre (By Jan)...Zim: Chinamasa misled public over SADC Tribunal
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: “Chinamasa neglected to say that these requirements for ratification were made redundant" Chris MuronziJustice minister Patrick Chinamasa misled the public this week when he announced that Z (By Jan)...Uganda: Police Constable Kills Four Over Shs5,000
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Paul AmoruPader - A Special Police Constable who refused to pay back a loan of Shs5,000 shot and killed four police officers in Pader District yesterday.Two other people were left fighting for thei (By Jan)...South Africa: Pension robber suspect killed
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: A man suspected of having robbed SASSA officials of a huge sum of money at the pension pay point in Nkandla was shot dead by police, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday."Philani Nzuza, 30, was kill (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT off to better start
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Alex Eliseev, Solly Maphumulo and Gill Gifford Gallery: BRT hostel raidA huge force of 350 soldiers, police officers and metro cops struck back on Wednesday morning after two BRT buses were shot at (By Jan)...Uganda: Sudanese Soldiers Attack Farmers Over Land
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Warom Felix OkelloMoyo - Sudanese People's Liberation Army soldiers, yesterday afternoon attacked Ugandan farmers in Lefori Sub-county, Moyo District, claiming the land belongs to Sudan.Seven heavi (By Jan)...South Africa: Court halts protests by soldiers
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: An interdict to stop soldiers from embarking on illegal marches and to prevent them from making "irresponsible remarks" was issued by the High Court in Pretoria late on Tuesday evening."It is clear bo (By Jan)...Africa: Six civilians killed in Mogadishu clashes
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - At least six civilians were killed and 18 others wounded in clashes that erupted when insurgents attacked government and African Union forces in Mogadishu, witnesses and medics said on Sun (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers' Protest 'Irresponsible' As Defence Force in State of High Alert
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) yesterday said Wednesday's violent protest by soldiers came at a time when the military was in a state of high alert.Four (By Jan)...Diamond manufacturers want Zim suspended
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: "If the KPCS recommendations are not implemented the suspension of Zimbabwe is the only route to follow" By Nokuthula SibandaHarare - World diamond manufacturers have backed calls for Zimbabwe (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT attack: Santaco distances itself
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) on Wednesday distanced itself from a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) shooting incident in Soweto which left two people wounded."It has never been Santaco's objective to (By Jan)...South Africa: Sword killer 'tried' witchcraft - expert
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Sword killer Morne Harmse may not have been a practising satanist, but he was dabbling in the occult. This was according to satanism expert Dr Kobus Jonker, who testified this morning in the pre-sente (By Jan)...Africa: Diseases Threaten to Wipe Out Bananas in Sub-Saharan Region
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Mike MandeNairobi - Fast spreading new banana diseases are threatening food production and the lives of millions of people.The bacterial wilt banana disease in Uganda has crossed eastwards as the b (By Jan)...YouTube Video: Nation Of Islam's Publication Selling Propaganda Praising Michael Jackson
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: [Just sick. The Nation of Islam's publication known as the FinalCall is selling propaganda videos on how Jackson was "framed" of his crimes of child molestation. Even when it was exposed the NOI had (By Lone Wolf)...Sudan: Two Countries' Proxy War
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Blake Evans-PritchardScott Gration, the United States' recently-appointed envoy to Sudan, understands that there are many different issues surrounding the Darfur conflict that must be resolved in o (By Jan)...Namibia: Angolan On Trial After Cocaine Find
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesAN ANGOLAN resident of Windhoek West, who is facing charges of dealing in or possessing cocaine after more than half a kilogram of the drug was found in his house, is set to hear the v (By Jan)...South Africa: Eastern Cape fires: Six killed
Friday 04-Sep-2009: At least six people have died in fires that raged through parts of the Eastern Cape this week, fire fighting organisation Working on Fire said on Friday.One firefighter had to be taken to hospital aft (By Jan)...South Africa: Military dismisses concern of backlash
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: South Africa is to fire up to 1 300 soldiers who violently protested in an illegal march last week, Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Wednesday, as a military adviser dismissed the threat of a b (By Jan)...South Africa: Secure estates: how safe do you feel?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The terrorised residents of Douglasdale would have slept a little easier last night after police bust a gang of robbers targeting the area for three weeks.Two suspects were gunned down by police durin (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bank Chiefs Arraigned, Face 131 Charges
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - At last, four of the five bank chiefs sacked three weeks ago by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi over the huge non-performing loans of their bank (By Jan)...South Africa: Teen, ex-gangster's brother die in violence
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Mary-Anne GontsanaFour people have been killed and four others injured in robberies and gang violence in Cape Town.Five people were wounded, one of them critically, in a shooting in 11th Avenue Leo (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-09-2009)
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Sixteen years ago today, B and I were married by a dear friend at the home of her cousin in Harare, followed by a reception at Wingate Golf (By The BeardedMan)...Southern Africa: MDC-T Must Not Arm Twist SADC
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Harare - Next week regional leaders will gather in the DRC for their ordinary Sadc Summit.A number of issues, mostly to do with peace and security, the global financial crisis and its impact on the re (By Jan)...World: 'I have had this fantasy'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: San Francisco - The man accused of abducting and sexually abusing Jaycee Lee Dugard testified during a previous kidnapping and rape case that he prowled through residential neighbourhoods as a Peeping (By Jan)...South Africa: Journo wounded by police rubber bullets
Monday 31-Aug-2009: A Sunday Times photographer and five IFP Youth Brigade members were wounded when police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesting youth wing members in Durban on Monday.Tepogo Letsie was one of the (By Jan)...Africa: Kadhafi hosts African summit
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Tripoli - African leaders gathered in Libya on Monday for a special summit to discuss the continent's trouble spots, on the eve of celebrations to mark 40 years of Moamer Kadhafi's rule.The conflicts (By Jan)...World: Fire no longer threatens LA communities
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Los Angeles - With one of the largest wildfires in Southern California history nearly half contained, authorities were pressing forward with their investigation to try and determine who set the deadly (By Jan)...South Africa: Google's gift to thieves
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Annie Dorasamy, Matthew Savides and Doreen PremdevClose your curtains - Google's new Street View facility is coming to your suburb soon and security experts and civic leaders warn it is a potential (By Jan)...World: Mousavi digs in
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Tehran - Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Saturday renewed allegations of fraud in June's disputed presidential election and called for protests to continue against the result."People, (By Jan)...'Not Guilty', Says Outjo Triple Murder Suspect
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesThe man accused of murdering two children and a young woman in a night-time rampage at Outjo earlier this year denied all charges during an appearance in the Otjiwarongo Magistrate's C (By Jan)...Science: Lead poisoning: Chinese government too slow?
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Royston ChanChina's environmental protection minister has called for more effective measures to tackle heavy metal poisoning, state media said on Thursday, as anger grows amongst parents with child (By Jan)...Suspect Denies Killing Girlfriend in Public
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesA YOUNG man accused of brutally murdering his former girlfriend in full view of several witnesses in Windhoek almost three months ago has pleaded not guilty to four charges that he is (By Jan)...The Rise of the Dragon
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Brian BenzaWith all the mishaps that have been associated with travelling in the past few months, including plane crashes and the A(H1N1) virus, I am sure you will agree with me that now is not the (By Jan)...South Africa: Soldiers frustrated - but not stupid
Monday 31-Aug-2009: If Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu does not address the grievances of the South African National Defence Force members soon, there will be more mass action throughout the country by disgruntled soldie (By Jan)...USA: James Clavell's 1963 THE CHILDREN'S STORY and Barak Obama's 8 September 2009 speech to schools
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: [SemperFi, thanks for posting Chelsea Schilling's article posted on Sept 3rd on WorldNet Daily about Barack Obama's scheduled specch on Sept 8th. (see USA: Far, far worse than Jimmy Carter )The questi (By A Different Perspective)...Libya: President Back From Libya
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Harare - President Mugabe returned home on Tuesday night from Tripoli, Libya, where he attended a special African Union summit on conflict resolution and the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Revolution. (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Pardons 1,500 Prisoners
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Tichaona SibandaRobert Mugabe has pardoned 1,500 inmates from the country's 42 prisons that have a capacity for 13,000 inmates but are currently holding well over 20,000. The amnesty represents mor (By Jan)...Nigeria: The New Oil Sector
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Azubuike OnowuAbuja - For once in more than 50 years of oil production in Nigeria, operations in the industry have gone beyond the upstream and downstream to include a third - the midstream sector. (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops arrest suspected mall robbers
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Kowthar SolomonsPolice in Milnerton say they have thwarted five men who they believe were about to stage an armed robbery at a shopping complex in the area.A tip-off from residents led to the arres (By Jan)...Tanzania: Police Refute UN Official's Report
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Zephania UbwaniArusha - Police here have dismissed reports from the UN headquarters in New York that the late trial attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was murdered. (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Why Oil Workers Dump NLC For FG on Petrol Deregulation'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Adeola YusufLagos - Tokunbo Korodo, Zonal Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) was a part of the meeting where oil workers declared support for the Federal Governme (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Body to Prosecute Bank Chiefs
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Ayodele Aminu And Davidson IriekpenLagos - All is set for the arraignment of the 16 bank chiefs and 68 loan defaulters at present in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)'s custody, a (By Jan)...Zim: Tsvangirai suspends security aides
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Suspended last Saturday after botching the former opposition leader's security at a dinner By Kumbirai MafundaZimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has suspended 15 of his state security (By Jan)...Real Agenda On Health Care 'Reform' Exposed: Obvious Anti-Capitalist Agenda
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: [It seems here that the so-called health care reform movement has certainly been exposed to have an obvious anti-Capitalist agenda. The far left ALF-CIO is targeting the private company known as Rite (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe illegal diamonds not 'strictly' conflict
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: "Circumstances in Zimbabwe are unique and require special consideration" The World Diamond Council (WDC) said on Wednesday that diamonds sold from suspected illegal mining in Zimbabwe do "not (By Jan)...South Africa: Police Get Blame for Making Protests Worse
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - A REPORT by the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Sociological Research says heavy-handed police action may have worsened recent service-delivery protests.In some c (By Jan)...South Africa: White Poverty: Economic Discrimination of Whites in South Africa
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: [Let me say that hundreds of thousands of Whites, out of a small population of only 4.2 million whites are already living in extreme poverty. Most do have some sort of blue or white collar skills but (By JanOlifant)...No Bail Granted in Flight Instructor Murder Case
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Werner MengesA THIRD bid to be released on bail has ended in failure for one of the men charged with the alleged robbery and murder of a German flight instructor in Windhoek near the end of 2005.On (By Jan)...Nigeria: Crime And Privilege
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Dan Amor"Although the robber baron has been replaced by the "button-down" corporate executive, the pattern of crime by the privileged continues"It is only those who are not grounded in the literatu (By Jan)...An African Journal Going for Nearly 50 Years
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Sheridan GriswoldTransition: An International Review (2009) Issue 101.In these pages we have recognised a few other quality serial publications such as Granta and Botswana Notes and Records. Honour (By Jan)...South Africa: Manuel's 'offensive' stance rebuked
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Gaye DavisCosatu and the SA Communist Party have lashed out at National Planning Commission head Trevor Manuel for suggesting unions were relying too heavily on strike action to push for social cha (By Jan)...South Africa: Police thwart cash-van heist
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Shaun SmilliePolice acting on intelligence arrested five men, including a former policeman, who they believe were about to rob a cash-in-transit van on a busy road close to the Killarney Mall. The (By Jan)...South Africa: Devil 'didn't make him do it'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Kanina FossMorne Harmse, 19, was not under the influence of the devil when he took a ninja sword to school and slashed the throat of a fellow pupil.Yesterday, an occult specialist and former head o (By Jan)...Botswana: BSE to List Gold ETF by Year End
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiSave for meeting certain regulatory requirements and securing a local partner, South Africa's Absa Capital says plans have reached an advanced stage to list and trade a gold Exchang (By Jan)...Govt, India Sign Nuke Deal
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Jo-Maré DuddyNAMIBIA is a step closer to realising its plans to generate its own nuclear energy by 2018 after President Hifikepunye Pohamba signed an agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan S (By Jan)...South Africa: Consumers drowning in debt
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Siphamandla MbewaMassive escalations in debt are crippling South African consumers, with about 150 000 people expected to be under debt review by Christmas, according to the National Credit Regulat (By Jan)...Technology Could Increase Food Harvest And Reduce Poverty
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Nalisha KalideenMaputo - In rural Mozambique, increasing numbers of families are growing their own food and lifting themselves out of poverty.Over the last decade the country has reduced rural pove (By Jan)...Liberia: Claims, Counterclaims Mar AFL Soldier Death
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Claims and counterclaims are mounting over what the Defense Ministry calls "incidental death" of Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) Private, Welleh Ambrose Swen.He died recently, according to the Defense M (By Jan)...Uganda: Parties Race to Defuse New Political Challenge
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Julius BarigabaThe return of Olara Otunnu has elicited a new buzz of activity in Uganda, with the ruling party and the opposition frantically manoeuvring to defuse the impact on the country's polit (By Jan)...Sudan: Gunmen Kidnap Nigerian UN Staff in Darfur
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Juliana TaiwoAbuja - Two international civilian staff - a Nigerian male and a woman - of the joint United Nations/African Union (UNAMID) peace-keeping force were kidnapped by some gunmen from their (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang members held for business robberies
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Thirty-seven suspects believed to be members of gangs responsible for business robberies in Gauteng have been arrested, police said on Friday.Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said their cases were pendi (By Jan)...Kenya: Focus Anti-Piracy War on Land, Not Sea
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Gitonga MareteNairobi - The war against piracy off Somali waters will not be won unless more emphasis is laid on containing pirates on land before they get to the sea, a workshop on maritime safety (By Jan)...Africa: U.S. Africa Trade Law Works, Says Former Top Official
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Rosa WhitakerIn the aftermath of the annual AGOA Forum held last month in Nairobi, there has been a chorus of pessimists placing AGOA in the Hall of Shame of failed policy initiatives. They could (By Jan)...Zim: MDC activist murdered in fresh political violence
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Chingami was told he would die if he returned By Staff WriterAn MDC activist, Edwin Chingami who had gone into exile in the run-up to last year's June 27th run-off elections was murdered upon (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Gold Firm Robbed U.S.$60,000
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Harare - Armed robbers on Monday pounced on Fidelity Millers in Kadoma in a daylight raid and made off with US$60 000 and over a kilogramme of gold.Preliminary investigations indicate that the two men (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops tackle sex and drugs den
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The City of Cape Town is cracking down on the city's drug and prostitution epicentre after a UCT student was kidnapped last week. Senator Park is located between the city's nightclub hub in Long Stree (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial killer hangs himself
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Louise FlanaganOne of the country's worst serial killers spent less than two weeks in jail after being convicted, before he apparently killed himself.David Rannditsheni was sentenced on August 18 t (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger-Delta Militants are Ungodly People - Gov. Isa Yuguda
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Patience OgbodoSince he assumed office as governor, his state has regularly engaged national attention. From mindless activities of religious fundamentalists to his celebrated marraige to one of Pr (By Jan)...Somalia: African Union Allows Peacekeepers to Attack Militants
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Gerald BareebeEntebbe - The African Union (AU) has reviewed the mandate of UPDF in Somalia and allowed the Ugandan forces to attack the Al-shabaab militants, the Defence Minister announced yesterda (By Jan)...Somalia: Fresh Fighting Kills Five, Injures Nine Others in Mogadishu
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - At least 5 civilians have been killed and 9 others have been injured in Mogadishu after heavy fighting between AMISOM troops and the Islamist forces broke out in the Somali capital, witnes (By Jan)...Africa: EU sees improved relations with Zimbabwe
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Nelson BanyaHarare - Zimbabwe's relations with the European Union are improving, but there will be no direct funding for the Harare government until political talks with the bloc are concluded, an (By Jan)...Mugabe pardons 1,500 Zimbabwe prisoners
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: People convicted of offences such as murder, rape or conspiracy against the government would not qualify Harare - President Robert Mugabe has pardoned 1,500 inmates, more than 10 percent of th (By Jan)...Africa: Atmosphere tense in Gabon poll results delay
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Coumba SyllaThe results of Gabon's presidential election were delayed until Thursday morning as backers of the main candidates waited outside the offices of the Electoral Commission in a tense atmo (By Jan)...South Africa: More arrests in robbery case
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Two more people were arrested in the early hours of Thursday for an armed robbery which took place at Spar in Hout Bay, Cape Town police said.Inspector Tanya Lesch said a man, aged 26, and woman, aged (By Jan)...Dhlakama Guards Destroy Frelimo's Headquarters
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Maputo - Guards of Afonso Dhlakama, the president of Renamo, the main opposition party in Mozambique, vandalised the headquarters of the ruling Frelimo party in the district of Milange, in the central (By Jan)...Expansionary Monetary Policy to Spur Economic Recovery
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Brian BenzaThe Bank of Botswana (BoB) will continue to use expansionary monetary policy as a tool to spur economic recovery in view of falling inflation and constrained government resources.Since D (By Jan)...Somalia: Time for Somaliland to Re-Envision Itself in a Changing Somalia
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: There is no question that Somaliland people have been held hostage by a leadership with deep ties to the collapsed Barre regime .The people of Somaliland - a separatist republic in northwest Somalia - (By Jan)...Science: Biofuel move takes sugar cane back to Angola
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Louise RedversAngola will begin planting sugar cane for the first time in more than 30 years this month as the oil-rich country takes its first step toward biofuels.A 30 000 hectare (74 000-acre) (By Jan)...Nigeria: Troubled Banks - Powercap Boss Rules Out Power Investment Drought in Nigeria
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Adeola YusufLagos - The ongoing activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to recover loans given out by the five embattled banks is the tonic the country's multi-billion dollars energy sector (By Jan)...Mohohlo Attributes P200 Bill to Inflation Policy
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiThe characteristics of the local currency were reviewed in order to ensure that the public continues to be well served in an evolving socio-economic environment and in line with i (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I Should Have Gone to the Police'
Monday 31-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)...Nigeria: Otokoto Again in Imo - Girl, 18, Beheaded for Rituals
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Chidi NkwoparaResidents of Owerri were Wednesday morning treated to a morbid spectacle as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Doris Perpetua O (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zapu's 'Illegal' T-Shirts Seized at Beitbridge
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Violet GondaThe Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the Matabeleland Freedom Party (MFP) have accused the police and customs officials at Beitbridge border post of political harassment and s (By Jan)...South Africa: Defence union will fight dismissals
Friday 04-Sep-2009: The South African National Defence Union (Sandu) intends asking the court to set aside the dismissal of 1 300 soldiers, its lawyers said on Thursday.It would do so if it was not furnished with the leg (By Jan)...World: Last of LA wildfire evacuees return
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Steve GormanFirefighters, helped again by favourable weather, made new gains on Wednesday against the wildfire raging through mountains near Los Angeles as evacuation orders were lifted for the las (By Jan)...South Africa: Government silent on 'dodgy' deals
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Christelle TerreblancheA Parliamentary meeting intended to give clarity on South Africa's arms transactions ended in deadlock as the government refused to answer questions on its alleged weapons sa (By Jan)...South Africa: Threat to Nationalise Still Hangs Over Mines
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Linda EnsorCape Town - Debate on the nationalisation of the mining industry was revived in Parliament yesterday, with the chairman of the mineral resources portfolio committee saying the only way t (By Jan)...World: LA fire caused by people - police
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Los Angeles - Firefighters made more progress on Wednesday against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles as investigators said the blaze was human-caused and officia (By Jan)...South Africa: Free State Suffering Continues
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Anso ThomDrug stock-outs are continuing in the Free State with many HIV patients continuing to die while waiting to access anti-retrovirals while scores of patients who are already on treatment are (By Jan)...Africa: Ireland pushes for release of hostage
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Andrew HeavensKhartoum - Ireland's foreign minister met senior Sudanese officials in Khartoum on Sunday to press for the release of an Irish aid worker and her Ugandan colleague kidnapped in Darfur (By Jan)...Nigeria: NDLEA Destroys Cannabis Plantation
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Joshua UmaAbuja - The Osun State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has destroyed a cannabis plantation in a forest reserve bordering Ayedaade, Isokan, Irewole and Ife Sou (By Jan)...Zim govt seen just ‘wobbling along'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: "Up to 80 percent supported the inclusive government in April. In May up to two thirds agreed" By Nokuthula SibandaHarare - President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's six-m (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Country Receives U.S.$500 Million for Economy
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Victoria RuzvidzoHarare - THE International Monetary Fund has disbursed US$400 million to Zimbabwe, with an additional US$110 million scheduled for release next week to help the country stave off t (By Jan)...South Africa: Quick reaction nets suspects after robbery
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Five people are expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court today in connection with a robbery in Hout Bay.Four face robbery charges while the fifth, a woman, faces a charge of aiding and a (By Jan)...World: 'I hold my head high'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Tehran - Iran's parliament on Thursday backed a cabinet proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that includes the Islamic republic's first woman minister and a man wanted in connection with the bomb (By Jan)...Africa: Angola hopes for energy expertise from SA
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Cape Town - Angola would welcome South African private sector involvement in strengthening its shaky electricity infrastructure, Angolan Energy Minister Vieira Lopes said on Thursday.She was speaking (By Jan)...South Africa: Hired killer gets life
Friday 04-Sep-2009: A Pretoria builder was jailed for life on Thursday for killing an architect he was hired to give a good hiding.Pretoria High Court Judge Andre Louw sentenced Sarel Frederick Jacobs, 52, of Doornpoort (By Jan)...World: Copter crash kills politician: India media
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By OMER FAROOQA powerful Indian politician and four other people were killed when their helicopter crashed in the dense jungles of southern India during a pounding rainstorm, Indian media reported on (By Jan)...South Africa: In Face of HIV Crisis, Don't Forget About Cancer
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Cindy ShinerSue Janse van Rensburg, the chief executive officer of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), is proud of South Africa's effort in the worldwide battle against cancer, particul (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: MDC Activist Murdered in Fresh Political Violence
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: An MDC activist, Edwin Chingami who had gone into exile in the run-up to last year's June 27th run-off elections was murdered upon his return home at the weekend. This has been confirmed by the police (By Jan)...South Africa: Sandu to fight dismissal of soldiers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The SA National Defence Union (Sandu) intends seeking an urgent interdict to stop the possible dismissal of soldiers implicated in a salary protest gone wrong at the Union Buildings, it said on Tuesda (By Jan)...South Africa: Rape accused blames drugs
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Sherlissa PetersA 51-year-old Pietermaritzburg woman relived her torturous rape ordeal in the city's High Court on Monday as she testified against her attacker.The woman was testifying in the case (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang members found after 10 days
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Two suspected robbers were shot dead and two others critically wounded in a shoot-out with the police at Bloubosrand, north of Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning, officials said."These suspects have bee (By Jan)...South Africa: Man killed, woman raped in attack
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: A man was killed and his companion was raped by two men in Pietermaritzburg's Peace Valley on Sunday night.Bonginkosi Dlamini, 54, was walking along a foot path with his friend when they were confront (By Jan)...Nigeria: Unions Express Concern over New Petroleum Industry Legislation
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungThe two unions in the nation's Petroleum industry, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Workers (NUPENG) and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nige (By Jan)...Rwanda: Country Told - Tap the Killer Gas
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Nairobi - Rwanda should start exploiting its huge methane deposits at the Lake Kivu right away, or cancel it altogether due to the high risks involved.According to scientists drawn from the Swiss Fede (By Jan)...USAID to Sponsor U.S.-Africa Business Summit
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Washington, DC - The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) today announced that the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) will sponsor the 7th Biennial U.S.–Africa Business Summi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Research Not Trickling Down to Farmers
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Vusumuzi SifileMaputo - Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them that scientists have found more effective methods of using water to farm. (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: SA Mining Giant to Invest R8 Billion in Country
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Bright MaderaHarare - SOUTH African-based mining giant, African Rainbow Minerals, has earmarked R8 billion to take up mining investment opportunities in Zimbabwe, it has emerged.ARM told South Afri (By Jan)...South Africa: More drama in sugarcane murder trial
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Mpume MadlalaThe Scottburgh High Court heard yesterday that the sister-in-law of alleged Umzinto serial killer Thozamile Taki assisted police in his arrest after he had given her a cellphone belong (By Jan)...Rwanda: Senior UN Officials Applaud Country's Efforts to Stop the Spread of HIV, TB
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Senior United Nations officials today praised Rwanda for successfully integrating the treatment of patients suffering from HIV and tuberculosis after witnessing first-hand the delivery of health servi (By Jan)...Africa: Machine gun attack on Gabon TV station
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Libreville - Masked men machine-gunned an outside broadcast unit of a television station owned by a candidate in Gabon's presidential elections Wednesday, the network said amid tension as the nation a (By Jan)...Let's Move to Security in Mobile Banking
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: We have recently heard news of banks moving into cellphone banking. First National Bank (FNB) was the first to move into this very important area of banking.Other major banks, among them, Barclays and (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Fake ETDs Land Four Men in Trouble
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Harare - Four Harare men have been arrested on allegations of processing fake emergency travel documents.Livingstone Chigwedere, Artwell Tsigo, Joshua Gambiza and Enos Jombe were arrested separately l (By Jan)...Govt Meets SA On Defence And Security Issues
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Matola - The Joint Standing Committee on Defence and Security of Mozambique and South Africa held a one-day meeting in the town of Matola, in the southern province of Maputo, on Friday, to discuss con (By Jan)...Nigeria: Landlord Beats Tenant to Death
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Aisha WakasoMinna - Tragedy struck yesterday in the Kpakungu area of Minna, the Niger State capital when a landlord, Mallam Isah Tsafo, beat his tenant, Mr. John James Enwerem, to death over a mino (By Jan)...Zim: Farmers' lawyers dismiss govt's tribunal move
Friday 04-Sep-2009: "Lacking any legal foundation" Lawyers for the Zimbabwean farmers who took their cases to the SADC Tribunal have dismissed as "lacking any legal foundation" the government's move to no longer (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial killings: court told of macabre gifts
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Mpume MadlalaThe traditional wife of serial murder accused Thozamile Taki has revealed details of the double life of the man who allegedly killed 13 women. She has testified how he had brought his wif (By Jan)...South Africa: 'How can this be? How can my son be dead?'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Graeme Hosken "I DON'T want my baby to have died for nothing. I don't want any more mothers to lose their children like this." These were the gut wrenching words of a Pretoria mother whose 10-year (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe pardons 1 500 prisoners
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Harare - President Robert Mugabe has pardoned 1 500 inmates, more than 10 percent of the prison population, as Zimbabwe struggles to provide them with food and water, an official said Wednesday.Mugabe (By Jan)...South Africa: Police sting operation nets alleged swindler
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: A bogus Glenwood attorney who allegedly swindled over R6-million from several wealthy Durban businessmen through false property deals, was nabbed by members of the Durban Commercial Crime Unit during (By Jan)...South Africa: Outrage Over Refugee Claim in Canada
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Hajra OmarjeeJohannesburg - A DIPLOMATIC storm is brewing between Pretoria and Ottawa, after the Canadian government's decision to grant a South African citizen refugee status.Brandon Huntley, from (By Jan)...South Africa: Fight high prices, consumers urged
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: National Consumer Union vice-chairman Ina Wilken said consumers should not feel powerless but should "fight back" by voting with their wallets against expensive products.They should also complain to s (By Jan)...Africa: Disputes weigh on Tsvangirai
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday that disputes with his former rival President Robert Mugabe over the central bank chief and other posts were undermining the unity (By Jan)...Somalia: Heavy Fighting Kills Two and Injures 9 Others
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - At least two people have been killed and nine others have been injured after heavy fighting with heavy shelling between government soldiers and Islamist forces in parts of the Somali capit (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'The Country Not Serious With Cyber Security'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Abuja - Studies have shown that the internet has overtaken the television in the number of audience at prime time, totalling 1.6 billion users worldwide with 183 million websites. It is estimated that (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I will die for you Malema'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Karyn MaughanJulius Malema's supporters have been banned from the hate speech hearing against their leader after they threatened the gender activists behind the complaint with "severe consequences" (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kidnapping in the East is the Revolt of the Oppressed
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Obi NwankanmaSouth - Eastern Nigeria has finally, fully collapsed under the weight of years of neglect and containment. It is now a no-go area for any one who treasures safety.Increasing kidnapping (By Jan)...South Africa: Family grieves after officer shot dead
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Niemah DavidsPolice are trying to determine why a Constantia resident might have opened fire on officers who came to his urgent aid - killing a 32-year-old constable.Phello Masiu, 32, a father of t (By Jan)...Côte d'Ivoire: It's a Tricky Affair As Poll Looms
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Henry OwuorNairobi - Cote d'Ivoire is a country that has been divided in two since a coup attempt that spiralled into a rebel uprising against President Laurent Gbagbo in 2002.Now ruled under a pow (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Surveyors Face Challenges in Land Reform Implementation'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Mustapha SuleimanThe President of the Nigeria Institute of Surveyors, Dr Olusola Atilola has said that the major challenges facing the surveying community is how the surveyors will assume their pro (By Jan)...EU sees improved relations with Zimbabwe
Friday 04-Sep-2009: "It's moving very slowly and we want it speeded up" By Nelson BanyaHarare - Zimbabwe's relations with the European Union are improving, but there will be no direct funding for the Harare gover (By Jan)...South Africa: Flying Squads net 79 suspects
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Gauteng's Flying Squads have arrested 79 people for serious crimes over the past week, provincial police said on Friday.Superintendent Eugene Opperman said many of those arrested were caught in the ac (By Jan)...World: Canada seeks to mend SA relations
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Peter FabriciusThe Canadian government is scrambling to patch up relations with South Africa, which have been jolted by the granting of asylum to a white South African on the grounds that he is bei (By Jan)...Rwanda: Former Speaker Gets Life Sentence
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Edwin MusoniNyarugenge - The former Speaker of Parliament, Alfred Mukezamfura, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with special provisions, for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.M (By Jan)...World: Firefighters focus on steering LA blaze
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Steve GormanLos Angeles - Firefighters taking the offensive against a nine-day-old wildfire in the mountains near Los Angeles focused on Thursday on steering flames away from newly menaced communit (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT shooting 'an act of cowardice'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The Gauteng government on Wednesday condemned the shooting of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus in Soweto where two people were wounded, calling it "an act of cowards"."We condemn in the strongest possibl (By Jan)...World: 'I will kill her first'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Christian GysinA jealous husband killed his wife after she changed her status from 'married' to 'single' on her Facebook profile, a British court heard yesterday.Brian Lewis had become resentful at (By Jan)...South Africa: Brazil, India, South Africa to Broaden 'Voice of the South'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Fabiana FrayssinetRio De Janeiro - The sixth ministerial meeting of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum agreed Tuesday in Brasilia to strengthen the dialogue between the three emerging power (By Jan)...Kenya: Rwandan Takes over Darfur Force
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Kigali - A Rwandan general formally took over the reins of the multinational peacekeeping forces in the Sudan's Darfur region Tuesday, the United Nation has said.General Patrick Nyamvumba took over fo (By Jan)...Kenya: Chinese Firm Takes Control of Kwale Titanium Mines
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Jim OnyangoState-owned Chinese mining conglomerate Jinchuan has acquired a controlling stake in Tiomin Kenya Limited, renewing hope that the Kwale titanium mining project that has been in limbo for (By Jan)...Africa: Money Will Not End Africa's Famine
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By James ShikwatiThere was a time in Africa when elders would "talk" to the drought and negotiate their way into receiving rainfall. With their unique understanding of causation, elders would either s (By Jan)...Rwanda: Does the Mining Industry Have Potential Or is It in Free Fall?
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Dr. Biryabarema MichaelKigali - The export figures for mining have registered a major drop in earnings in the first half of 2009 when compared to the first half of 2008. This was coming on the heel (By Jan)...South Africa: Racial issues in scooter death case - lawyer
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Hanti Otto Taxi driver Percyval Matji wanted to hit Bernadine Kruger on her scooter. He wanted to collide with her and should therefore be convicted of murder, the State argued in the Pretoria Regi (By Jan)...Africa: SADC leaders focus on Zimbabwe
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Pretoria - Zimbabwe's power-sharing government and instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo will top the agenda at a regional summit next week, South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday.Th (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Changing Mindset Over Markets
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Omer Redi AhmedAddis Ababa - In 2001/2002, Ethiopia enjoyed a bumper maize harvest - so good in fact, that prices tumbled, and many farmers simply left the grain in the fields. When the rains fail (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister Scuppers Successful Farming Schemes
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - RURAL Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has pulled the plug on farm share equity schemes -- probably the most commercially successful land-reform (By Jan)...Africa: Continent's Farmers to Help Over Climate Change?
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschNairobi - "African farmers will play a major part in the solution of climate change mitigation," predicts Dennis Garrity, head of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)."Defores (By Jan)...Africa: Canoe exodus from violence-hit Gabon city
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Port-Gentil, Gabon - Hundreds of residents used canoes to flee Gabon's second city Port-Gentil on Sunday after a third night of violent protests against the disputed presidential election win of Ali B (By Jan)...South Africa: Prisoners on hunger strike for parole
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Dozens of prisoners at the Leeukop Medium B Prison in Bryanston have gone on an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the prison's administration's refusal to go through parole processes."The s (By Jan)...Zim: MDC says cabinet not consulted about SADC Tribunal pullout
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: "To me it remains something that is not true ... it's too ghastly to be true" By Violet GondaOn Wednesday the state controlled Herald newspaper reported that Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe gets $500m bail-out from IMF
Friday 04-Sep-2009: $250bn has been paid to about 186 countries to contain the global financial crisis Dumisani MuleyaZimbabwe has received a more than $500m windfall from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) af (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape Town snarled up by police cordon
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Michelle Jones Gallery: Task team to the rescueA police special task team, heavily armed with automatic rifles, descended on a busy intersection in the Cape Town city centre, cordoned it off and ar (By Jan)...World: Indonesia quake: death toll at 46
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Adek BerryRescue workers on Indonesia's Java island searched by hand Thursday for dozens of people trapped by a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 46, officials said.Police and sol (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's government demands 50% of all diamond investment
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: "The government is drafting regulations “rescinding everything†Zimbabwe's government is demanding 50% of all investments in the country's diamond wealth, local media reported today. “Wi (By Jan)...Police Staff Off to South Africa for Dolphin Exercises
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The first group of National Police left Tuesday for Lohatla, South Africa, to take part on the 01-26 September "Dolphin FTX- Phase III" exercises, of troops integrated into Standby Brigade of the Sout (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Restores Escravos-Lagos-Pipeline, Concern Mounts Over Gas
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Yemie AdeoyeIN a desperate bid to ensure the availability of the 6000Megawatts of power by the end of the year, the federal government seems to have restored the failed portions of the strategic Es (By Jan)...South Africa: 'It's not fair, they are abusing Malema'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: There were parallel protests outside the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Monday for ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and against comments that brought him to the court."Malema, fact is fact, (By Jan)...World: US storm as cartoons pulled from book
Monday 31-Aug-2009: New York - Editors of a new US book on the controversy on cartoons caricaturing Muslims and the Prophet Mohammed have triggered a storm by deciding not to reprint the 12 sketches for fear of new viole (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma raises Middle East issues
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The only viable solution to peace in the Middle East is an end to the 42-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, President Jacob Zuma told the South African Jewish Board of Deputies' con (By Jan)...S.Africa: Property Advice: Inside Info on the dreadful declining South African property market...
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [In an email exchange with a good friend of mine who is extremely well-connected in business I picked up this tip which I thought I'd pass on to people. My friend has done many successful property dea (By Jan)...South Africa: We are going... even if under armed guard!
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The long-awaited Bus Rapid Transit system finally rolled on to the streets of Joburg on Sunday, but under heavy armed guard for fear of reprisals from the taxi industry. Both police and SANDF members (By Jan)...South Africa: COPE extends hand to parties
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Co-operation among opposition parties was high on the agenda of a meeting of the Congress of the People's national leadership, the party said on Sunday.In a statement issued after a three-day meeting (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kudirat Abiola's Murder - Group Accuses Oyinlola
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Ayodele SamuelLagos - The United Action for Democracy (UAD) has accused the Osun State governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, of being the 'chief conspirator' in the alleged murder of Kudirat, wife of the (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We have dinosaurs in the finance department'
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Barry BatemanOpposition parties in the Tshwane Metro Council have accused the ruling party of removing several key items from the agenda apparently in an attempt to stifle debate on the city's fina (By Jan)...Africa: UN leader calls for calm in Gabon
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Libreville - Gabon slapped a curfew on its economic hub Port-Gentil on Thursday as opposition supporters went on the rampage after the son of the oil-rich nation's late leader was declared winner of a (By Jan)...World: 'She's about to die'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: A California parole board has voted unanimously to deny a member of the notorious Manson "family" a request for compassionate release to die at home, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.It was (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Boko Haram Bomb Expert Trained in Afghanistan'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Michael OlugbodeMaiduguri - The Borno State Police Command has discovered a bomb specialist sponsored by fundamentalist Boko Haram sect for training in Afghanistan.Boko Haram, which means Western E (By Jan)...South Africa: Fires cause havoc
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Raging fires caused havoc in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, SABC news reported.In the Eastern Cape one person was killed and another seriously injured at Holy Cross in Flagstaff. Mvu (By Jan)...South Africa: Why is it taking so long to prosecute Selebi?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Interpol secretary-general Ronald Noble on Wednesday criticised the slow prosecution of corruption-accused former South African police chief Jackie Selebi."I've never seen happening what is happening (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Unveils U.S.$210 Million Agriculture Facility
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Harare - Government, in collaboration with its private sector partners, has unveiled a US$210 million agricultural loan facility for farmers to access inputs ahead of the 2009/10 summer cropping seaso (By Jan)...Rural Zimbabwe fights to survive on foreign currency
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: 65 percent survive on less than US$1 a day By Reagan MashavaveMudzi - Nyoko Nyazvigo counts out her slim earnings in this remote Zimbabwean village, neatly arranging her few US dollars, South (By Jan)...World: California fires blaze a path of destruction
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: A deadly wildfire roared out of control above Los Angeles on Monday, killing two firefighters, forcing thousands to flee and threatening a crucial telecommunications facility.The monster blaze raging (By Jan)...Africa: Rural families struggle without Zim currency
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Reagan MashavaveNyoko Nyazvigo counts out her slim earnings in this remote Zimbabwean village, neatly arranging her few US dollars, South African rands and Mozambican meticais.The 43-year-old widow (By Jan)...Nigeria: Jailed Soldiers - Army Commutes Life Sentence to Seven Years
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Emmanuel IriogbeAbuja - The Nigerian Army yesterday, backed down on the life sentence handed down to the 27 soldiers that mutinied against delayed allowances last year on the streets of Akure, the (By Jan)...Africa: Rwandan church massacre trial begins
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Arusha, Tanzania - Fifteen years after Rwanda's genocide, a businessman went on trial on Monday for allegedly ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2 000 Tutsis had sought shelter and watchin (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Unicef Chief Meets with Children Terrorized by Ugandan Rebels
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The people of the far northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in constant fear of attacks from a notorious rebel group from neighbouring Uganda, the head of the United Nations Children' (By Jan)...Somalia: African Union to 'Train Somalia Police' - Officials
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Mogadishu - Gen. Abdi Qeybdiid, Somalia's national police boss, spoke Saturday at a ceremony in Mogadishu marking the returning of police officers who completed training abroad."AMISOM previously main (By Jan)...South Africa: Robber shot, wounded in Joburg
Monday 31-Aug-2009: A man was shot and wounded after he allegedly robbed a passer-by of a cellphone in Hillbrow on Monday, Johannesburg police said."A man was walking down Esselen Street in Hillbrow when he was approache (By Jan)...South Africa: Mo Shaik denies NIA rumours
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The National Intelligence Agency will officially be without a boss when its director-general Manala Manzini's contract expires today, and speculation over a successor is already getting political temp (By Jan)...South Africa: Residents angry at death of another child
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The threat of rubber bullets could not deter a community angry that yet another child had been killed in their midst.The lifeless body of 15-year-old Ncebakazi Mpoleki was removed from her Delft home (By Jan)...Africa: Zim constitution committee goes on strike
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's parliamentary committee tasked with drafting a new constitution, meant to pave the way to fresh elections, has gone on strike after government failed to pay their allowances, repor (By Jan)...Africa: Sino-Africa Trade Volumes Slump
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Harare - Trade volumes between China and Africa have weakened by 30,5 percent in the first half of the year as the global economic recession takes its toll on exports from the continent.The Commercial (By Jan)...Africa: Madagascar opposition wants army in charge
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Richard LoughAntananarivo - Madagascar's opposition said on Thursday the military should take the top three posts in a power-sharing government after they failed to reach an agreement with the curr (By Jan)...Africa: 'I will always be at the service of all'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Libreville - Opposition supporters went on the rampage across oil-rich Gabon on Thursday, torching a French consulate and attacking a prison, after the son of the country's late leader was declared wi (By Jan)...South Africa: Police foil Greenside bank robbery
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Johannesburg police foiled a bank robbery in Greenside on Thursday when a security guard became suspicious of two men who entered a Nedbank."Two men drove to a Nedbank situated in Greenway Street at 1 (By Jan)...Nigeria: Islamic Finance to Form The Country's Financial Landscape -- Sanusi
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Abuja - The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said at the weekend that Islamic finance will form a significant part of the Nigerian financial landscape.Islamic finance is a (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I prefer to die than to go to jail'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma burst into tears when she heard the contents of the suicide note left by a KwaZulu-Natal man who hanged himself after failing to get an ID document."What m (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT back on track after shooting
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The attack on Rea Vaya buses on Tuesday night did not derail the rapid transit system on Wednesday. "Passengers did not appear to be deterred by the incident and volumes remained the same as the previ (By Jan)...South Africa: Diepsloot man stabbed to death
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Two men were arrested for allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old man to death in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, Erasmia police said on Thursday.The men, aged 20 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday night f (By Jan)...South Africa: Upbringing blamed for gang rape
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The defence lawyers of six of the seven men found guilty of the gang rape of a woman in Tembisa in 2005 claimed on Wednesday that disadvantaged personal circumstances were a factor in their behaviour. (By Jan)...Zim: ZCTU pulls out of NGO body
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Differences on the on-going constitution-making process By Cuthbert Nzou and Patricia MpofuHarare - The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the country's largest labour union, has pulled (By Jan)...South Africa: Security forces raid hostel after BRT attack
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Alex Eliseev, Solly Maphumulo and Gill GiffordA massive force of 350 soldiers, police officers and metro police officers struck back on Wednesday morning after two BRT buses were shot at in Soweto.The (By Jan)...Africa: Vuka Expands Into Continent Creating Opportunities for Distributors
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Investment Opportunities : Aquaculture & Mariculture Retail TransportationNational motorcycle retailer, VUKA SCUTA, continues to revolutionise the transport industry in South Africa and is now set to (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema back in court for hate speech hearing
Monday 31-Aug-2009: African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema is expected to return to the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Monday for the continuation of a hate speech complaint against him.The Sonke (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops find mini arms cache in car in Alex
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Alex EliseevPolice officers carrying out a random patrol in Alexandra stumbled across a mini arms cache on Sunday when they pulled over a silver Peugeot in the early hours of the morning. A man and (By Jan)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua And Human Rights Watch
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Abdulwasiu HassanAbuja - Recently the global human right watchdog, Human Rights Watch's West Africa Office scored Yar'adu'a's rule of law administration low in fighting corruption and human right r (By Jan)...World: Olmert faces corruption charges
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Jerusalem - Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was indicted on corruption charges on Sunday, becoming the first Israeli premier to go on trial and highlighting a series of cases that have shaken the pu (By Jan)...South Africa: King of Bling sends his lawyer home
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Lebogang SealeWilliam "King of Bling" Mbatha has fired his lawyer, prompting a postponement to the bail hearing. "The defence is simply not in a position to proceed. It's a bit difficult because th (By Jan)...World: Fraud suspect, drug addict, wig collector...
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Jane SuttonMiami - A woman described by a federal agent as a heroin addict with a stash of wigs was arrested in Miami on charges of being part of an identity theft ring that targeted the wife of Fe (By Jan)...Nigeria: How I Was Trained in Afghanistan for Terrorism - Boko Haram Specialist
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Dauda Mbaya and Ayodele SamuelA 23-year-old man told journalists in Maiduguri yesterday that he had been trained in Afghanistan on how to manufacture bombs for the Boko Haram sect.Malam Abdulrashee (By Jan)...Science: Mixed news for rhino conservation
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: It has been a decade of quite spectacular triumph and devastating failure for the custodians of Africa's rhinos.For the first time in several decades the overall number of white and black rhino has go (By Jan)...Africa: Lockerbie bomber in ICU
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Tripoli, Libya - The convicted Lockerbie bomber, released from a Scottish jail last month on compassionate grounds because of terminal cancer, has been admitted to hospital intensive care in Tripoli, (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop killed in shoot-out
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: A police officer was killed during a shoot-out with hijackers in Actonville on Wednesday, Ekurhuleni police said."Two police officers spotted a car that was hijacked and gave chase. They cornered the (By Jan)...South Africa: What's your take on rubber bullets?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Wendy Jasson da CostaKwaZulu-Natal police have been warned not to use rubber bullets indiscriminately as it might send the wrong message to the world before the soccer World Cup in South Africa nex (By Jan)...World: Indonesia quake kills six, flattens homes
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Fitri WulandariA powerful earthquake rattled Indonesia's main island on Wednesday, killing at least six people and forcing thousands to evacuate, the disaster management agency said.The 7.0 magnitu (By Jan)...Africa: Kibaki slammed for hiring Ringera once more
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Wangui KaninaNairobi - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was under fire on Tuesday over his decision to re-appoint the head of the East African country's corruption fighting body which critics see as a (By Jan)...South Africa: Wrongful arrest: R150 000 for woman
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Zelda VenterThe Minister of Safety and Security has to pay R150 000 in damages to a Tembisa woman who was arrested by police in the middle of the night six years ago.Sinah Mofokeng said the police (By Jan)...South Africa: Dad in court after daughter beaten to death
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: A nervous-looking father accused of beating his daughter to death with an electrical cord made a brief first appearance in court on Monday. Patrick Mpokeli, 42, was on Monday charged with the murder o (By Jan)...South Africa: Row Looms Over Closed Briefing On Dodgy Arms Sales
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - A confrontation is on the cards tomorrow if Parliament's defence committee proceeds with a "closed" meeting to discuss alleged "dodgy" arms deals approved by the National (By Jan)...World: Car bomb kills one in Russia
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Police in Russia's southern region of Dagestan say a driver who stopped by traffic police has detonated explosives in his car, killing a passer-by and injuring several police.Spokesperson Mark Tolchin (By Jan)...South Africa: Trauma unit red alert
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Michelle PietersenGroote Schuur doctors and the Western Cape health department are to square off on Tuesday over the future of the province's only dedicated trauma unit. The hospital's trauma unit, (By Jan)...West Africa: Ecowas Defence Chiefs to Review Security in West Africa
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Aisha UmarThe Chiefs of Defence Staff of ECOWAS have begun their 25th quarterly meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to review the security situation in West Africa and further seek means of ensuri (By Jan)...South Africa: Sword attack case held up by taxi go-slow
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The sentencing of a schoolboy for killing a fellow student with a sword was temporarily postponed in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday due to a taxi protest.Proceedings in the sentencing of Mor (By Jan)...South Africa: COPE warns of perils of 'populist rhetoric'
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Political BureauCOPE's leadership has warned that the season of strikes and "populist rhetoric", such as calls for the scrapping of inflation targeting, are "dangerous and the result of preposterou (By Jan)...World: Afghan villagers bury Nato strike victims
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Mohammad HamedYaqoubi, Afghanistan - Faces wrapped with black scarves and AK-47s slung across their shoulders, Taliban fighters looked on sternly as villagers buried their dead from this week's Nat (By Jan)...Africa: Biti warns IMF loan unaffordable
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Harare - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had allocated a $510-million loan to Zimbabwe, but finance minister Tendai Biti said the government cannot afford to take the loan.The alloca (By Jan)...No Access to Police Diary for Avid Accused
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesONE of the issues that has been holding up the start of the Avid Investment Corporation fraud trial resulted in a High Court ruling against one of the people charged in the case, retir (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu drops complaint against Zille
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Cosatu has dropped its Equality Court complaint against Western Cape premier Helen Zille, saying it recognises her commitment to gender equality.Judge Willem Louw on Friday made a two-page agreement b (By Jan)...South Africa: Expert to probe death of satirist's daughter
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Caryn DolleyVanilla Nurse's parents were unpacking groceries they had bought for her second birthday party when the car she was sleeping in caught fire - claiming the toddler's li (By Jan)...Nigeria: Taliban Taught Us Bomb Making in Afghanistan - Sect Member
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Isa Umar GusauMaiduguri - A suspected member of the Boko haram sect who is in police custody has claimed being trained local bomb making by the Taliban in Afghanistan about five months ago.The susp (By Jan)...World: Quake levels houses in Indonesia
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Heru Asprihanto and Pipit PrahoroPangalengan, Indonesia - Indonesian villagers searched frantically on Thursday for people buried under collapsed buildings, after a powerful earthquake killed at le (By Jan)...Nigeria: The EFCC Versus The Judiciary
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Lagos - Notwithstanding the current flurry of activity by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in an effort to recover alleged staggering non-performing loans of five troubled banks - Intercon (By Jan)...South Africa: High winds, fires hit Durban area
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Dasen ThathiahIn one of almost 150 fires in the eThekwini area yesterday, a factory was gutted after embers from a veld fire sparked a blaze.Firefighters and emergency services workers were on high (By Jan)...Africa: Rwandan genocide suspect pleads innocent
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: A Rwandan man accused of taking part in the African country's 1994 genocide took the stand in a Finnish court on Thursday to deny all the charges against him."I would like to say that I have done none (By Jan)...South Africa: Harmse to know his fate soon
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Sentencing Morne Harmse for killing a fellow pupil with a sword was a difficult decision to make, Joburg High Court Judge Phillip Hattingh said on Tuesday."I need some time," Hattingh said before sett (By Jan)...Gambia: Zero Tolerance for Criminality
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Musa NdowOusman Sonko, the minister of Interior, has strongly reiterated that The Gambia is zero tolerant to crime and criminality and urged both citizens and non-citizens to be law abiding.Ministe (By Jan)...Somalia: Sixteen Drown Making Hazardous Journey Across Gulf of Aden
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Sixteen Somalis died over the weekend trying to start fresh lives in Yemen, joining hundreds of others who have lost their lives this year making the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden, the Unit (By Jan)...South Africa: 'They said 10 minutes, it took 10 hours'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Barry Bateman A critically injured pensioner waited for more than 12 hours with a fractured pelvis and a bullet lodged in his gut before undergoing life-saving surgery. The shooting and subsequent (By Jan)...Africa: Lagos cracks down on bank chiefs
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Lagos - The Nigerian anti-graft agency on Monday filed charges against 16 bank chiefs arrested for incurring billions of dollars in bad loans for five ailing banks, a spokesperson said."We filed fraud (By Jan)...Somalia: 'Fearful' Somaliland Minister Addresses Crowd, Police Fire Bullets
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Hargeisa - Mr. Ali Mohamed "Waran'adde," Somaliland's aviation minister, was trying to reach the presidential compound in Hargeisa when he could not drive his vehicle through hundreds of people gather (By Jan)...Markets Too Far for Farmers' Profit
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Jessie BoylanLago District - August is peak tomato season in the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, and farmers are bringing bucket-loads of tomatoes to sell to Nkwichi Lodge, one of the few (By Jan)...Zimbabwe nets 20 million from diamond sales
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Last year Zimbabwe produced US$43.8m worth Zimbabwe has grossed 19.6 million dollars from diamond sales during the first seven months of the year, government statistics showed Monday, amid con (By Jan)...Zim: Biti warns IMF loan unaffordable
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: "It's not a grant, its a loan. It attracts interest" Harare - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had allocated a $510-million loan to Zimbabwe, but finance minister Tendai Biti (By Jan)...Swaziland: Running Out of Space
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Mbabane - Population growth, adherence to land distribution customs, and a small country are combining to make Swaziland a crowded place, rapidly running out of room to achieve food security.The popul (By Jan)...Zim: MDC-M expels Job Sikhala
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: "They are dogs and reptiles who no longer have any support" By Violet GondaSerious fissures continue to appear in the MDC party led by Arthur Mutambara, which has been expelling various senior (By Jan)...Rwandan Newspaper Takes on the BBC
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Kigali - One would have thought that common sense would prevail at Bush House, but that has turned out to be a pipedream.Barely a few weeks after mending fences with the Rwandan government on the issu (By Jan)...Africans With Albinism Face Ridicule, Torture and Death
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Phitalis Were MasakhweUnless far-reaching, concerted and urgent measures are taken, persons with albinism in Africa face real threat to their very survive as a people. The killing of a six-years-ol (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape Spar robbed
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Two men were arrested for robbery in Hout Bay near Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said.Inspector Tanya Lesch said five Xhosa-speaking men, one of them armed with a gun entered a Spar stor (By Jan)...World: Obama more successful on terrorism - Jones
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Washington - The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama partly because of his "radically different" approach to foreign policy, National security adviser (By Jan)...Africa: Gaddafi honoured during military parade
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Tom PfeifferTripoli - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was guest of honour at a military parade to kick off six days of festivities in Libya marking 40 years since Muammar Gaddafi took control of t (By Jan)...Gambia: What is Responsible for Hike of Meat Price And Other Commodities
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Pateh BaldehIt has been observed by many house wives that the prices of basic commodities like meat etc have been on the increase especially during the Ramadan. Our reporter continued his tour of t (By Jan)...South Africa: Healers, medical school fight HIV
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Slindile MalulekaUlulation pierced the Durban Exhibition Centre hall on Monday after more than 600 Traditional Health Practitioners graduated with certificates in HIV management and prevention offe (By Jan)...Africa: Seychelles repatriates suspected pirates
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: Victoria - The Seychelles has repatriated 23 Somalis it had been holding on suspicion of piracy for lack of evidence, an official statement said Sunday."We have taken the decision to repatriate the me (By Jan)...World: Violence erupts at far-right march
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Stefano AmbrogiLondon - More than 30 people were arrested in Birmingham city centre on Saturday after fighting broke out between far-right protesters and groups of youths, police said.A little-know (By Jan)...South Africa: Man smashes toddler son to death
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: A three-year-old boy died when his father grabbed his legs and smashed his head against rocks in Tsolo near Mthatha, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday.The man, who was separated with the boy's 27-y (By Jan)...Senegal: Clashes Displace Hundreds in Casamance
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Ziguinchor - At least 600 people have fled their homes on the outskirts of Ziguinchor, the main city of Senegal's Casamance region, after clashes between the Senegalese army and separatist rebels.On 4 (By Jan)...Nigeria: Abuja Homicide - Injured Chinese Man Feared Dead
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Misbahu BashirThe injured Chinese man whose fellow Chinese man died after both were pushed down from a steep rock in Mpape, Abuja, is feared dead. Chen Zhiqing who hit his head on a boulder and die (By Jan)...South Africa: Kriegler mulls Hlophe challenge
Friday 04-Sep-2009: A law body headed by former judge Johann Kriegler intends challenging the Judicial Service Commission's decision not to probe Cape Judge President John Hlophe.The pending legal challenge by Freedom Un (By Jan)...South Africa: 'King of Bling' in 'conflict' with his lawyer
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Lebogang SealeWilliam "King of Bling" Mbatha's defence counsel Nadine Havenger has asked for a postponement of the bail hearing, citing "conflict" with her client. "The defence is simply not in a pos (By Jan)...Uganda: Oil Discovery Raises Higher Expectations
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - WHEN the people of Kanungu and Rukungiri were told that they were sitting on top of massive oil and gas reservoirs, they could not believe it."It had never come into our min (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Don't phone the ambulance. She's dead'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach"Please phone the police. I shot my wife."These were the words of a 34-year-old man as he stood with his nine-year-old son by his side, telling one of his neighbours in Sweet Pee (By Jan)...South Africa: More rhinos poached in Kruger
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The poaching war in the Kruger National Park intensified on Wednesday with an announcement by SANParks that seven more white rhino have been killed over the past month.This brings the total number of (By Jan)...South Africa: Wife accused of assaulting toddler
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Jade WittenThe lawyer for a woman who is charged with trying to kill a three-month-old baby boy says he will appeal a court's decision to refuse his client's bail application.Portia Mqamelo, 30, al (By Jan)...South Africa: Five nabbed before cash heist
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Five men, including a former policeman, were arrested in Killarney on Wednesday, just before they were about to rob a cash-in-transit vehicle, Gauteng police said."We received information about a cash (By Jan)...Sudan: Panel to Back 'Home-Grown' Justice for Darfur?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The high-level African Union (AU) panel appointed to help end the Darfur conflict is reported to be advocating a South African-style "truth and reconciliation commission" and special courts to try war (By Jan)...Nigeria: Amnesty - Militants Are Not Prisoners, Says Clark
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Henry UmoruAbuja - ONE-time Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, said yesterday that if the Federal Government amnesty programme must succeed, the idea of taking the finger-prin (By Jan)...Uganda: Three Killed in Robbery Attempt
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Michael KarugabaThree people including two suspected robbers and a turn boy were on August 26 killed in an attempted robbery in Kikura village in Kasese.The district police commander, Mr Christophe (By Jan)...Science: Erosion threatening Goa's idyllic beaches
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Lita BarrettoPanaji, India - India's resort state of Goa has been hit by several setbacks in the last 18 months, including high-profile crime and the knock-on effects of Islamist extremist attacks (By Jan)...South Africa: Sword attack pupil to hear his fate
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Krugersdorp schoolboy Morne Harmse will be sentenced for killing a fellow pupil with a sword when he appears in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday.Harmse killed 16-year-old Jacques Pretorius wit (By Jan)...South Africa: Senior civil servants more prone to fraud
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Political BureauA report by the Public Service Commission suggests that senior managers in the government are more prone to fraud and corruption than junior employees.The commis (By Jan)...Somalia: 2 Civilians Killed Separately in Beledweyn Town
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Baladweyn - At least two people have separately been killed in Beledweyn town in Hiran region in over the past 24 hours, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.Locals said that one of the murdered (By Jan)...Africa: Burundi poll cash boost: 43-million reasons
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Burundi's 2010 general election should cost 43 million dollars, with four-fifths of that amount financed by the international community, the country's electoral commission said Thursday."We worked wit (By Jan)...High Household Borrowing Worries BOB
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Thato MosekiNational indebtedness, as seen by the high level of household borrowing, continues to vex the Bank of Botswana (BoB). The bank wants to encourage higher levels of national savings.Howev (By Jan)...South Africa: State supports apartheid-era victims
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Christelle TerreblancheIn a move hailed as a "breakthrough" by victims of apartheid violations, the government has made a U-turn on apartheid-era lawsuits and is now supporting legal action by vict (By Jan)...World: Forensic exam will determine identity of body
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Adrian CroftLondon - A body was handed over to Iraqi authorities on Wednesday that Iraq believes is one of the British hostages seized in Baghdad in 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband s (By Jan)...Country Faces Fire Dilemma
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Wezi TjarondaWindhoek - More veldt fires are currently burning in Namibia, with Otjozondjupa and Kavango regions reporting the biggest fires to date.In Kavango alone, 10 fires are burning at differ (By Jan)...South Africa: Girl, 3, dies at creche
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Caryn Dolley and Michelle JonesA child aged three died at a Kirstenhof creche after complaining she wasn't feeling well.A few hours after being dropped off at Munchkins play school in La Dauphine A (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Body Probes Bank Chiefs' Assets
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Indications emerged last night that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Warizi, has dispatched special operatives of the commis (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang-rapist seeks lighter sentence
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Baldwin Ndaba and Kati DijaneOne of the seven men who admitted to having had sex with a gang-rape victim does not deserve to be sent to jail. This was the argument in mitigation of sentence submitt (By Jan)...Nigeria: Central Bank to Print More Naira, Says Governor
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Henry UmoruAbuja - THE Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said yesterday that it would have no option than to print naira to save more ailing banks in the country (By Jan)...Somalia: Libyan AU Summit Calls for More Peacekeepers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Itai MusengeyiLibya - PRESIDENT Mugabe joined other African Heads of State and Government at an extraordinary summit of the African Union convened here yesterday to deliberate on the continent's tr (By Jan)...South Africa: Parkade murder: 'Her body just shut down'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Caryn DolleyShe was "exhausted" and just wanted to get home, but as she was walking towards her car she was apparently ambushed and then beaten and strangled "until her body couldn't take it any mo (By Jan)...[Humor] S.Africa: Sometimes our Lying Mass Media is actually exceptionally funny...
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The Mass Media is irritating me of late with all its lies about Zimbabwe again. But there are lighter moments of some hilarity. I must admit many South African newspapers do come up with some brillian (By Jan)...South Africa: Mothers weep as sword case nears an end
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The mothers of Krugersdorp schoolboy Morne Harmse and the student he killed with a samurai sword Jacques Pretorius, both wept as sentencing got under way on Monday.Pretorius's mother Adel Bekker wept (By Jan)...Africa: Thousands rally for reed dance in Swaziland
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Ezulwini - More than 80 000 women and girls, some as young as four, participated in this year's Reed Dance in Swaziland on Monday.The women, called imbali, came from every part of the small southern A (By Jan)...Africa: Ravalomanana takes tough line
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Richard LoughAntananarivo - Madagascar's ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana said on Monday there would be no power-sharing deal on the Indian Ocean island if the man who toppled him in a coup, Andry R (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema wants hate speech complaint quashed
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Karyn MaughanJulius Malema does not think he needs to take the stand to explain his remarks that President Jacob Zuma's rape accuser enjoyed herself with him.And the ANC Youth League President want (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial killer found hanging by a sheet
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Recently convicted Modimolle serial killer David Randitsheni, 45, has committed suicide, said Limpopo police on Monday.Captain Mashudu Malelo said Randitsheni was found hanging by a sheet from a windo (By Jan)...Africa: Where Are the Continent's Mining Experts?
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Sam MakindaIt is a truth widely acknowledged that Africa is one of the wealthiest continents in natural and mineral resources.Yet, Africa also remains the poorest continent from an economic standpo (By Jan)...Nigeria: Troubled Banks - Foreign Investors Consider Back Out
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Omoh GabrielLagos - Indications emerged yesterday that some of the foreign investors approached by the CBN to take equity stake in the five banks it sacked their Managing Directors and boards three (By Jan)...Uganda: Army Accused of Torture On Mt. Elgon
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Gerald BareebeKampala - A local human rights body has accused the UPDF of torturing at least 13 people to death in Mt Elgon area.Human Rights Network of Uganda (Hurinet) yesterday released audio, v (By Jan)...South Africa: F*** you: Motata
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Gill GiffordJudge Nkola Motata is facing a cloudy future after his humiliating trial that portrayed him as a blurry-eyed, dishevelled, ranting drunk.The judge was yesterday found (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Judge, you were drunk'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Gill Gifford Gallery: Judge Nkola MotataThe blurry-eyed Judge Nkola Motata who lay slumped behind the wheel of his Jaguar and the prim judge who took notes in the dock during his (By Jan)...Science: Global warming is killing coral reefs
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Berlin - Climate change is killing valuable coral reef systems, a United Nations-backed report published on Wednesday warned.The report - entitled "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity" - unve (By Jan)...Rwanda: Rebel Force's Website Shut Down
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Josh KronNairobi - A British web-hosting firm Tuesday shut down internet and computer servers dedicated to a Hutu rebel force partially responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide, media has reported (By Jan)...South Africa: SA's population increases: survey
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: South Africa's population increased from 45,6 million in July 2002 to 48,7 million in July 2008, according to Statistics SA's General Household Survey.Released on Tuesday, the survey - specifically de (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT shooting victims 'stable'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Two people wounded when occupants of a minibus taxi opened fire on a BRT bus in Soweto were in a stable condition on Wednesday as police searched for the perpetrators."We have not arrested anybody in (By Jan)...East Africa: Disaster Looms Over Region
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Arusha - East African Community partner states have been warned on looming ecological disaster and food crisis should measures not been taken to address the impact of climate change.EAC secretary gene (By Jan)...Somalia: Ahlu Sunna Fighters Conduct Operations, One Dies Another Injured in Central Somalia
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Galka'o - The Islamist fighters of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics have conducted operations in Galdogob district in central Somalia, killing one and injuring another, official told Shabelle radio on Tue (By Jan)...Zambia: CBU Braces for Country's Economic Varsity Sustainability Challenges
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Rogers KaleroTHERE is an inseparable closeness between education and sustainable economic development that makes it impossible to ignore contributions that institutions of higher learning make to t (By Jan)...Africa: Egyptian guards kill African at Israel border
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Ashraf SweilamEgyptian border guards have fatally shot an African man and wounded a woman trying to cross the border with Israel.The two were with 13 other African migrants trying to get to Israel (By Jan)...Somalia: Govt-Ethiopia Troops Jointly Chase Out Islamist Insurgents From Town
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Beletwein - Residents in the town of Beletwein, capital of Hiran region, said a heavily-armed convoy of Ethiopian troops entered the town overnight Friday and reportedly took control of the town witho (By Jan)...Nigeria: Country Earns $6.9 Billion from Oil - Economy Grows by 5.1 Percent in Second Quarter
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Babajide KomolafeNigeria recorded $6.9 billion from crude oil exports in the second quarter of the year while the economy grew by 5.13 per cent. The Central Bank (CBN) in its economic report for th (By Jan)...World: Mutilated voter regrets his defiance
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The man who had his nose and ears cut off by the Taliban for daring to vote. Lal Mohammad was determined to stand against Taliban threats and exercise his right to vote in Afghanistan's presidential e (By Jan)...Science: Mystery disease strikes in Papua New Guinea
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Port Moresby - Twin outbreaks of a flu-like illness and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2 000 villagers, a senior medical official said on M (By Jan)...South Africa: Parents 'sent wrong daughter to rape case'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: A Pretoria West couple allegedly tried to fool a prosecutor by sending the sister of a rape complainant for consultation, pretending she was the victim.Also, they apparently tried to get the rape char (By Jan)...South Africa: Slain editor's wife not a suspect, say police
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The wife of Bona magazine editor Force Khashane, Palesa, was not a suspect along with the three men arrested for his murder, Gauteng police said on Sunday."The suspects are all men and, as far as I kn (By Jan)...Africa: Dozens killed in floods
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Gabriela MatthewsDakar - Flooding in West Africa has claimed 70 lives and left hundreds of thousands facing health risks in the rainy season, a senior United Nations humanitarian official told repo (By Jan)...Madagascar: UN Chief Calls for End to Political Deadlock
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to all sides involved in the political crisis in Madagascar to maintain their commitment to the power-sharing agreement reached last month and to end their d (By Jan)...Science: Mayan city may have ended in pyramid battle
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Sarah GraingerEl Mirador, Guatemala - One of Guatemala's greatest ancient Mayan cities may have died out in a bloody battle atop a huge pyramid between a royal family and invaders from hundreds of (By Jan)...East Africa: Somali Refugees Suffer in 'Desperate' Camps, Says Oxfam
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: A total failure of the international community to deal effectively with the Somalia crisis and help end the war is resulting in a spiral of human suffering and exodus to neighbouring countries, warns (By Jan)...Africa: Month of murder for Kenya's taxi industry
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Thirteen Nairobi taxi drivers have been killed and mutilated over the past month, police told AFP Wednesday."We have received formal reports on the 13 taxi drivers who have been killed in the past mon (By Jan)...South Africa: Study reveals motive behind violent attacks
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The issue of xenophobia has been exaggerated by politicians to divert attention from the main issue of service delivery, a group of researchers from the University of Johannesburg said on Wednesday."I (By Jan)...South Africa: Nursing students held during protest
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Seven students at the Mmabatho Nursing College were arrested on Monday for public violence during a strike, North West police said."Today seven students were arrested for public violence after they ba (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema fails to have case chucked out
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Karyn MaughanJulius Malema has failed in his bid to have the hate speech complaint against him thrown out of court.Johannesburg Equality Court magistrate Colleen Collis this afternoon found that th (By Jan)...Africa: Libyan prisoner release linked with oil deal
Monday 31-Aug-2009: London - Britain agreed to include Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya because of "overwhelming interests" before an oil deal was sealed with Tripoli, a new (By Jan)...World: Police comb house of sex predator
Monday 31-Aug-2009: San Francisco - Police on Sunday continued to seek answers to how a convicted sexual predator was able to kidnap a young girl and keep her, along with the two children she bore him in captivity, for n (By Jan)...Zimbabwe urged to honour SA-brokered agreement
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: "There is no alternative but to implement the agreement" Kgomotso Sebetso, DRC - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called on political parties in Zimbabwe to respect and ho (By Jan)...Tanzania: Drought Kills Hundreds of Cattle
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Mpoki BukukuA prolonged drought has killed hundreds of livestock and is threatening human life in Ngorongoro District.Ngorongoro District Commissioner Elias Lali told The Citizen that scores of ani (By Jan)...South Africa: Readers spot suspect from Star's pic report
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: At least three more Saturday Star readers have come forward with their accounts of smash-and-grabs at the hands of serial city smash-and-grabber Mandla Ndimande. Following a picture report by Saturday (By Jan)...Uganda: Chinese to Map Local Irrigation Schemes
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Ronald KalyangoKampala - ENGINEERS from China have arrived in the country to embark on the mapping of Uganda's potential irrigation sites.Agriculture minister Hope Mwesigye said Uganda had also inv (By Jan)...South Africa: BRT attack: Driver commended
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo on Thursday visited the victims of a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) shooting in hospital, the City of Johannesburg said."The city condemns in the strongest possible terms th (By Jan)...World: Greek PM calls snap election, takes a gamble
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Renee MaltezouGreek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis launched a difficult election campaign on Thursday after calling an early parliamentary vote for Oct. 4 to seek a new mandate and deal with a sh (By Jan)...Uganda: Border Town Protests Sudanese Attack
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Ezaruku Draku Franklin and Frank MugabiKampala - Moyo town was yesterday thrown into chaos as residents demonstrated against the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) attack on farmers in Lefori su (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged killer in bad shape
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Caryn DolleyThe son of a Constantia home owner, accused of fatally shooting a police constable at the weekend, will probably be too weak to appear in court soon.A date was set for the Wynberg Magis (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman fooled by scam
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Three Congolese men were arrested for allegedly defrauding an Edenvale, Johannesburg, woman of R184 000, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Wednesday.The woman repeatedly deposited money into the men's a (By Jan)...South Africa: Do you know the words of the national anthem?
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Colleen DardaganAre South Africans proud to sing their national anthem, do they know what it means and should it be changed? These were some of the questions The Mercury posed to school principals, (By Jan)...South Africa: 'They had just 35 minutes of fuel remaining'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and ReutersRumours of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's plane "crash landing" in the Democratic Republic of Congo after experiencing fuel problems have been denied. This is accor (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmer's Case Referred to Supreme Court
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Harare - A GOROMONZI resident magistrate has referred the case of a commercial farmer in the area accused of refusing to vacate State land to the Supreme Court for determination of constitutional issu (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants Submitted Arms Seized from Cameroonians, Says MEND
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Emma AmaizeWarri - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta alleged yesterday that some of the weapons surrendered by militants in Bayelsa State on September 22 were those seized in a Novem (By Jan)...South Africa: Former Denel chief found guilty
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Hant OttoThe former chief operating officer at Denel's Aero-manpower Group was convicted on Monday on four charges of raping his personal assistant and seven of indecently assaulting her.Moments af (By Jan)...Zimbabwe Helps Subsidize Iran; Pushes Trumped Up Lie Of Western Neo-Colonialization
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: [Once again, it seems that Zimbabwe is budding up with Iran this time on ensuring Iran will receive its resources from a fellow totalitarian compatriot. Even more so, the Iranian-state run media prom (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Neiti Indicts Oil Operators Over Lack of Transparency
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiThe National Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has said billions of naira is lost in the nation's oil and gas industry due to lack of transparency and poor monitorin (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Court Rules Against Farmer's Eviction
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaA HIGH court judge last week dismissed an application to have a Chegutu commercial farmer evicted from his farm.Justice Alphas M Chitakunye dismissed an urgent chamber application (By Jan)...Nigeria: Presidency Moves to End ASUU Strike
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Wisdom Patrick and Ekene OkoroAso Rock at the weekend signaled its dissatisfaction with the way the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been handled by Education Minister, (By Jan)...Nigeria: EFCC, Australia Police Fight Internet Scammers
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Paul Arhewe with Agency ReportLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has partnered with the Australian police in forming the world's first force to apprehend internet mail scam (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema supporters run riot in court
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Karyn MaughanAngry Julius Malema supporters have threatened the gender group who accused the ANC Youth League of hate speech with severe consequences should President Jacob Zuma's name be mentioned (By Jan)...Rwanda: Unaids Urges Prevention in Combating HIV/Aids
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - Michel Sidibé the UNNAIDS Executive Director.KIGALI - The Executive Director of the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr Michel Sidibé, has commended the co (By Jan)...Tanzania: Blow to Battle Against Money Laundering
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - REGIONAL efforts to fight money laundering and terrorist financing suffered a blow this month when the Tanzanian government broke ranks at a council of finance ministers (By Jan)...South Africa: 'My mom saw the blue flash from the gun'
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Barry BatemanThe daughter of a Villieria pensioner watched helplessly as two robbers shot her father in the stomach before they fled with small household items. August Schafer, 62, is believed to (By Jan)...South Africa: Surfer dies from blood loss
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Craig McKuneA Mossel Bay surfer has been killed in the second shark attack in two months at a southern Cape beach.Gerhard van Zyl, 25, was surfing at Glentana Bay near Mossel Bay when he was bitten (By Jan)...South Africa: Police investigating after woman found dead
Monday 31-Aug-2009: The body of a woman who went missing early this month was found lying in a field in Claridge, Pietermaritzburg, at the weekend.Kitty Elizabeth Mahaley's body was decomposing when it was found. Superin (By Jan)...Nigeria: Top Human Rights Defender Dies
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Fire-eating lawyer and Nigeria's foremost human rights activist, Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi is dead. The news of the death of the Human Rights crusader hit the Nigerian nation early this morning.G (By Jan)...High Drama Marks Struggle Kids' Protest
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliFROM the Swapo Party Headquarters to Parliament and the Embassy of Angola, drama unfolded yesterday as the protesting 'children of the liberation struggle' marked the first anniver (By Jan)...Bar Association Chairman Appeals to Police to Fight Anti-Social Practises
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Luanda - The chairman of the Angolan Bar Association (OAA), Inglês Pinto, Wednesday in Luanda, appealed to the members of the Economics Police to improve the methods of prevention and repression (By Jan)...South Africa: ANCYL wants Gwen's head
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach and Barry BatemanThe ANC Youth League (ANCYL), Tshwane region, has called for executive mayor Dr Gwen Ramokgopa's head. The call for Ramokgopa's resignation came while she assur (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops confiscate R300 000 in drugs
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Five people were arrested and drugs with a street price of R300 000 were confiscated in Strandfontein, Western Cape police said on Friday.Captain Frederick van Wyk said the police's organised crime un (By Jan)...World: UK soldier dies in Afghanistan
Friday 04-Sep-2009: London - A British soldier was killed on Thursday in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said, bringing the death toll of British troops serving there since 2001 to 212.The soldier, from the 2nd Batt (By Jan)...South Africa: 'My children were victims of racism'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Noelene BarbeauThe father of a 15-year-old pupil at Kenmont School on the Bluff, who allegedly stabbed another pupil with a pair of scissors in June, says the boy and his 13-year-old brother were b (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Event Management - Gold Mine Awaiting Exploration'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Rumbidzai MashayahanyaHarare - The assumption that Africans love gatherings and hosting each other may be true, but if one is to look at the world beyond Africa, hosting is as old as history itself (By Jan)...South Africa: Court to enforce rapist's suspended sentence
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday agreed to take into account the suspended sentence given to one of the seven men in the Tembisa gang rape case for a previous rape conviction.Mojalefa Seleka (By Jan)...South Africa: Same syringe used for all patients: cop
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: A bogus doctor who allegedly confessed to operating an illegal mobile clinic in the Eastern Cape has been arrested along with his two unqualified nurses, police said on Thursday."The doctor was arrest (By Jan)...South Africa: Nuclear safety agreement signed
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) of South Africa have agreed to work together on a nuclear accident programme, the US embassy said on Thursday.The ag (By Jan)...Science: 'White rhino on the brink of extinction'
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Daniel WallisNairobi - Rhino numbers in Africa have reached record levels but one sub-species confined to a remote and lawless corner of Congo is on the brink of extinction, a leading conservation (By Jan)...Science: Number of slaughtered white rhinos up to 33
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The poaching war in the Kruger National Park intensified yesterday when SANParks revealed that seven more white rhino have been killed in the last few weeks.This brings the total number of rhino the f (By Jan)...Africa: Commit 15 Percent of Budget on Aids Scourge, Say Leaders
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Joy WanjaNairobi - African leaders have urged governments in the continent to set aside 15 percent of national budgets to combat HIV and Aids. They cited examples where countries have set aside fun (By Jan)...South Africa: Govt Tightens Tobacco Laws
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Lungi LangaSouth Africa has strengthened the current anti-smoking legislation with new regulations which limit outdoor smoking, protect children and reduce the chances of fires caused by burning ci (By Jan)...Tanzania: Banana Could Be Wiped Out By Bacteria
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Arusha - Arusha a major Banana growing area in Tanzania is among parts of the sub-Saharan Africa that may suffer massive loss due to two fast-spreading diseases threatening to wipe out banana plantati (By Jan)...Kenya: International Court Recruits Waki Team Investigators
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - The International Criminal Court has acquired the services of the Waki Commission personnel to ease its investigative process.The investigators, who worked in the Commission o (By Jan)...South Africa: 'RAF doomed without overhaul'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The head of the embattled Road Accident Fund (RAF) told MPs on Tuesday that it could not hope to survive without a comprehensive legal overhaul held up by the courts.Joe Modise said the scheme was not (By Jan)...South Africa: Stowaway brothers still to hear of tragedy
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Jauhara KhanAutopsies would be conducted on the bodies of two boys who died after stowing away on a container ship before their remains were sent back to their country, police said on Monday.Four t (By Jan)...Somalia: As Ethiopia Withdraws, Hiran Governor Quits Govt
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Beletwein - Hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers retreated from bases around the key town of Beletwein, the provincial capital of Hiran region, with more than 20 military trucks driving west towards the Som (By Jan)...Ruling Party Official Challenges Khama
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Tshireletso MotlogelwaBotswana Democratic Party (BDP) Secretary General Gomolemo Motswaledi finally moved to the High Court yesterday to challenge his suspension by President Ian Khama. The respond (By Jan)...South Africa: MPs declare financial interests
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Political BureauCOPE is the party with by far the most shareholdings and directorships per MP.Parliament's just-released register of members' interests show that some of the new party's representat (By Jan)...Somalia: Kenya Seizes Plane Carrying 'Pirates'
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: By Sammy CheboiNairobi - An aircraft carrying 37 pirates was on Sunday still being held at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport under heavy guard as high-level negotiations continued.Presiden (By Jan)...Uganda: Control Alcohol Abuse to Curb HIV/ Aids Spread
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Apophia AgiresaasiPerhaps one of the challenges that has bedevilled Uganda's fight against HIV/Aids is the disregard for long-term causes of the disease, such as alcoholism, idleness and the influx (By Jan)...South Africa: 'She beamed wonder, humour and amazement'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteVanilla Nurse, the two year-old daughter of Cape Town satirist Justin Nurse, was a "little angel" who captivated everyone with her cheerful charm, say her devastated parents.The lit (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We'll fight JSC on Hlophe'
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Natasha MarrianA law body headed by former judge Johann Kriegler intends challenging the Judicial Service Commission's (JSC) decision not to investigate Cape Judge President John Hlophe."Proceeding (By Jan)...South Africa: Murder and rape accused walks free
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Joshua Witbooi, accused of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, has been acquitted because the girl's mother and her sister contradicted each other on "material facts".After the verdict on Thu (By Jan)...Babynet Front Page: What really does turn women on?
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Maureen RiceSo is a successful and driven career woman more likely to have a high sex drive than her lesser-achieving sisters?That was the conclusion drawn from research published this week which s (By Jan)...South Africa: Cuts to IT Short-Sighted - Experts
Friday 04-Sep-2009: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - EXPERTS fear cyber crime may increase as companies cut spending and reorganise workflows, resulting in fewer staff and less rigorous checks and balances.An e-Crime (By Jan)...Africa: Darfur activist held in Sudan
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Khartoum - Human rights activists on Thursday accused Sudan's security service of arresting a Darfuri campaigner in Khartoum and holding him without charge for a week.Abdelmageed Salih was arrested wi (By Jan)...South Africa: KZN veld fires warning
Friday 04-Sep-2009: The KwaZulu-Natal government on Thursday called on communities to be on the alert following the outbreak of veld fires in the Drakensberg area and northern Zululand."We are warning people to exercise (By Jan)...Big Brother Obama is watching your every online move | Critics beware
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. The National Lega (By JanOlifant)...Struggle Over South Africa's Judiciary
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Allister SparksJohannesburg - THE decision by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) not to refer the complaint of gross misconduct against Cape Judge President John Hlophe to a formal hearing and t (By Jan)...South Africa: Park losing white rhino to poachers
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Six more suspected rhino poachers have been arrested at the Kruger National Park, the SA National Parks (SANParks) said on Wednesday."It is with sadness that we announce that since our announcement at (By Jan)...Science: Powerful quake recorded in Indonesia
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Olivia RondonuwuA powerful earthquake rattled Indonesia's main island on Wednesday, seismology agencies said, shaking buildings in the capital and damaging others closer to the epicentre.There were (By Jan)...Nigeria: Ibru Slumps as EFCC Arraigns Bank Chiefs
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Having groaned for five days in a dingy cell - overwhelmed by mosquitoes, buffeted by stench - Cecilia Ibru, 63, all stressed up, slumped on Monday during her arraignment at the Federal High Court in (By Jan)...South Africa: Harmse was seeking 'a power to manipulate'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Sword killer Morne Harmse experimented with elements of satanism, but he was not a satanist, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Tuesday."He is only a person who experimented self style," an expe (By Jan)...South Africa: Gun control law: Mthethwa underfire
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: The Cape High Court has given Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa 90 days to draw up guidelines for compensation for firearms surrendered under the gun control law.The ruling could result in pay-outs total (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We're completely in pieces'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Gallery: Sword killer sentencingAdell Bekker keeps the clothes her son was wearing when he was murdered in a red suitcase in her bedroom cupboard so that he can "remain close".Her son, Jacques Preto (By Jan)...ECZ Gives Thumbs-Up to Cross-Border Power Project
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Humphrey NkondeNdola - Cross-border infrastructure development with Botswana has lately topped the agenda in discussions in Zambia. A specific example is the approval by the Environmental Council o (By Jan)...Uganda: UN Should Do More to End LRA Menace
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Kampala - The United Nations (UN) 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 leader Jo (By Jan)...Nigeria: JTF Arrests Militant Leader
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By .Abuja - The Joint Military Task Force has confirmed the arrest of a suspected militant leader, Bernard Wilcox in Port Harcourt.A spokesman for the task force, Col. Rabe Abubaka said in an on-line (By Jan)...Zambia: Eight Ex-Miners Nabbed for Planned Demo At Barclays Bank
Monday 31-Aug-2009: EIGHT retrenchees from Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) in Kitwe were yesterday detained at Kitwe Central Police for conduct likely to cause breach of peace.Copperbelt acting p (By Jan)...World: Baghdad rocked by bombings
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Baghdad - Two people were killed and 20 others wounded, including a policeman and two soldiers, in three attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, an interior ministry official said.In the bloodiest incident a ma (By Jan)...Chavez's Bud Raul Reyes Was Trying To Revive Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement?
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [It would seem likely that Raul Reyes, who was armed and supported by Hugo Chavez was trying to revive another Peru's Communist terrorist groups. While it's suspected that FARC is behind the resurgen (By Lone Wolf)...The Suspense Continues
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: By Gideon NkalaAfter a day-long hearing, the Lobatse High Court said yesterday that it will deliver judgement next week in the historic case in which Gomolemo Motswaledi has challenged his suspension (By Jan)...South Africa: Post office strike: Labour court to rule
Friday 04-Sep-2009: The Labour Court will rule on the legality of the ongoing SA Post Office strike on Friday, the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) said."The Post Office asked the court to declare the strike illegal, [ (By Jan)...Zim: Implement power-sharing pact: Congressmen
Friday 04-Sep-2009: "Partners in the coalition government would have to demonstrate the ability to share power equally" By Own CorrespondentHarare - A United States Congress delegation visiting Zimbabwe this week (By Jan)...Rwanda: Man Accused of 1994 Genocide Appears in Finnish Court
Friday 04-Sep-2009: A Finnish court began hearing a case Tuesday against a Rwandan man suspected of taking part in the 1994 genocide mainly against ethnic Tutsis.According to AFP dispatch, Francois Bazaramba, 58, listene (By Jan)...World: Fury over Madonna, child suicide bomber art
Friday 04-Sep-2009: Tel Aviv - An Israeli art exhibition featuring photos of Palestinian suicide bombers pasted on to classic Madonna with Child paintings was cancelled on Thursday amid protests from victims' families.Th (By Jan)...Africa: Nigerian MPs grill bank chief on bailout
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Abuja - Nigeria's lawmakers on Wednesday questioned the central bank chief over his decision to bail out five key banks without seeking parliamentary approval.Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sa (By Jan)...Trio Plead Not Guilty to Murder Charge
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Kopano OlesitseFrancistown - Three men facing a single count of murder pleaded not guilty before Justice Moses Chinhengo of the Francistown High Court yesterday. The trio were represented by Roger (By Jan)...Kenya: More Firms Licensed to Market Country's Coffee
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: By Allan OdhiamboState-backed marketer KPCU's dominance of coffee dealership is set to come under a renewed attack as the government moves to open the gates to a large number of private players into t (By Jan)...SA's role in Zimbabwe tops SADC summit agenda
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: The Summit will also debate the future of Zimbabwe's facilitation team Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders are expected to debate the role of South Africa as facilitator in t (By Jan)...Nigeria: Host Communities Want 50 Percent Equity in Oil Investment
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Luka BinniyatDavid Ugolor Executive Director African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) based in Benin Edo state spoke to Vanguard on what oil communities would want to see added (By Jan)...Nigeria: Customs Bars 9 Banks Over N5 Billion Import Duty Remittances
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Godfrey BivbereThe Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), has stopped the Unity Bank and eight others from collecting import duties on its behalf over alleged discrepancies of N5 billion discovered by off (By Jan)...Russian Professor predicts: 'USA to collapse in July 2010'
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: [This guy may be an extremist, but there are some points to mull over. I think to a degree this guy might even be part of a "psychological warfare" game intended to sow panic among those who dare to l (By Jan)...BDP Third Force Emerges?
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Ephraim KeorengAs the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) internal wrangle rages on, a new interest group, calling itself The Third Force, has emerged, Monitor is reliably informed. The new group is sa (By Jan)...World: Opposition mounts to Ahmadinejad cabinet
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Tehran - Top Iranian lawmakers voiced strong opposition on Monday to some of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's proposed ministers, including women, on the second day of a heated debate on his cabinet li (By Jan)...South Africa: Cover-up claim over arms meeting
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: A transparency wrangle is looming over a decision to close a parliamentary meeting where allegations that South Africa was involved in arms transactions with oppressive regimes could be discussed.The (By Jan)...Uganda: Aids-Drug Firm Must Give Us Samples, Says Health Body
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: By Esther NakkaziNairobi - East Africa's first manufacturer of anti-retroviral drugs, Quality Chemical Industries Ltd is yet to qualify to sell its drugs internationally -- it is yet to supply relevan (By Jan)...South Africa: Accused fires lawyer number two
Monday 31-Aug-2009: One of two brothers accused of killing retired Austrian soccer player Peter Burgstaller on the South Coast fired his second advocate on Friday - and then asked for a third.There was muffled laughter i (By Jan)...Nigeria: Reforms in the Nation's Oil Sector, a Desirable Option
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Mohammed. S. UmarThe stunted growth as well as low level of heavy investment in Nigeria's oil and gas industry (OGI), among other militating factors for sustainable growth of the industry, will soo (By Jan)...South Africa: Flying Squad Cops Charged in Unfolding Saga
Monday 31-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 Ma (By Jan)...Apartheid UAE Boots Out Palestinian And Lebanese Refugees
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: [Hmm, I wonder where is the anti-Israel Left on this? The UAE's xenophobic attitude reminds me a whole lot like how black Zimbabweans were harassed and attacked by South African blacks. No, to peopl (By Lone Wolf)...USA: Senator warns Americans of potential totalitarian state
Friday 04-Sep-2009: MADISON - U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is again raising the specter of Democrats turning the United States into a totalitarian state. Broun, R-Athens, apparently has not changed his belief that President O (By JanOlifant)...Red Chinese Move Onto The Bahamas; Prepare To Buy Out Local Civil Projects
Sunday 06-Sep-2009: [It seems here that the Red Chinese is setting itself up to be a neo-colonial power in the Caribbean with this time buying out the Bahamas much with the approval of Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingr (By Lone Wolf)...[Pic] USA: Impeach President Barack Obama - Are you nuts? You flipping RACIST you?
Monday 31-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)...Libya: Scottish Church Leaders Defend Release of Bomber
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Trevor GrundyEdinburgh - The father of one of the victims of the 1988 air disaster over southern Scotland has praised the Scottish government for acting in a Christian way by releasing from prison (By Jan)...Africa: Chinese Hungry for Projects
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - A CHINESE government initiative to support business partnerships between Chinese and African entrepreneurs is battling to find suitable infrastructure development proj (By Jan)...[Joke] [Humor] Comedian George Burns has sex with Oprah...
Monday 31-Aug-2009: [This must be one of the funniest jokes ever. Jan] When George Burns was 97 years old he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Oprah asked, 'Mr. Burns, how do you carry so much energy with you? Y (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31-08-2009)
Monday 31-Aug-2009: Howzit Another pointless and needless death - but what angers me even more is the fact that we don't see anyone being dragged in front of the courts for these deaths. But when the MDC is responsibl (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Far, far worse than Jimmy Carter
Friday 04-Sep-2009: [From the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Gairk] We have plunged deeper than ever into the fight against the far left...we've had to. Now we're facing a budget emergency, and it could not come at a (By Gairk)...South Africa: Israeli Occupation Must End - Zuma
Monday 31-Aug-2009: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma told the opening of the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies on Saturday night that the only "viable" solution for the (By Jan)...Joseph Stalin Still Being Lionized In Russia
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: [How disgusting. This dead left-wing monster Joseph Stalin is still being praised. Even some Russian history textbooks have erased any mentionings of Stalin killing his own people, and also Stalin's (By Lone Wolf)...Simple Firebugs Or Mexican Drug Cartels Behind Los Angeles' Recent Wild Fire?
Friday 04-Sep-2009: [Yeah, it's fire season alright here in California. It's the same time that certain firebugs come out of the woodworks and start fires. But there was also an odd report of there being Mexican drug c (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-09-2009)
Tuesday 01-Sep-2009: Howzit The situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate and for the few remaining commercial farmers, the crisis has begun to really take hold as invaders push for the complete seizure of all whi (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-09-2009)
Saturday 05-Sep-2009: Howzit I have a Royal British Legion monthly meeting tomorrow morning - so there will be no posting... Remembrance Sunday 2008 at the local cenotaph. Thanks for understanding. -o00o- T (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-09-2009)
Thursday 03-Sep-2009: Howzit Some things in Zimbabwe move at such a pace that it is hard to keep a track of exactly what is going on. There were two events that occurred yesterday that, as individual events, are bad eno (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-09-2009)
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- The Southern African Development Community are supposed to be the guarantor of the unity government agreement signed by Mugabe, Tsvangirai (By The BeardedMan)...
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