From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 8th November 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 & GruesomeUtterly shocking facts about the South African army in 2009... 60% HIV+ ... and much more...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: [Quick Update: I have added the link to the source for this. See the link at the bottom and you'll find the full article. Jan] A friend of mine was telling me that the Liberal DA put out some shock (By Jan)...Kenya: About the Chinese drilling for oil - My Petroleum Geologist friend gives inside info...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I recently posted an article about the Chinese drilling for oil in Kenya. See: Kenya: Chinese Explorers Upbeat as Drilling of Oil Well Begins (We also posted another article about the Chinese taking o (By Jan)...Zimbabwe Shocker: Matabele Genocide: Robert Mugabe's murder & genocide of Black people even in 2009...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I was chatting to an old black Matabele Zimbabwean man the other day. He had recently returned from Zimbabwe. He was quite annoyed that Mugabe at the way Mugabe was changing the rules once more and bl (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: S.Africa: Govt Crackdown on Afrikaners websites & blogs - Genocide suppression - Orania - The Springbok Club
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: I've been a bit ill the last few days, I think from overwork and too little sleep. I think I need to pay a visit to the doctor tomorrow. I saw yesterday with great interest THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE r (By Jan)...Uganda: Comments to Parliamentary Committee On HIV/Aids And Related Matters
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Uganda has long received praise for its successful handling of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1990s, when it engaged civil society in its prevention efforts and worked to reduce the stigma of the diseas (By News Poster)...Microsoft undermines Boer Genocide awareness - Please support our Farm Murders page
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: I find this interesting! Do these latest actions originate from Microsoft itself, or have they been pressured into it? Nonetheless, this action is undermining efforts to bring awareness to the world o (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (07-11-2009)
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Howzit It is now just after 6 on Friday evening, and because I have got things to do on Saturday morning in town, I thought that I might start the posting at least. It'll save a load of time! (Okay (By The BeardedMan)...Africa: Profits Before People - the Great African Liquidation Sale
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Joan BaxterBack in the early 1990s when I was reporting from northern Ghana, an elderly woman farmer decided I would benefit from a bit of enlightenment. In a rather long lecture, she detailed for (By News Poster)...The ANC Hammer Falls On More Dissident Bloggers
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: The ANC has been cracking down during the last few days on people from a few websites and blogs that are critical of the ANC. Three of which have been released with no charges made against them. I (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: Our Rotten Negligent Affirmative Action Hospitals where people die for no good reason: They will DENY THIS... but its true...
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: People die or are damaged in our hospitals for no reason. Let me tell you why. I saw a headline in THE STAR newspaper today about a coloured baby that was admitted to a "West Rand" hospital, and a (By Jan)...Africa: Continent Can Help Mitigate Climate Change
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By William Minter and Anita WheelerWashington, DC - On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. (By News Poster)...Ghana: Leaving a legacy of Transparency in Ghana's Oil and Gas Industry
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Stephen YeboahKumasi - "If we hadn't discovered oil, we would have been better off today. Once we had oil, our agriculture sector collapsed. Oil has made us lazy .We have become corrupted" - Former (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Black Racist propaganda machine says: Tsvangirai Driving Rhodesian Agenda
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [It should be quite evident that nothing scares Mugabe more than the word RHODESIA. Mugabe seems to have no fear whatsoever of the MDC, but he fears the presence of even a single white. Nothing makes (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: The Race for Country's Resources
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Udo W. FroeseIt is much clearer today in 2009 that every African country governed by a former popular black African struggle movement against Caucasian international Western colonialism, is under s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bode George's Conviction Has Set the Right Precedent
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Jude IgbanoiLagos - One of the greatest tragedies to befall the nation in recent times was the sad transition of the human rights icon, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN. But the late social crusader mento (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police rescue jail's staff from prisoners
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Three prison employees held hostage at a Bloemfontein prison have been rescued by a police task force team.Frikkie Venter, the managing director of the prison's operator, G4S Care and Justice Services (By News Poster)...Africa: Tsvangirai suspends boycott
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Maputo - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he had called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 6 Farm Workers Arrested as Violence Escalates on Invaded Farm
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Alex BellAt least six farm workers are being held at Chinhoyi police station on charges of inciting public violence, in the aftermath of attacks at the hands of land invaders on a farm.The six work (By News Poster)...Bail Granted in Sable Theft Case
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesTWO Otjiwarongo area game farmers and a helicopter pilot who are accused of stealing three prized sable antelope from the Waterberg Plateau Park have been granted bail of N$60 000 each (By News Poster)...Kenya: Who'll Police These Highway Robbers?
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Ochieng RapuroJust where should Kenyans report petty corruption and get immediate action?A few days ago while on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway just a little past the Gilgil toll station, a platoon of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man stoned to death after murder
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The police reported on Tuesday that a man had been stoned to death after stabbing and killing another man in Plessislaer, Pietermaritzburg.Inspector Joey Jeevan said the police had found the body of S (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Surge in Army Atrocities - UN Peacekeeping Force Knowingly Supports Abusive Military Operations
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the U (By News Poster)...South Africa: Panga robber in a leap too far
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Barry BatemanWhen a panga-wielding robber jumped from the first-floor balcony inside a Groenkloof home to evade capture, he may not have noticed the glass table that was to break his fall. On Frida (By News Poster)...Africa: Faith Groups Hail U.S. Lifting Entry Restrictions for People With HIV
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Stephen BrownGeneva - Campaigners on HIV and AIDS have welcomed a decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to remove entry restrictions to the United States based on HIV status and have called on ot (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: White (Afrikaner?) 79 Year Old Widow Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Vacate Her Farm
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [The name of the old lady seems pretty Afrikaans. There were quite a number of whites, of Afrikaner/South African descent living in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. My own parents for example, moved to Rhodesia in (By News Poster)...Uganda: Refugee Refoulement in the East African Community
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Lawrence CarterThe African Union's Special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons that took place in Kampala on 22 October marked a historic attempt to address the huge chal (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Massive Communist Election Fraud AGAIN! - Renamo Demands New Elections
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [I support RENAMO. Those guys were founded by Rhodesia to fight Communism in Mozambique and to this day they are the opposition in Mozambique. Like the MDC, they just can't get a grip on the country. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Demand for 9,000 Square Miles is New
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Kampala - ELIS Rubafunya responds to his critics and argues that if the '9,000sq. miles' of land belonged to the Kabaka, then it was sold by regents. If it did not belong to him, as some have argued, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmer killed for DSTV
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: A former KwaZulu-Natal government official was shot dead on his farm near Pietermaritzburg for a DSTV decoder, two cellphones and a video player, police said on Sunday.Two armed men confronted Warwick (By News Poster)...Counterterrorism's Blindness - Mali and the U.S.
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Vijay PrashadTucked away in the corners of the news media sits a report that the US government will provide US$5 million in trucks and military equipment to Mali. The aim of this donation is to hel (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Dele Giwa And Other 'Forgotten Persons'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Aisha OyebodeLagos - Dele Giwa's murder is iconic because it represents to us a vicious and sadistic murder, the type of which has never been witnessed before in Nigeria at least during peace time (By News Poster)...World: 'That was probably his worst nightmare'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Erwin SebaKilleen, Texas - Investigators on Friday searched for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: GNU Collapse Spells Doom for All Parties Involved -- Analysts
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Constantine ChimakureHarare - THE collapse of the inclusive government will deprive President Robert Mugabe of political legitimacy, derail the MDC's quest for political, social and economic develo (By News Poster)...Renamo Lists Alleged Frauds in Sofala
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - Fernando Mbararano, the political delegate of the former rebel movement Renamo in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, has claimed that vast numbers of Renamo supporters were denied the (By News Poster)...Workers' World Party Defends Late 'Imam' Of The Mosque The FBI Raided
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [Isn't this quite the obvious? No sooner than it was revealed the deceased "Imam" who was a student of the former Black Panthers terrorist H. Rap Brown was dead by the hands of the FBI. Members of t (By Lone Wolf)...Kenya: High Tea, Coffee Prices Offer Hope for Country's Recovery
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A strong rally in commodity prices could help put Kenya's economy back on the growth path, analysts said even as they warned of persistent risk of imported inflation from the steady surge in the price (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Malema is a VIP whose life is in danger'
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Xolani MbanjwaThe South African Police Service considers Julius Malema a VIP whose life is in danger. Now it will cost taxpayers anything up to R300 000 a month to ensure no harm comes to him.Oppos (By News Poster)...Global systemic crisis: The cumulative impact of three rogue waves
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [This article was submitted to us in June but was held-up by backlog that has built up in the system. We have published this article as much of what was predicted is coming true. Gairk] [I have bee (By Gairk)...South Africa: Women Farmers Play Vital Role in Food Security
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Erina BothaCape Town - In South Africa's not-too-distant past, the image of a commercial farmer usually brought to mind middle-aged white men in short pants or, in a few cases, black farmers strugg (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Destruction of Economy Criminal
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Eric BlochHarare - AFTER Zimbabwe belatedly attained Independence in 1980, the country enjoyed economic recovery and growth for four years. However, thereafter for almost 25 years it has been in al (By News Poster)...Somalia: Country Admits to Secret Police Training for Somalia
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Mugumo Munene and Gitau WarigiNairobi - The Kenyan military has been secretly training police officers on behalf of Somali's fledgling transitional government in what Department of Defence spokesma (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: Johannesburg: Our Rotten Negligent hospitals: Baby Blind & Deaf after bungle
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: [Here is a leading headline THE STAR newspaper about a little baby who went into hospital for an ear infection and came out deaf and blind! Let me tell you something I saw with my mother. My mothe (By Jan)...The RDP to Challenge Swapo?
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Henning MelberTwenty years ago, South Africa's occupation of Namibia came to an end. Less than five years later, the apartheid regime was voted out of power in South Africa itself. This year, elect (By News Poster)...Global: Economist says 'Capitalism Hits The Fan'
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: [Here are two videos that make for fascinating viewing. Strongly recommended. Gairk] American economist Richard Wolff at the opening plenary of the Left Forum in New York City on April 17, 2009. In (By Gairk)...Africa: Crunch Time for Action on Conflict Diamonds
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliWindhoek - AS members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme convene in Swakopmund today for a Plenary Meeting that will last until Thursday, various human rights groups cal (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged police killings investigated
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The Independent Complaints Directorate, which investigates complaints against the police, is investigating two more killings after a police raid at Matsulu, Nelspruit, turned violent."Yes, I know abou (By News Poster)...Sudan: Reform National Security Law - Lawmakers Should Curtail Broad Arrest and Detention Powers, Strip Immunity
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: A report released on November 5, 2009 by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan reveals continuing human rights violations in Darfur and underscores the urgent need to reform Sudan's repressive (By News Poster)...Iranian State Run Press Endorses Late 'Imam'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [Now isn't this quite of no major surprise. It seems Iranian state run press is certainly promoting the late "Imam" who was a student of H. Rap Brown. Take a look at some of the comments left down b (By Lone Wolf)...Uganda: Bill Threatens Progress On HIV/Aids
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Kampala - A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Ban 'Unlikely' as Gov Argues Lack of Evidence
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Alex BellThe government's delegation to the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (the regulatory body tasked with ending the global trade in conflict diamonds) has argued there is insufficient e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stop attacking each other: Zuma
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma has called for ANC leaders to stop attacking each other publicly, warning them that they risk destroying the ruling party.Zuma was delivering his political report to the ANC's nat (By News Poster)...Africa: Suspend Zimbabwe now, says diamond group
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Donna BrysonJohannesburg - Investigators for the world's diamond control body say Zimbabwe should be suspended because its security forces are raping women, killing illegal miners and smuggling gem (By News Poster)...Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Raymond OffenheiserThis year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger. That&r (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lockdown targets Kewtown gang war
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Zara NicholsonThe gang war in Kewtown is a "serious, dangerous" issue according to residents and police, but a complete lockdown in the area in the next two weeks will see the start of a strategic (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Accuses Britain of Violating UN Arms Embargo
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CNOOC U.S.$50 Billion Offer for Country's Oil - Trappings of a Scam
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Hector IgbikiowuboIndications are that that the recent Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) offer of $50 billion for acquisition of six billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves in Nige (By News Poster)...Renamo Did Not Inform CNE of Arrests
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, did not inform the National Elections Commission (CNE), or any of the provincial and district elections commission, of th (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Elite and the Western Media
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Chielo Zona EzeGreek mythology has it that Sisyphus, once the king of Ephyra (Corinth), was condemned by the gods to roll a big chunk of stone up a steep hill. Whenever he reached up the top, the s (By News Poster)...[Humor] The Pope and Julius
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: The Pope and Julius Malema are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Julius and says, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this (By Gairk)...Africa: Failure to Suspend Zimbabwe Allows for Sale of "Blood Diamonds" - HRW
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - The credibility of the world's "blood diamond" monitoring group has been damaged after its failure this week to suspend Zimbabwe despite overwhelming evidence of serious human rights ab (By News Poster)...South Africa: We will shoot you dead, cops tell mom
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: A Joburg mother has been left wary of trigger-happy police after being warned that she could be shot dead if she drove her car.Aadielah Maker's car was stolen from her Kensington driveway a month ago. (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia Under UN Transitional Administration
Monday 02-Nov-2009: With this month's (October) transition from non- extendable five (5) years' term of Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to two (2) years' term of Transitional Federal Unity Government (TFUG), Somali (By News Poster)...World: Rebels 'down' Yemen warplane: report
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Jizan, Saudi Arabia - Shiite rebels said on Sunday they shot down a Yemeni combat aircraft on the Saudi border nearly three months into a widening war between the insurgents and government forces.Jet (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijack suspect's death to be probed
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is investigating how an alleged hijacker was found dead in the back of a police van minutes after his arrest on Friday night.The man died after a high-spee (By News Poster)...Lesotho: A Mountain of Challenges
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overh (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Shoot to kill' not to blame: SAPU
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Allegations that "shoot to kill" orders had led to an increase in the number of shootings involving police must stop, the SA Policing Union (SAPU) said on Wednesday.SAPU called on community members an (By News Poster)...Uganda: Seven-Year-Old Survives Ritual Murder
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Chris Kiwawulo and Charles JjuukoKampala - He lay numb on his hospital bed in Kayunga district for almost a week. Plasters, bandages and stitches have become part of his body. They cover the wounds (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Which GPA Obligation Has MDC-T Met?
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Bhekizulu SibandaHarare - MDC-T's presumptuous disengagement resolution is meant to taint their partner Zanu-PF as strange bedfellows, with no moral principles.Already the MDC has described Zanu-PF (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban On Diamond Exports
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Eli CliftonWashington - The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coali (By News Poster)...World: NATO strike kills 7
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Kabul - Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest of the country, the defence ministry said Saturday.The "friendly fire" incident occurred w (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Ends Boycott of Unity Govt
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Morris MkwateMaputo - Sadc leaders yesterday convinced MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to end his party's "disengagement" from the inclusive Government following a mini regional summit here.Speak (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nearly half of SA army not fit for combat; original article on 60% HIV+ in SA Army
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [This is the original article which is referred to in Utterly shocking facts about the South African army in 2009... 60% HIV+ ... and much more... Note that thise facts were mentioned in a parliame (By A Different Perspective)...Kenya: India Faces Health Threats As Vultures Vanish
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Rupi MangatNairobi - In the Holy scriptures of the Hindus, Jatayu the vulture tried to rescue Lord Ram's wife, Sita from the evil clutches of the demon Ravan.Unfortunately for the valiant vulture, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Five Shot As Dispute Over Farm Turns Bloody
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaTHE farm ownership wrangle involving a Reserve Bank deputy governor and a Chinhoyi commercial farmer turned bloody last week after a man shot and seriously injured five workers an (By News Poster)...Pohamba Warns Against Tribalism and Violence
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Luqman CloetePRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has warned Swapo supporters against tribalism. "Tribalism is the most dangerous thing. We should avoid it," Pohamba said when addressing a Swapo Party ral (By News Poster)...Liberia: Talyor Accuses Prosecution for 'Misleading' Special Court
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today accused the prosecution of "misleading the court" by introducing evidence that as Liberian president, Mr. Taylor acted to resolve conflicts between Sierra Leone's re (By News Poster)...Africa: Pirates threaten to kill hostages: captain
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Somali pirates have threatened to kill three captive crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the captain of the vessel said on Friday.The (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cervical Cancer, Little-Known Killer of HIV-Positive Women
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Three years after being diagnosed with HIV, Alice Mworia, 28, went for a routine medical check-up during which she told the nurse she had noticed an unusual vaginal discharge; a test reveale (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Failure to Act on Abuses Threatens Conflict Diamond Process
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Ross HarveyThe decision to give Zimbabwe no more than a slap on the wrist for the human rights abuses which its army has committed on the Marange alluvial diamond fields in the south-east of the co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe a Prisoner of Zanu PF Hardliners
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Constantine ChimakureHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has since the partial pullout of the MDC from government exhibited his usual intransigence to the full consummation of the global political agr (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Woman Accuses Prison Staff of Rape, Abuse
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Heritier MailaLubumbashi - A former inmate of Kasapa central prison in Lubumbashi has claimed that rape and sexual abuse of female prisoners is widespread, leading to many women becoming pregnant a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Scraps Deal for Airbus Military Aircraft
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The government has withdrawn from its contract with Airbus to buy eight strategic airlift military aircraft, and hopes that the R2,9bn already spent on the acquisition of (By News Poster)...Demining - the Devil is in the Detail
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Songo - The conversations of deminers are often illustrated with sketches on the reverse side of old reports or the toe of a boot drawing lines in the sand to show how a single mine can close 35km of (By News Poster)...Africa: Fears of new war in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead.The Nuba Mountains - once a key enclave of re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Building hijackers targeted
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The net is closing on Joburg's inner-city building hijackers. Since August, 10 arrests have been made, which include two alleged kingpins involved in hijacking syndicates.Superintendent Greg Beck, of (By News Poster)...South Africa: White Afrikaner Woman survives shot to the head by black robbers
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [As usual these black criminals target whites. Jan] By Shaun SmillieSaartjie Koen was meant to die. A robber had grabbed her around the neck, put a pistol to her head and pulled the trigger. Inste (By News Poster)...Africa: SADC leaders to meet on Zim crisis
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Southern African regional leaders meet Thursday in the Mozambican capital Maputo for a summit aimed at reviving the troubled power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe, deadlocked for nearly three weeks.The (By News Poster)...Provisional Election Results, Sunday Morning
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Maputo - With almost three quarters of polling station results sheets processed by the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Watch out for holiday hijackers
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Bronwyn GerretsenThe recent spate of hijackings could be merely the "warm-up" for hijackers in the weeks leading up to Christmas, police and vehicle tracking companies have warned.Currently, there (By News Poster)...Africa: Zimbabwe faces new deadline for reforms
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Godfrey MarawanyikaZimbabwe averted a political meltdown on Friday after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ended his boycott of the unity government, but faced a new deadline to resolve a slate of t (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Ordering Execution of Rebel Commander
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not order the execution of Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie, but rather sent his former vice president Moses Blah to arrest him on the Liberian border with (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Another incident of police recklessness'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is investigating the killing of a man by police in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, a spokesman said on Monday."A 21-year-old man was allegedly shot dead (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: GNU Issues - Setting the Record Straight
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Simon Khaya MoyoHarare - I FELT very sad when I read the article by Allister Sparks in the Business Day October 31 edition (which the Zimbabwe Independent carried on October 30) headed "Time for Zu (By News Poster)...World: US investigators believe gunman acted alone
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Fort Hood, Texas - US investigators believe the gunman who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, acted alone as they tried to uncover the motive for one of the worst mass shootings ever on a US milita (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Have You Heard of the New Gold Rush?
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Chukwudi AchifeIT appeared that I was one of the last persons to hear about it in my neighbourhood. It could also be that I had heard it before only that I paid it no attention at all apparently as (By News Poster)...Africa: About Colonialism - When the Whites of Africa actually gave a damn... About Black & White Nationalism - OWNERSHIP!
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I just want to make a short point about the whites of Africa. Many people go on and on about the whites and how oppressive they were at one time. I was chatting to my Liberal friend the other day, (By Jan)...Botswana: D-Day Looms for Conflict Diamond Process
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Thato MosekiA four-member team of senior Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources officials will join other high profile players in the international diamond industry for a meeting in Namib (By News Poster)...Africa: China to boost aid to Africa as ties blossom
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Ben Blanchard and Cynthia JohnstonSharm el-Sheikh - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Africa $10 billion in concessional loans over the next three years on Sunday, saying China was a "true and tru (By News Poster)...Africa: Drought-Tolerant Crops Can End Africa's Food Insecurity
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Dr. Daniel MatarukaKampala - A crisis is looming over the small-scale farms of Africa. Experts agree that climate change is manifesting itself in the form of prolonged drought in many parts of Afri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Faces Diamond Ban
Monday 02-Nov-2009: ZIMBABWE faces a ban from the world's diamond trade at the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPSC) plenary meeting that opens tomorrow in Namibia where a damning report by a review mission will b (By News Poster)...World: Six killed at Mexico strip bar
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Masked gunmen shot dead six people, including a US Air Force sergeant, in an attack on a strip bar in the notoriously violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, officials sa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Donors Uneasy About Mugabe's Threat
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's threat to appoint interim ministers to plug the gap left by the "disengagement" of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from the unity government coul (By News Poster)...WWII & Zimbabwe: The 42 attempts by Germans to kill Hitler.... and Mugabe???
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: On The History Channel I've seen a number of interesting new documentaries about World War II. I was absolutely stunned when one documentary mentioned that in total, during Hitler's time in politics t (By Jan)...South Africa: Warder stabbed in cell attack
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Lavern De Vries Crime WriterA Pollsmoor Prison warder is in hospital after his neck was slashed, allegedly by an inmate, in a cell during a search for drugs.It comes a week after the warder's super (By News Poster)...South Africa: Welcome to 'God's party', Tutu tells Boesak
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on Tuesday welcomed a decision by cleric Allan Boesak to quit opposition party COPE and join "God's party"."I have never stopped telling him God called him to be a pas (By News Poster)...Uganda: How Dictators Are Blessed By the Curse of Terror
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Nicholas SengobaIn case you missed it, late last week, part of Kampala's Central Business District was closed off courtesy of a suspected bomb, planted in a building.This came soon after security a (By News Poster)...Africa: Regional leaders tackle crisis in Zimbabwe
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Nelson BanyaHarare - Three southern African leaders will meet on Thursday to tackle a crisis threatening Zimbabwe's unity government, a Zimbabwean official said on Monday.Swaziland's King Mswati II (By News Poster)...Africa: I am staying, says Tsvangirai
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweChitungwiza - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Sunday he would stay in the government and challenge President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF to implement last year's p (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: New Multinational Partnership Launches Peace Efforts
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Regional Economic Integration and the EU - Distant Pipe Dream or Imminent Reality?
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Jason NandagoIF we are to take a critical look at the future of the life-assurance industry, an entrenched savings culture emerges as a fundamental requirement for the industry and for the creation (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Escapes Diamond Trading Ban
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Johannesburg, - Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamon (By News Poster)...Africa: Regional summit seeks to end Zimbabwe crisis
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Charles MangwiroRegional leaders hold a summit in Mozambique on Thursday hoping to prevent the collapse of Zimbabwe's unity government, threatened by the most severe political standoff since it was (By News Poster)...Africa: Scramble for Africa: Brazil gaining on China
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Ed Cropley, African Investment CorrespondentChina is leading the pack in the 21st century 'scramble for Africa' but anybody who thinks Beijing has the continent sewn up need only glance at the pass (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill toll increases
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: 'I want to know why they killed my son? They did not even question him. They just shot him through the back of the head and executed him."These were the emotional and angry demands of Pretoria father (By News Poster)...South Africa: Microdot technology to foil armed robbers
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Maureen Marud, Consumer EditorNew crime-fighting technology that involves spraying thousands of tiny dots over vehicles and household properties has been made available in South Africa and is aimed (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clash Kills Two, Wounds Three in Mogadishu
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Mogadishu - At least two people have been killed and three others have been wounded in Mogadishu after clash between police soldiers and gunmen dressing soldiers' uniform started at Zobe intersection (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tasi Elder Was Poisoned - Family
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Lawal Sa'iduKatsina - The family of a top politician in Katsina State, Alhaji Tasi Elder, who died suddenly on Monday, have insisted that their breadwinner was poisoned inside the state police comm (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mines Minister Mpofu Threatens NGOs Over Blood Diamond Reports
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Alex BellMines Minister Obert Mpofu has shocked international government delegations and rights groups by threatening NGOs and an international diamond review mission, who have reported on widespre (By News Poster)...World: China blasts US duties ahead of Obama visit
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Lucy Hornby and Chris BuckleyChina denounced as protectionist new US anti-dumping duties on Friday and vowed to protect the interests of its industry a week before President Barack Obama heads for (By News Poster)...South Africa: Food Security Crucial to Avoid Hunger Catastrophe
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Steve KretzmannOne in four South African children under five-years-old suffers from moderate or severe malnutrition, and ongoing climate change as a result of global warming is most certainly going (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tafa - A Disaster Waiting to Happen?
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By .Abuja - Tafa is immensely popular among drivers of large petrol tankers who stop there to rest for a day or two. But is there danger lurking around the corner?Auwal Usman usually looks forward to (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-11-2009)
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Howzit If ever we wanted to upset Mugabe, then all we need is a court case to go against ZANU PF, and also for one of his 'victories' to be quashed by a foreign government. Today this has happened. (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Aids a Massive Threat - Zuma
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - In the most emphatic acknowledgement yet by a president that HIV/AIDS posed a massive threat to the nation, Jacob Zuma yesterday called for mass mobilisation against the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabwean killed as mob claims justice
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Lebogang SealeMob justice has claimed the life of a Zimbabwean national and two others were seriously injured in Diepsloot informal settlement. The three men were attacked on Saturday evening afte (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bill Threatens Progress on HIV/AIDS
Friday 06-Nov-2009: A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organizations an (By News Poster)...Africa: Botswana, Nigeria And Cape Verde Secure U.S. $ 441 Million for Energy And Poverty Reduction Projects
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Tunis - BotswanaUnder the approvals, Botswana will receive €153 million (USD 225 million) to finance the Morupule B Power Project, which involves the construction of a 600 MW (4 x 15 (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'My ATM fraud nightmare'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: A Montclair woman has warned bank customers to watch out for card cloning after fraudsters stole almost R7 000 from her bank account by withdrawing money at several ATMs around the city.Tracey Morriso (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia - Civilians Killed in Fresh Mogadishu Clashes
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.The clash (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Can Reap Benefits of Planning
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Leonard MakombeHarare - WHAT will a farmer do to have a successful crop, especially at a time when loans are hard to access? Farmers, both established and new, are faced with a challenge to raise f (By News Poster)...Swaziland: TB-HIV Services Needed to Lower World's Highest Rates
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Mbabane - Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Boesak to meet with Zuma
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonarePolitical EditorAllan Boesak, who resigned from Cope yesterday, wants to meet President Jacob Zuma about possibly rejoining the ANC and "playing a role".A spokesperson for Zuma, Zi (By News Poster)...Africa: China Offers Billions in Loans to Africa
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Josephine Maseruka And AgenciesKampala - President Yoweri Museveni, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the China-Africa summit in EgyptChinese premier Wen Jiabao has (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Regional Summit Called on Zimbabwe
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiNairobi - A regional summit to try and break an impasse that threatens to bring down Zimbabwe's unity government is set for neighbouring Mozambique.The Southern African Development (By News Poster)...South Africa: Identifying Kebble's body 'traumatised me'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Alex EliseevGlenn Agliotti said yesterday he was "very, very traumatised" by the experience of identifying Brett Kebble's body.Gallery: Jackie Selebi TrialAgliotti, who insists th (By News Poster)...Africa: Mann pardoned for coup
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Mark JohnDakar - Equatorial Guinea has pardoned British mercenary Simon Mann for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot, allowing him to seek medical treatment after serving just over one year of a 34 (By News Poster)...Maringue Falls to Frelimo
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Maputo - For Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, perhaps the sweetest moment in its landslide victory in Wednesday's general election came with the announcement of the results from the district of Mari (By News Poster)...Angola: Country Bans Kenya Banana Imports to Contain Disease
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By George OmondiKenya's bid for a larger share of the southern Africa fresh produce market took a fresh blow after the Angolan government banned banana imports from Kenya in a move aimed at curbing th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Escapes Diamond Ban
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Alex BellThe government's campaign to lobby for support of the country's continued participation in the global diamond trade has paid off, with the country escaping a ban by international diamond r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Court Hears Case Nov 26
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Justice M. A. Bello of a Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 26, 2009 to hear the suit instituted by a human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Autru, challenging the d (By News Poster)...Renamo Former Guerrillas Threaten to Return to War
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - Former guerrilla fighters of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, have threatened to regroup in their old bases in the northern province of Nampula, unless last Wednesday's general ele (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Drunk' cops gun down sweets seller
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterA Pretoria sweets vendor was shot dead by two apparently drunk Pretoria police officers when he demanded that they pay for sweets they allegedly took from him.The vendor, (By News Poster)...World: Rawalpindi military office hit by bomb
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Ashraf Khan and Sebastian AbbotRawalpindi, Pakistan - A suicide bomb killed 35 people near Pakistan's military headquarters on Monday while a second blast wounded several police, continuing a wave (By News Poster)...World: Russian communists flirt with Medvedev
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Gleb BryanskiMoscow - Russia's communist party denounced powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while cautiously praising President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as a man who had brought 'certain hop (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Challenging the Crime in Clandestine Abortion
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Prof Jean Baptiste MvanoKigali - Referred to by lawmakers as the, 'voluntary interruption of pregnancy' abortion is a delicate problem which exists in our society. It is made worse by the fact that (By News Poster)...Tsvangirai Ends Boycott of Zimbabwe's Unity Govt
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaMaputo - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) last night ended its boycott of the new unity government but will give President Robert Mugabe a month to fully im (By News Poster)...Help for Landmine Victims Hard to Come By
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Maputo - Helena Numaio was 12 years old in 1990 when she lost both her legs and a finger in a landmine explosion while collecting firewood in the Moamba district of Maputo Province, Mozambique.The lan (By News Poster)...South Africa: Beer, biltong for freed Guinea plotter
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenMilitary ReporterBeer, biltong and a Chevrolet. This is what convicted South African mercenary Niek du Toit is looking forward to when he returns home to South Africa this week.That, a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Reflecting On the Niger Delta Amnesty Deal
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Jonas OdochaLagos - IN the past couple of weeks the success story of the Presidential amnesty deal with the militants of the Niger Delta region has dominated the news media, both locally and intern (By News Poster)...Africa: Blood diamonds: Zim could face suspension
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Pressure was mounting on Monday on the international watchdog set up to combat so-called "conflict diamonds", the Kimberley Process (KP) to suspend Zimbabwe from the global diamond trade over alleged (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Can't Teach Us Anything
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Harare - THE Western alliance's reaction to the abortive presidential run-off in Afghanistan should show all who were led to believe that Anglo-Saxon opposition to President Mugabe's re-election was a (By News Poster)...Signs of Votes Deliberately Invalidated
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Maputo - As Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) continues the time consuming task of checking every vote that was declared invalid at the polling stations during last week's general elect (By News Poster)...South Africa: Butcher killed for R40 000
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterA Pretoria butcher has been shot dead while trying to save his staff and customers from a gang of heavily armed robbers.Pieter Woest, 56, was shot in the back after seve (By News Poster)...Brother's Gunshot Killing Was an 'Accident'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesA WINDHOEK resident who is charged with murdering his older brother with a shotgun claimed at the start of his trial in the High Court in Windhoek this week that the fatal shooting was (By News Poster)...Nigeria: National Assembly Intervenes in Deregulation Face-Off
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Lagos - As fuel queues resurfaced in some parts of the country in anticipation of the take-off of the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector, House of Representatives Speaker Dimeji Bankole (By News Poster)...South Africa: 3 farm attacks in 10 days - Tau
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: One man has been murdered and three injured in three farm attacks near Lephalale in Limpopo in the last 10 days, agricultural union TAU said on Thursday.The attacks in the Baltimore/Koedoesrand area w (By News Poster)...Africa: Pardoned British mercenary leaves E Guinea
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: British mercenary Simon Mann, granted amnesty for a 2004 failed coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, on Wednesday left the west African country on a private jet, an airport official said."He left (By News Poster)...Africa: SA mercenaries freed
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Malabo - Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday pardoned and freed British mercenary Simon Mann, South African Niek du Toit and three others who were jailed for a foiled coup plot in the West African nation in (By News Poster)...Africa: Donald M. Payne Remarks at 'A Call to Action on Food Security - The Administration's Global Strategy'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The following remarks were delivered by Sen. Donald M. Payne, Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa and Global Health under the aegis of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, at the food sec (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Eight Men Found Guilty of War Crimes Transferred to Rwanda
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Eight men found guilty by a United Nations-backed court of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war have been transferred to Rwanda to serve their sent (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Yar'adua is a Liar!'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - So says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Pipeline and Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary wholly owned by NNPC that is responsible for the marketing (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett trial may stoke tensions
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett goes on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police shoot dead seven robbers
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Police shot dead seven armed robbers on Sunday morning in Polokwane, Limpopo.National police spokeswoman Nonkululeko Mbatha said the incident occurred after midnight. Operational and crime intelligenc (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fresh Fighting Kills 7, Injures 11 in Central Somali Town
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: At least seven people have been killed while eleven others sustained injuries on Wednesday in a fresh fighting between Somali government forces and Hizbul Islam rebel fighters in Beledweyn town, the c (By News Poster)...Africa: Church Leaders Promise to Fight Disease And Crime
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - Church leaders welcomed new government openness about HIV/AIDS and crime in South Africa during a National Church Leaders Consultation held here October 27 and promised to work together (By News Poster)...Africa: Most of Continent Provides 'Prosperous Emerging Markets' - CEO
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Lonrho is a London-listed conglomerate with a rich history and long involvement in Africa. Established in 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining Company, the company became well known under Tiny Rowl (By News Poster)...Africa: Most of Continent Provides 'Prosperous Emerging Markets' - CEO
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Lonrho is a London-listed conglomerate with a rich history and long involvement in Africa. Established in 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining Company, the company became well known under Tiny Rowl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No to Donor Dependency
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Harare - Government will this year make farming inputs available to farmers at reduced prices for the summer cropping season in a bid to end donor dependency, President Mugabe has said.Speaking at a c (By News Poster)...East Africa: Sexual Violence On the Rise But Too Few Arrests
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Charles KazoobaNairobi - Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear could r (By News Poster)...Africa: Dozens held for attack on Congo police
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Kinshasa - Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the governm (By News Poster)...Uganda: President Museveni, Patronage Only Perpetuates Corruption
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Vincent NuwagabaI was intrigued by press reports that President Yoweri Museveni has given Shs 1 billion (Ugandan shillings) to buy buses. The story reported that that money was part of the Shs 2 bi (By News Poster)...Africa: Pirates take some Spanish crew ashore
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Abdi SheikhMogadishu - Somali pirates said on Thursday they had taken three hostages from a Spanish fishing vessel ashore and may hand them to the families of two suspected pirates being held by Sp (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Urgent Motion – Pension Fund problems?
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [I will not disclose the source, but I received this from a friend who has been reliable in the past. Apparently this was proposed a few days ago at DA Provincial Congress. Jan] Gauteng Provincial (By Gairk)...South Africa: Mystery surrounds taxi crash chaos
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Nomphumelelo MagwazaWho shot and killed the taxi driver who drove into oncoming traffic before plunging his vehicle into a Durban city centre store in peak traffic yesterday afternoon?Were police p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Thieves preying on dealerships
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Thieves have found an alarmingly novel way to bag themselves a car, freshly serviced and washed, some even with the keys in the ignition - they're preying on the service departments of motor dealershi (By News Poster)...Ghana: Should the President Go to Cape Coast Or Elmina?
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Ouborr KutandoAccra - All over the country, the recent 5% increase in fuel prices are stoking popular anger, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration is facing the brunt of even (By News Poster)...ANC Cracking Down On Political Dissent?
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: The arrest of conservative South African blogger Uhuru Guru points to a larger campaign by the country’s ruling ANC Party on political dissidents before the upcoming World Cup Games next year. Th (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...World: 'I should be having sex with whoever I like'
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: A young woman cried rape after she had sex with two Polish strangers to fulfil a fantasy because she was "bored", a court has heard.Chloe Dolton, who was 20 at the time, told police that she had been (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman's family weep after killer sentenced
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Baldwin Ndaba and Masindi RavhutsiWhen a former National Intelligence Agency operative was given a 14-year jail term for murdering three people, including his seven-year-old child, his family was r (By News Poster)...Africa: Mark Thatcher must face the music - Mann
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Before leaving Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday, freed coup-plotter Simon Mann said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others should face justice for allegedly scheming to ov (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent to Strengthen Cooperation with China
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Kizito SikukaThe forthcoming ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation will review the implementation of various agreements signed since 2006 and outline a plan of action for the (By News Poster)...A Strong and Centralised Presidency is Inevitable
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Lediretse MolakeGaborne - Some have expressed concern at the apparent concentration of functions in the Office of President, most have been quick to rationalise this as a desire on the part of the (By News Poster)...Africa: Poaching devastates rhino numbers in Zim
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Netherlands - Economic and social turmoil in Zimbabwe and Congo are allowing poachers and smuggling gangs to devastate rhino numbers, environmental groups warned on Wednesday.Between 2003 and 2005, 60 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country to Assist Libya to Revive Farming
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Stephan HofstatterTripoli - A group of South African farmers arrived in Tripoli, Libya yesterday to help revive commercial agriculture in the oil-rich north African country.Libya imports about 75% (By News Poster)...Africa: Hostage crisis may be over in weeks
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Mohamed AhmedMogadishu - Somalia's government expects a settlement in about three weeks with pirates holding hostage 36 crew of a Spanish fishing vessel, a source close to the Somalian prime minist (By News Poster)...Africa: UN court sentences genocide suspect
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Katrina MansonDar es Salaam - A United Nations genocide court on Thursday sentenced a former tea industry official from Rwanda to eight years in prison for ordering subordinates to kill hundreds of (By News Poster)...Nampula, Zambezia and Inhambane Election Results
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - The results from last Wednesday's general election in Mozambique's two largest provincial constituencies, Nampula and Zambezia, announced by the two provincial election commissions, and read (By News Poster)...World: US and Iran: Decades of bad blood
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Key events in three decades of strained ties between Iran and the United States:- November 4, 1979: Militant students storm the US embassy in Tehran and seize 65 staff. Women and African Americans are (By News Poster)...Africa: MDC part worker allegedly tortured
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Harare - Efforts were underway on Monday to secure freedom for a worker from Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's arm of the country's coalition government, with his lawyers saying he needed (By News Poster)...World: Rapist to be beheaded and crucified
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: A man in Saudi Arabia is to be beheaded and crucified after he raped five children and left one of them, a three-year-old boy, to die in the desert.An appeal court in the capital Riyadh approved the d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Bank Raises Alarm On Rising Cases of Bank Fraud
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Omoh GabrielTHE Central Bank, CBN, yesterday, raised an alarm on rising cases of fraud in the nation's financial institutions even as it granted the request of shareholders of Equatorial Trust Bank (By News Poster)...Liberia: Ellen Shocked Over Murder of PPCC Chief -Two Suspects Arrested
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: President Ellen Johnson has expressed deep "shocked and distressed" over the vicious murder of Keith K. Jubah, Chairman of the Public Procurement Concession Commission (PPCC) who was shot to death Sun (By News Poster)...Uganda: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Wambi MichaelKampala - It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. It (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema not above the law - Cronin
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: The government is investigating reports that controversial African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema threw his weight around after being stopped for speeding in Limpopo, Deputy Trans (By News Poster)...More Threats From Renamo
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Maputo - Fernando Mbararano, the political delegate of the former rebel movement Renamo in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, has threatened that Renamo will seize control of the province, fol (By News Poster)...South Africa: I spoke without facts: Malema
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Fiona FordeANC Youth League President Julius Malema has been forced to back down from his threat of a boycott against Nedbank and admit that he had it all wrong. The bank's decision to withdraw its (By News Poster)...Kenya: Hague's Wheels of Justice Begin to Turn
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Louis Moreno Ocampo, left Kenyans with a clear message - that The Hague process had officially begun. During his three-day visi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Secret Report Names Exam Leak Suspects
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Nairobi - One of the men in police custody over cheating in the current Form Four examinations was a government spy, Saturday Nation can reveal. A police investigation shows the man used to work for t (By News Poster)...Africa: Gunmen demand ransom for crew
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Madrid - Pirates holding a Spanish tuna trawler off the Somali coast took three of its crew members to Somalia on Thursday, Spain's Defence Minister Carme Chacon said."At 8.15am the pirates ordered (s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agliotti's ex-girlfriend implicates Selebi
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Gallery: Jackie SelebiBy Karyn Maughan and Alex EliseevDiane Muller described her ex-fiance Glenn Agliotti - the state's star witness against Jackie Selebi - as a man with an "inability to tell me t (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Crimes targeted at farmers escalating'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: A farmer was killed and two other people seriously injured in separate farm attacks in Baltimore near Lephalale in Limpopo, the Transvaal Agricultural Union's northern branch (TAU SA north) said on We (By News Poster)...Africa: Renamo rejects poll results
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Charles MangwiroMaputo - Mozambique's main opposition Renamo party on Tuesday rejected partial results of last week's general election, accusing the ruling Frelimo of stuffing ballot boxes.Accordin (By News Poster)...Science: Vaccine hope for Africa's malaria battle
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube into her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anaemic four-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million Afr (By News Poster)...South Africa: No calls for cash, says Selebi lawyer
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Corruption-accused former top cop Jackie Selebi never phoned to ask for money from his former friend Glenn Agliotti, the court heard on Tuesday.Defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers told the State witness in t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Speaker apologises for 'racist' threat
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Provincial speaker Shahid Esau has apologised for his "racist" threat to replace the "too many black women" staffers at the legislature with "boere" (white men).This came after Cosatu on Monday joined (By News Poster)...South Africa: Burgstaller's killer gets life
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Arthi sanpathWith fingers pointed at Judge President Vuka Tshabalala, and harsh remarks directed at court orderlies, the aggressive murderer of former Austrian footballer Peter Burgstaller has been (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA warning on waste management
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The Democratic Alliance on Monday urged the government to act on what it calls a "dangerous lack of oversight and control" in the management of hazardous waste in South Africa.The call follows Environ (By News Poster)...Sudan: Rights Group Says Sudan Evidence Obliges U.S.
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The (By News Poster)...Gambia: 50 Year Old Woman Murdered in Jambur Village
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Abubacarr SaidykhanA woman rice farmer, Adama Jatta, said to be in her 50s, was alleged to have been murdered on Thursday, 29 October 2009, whilst coming home from her rice field in Jambur village (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC, Oil Firms Set Up Committee on Post-Amnesty Program
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Sopuruchi Onwuka - Government agencies and private players in the Nigerian upstream oil industry have floated a committee for rehabilitating and training militants who recently accepted the government (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PDP Leader Dies in CP's Office
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Lawal IbrahimKatsina - Confusion enveloped the political class in President Umaru Yar'adua's home state of Katsina yesterday when a prominent member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) Al (By News Poster)...South Africa: Scorpions must go, Selebi told Agliotti
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Former police head Jackie Selebi told his once-friend Glenn Agliotti that the Scorpions should go, the court heard on Tuesday."He [Selebi] indicated that the DSO [Directorate of Special Operations] sh (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman lied about rape - cops
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A woman was convicted by the Empangeni District Court for lying to police that she was raped, kidnapped and forced to cook human heads, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.Sindisiwe Rebecca Buthelezi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Major Marketers Behind Artificial Fuel Scarcity'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Hector Igbikiowubo, Olasunkanmi Akoni and Monsur OlowopejoTHE Management of Capital Oil, an operator in the downstream oil and gas sub-sector has accused major marketers of petroleum products of ma (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Nyamyumba Police Officer Held
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Robert MugabeKigali - Police in Rubavu are holding Assistant Inspector of police, Leonard Mudaherwa, the Nyamyumba sector police commander in Rubavu district for allegedly equipping an armed robber (By News Poster)...Africa: China to raise Africa aid
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Mariam KarounySharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - China will increase investment in and aid to African countries despite the effects of global economic crisis, according to draft agreements to be signed at a (By News Poster)...World: Afghan army convoy 'bombed'
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Kandahar, Afghanistan - At least three Afghan soldiers and more than a dozen Taliban militants were killed on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan army said.An Afghan army convoy was struck by (By News Poster)...Somalia: Donor Caution Alarms Aid Workers
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff."So (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: More Funds Needed to Stop Sexual Violence, Say Experts
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Goma - While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN (By News Poster)...Africa: Probe urged on Kenyan post-poll violence
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrived in Kenya on Thursday for talks on trying those behind last year's post-poll violence which claimed some 1 500 lives.During his (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Confirms Testimony of Ex-Vice President
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayIn a surprising move, Charles Taylor today reinforced the truthfulness of his former vice president's testimony against him last year, but dismissed the evidence of a Liberian journalist (By News Poster)...Science: A quarter of Zimbabwe's rhinos killed
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Zimbabwe has lost about 200 rhinoceroses - a quarter of its total population - to rampant poaching over the last three years as security and the economy deteriorated, state media reported on Tuesday.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity - Marketers Get Import Approval
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Abuja - INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may have succumbed to pressure on the issuance of import approval for marketers to resume importation of petroleum products across the (By News Poster)...Uganda: 10 LRA Rebels Cede to Congolese Forces
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Warom Felix OkelloArua - Nine more fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army following a battle between the UPDF and the rebels in the Central African Republic ( (By News Poster)...Bank Rate Stays Unchanged
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Chepete ChepeteGaborone - At the Monetary Policy Committee meeting held today, the Bank kept the bank rate unchanged at 11 percent. The last change in the bank rate was a 50 basis points reduction (By News Poster)...South Africa: House robber shot dead
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: A man was shot dead while another shot himself in the groin during a robbery in Pretoria, police said on Saturday.Three men entered a house in the Queenswood suburb of Pretoria at about 8pm on Friday. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RBZ Buys Bonds From Gold Miners
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Leonard MakombeHarare - THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week started buying bonds it had issued to gold miners in February this year after it failed to pay for deliveries made by miners. Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Bank Wants Banks to Report Politicians' Deals
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Ayodele Aminu and Kunle AderinokunThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is working on a plan to make banks report suspicious cash transactions by politically exposed persons (PEPs).The banking watchdog (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC slams nationalising calls
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Calls to nationalise the personal wealth of BEE tycoons Tokyo Sexwale and Patrice Motsepe were based on jealousy, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday."It's talking to the resentment w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop to probe crash in which driver was killed
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Rizwana Sheik UmarPolice say they still have no idea who shot a taxi driver who ploughed through the Edgars department store in Dr Pixely KaSeme (West) Street yesterday afternoon.The driver was app (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Activists Laud Lifting of U.S. HIV Travel Ban
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Nairobi - A 22-year-old ban on people infected with HIV entering the US was officially lifted on 2 November, with the new rules taking effect in 60 days. AIDS activists have hailed the move as a major (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt, Namibia to Review Strategic Partnerships
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is to host his Namibian counterpart, President Hifikepunye Pohamba, to discuss the consolidation of economic relations between the two countries.The two are set to co-c (By News Poster)...CNE Continues to Inspect Invalid Votes
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) is continuing to sort through hundreds of thousands of votes declared invalid at the polling stations during last week's general and provincia (By News Poster)...Africa: Nguema seeks improved ties with SA
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Malabo - South African President Jacob Zuma sought to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties with oil heavyweight Equatorial Guinea during a visit on Wednesday, his office said in a statement.Zuma's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gun Owners Get Another Window to Fall in Step With Firearms Law
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Tens of thousands of people who stand to be criminalised by the Firearms Control Act will soon get another chance to put themselves in step with the law through a second (By News Poster)...Mozambican Police 'Not Worried' by Renamo Threats
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican police says it is not concerned at the "political statements" made last week by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo. (By News Poster)...Kenya: Prosecutor to Ask International Criminal Court to Probe Kenyan Violence
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Luis Moreno-Ocampo International Criminal Court Prosecutor7 November 2009 - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigatio (By News Poster)...Nigeria: EFCC Shuts 800 Scam Web Sites
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Boco EdetAbuja - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has shut down over 800 scam websites and busted 18 syndicates of email fraudsters in a drive to check cyber-crime that Nigeria i (By News Poster)...Prosecutor Seeks Probe of Kenya Polls Violence
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Anthonoy KariukiThe International Criminal Court will seek to begin investigations into the Kenya post election violence, its prosecutor said on Thursday.Mr Moreno Ocampo told a news conference at (By News Poster)...South Africa: More cops deployed to trashed varsity
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Gallery: UniZul students go on the rampageBy Sinegugu NdlovuA student mob burned and trashed parts of the University of Zululand yesterday, resulting in tens of millions of rands in damage. Security (By News Poster)...Renamo Produces Evidence of Ballot Box Stuffing
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Wednesday produced the first hard evidence of its allegations of ballot box stuffing during the general elections held a week ago.This took the (By News Poster)...Africa: 'We're free because of Zuma'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Graeme Hosken and Peter FabriciusPresident Jacob Zuma played a pivotal role in the freeing of convicted South African mercenary Niek du Toit and his four accomplices from a notorious Equatorial Gui (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged robber wounded, two arrested
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: An alleged robber was shot and wounded and his alleged accomplices arrested when Johannesburg police caught them robbing a business in Booysens, Gauteng police said on Wednesday."The SAPS 10111 call c (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai, Mugabe to Attend Summit in Maputo
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today attend a regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a bid to thra (By News Poster)...Kenya: Shocking Details of Sex Abuse in Schools
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Samuel SiringiNairobi - Shocking details have emerged on the extent to which school girls fall prey to sexual predators -- their own teachers. Up to 12,660 girls were sexually abused by teachers ov (By News Poster)...Somalia: Landmine Blast Kills 6 People in Central Town
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: At least 6 have died in a landmine explosion that rocked the strategic central Somali town of Beledweyne, the regional capital of Hiiraan, some 206 miles (332 km) north of the Somali capital Mogadishu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Civil Society Groups Call to Crack the Whip on Blood Diamonds
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Kimberley Process (KP) members must act on the overwhelming evidence of Zimbabwe's failure to comply with the minimum requirements of the rough diamond certification scheme, said civil society groups (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ministries Battle for IDP Cash
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By David OkwembahNairobi - A fight for the control of Sh1.4 billion meant to buy land for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is the cause of the war of words between the Office of the President, Trea (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Having 'Master-Servant' Relationship With Bockarie
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not have a "master-servant" relationship with Sierra Leone's notorious rebel commander Sam Bockarie ("Mosquito"), the former Liberian president told Special Court for (By News Poster)...Central Bank Fights Fake Money
Monday 02-Nov-2009: EVEN though the number of counterfeit banknotes in circulation is low compared to other countries, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) remains concerned over the increased incidence of fake money and has launch (By News Poster)...South Africa: Seven killed during depot raid - police
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Police shot and killed seven armed men who broke into a security company's cash depot in Polokwane on Sunday morning.Responding to a call, police went to a break-in in progress at the Protea Coin Grou (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting Kills Two, Wounds Five Others in North Mogadishu
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Somalia - MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Nwetwork ) - At least two people have been killed and five others injured after heavy fighting with bitter shelling between the Islamist fighters and transitional governmen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fight Against HIV, Aids Must Be Intensified - Motsoaledi
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Gabi KhumaloJohannesburg - Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has urged people living with HIV and AIDS to work with government to intensify the fight against the disease."Let's stop fighting wi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kill Robbery Suspects Promptly - Arisekola
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Sakin BabalolaAbuja - The controversial Islamic Cleric and Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola, has advised security agents to shoot robbery suspects caught with guns and ammunition (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pa Soludo - Police Quiz Uba, 23 Guber Aspirants
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By George Orji, Chuks Okocha, Charles Onyekanmuo and Emeka OsonduAbuja/Awka - The self-styled godfather of Anambra State politics, Chief Chris Uba, and 23 gubernatorial aspirants of the Peoples Democr (By News Poster)...Get your firearm: Tomahawk Shotguns...
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: I often get adverts from these people in Turkey. I thought I'd put it up. Its always good to peruse weapons. People need to arm themselves in this violent age. (Photo) (By Jan)...Africa: Ethiopian opposition says 450 members jailed
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Barry MaloneEthiopian opposition parties say nearly 450 of their members have been jailed to stop them running as candidates in national elections in May next year.Documents given to Reuters by fou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Thirty illegal miners held after sting
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Two workers at Pamodzi Mine and 30 illegal miners have been arrested after agents infiltrated underground mining operations, Free State police said on Monday.Police spokesperson Puleng Motsoeneng said (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Anti-Graft Chief Reported U.S.$15 Million Bribe, says Waziri
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Samuel AruwanKaduna - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally broken its silence on allegations by its former boss, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, that he lodged $15million bribe money (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops on drug smuggling charges
Monday 02-Nov-2009: A witness in the case of three senior West Rand police officers accused of drug smuggling told the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday that one of the policemen helped him escape drug possession char (By News Poster)...South Africa: Speeding: Malema accused of using influence
Monday 02-Nov-2009: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has remained mum about allegations of him threatening traffic officers who flagged him down for speeding.The altercation was reported in a Sunday newspaper.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bloggers arrest sets blog rumour mill abuzz
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Eleanor MombergThe blogger-sphere was buzzing this week with claims that the South African police were clamping down on people critical of the government and crime. This came after the arrest on We (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Pick Up Your Money With Your Groceries'
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Paul VirgoRome - Of the many proposals on how to combat poverty in Africa, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is championing what must be one of the simplest (By News Poster)...South Africa: US tycoon fights for white rhino trophy
Friday 06-Nov-2009: One of the richest men in America is embroiled in a heated legal battle with South African wildlife officials to recover the trophy head of a white rhino bull.The twist to the story is that the rhino (By News Poster)...Kenya: Another Spate of Violence Feared in Laikipia as Ambushes Resume
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By James KariukiNairobi - The dust has settled in Kanampiu, Laikipia North District, six weeks after the killing of 35 people in a clash between Pokot raiders and Samburu herdsmen.But it should be not (By News Poster)...Somalia: Locals Clash Over British Couple Held By Pirates
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Residents of central Somali village of Bahdo in Galgudud, some 125-miles northeast of the notorious pirate haven of Haradheere, have reportedly clashed with Somali pirates holding a UK couple.The resi (By News Poster)...Africa: Kings and chiefs honour Mandela
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Donna BrysonJohannesburg - Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony on Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from a (By News Poster)...Kenya: Foreign Detectives Probe Post-Polls Violence
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Bernard Namunane and Peter Ng'etichNairobi - Foreign investigators are camping in Eldoret ahead of the arrival of International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday.The investig (By News Poster)...South Africa: Accused identified as 'killers'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeThe 13 men charged with the murder of two residents of the Kennedy Road Informal Settlement in Sydenham, Durban, had been identified by many witnesses as the attackers.This was acc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ah, Africa - satirists' worst nightmare
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Have to hand it to The Peacemaker of Zimbabwe... no, scratch that. The Peacemaker of Ivory Coast? Uh, no. That one didn't fly, either. Peacemaker of the Great Lakes? Like, man, splat. Try this for siz (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Hearing Against FG Begins November 26
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Samuel AruwanKaduna - Following the suit brought against the Federal Government on the ongoing plan to deregulate the downstream sector by Barrister Bamidele Aturu, the Federal High Court sitting i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop held after rape suspect escape
Friday 06-Nov-2009: A police officer has been arrested after a man held in connection with the rape of an 84-year-old woman managed to escape from custody in Port Elizabeth, The Herald reported on Friday.Constable Mzwaki (By News Poster)...Africa: UN defends role in Congo
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Joe BavierKinshasa - The United Nations is committed to supporting Congo's army and has only withdrawn assistance from certain units it believes killed more than 60 civilians in recent fighting, to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Family gives up 10-year development fight
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Warda MeyerStaff ReporterThe Wiehahn family has thrown in the towel after almost 10 years of legal battles costing millions of rand for the right to develop land on the slopes of Table Mountain. Th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agliotti: Shopping and coffee, but no bribery
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Curious details of the relationship between Jackie Selebi and convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti emerged in court on Monday.Gallery: Jackie SelebiWhile coffee dates and shopping trips were aplen (By News Poster)...Africa: Politicians report widespread electoral fraud
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Opheera McDoomKhartoum - Sudan's political parties accused each other of widespread fraud and intimidation as voters began to register for the oil-producing state's first multi-party elections in 2 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Financial Crunch Scuppers Land Plan
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Linda EnsorCape Town - The government has conceded defeat in its ambitious land-redistribution programme, and is now looking to achieve its goals by about 2025 instead of the planned 2014 because o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Sector - IMF Backs FG's Deregulatory Policy
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Clement NwojiAbuja - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared its support the Federal Government's proposed deregulation of the Nigeria's oil sector of the economy even as the organised L (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim 'conflict diamonds' a contentious topic
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Rights abuses in Zimbabwe diamond fields are set to dominate talks opening Monday by the global system charged with preventing trade in the gems from fuelling armed conflicts.Zimbabwe poses a key test (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'C.O.P' cheques cashed: witness
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Cheques with stubs marked c.o.p, chief and JS were cashed and given to convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Friday."Underneath the word cash is c.o.p," Sta (By News Poster)...Mauritania: Don't Abandon Us, HIV-Positive Community Tells Donors
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Nouakchott - People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The (By News Poster)...Africa: Tackling HIV/AIDS in Africa - From Knowledge to Behavior Change
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Richard JosephThere is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Dev (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Sharp Practices, Bickering Rule Fuel Market
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Sopuruchi Onwuka - Last weekend, the features feared as the likely outcome of the dreaded market deregulation burst out in full on the eve of November 1 which government initially slated for full dere (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Sector Deregulation - Students to Be Mobilised for Protests, Lecture Boycotts
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: As tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country's refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian stude (By News Poster)...Businessman Killed in Robbery
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliTHE owner of HAMS Security, Andries ('Dries') de Jager, was shot dead during an attempted robbery in Windhoek's Northern Industrial Area yesterday.According to the Police, the inci (By News Poster)...World: Karzai pledges push for unity
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday vowed that his new government would eradicate corruption and unite the country after months of political chaos, while offering an olive branch to Talib (By News Poster)...Africa: Guinea junta must go - opposition
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Conakry - Guinea's military junta must step down to end a crisis stemming from a bloody crackdown on protesters, opposition leaders said on Tuesday.Rising tension in the West African mining powerhouse (By News Poster)...Country a Unique Comfort Zone for Commercial Banks
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiGaborone - Botswana's commercial banks have it easy. Despite Batswana having virtually no discretional saving culture, being highly indebted, the country's small population and the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Roadside Bomb Kills Top Somaliland Military Official
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A roadside bomb has killed a senior Somaliland military commander and wounded two others in disputed northwestern Somali town of Las Anod in the breakaway region of Somaliland.A Somaliland official sa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prosecutors call in number crunchers
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Alex EliseevAfter a month of teary druglords, brave blondes and secret videotapes, the Jackie Selebi trial will be all about the numbers next week. Tomorrow the state is set to begin leading eviden (By News Poster)...Sudan: Bar Entry or Arrest President - Al-Bashir Should Not Be Welcome at Istanbul Conference
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: New York - Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch s (By News Poster)...Dhlakama Backtracks on Threats
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Maputo - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has backtracked on earlier inflammatory statements, denying that he had ever boasted that he w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Armed robbers 'stalked us'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Daily News ReporterA family believes they were stalked for two weeks before being followed home from work, ambushed and robbed in the block of flats they live in.Farzana Khan, 24, said she, her fat (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Monuc Comes to the Aid of FDLR Commander
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times h (By News Poster)...Africare Honors Grammy Award Winner John Legend at 2009 Africare Award Dinner
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - Every fall, more than 2,000 international, government and corporate leaders gather in Washington, DC, for what has become the largest annual event for Africa in the United States. The (By News Poster)...Africa: Leaders urged to use firm hand on Zim abuses
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Southern African leaders must pressure Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party to end human rights abuse when they meet to discuss the current impasse in the country's unity government, a rights body (By News Poster)...South Africa: Contractors cost taxpayers R500m
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Shoddy contractors in KwaZulu-Natal are to cost taxpayers R500-million - for rebuilding thousands of RDP houses, many of which have to be destroyed and rebuilt from scratch because of inferior workman (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Obama Move Laudable
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: It is understandable that President Jakaya Kikwete was shocked upon learning that there were people who were using the plight of Aids orphans for personal gain.Speaking during his visit to Rungwe Dist (By News Poster)...Summit Charts New Development for Niger Delta
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Reuben BuhariLagos - After the decades-old conflict in the Niger delta region with resultant loses in scores of lives, properties and revenues in billions of naira, the federal government amnesty p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe/Mozambique: Mozambique's Mambas Beat Bafana Bafana to Secure Third Place
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Nigel MatongerereA late strike from Antonio Hagi helped Mozambique beat South Africa in the COSAFA Senior Challenge third place match play off at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo yesterday.With th (By News Poster)...Science: NDE - Have you had a Near Death Experience? Massive Studies about to begin...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I have always been curious about spiritual things, especially Life After Death. At a very young age I began reading books on spiritualism and all these sorts of things, and that is how I got intereste (By Jan)...Kenya: Congolese Army Recruits Kill Three
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Josh KronNairobi - A Congolese army integration camp was attacked by rebels meant to join the army on early Wednesday morning, killing three people, army sources said.Members of the Mai Mai rebel g (By News Poster)...South Africa: Task team unlawful, says Zille
Friday 06-Nov-2009: The establishment of a ministerial task team to investigate claims that Cape Town authorities were cutting water supplies in some poor areas of the city was "another unlawful political witch-hunt", DA (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim proposes local ownership of foreign firms
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Nelson BanyaZimbabwe's government has proposed that "indigenous Zimbabweans" take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies, including mines and banks, according to a draft law seen by Reuters (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Funding at 'Dangerous Turning Point'
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - Wavering international support for HIV/AIDS efforts is resulting in funding shortfalls that could wipe out a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment, the international medical (By News Poster)...South Africa: Heavy fines for those setting off bangs
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Barry BatemanWith Guy Fawkes being celebrated today and the festive season looming, animal welfare lobbyists and the authorities have appealed to the public to consider the safety of animals before (By News Poster)...Africa: Push for United States of Africa Goes a Notch Higher
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Casper WaithakaNairobi - After his efforts to unite Africa from the top political leadership seemed to hit a brick wall, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has changed tactics.He is now seeking to realise his (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Robin Hood' hands out money after robbery
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyA modern-day Robin Hood dished out R10 000 of his loot to staff members at a 56-room Constantia mansion he robbed for a second time, police said.But instead of the trademark green tight (By News Poster)...South Africa: Boesak jumped before being pushed: COPE
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: COPE claimed Allan Boesak quit on Tuesday to avoid facing "grave" charges the party's youth wing had levelled at him a day earlier.Had he not "jumped" on Tuesday, he would have probably been shown the (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: New Dawn for Small Farmers?
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Mohamed FofanahKambia District - They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.But Marie Kamara wanted nothing to do with the new strain of rice developed by award-winning Sierra Leonean (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transformation in Mining Sector Must Be Expedited
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Pretoria - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has noted with concern that the mining industry has not transformed as quickly or sufficiently as it could."We do need to expedite the transformation of o (By News Poster)...USA: Caucasians will rise up in this nation and 'take it back'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [This is fascinating. I got this from an American preacher I know. I hope he is right. Jan] Food for thought… compare what is said here to what Pastor James David Manning Ph.D. said recently to hi (By Gairk)...South Africa: 'Nationalise Motsepe's obscene wealth '
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) on Monday called for the nationalisation of the wealth of South Africa's richest man, Patrice Motsepe and ANC struggle hero, Tokyo Sexwale.This comes after S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Avert Riot in Jos-North
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - Jos-North Local Government Area of Plateau State would have been thrown again into another round of riot yesterday, but for the quick intervention of the anti-riot policemen who (By News Poster)...South Africa: Auditor in the dock as Selebi trial resumes
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: An auditor from KPMG will be the fourth witness to take the stand as the corruption trial of former police head Jackie Selebi enters its fifth week.Dean Friedman is expected to take the stand in the J (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: UK Suspends Deportations
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThe United Kingdom Border Agency has suspended scheduled deportation flights for failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers, following strong protestations by the MDC-UK.A high powered delega (By News Poster)...World: Twelve killed as soldier opens fire on base
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Houston - Twelve people were killed and at least 31 were wounded when a soldier went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood US Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, base commander Lieutenant-Gen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged chiled killer mom in court
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Sharika RegchandPietermaritzburg BureauA Pietermaritzburg woman who allegedly killed her two young children last week will be sent for psychological assessment.Zanele Mngadi, 24, made a brief appea (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops deny suspected drug mule's claims
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Dasen ThathiahPolice say the Argentinian woman who claimed she was strip-searched and X-rayed after being suspected of being a drug mule, had been acting suspiciously.They have also denied she was (By News Poster)...Khama Misses Another Summit On Zimbabwe
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Bame PietGaborone - President Ian Khama leaves for Washington today to attend the Conservation International board of directors meeting. While in the US, Khama will meet with President Barack Obama (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nationalise Tokyo's Wealth, Says Union
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Amy MusgraveJohannesburg - THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is picking a fight with Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale, and yesterday called for his wealth to be nationalised. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Watch your language, leaders told
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The language used by some political leaders in South Africa has become too intemperate and at times borders on hate speech.At times politicians have referred to others as "dogs" and "bastards", and th (By News Poster)...World: British tourist killed by landslide
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Claire EllicottA British holidaymaker has died after being buried under 40 tons of falling rocks during a landslide on a Tenerife beach.Marion Auril O'Hara, 57, was killed instantly when part of th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Law On Land Reform Struck Down
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE North Gauteng High Court has declared large portions of a important land-reform law unconstitutional, rendering it unworkable in its present form.The ruling, ha (By News Poster)...World: Obama hails Baghdad milestone
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Ahmed Rasheed and Muhanad MohammedBaghdad - Iraqi lawmakers passed a long-delayed election law on Sunday to pave the way for a January poll, after parliament sidestepped a potentially explosive row (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mthethwa and Mbalula in catfight
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and Moshoeshoe MonareThe rivalry, or battle for publicity, between Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and his deputy Fikile Mbalula has become so nasty and "petty" that Mthethwa, and Po (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mbeki speaks on Airbus deal
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: There have been mixed reactions to the cabinet's decision this week to cancel a multibillion-rand deal to buy eight Airbus cargo planes.The deal was initiated under former president Thabo Mbeki's watc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Our people will not be held to ransom: Cele
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Police shot and killed dead seven armed men who broke into a security company's cash depot in Polokwane on Sunday morning.Responding to a call, police went to a break-in in progress at Protea Coin Gro (By News Poster)...Frelimo Wins Two-Thirds in Elections
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Kizito SikukaPresident Armando Guebuza and his party have won the national elections in Mozambique with more than two-thirds majority in parliament.Guebuza won the presidential election with 77 per (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'We are sick and tired of criminals'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele on Friday told police graduates they had the right to return fire if shot at by criminals but should not become "trigger happy"."Don't be trigger happy, assess (By News Poster)...Africa: Ivory Coast election may be delayed
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Loucoumane Coulibaly Abidjan - A row over voter eligibility could further delay Ivory Coast's election by several months and analysts and diplomats say it may deepen a political crisis by playing i (By News Poster)...'Capitalise on What Unites You', Guebuza Tells Zimbabweans
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday urged the leaders of Zimbabwe's three main political parties "to capitalize on the points that unite you, for the good of the people of Zimbab (By News Poster)...Science: Cocaine's charge through Europe undiminished
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social strata showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday."Cocaine and heroin continue to maintain a (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Police must defend themselves'
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Police must use deadly force when under attack from "armed thugs", Police Commissioner Bheki Cele reiterated on Thursday.After announcing the appointments of two new provincial commissioners in Pretor (By News Poster)...Guinea: Time for Democracy in Guinea is Now, U.S. Diplomat Says
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreyWashington -- Now is the time for the people of Guinea to elect a democratic government of their choice, a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters October 30.At a brief (By News Poster)...Uganda: Lord's Resistance Rebels Want to Surrender
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Frank MugabiKampala - CONDITIONS in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel camps in the DR Congo have deteriorated, leaving many of the fighters eager to surrender, rebels who surrendered to the ar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Narcotics expert accused of negligence
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: A narcotics expert testifying in the drug smuggling trial of three senior policemen in the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday was accused of negligence by the accused's lawyer.During cross examin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sexwale declares war on housing crooks
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has declared war on crooked housing contractors and public servants, lawyers and estate agents responsible for corruption, fraud and backlogs in housing delive (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Cracks Down on Fraudsters
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: For three years, children attending a private school for the blind in Sierra Leone's capital were forced onto the streets to beg for food. As well as being allowed to go hungry, their coughs, colds, c (By News Poster)...Science: Next Mars rover will be NUCLEAR POWERED!!!
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [As I’ve said before, nuclear energy is stunning… just read this release from NASA – it will simply amaze you. Jan] If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic (By Gairk)...Africa: AU Seeks Hybrid Court, Reconciliation Commission on Darfur
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Li HuailinLagos - The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council have endorsed the recommendations of the AU High-Level Panel on Darfur (AUPD) which seeks the creation of a hybrid court to end t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema case papers not filed on time
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The Equality Court in Johannesburg on Monday postponed the final arguments in the hate speech complaint against ANCYL leader Julius Malema.This was because Malema's legal team did not file papers cont (By News Poster)...Banks Bow to Bon Governor's Demand
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyBANK of Namibia (BoN) Governor Tom Alweendo has won the first round of the interest rate battle, with all four commercial banks adhering to his demand for a prime lending rate of 11,25 (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-11-2009)
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Howzit To add to my woes of Saturday, my ISP keeps losing connection to the internet - so this posting will not be an easy job - but I will attempt to get it out in good time. Foreign currency m (By The BeardedMan)...Kenya: Surge in Kenya Child Numbers Strains Amenities
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Samuel SiringiNairobi - Experts are warning of a major strain on social services due to an unexpected surge in the number of children in Kenya. According to new statistics released last week, a dro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Insurance fraud up
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Insurance fraud has increased dramatically in these tough financial times, according to leading authorities in the industry.Viviene Pearson, of the SA Insurance Association, said insurers had seen "a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged robber wounded during recovery of car
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Pretoria police have recovered two vehicles stolen in separate incidents on Thursday morning.Constable Sam Shivambo said one of the vehicles was stolen in a house robbery in Northmead, Benoni, while t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Dry Karamoja Could Do With Irrigation Schemes
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Joseph Miti and Steven AriongWith its unreliable and erratic rains, scorching sun, dust mainly offset by storms, dry rivers and ambushes, Karamoja is not a suitable region for crop farming - let al (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Between Anenih and Oshiomhole's Counter Offensive
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Ainofenokhai MustaphaAuchi - Conscience is an open wound: only truth can heal it," is a classical, time-tested aphorism by the late spiritual leader of the 19th century Fulani Jihad, Usmanu Dan Fod (By News Poster)...Protest Votes in Sofala Provincial Elections
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Maputo - In last week's elections for Mozambique's first provincial assemblies, a huge number of blank ballots were cast in several of the 13 districts in the central province of Sofala.And it is not (By News Poster)...Uganda: Only Durable Peace Can Solve the Problem of Internal Displacement
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Norbert MoaKampala - IN the wake of the African Union Meeting on IDPs (internally displaced people) in Kampala it is our expectation that the real issues surrounding IDPs will not be swept under th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Top Rebel Commander Quits in Congo
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Raymond BagumaKampala - A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has surrendered to the joint military forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Ugandan army.UPDF s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Another trying day in court for King of Bling
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeIs alleged crime kingpin William "Mashobane" Mbatha a criminal or just a victim of concerted police efforts to prove a point about their fight against crime?These were just some of (By News Poster)...South Africa: False rape claim - woman pleads guilty
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Mpume MadlalaThe Folweni woman who recently claimed she had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped, on Monday pleaded guilty to the charges against her at the Empangeni District Court.Sindisiwe Buthel (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Fuel Queues Return to Lagos, Abuja
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Ibrahim ShuaibuKano - Uncertainty over the actual take-off date of government's proposed deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry yesterday resulted in long queues at petrol (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zero tolerance for damage to public property
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Ella SmookMetro WriterVandals, drunk drivers and destructive protesters will soon be forced to cough up for damage to council property, as the city pushes for the introduction of a zero-tolerance p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prison employees rescued
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Three prison employees held hostage at a Bloemfontein prison have been rescued by a police task force team, a spokesman for the prison operator said on Tuesday.Managing director for G4S Care and Justi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ayo's Fight Influenced HIV Policy
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Moses NampalaKampala - To commemorate the World AIDS Day on December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS, will award individuals who have played a remarka (By News Poster)...South Africa: State and defence bicker in Selebi trial
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Bickering between the defence and State in the corruption case of former police head Jackie Selebi punctuated proceedings in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday.Defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers and p (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists'
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Christi Van Der WesthuizenCape Town - Africans "should dare to imagine an African world not defined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund but one that comes out of Africa". This is n (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tension in Owerri Over Alleged Murder of Two by Herdsmen
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Chidi NkwoparaOwerri - Motorists on the Owerri-Onitsha highway were held up for several hours yesterday morning, following the protest by Irete people over the murder of two citizens allegedly by s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Date set for Hlophe Jnr trial
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Western Cape Judge-President John Hlophe's son Thuthuke is to go on trial in March next year on fraud and other charges.The 27-year-old Hlophe junior made his final formal appearance in the Bellville (By News Poster)...Zambia: Parliament Condemns Political Violence
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday evening condemned the increasing violence among political party cadres and asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to protect the citizenry, regardless of their polit (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agliotti 'believed he could do anything'
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: A witness gave explosive testimony of payments and gifts given to former police head Jackie Selebi when she testified in his corruption trial on Wednesday.Gallery: Jackie Selebi TrialDianne Muller, th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bangladeshi burnt to death in Limpopo
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Limpopo police reported on Wednesday morning that a Bangladeshi national had been found burnt to death in his shop in Giyani.Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba said the police had been notified that a sh (By News Poster)...South Africa: Consider Marxist principles, says Vavi
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday urged the government to transform the economy, saying the market-driven polices of the past were to blame f (By News Poster)...Gunners Shoot Down Policemen
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Tshepo MolwaneGaborone - Extension Gunners' fans erupted into wild celebrations after their side narrowly beat Police XI 1-0 in a be MOBILE Premier League game played in a chilly weather at the UB (By News Poster)...South Africa: Suspect shoots himself in the head
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Gill GiffordA suspected armed robber shot himself in the head and a wanted fugitive was apprehended during a shootout with security guards in Little Falls this morning.Honeydew police spokesperson Ins (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA 'sitting on a time bomb'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: With Durban running the risk of water restrictions, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica says it is "totally unacceptable" that between 35 and 40 percent of piped water in big cities is being lost t (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: MDC Pins Hopes on SADC
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Harare - The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says it is pinning its hopes on a ministerial team from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to help resolve the political situation ther (By News Poster)...Africa: Albino killers sentenced to death
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Dar es Salaam - A Tanzanian court on Monday sentenced four suspects to death by hanging for the murder of a 10-year-old albino boy last November, an official said.State lawyer Edwin Kakolaki told repo (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Maritime Agency Pledges Support to Repress Piracy Off Somali Coast
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The head of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has pledged that his agency will help Somalia repress piracy off its coast and in the Gulf of Aden, including through assisting (By News Poster)...MDM Reveals Incident of Fraud in Beira
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Maputo - The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) has accused staff at one polling station in the central city of Beira of deliberately invalidating ballot papers in Wednesday's general election, thus (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Newman Chiadzwa Apologises for Telling Lies
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - Illegal diamond dealer and businessman Newman Chiadzwa, who has been posing as Chief Chiadzwa, has apologised to President Mugabe and the nation for peddling falsehoods about (By News Poster)...Somalia: A Famous Peacemaker Killed in Galka'o Town
Monday 02-Nov-2009: A famous Somali peace maker has been killed by unidentified gunmen in the north of Galka'o town in Mudug region overnight, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.Reports say that the situation of the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sisulu to keep defence contracts clean
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu has promised a "clean slate" for all future military contracts after the termination of the Airbus deal, and admitted that the country will hav (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I want the dog put down'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: A Bluff woman is enraged that a dog she says bit her six-year-old daughter on the face, resulting in her having to undergo plastic surgery, has since been seen roaming the street.Annelize Snyman of Fr (By News Poster)...Kenya: International Court Sets Date for Trial on Post-Election Violence
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Oliver Mathenge and Bernard NamunaneNairobi - The cases against top Kenyan politicians and businessmen suspected of funding and organising the election violence in 2007/8 will go before judges at t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Attempted hijacking turns fatal
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Nompumelelo MagwazaA man was shot dead and two others arrested during a shootout with the police on the N3 Durban bound near Marianhill Toll plaza last night.A police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Drug finder testifies in cops' trial
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Three men claiming to be policemen tried to take delivery of drugs at OR Tambo International Airport, a narcotics detection expert told the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.Wonder Capp was test (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agliotti is finished talking
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti finished testifying in the corruption case of former police head Jackie Selebi on Tuesday.Gallery: Jackie Selebi TrialThe former friend of Selebi was the first (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cultivating Food Security in the City
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Mitchelle AjidaHarare - In recent years Zimbabweans have faced severe food shortages and staggering hyperinflation. As a result, residents in the capital, Harare, have increasingly turned to urban (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe And Kabila Hold Talks On Crisis
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe yesterday held critical talks with his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Joseph Kabila on the country's latest political impa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two women murdered in Joburg
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Two women were murdered and one was found severely assaulted in overnight crime in Soweto, Johannesburg police said on Tuesday.A 40-year-old woman was the target of at least 13 bullets fired into a va (By News Poster)...Liberia: Police Officers With UN Force in Country Stymie Mass Attempt at Prison Escape
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Police officers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Liberia have helped foil an attempted mass jail break this weekend from a prison in the West African nation's capital, Monrovia.As (By News Poster)...Uganda: Vital Lessons From Ssebanga Tragedy
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Enock Ssebanga, 21, on Wednesday lost the battle to leukaemia. The picture of his scraggy body published by this newspaper on August 7, 2000 shocked the world about the boundless nastiness of some par (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NIMASA Hosts Maritime Interdiction of Terrorism Course
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Blessing OnumajuruThe United States Government in-conjunction with the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, is organising a three week training programme on maritime security at the Nigeri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 21 Rifles Stolen From Armoury
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Harare - AN MDC-T activist was last week arrested for allegedly conniving with some soldiers to break into an armoury at Pomona Barracks and stealing 20 rifles and a shotgun.Pasco Gwezere (36) is also (By News Poster)...South Africa: Limpopo cop to be probed - DA
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: A Thohoyandou police inspector is to be investigated for allegedly defeating the ends of justice, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.A case had been opened with the Independent Complaints Direct (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Poachers Kill 200 Rhinos - I remember when 70,000 Rhinos existed in Rhodesia...
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: [When I was a kid, sitting in Admiral Tait Junior School in Salisbury, Rhodesia, we used to watch a film or documentary and we loved it. We would watch some 30 minute documentary. They would put us in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling ANC Has No Plans to Nationalise Mines
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday emphatically said it had no intention of nationalising SA mines, saying no party leader would "make policy pronouncements" b (By News Poster)...East Africa: Saving Lives, Securing Livelihoods
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Marvus PriorMount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field for th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N5.2 Billion REA Scam - 'We Have Enough Evidence Against Ugbane, Elumelu'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Lagos - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it was ready to press on with the fresh 158-count charge brought against the Chairman, Senate Committee on Power , Senator Nichol (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Cops helped foil drugs charges'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A witness in the drugs case against three senior police officers told the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday how one of the trio helped him escape drug-related charges.Kenneth Bogopane, 33 was test (By News Poster)...South Africa: Firefighters battle Cape blazes
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Thomas Pearce Staff ReporterCape Winelands firefighters have been battling blazes near Du Toitskloof and in Kanonkop.The first fire started in the hills above Olyfenbos Farm near Du Toitskloof at a (By News Poster)...Sudan: Joint African-UN Force Takes Part in Ceremony Aimed at Reducing Ethnic Tensions
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has participated in a reconciliation ceremony in the north of the region that is aimed at halting a spate of recent inter-tribal c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court to hear final Malema arguments
Monday 02-Nov-2009: The Equality Court in Johannesburg was set to hear final arguments on Monday in ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's rape hate speech case.Malema is facing complaints of hate speech and harassment (By News Poster)...Kenya: Power Outage Plunges Country Into Darkness
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Most parts of the country were thrown into darkness on Sunday evening following a power blackout. The outage, which happened at around 6.30pm, hit Nairobi Mombasa, Nakuru, Nyeri, Nyahururu, (By News Poster)...Gambia: Country's Economy Performs Better in 2009 - IMF Mission Head
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Amadou JallowAn International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by David Dunn is currently in The Gambia on a working visit to assess the economic performance as at end-September the sixth and final (By News Poster)...World: Army chief fears backlash after shooting
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Will DunhamWashington - The United States Army's top general expressed concern on Sunday that last week's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, blamed on a Muslim Army officer, could fuel a backlash (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC honours Eleanor Kasrils
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Michelle JonesEleanor Kasrils, activist and wife of former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, died on Sunday after suffering a stroke. She was 73.Kasrils said Eleanor had suddenly collapsed and (By News Poster)...South Africa: The high cost of the Airbus move
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: So, did we honestly save R30 billion by cancelling the A400M contract? Not really, argues Helmoed Romer Heitman.The decision to pull out of the Airbus A400M project has been hailed, but what now? Th (By News Poster)...Africa: AU keeps Madagascar suspension
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Alain IloniainaAddis Ababa - The African Union (AU) said on Saturday it would not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Militants Commit to Ceasefire
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has assured that the position of its leader, Mr. Henry Okah on the amnesty programme of the federal governm (By News Poster)...Obama Welcomes President Khama to White House
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreyHailing Botswana as "truly one of the extraordinary success stories in Africa," President Obama welcomed that country's president, Ian Khama, to the White House for talks November 5 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two SANDF members die in parachute incident
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Two members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) have died in a parachute incident, the Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans said on Friday.The incident occurred on Thursday at 10. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Super-Communism: Govt to Grab 51% of Foreign Firms in 60 days
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [Here's Mugabe, back on the roll, with his communist agenda. How on earth can Prime Minister Tsvangirai stand by and watch this? Pray tell me, in what way, has the Govt of National Unity, in any way s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Leader of Sect Linked to Post-Election Violence Killed
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Nairobi - An outlawed sect spokesman has been shot dead in downtown Nairobi.Mr Njuguna Gitau Njuguna of Mungiki's political wing was killed after he was confronted by three unknown assailants in Nairo (By News Poster)...CNE Inspects Invalid Votes
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) has begun the task of inspecting each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of votes declared invalid at the polling stations during last (By News Poster)...South Africa: 1 152 arrested at ports of entry
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Two weeks of policing at land, sea and airport entry points has resulted in the arrest of 1 152 suspects, the SA Police Service said on Wednesday."Through these day-to-day robust combat operations, va (By News Poster)...World: Obama seeks robust economic growth
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Washington - United States President Barack Obama is constantly seeking ways to improve job creation, and the best way to tackle the country's worsened budget position is to deliver robust growth, the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Singer's sex charge trial in open court
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Zelda VenterHigh Court ReporterAfrikaans singer Jurie Els on Monday seemed delighted that his accuser, fellow singer Robbie Klay, would on Monday take the stand to testify about his alleged sexual (By News Poster)...Africa: UN slashes aid for Congo army after killings
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Joe BavierKinshasa - The United Nations said on Monday it would cut support for some units of Congo's armed forces amid allegations that the United Nations-backed soldiers had killed, raped and mut (By News Poster)...South Africa: Driver rams taxi into shop after being shot
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A shootout and brazen taxi getaway left one man dead and thirteen others injured, one woman critically so, on Monday afternoon, Netcare has reported.The scene played out in Edgars on Durban's West Str (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hizbul Islam Commander Killed in Bakool Region
Monday 02-Nov-2009: A senior militia commander of Hizbul Islam rebels was gunned down in southern Somalia Wednesday, Radio Garowe reports.Somali clan elders in Tiyeglow district, in the southwestern Bakool region near th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Old Woman Buried Alive in Landslide
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Nairobi - An elderly woman was buried alive in a landslide at Gikingo village in Imenti South District following heavy rains. Mrs Karuberina Karuki, 70, was cutting grass for her goats when the traged (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Tribal Clashes Uproot Over 16,000 Civilians in Northern Region, Reports UN Agency
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo t (By News Poster)...World: Fort Hood shooter faced Iraq deployment
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Washington - The man who killed 12 people at a Texas military base on Thursday is an American Muslim of Palestinian origin who joined the army against his parents' wishes and was about to be deployed (By News Poster)...Somalia: Islamists Impose Curfew to Beledweyn Town
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: The Islamist officials of Hizbul Islam have imposed a curfew to Beledweyn town overnight, just after heavy fighting between the Islamist forces and transitional government troops which left more on We (By News Poster)...South Africa: It is Better Late Than Never
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - THE timing and site of President Jacob Zuma 's landmark speech on HIV/AIDS last week were just too neat to be coincidental.It was standing on the same spot in the debating chamber of th (By News Poster)...Africa: Forum to Strengthen China-Africa Ties-Envoy
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Brian BenzaThe Chinese Ambassador to Botswana Liu Huanxing has urged the country to make the most of the opportunity to market itself to the outside world at the World Expo to be held in Shanghai n (By News Poster)...Kenya: Citizens Unhappy With Food Crisis Response
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - A majority of Kenyans are unhappy with the way the government has handled the food crisis and corruption. According to results of the poll by the Synovate Group released on (By News Poster)...Of Khama And the Indirect Election
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Isaac PinieloGaborone - Last week, when Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama was inaugurated as Republican president, critics felt that his appointment was undemocratic, as he was not directl (By News Poster)...World: Draft resolution urges UN moves on Goldstone
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Arab delegates to the United Nations are floating a draft resolution that would require UN chief Ban Ki-moon to bring a damning report on the Gaza war before the Security Council.The United Nations Ge (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nationalisation Must Be Clarified From the Top
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - WILL the fact that the labour movement is now targeting rich individuals along with the entire mining sector in its calls for nationalisation finally make the government provide some cl (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA faces another 'Eskom'
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The Department of Water Affairs has warned that South Africa faces "another Eskom" challenge if more money is not made available for bulk water infrastructure maintenance. Water Affairs chief financia (By News Poster)...Africa: Lawmaker acquitted of stealing phone
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A Zimbabwean lawmaker from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party has been cleared of charges of stealing a mobile phone, state media said on Tuesday.Lawmaker Thamsanga Mahlangu, who is also deputy (By News Poster)...East Africa: Landlocked Countries Pin Their Hopes On EASSy Cable
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Michael OumaNairobi - The 10,800 kilometre long East African Submarine System (EASSy), to be complete in March before going live in June 2010, is set to provide fibre optic Internet connectivity to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Caterpillar Expects Demand for Mining Machinery to Surge Soon
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - THE global mining industry is likely to need substantial amounts of capital equipment in the next few years as demand for commodities from southeast Asia and other e (By News Poster)...South Africa: R100m cocaine mule jailed
Monday 02-Nov-2009: A Croatian drug mule will spend seven years behind bars in South Africa after admitting to bringing 230kg of cocaine - said to be worth about R100-million - into the country.Brainimir Orac, 33, a cook (By News Poster)...Somalia: Blast Kills Two in Beledweyn Town
Monday 02-Nov-2009: At least two people have been killed in a big blast which convulsed in Beledweyn town in central Somalia overnight, just as there is calm situation in the town, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Spy' robbed of R250 000
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Fiona GoundenA woman who police suspect may be a National Intelligence Agency (NIA) member was robbed of R250 000 in cash yesterday as she parked outside the South African Revenue Service office at (By News Poster)...Nigeria: African Media Urged to Embrace Digital Revolution
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Godwin HarunaLagos - African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless informati (By News Poster)...World: Burglary suspect taunts cops
Friday 06-Nov-2009: An on-the-run burglary suspect taunted the authorities today with a home-made mugshot showing him standing next to a police van.Matthew Maynard's mugshot appeared in the South Wales Evening Post newsp (By News Poster)...Africa: Mwana Africa Get U.S. $10 Million for Gold Mine
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Leonard MakombeHarare - MWANA Africa has secured US$10 million funding for Freda Rebecca Mine from the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa. This loan facility is expected to enable M (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Fish War Prompts Thousands to Flee
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Kinshasa - At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring Republic of Congo, accordin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stolen vehicles recovered at border crossing
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Two stolen heavy duty trucks and a bus were recovered at the Macadamia Border, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga police said on Friday.Captain Leonard Hlathi said the trucks, worth a total of R1,8 million, (By News Poster)...Carbon Trading Welcomed, Criticised
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Jessie BoylanNiassa Province - A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area.Gat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom 'needs fresh ideas'
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: State-owned enterprises were being turned into "slaughterhouses" for black professionals such as Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga, the Black Management Forum (BMF) said on Thursday.The BMF said in a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SADC Summit Begins in Maputo
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Tichaona SibandaA SADC Summit on Zimbabwe, aimed at reviving the troubled inclusive government, kicked off in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday.Host President Armando Guebuza called on all the parties (By News Poster)...Somalia: Truck Accident Kills 5, Injuries 4 Other in Wanlaweyn Town
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiWanlaweyn - At least 5 people have been killed and 4 others have been wounded in a truck accident that occurred in out of Wanlalweyn town 90 kilometers south of the Somali capital (By News Poster)...South African Blogger Arrested
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: South African blogger Uhuru Guru of the popular South Africa Sucks blog has been released after spending the night in the Linden SAPS cells in Johannesburg. The blogger was arrested in a dawnlight (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Zimbabwe Blames Gem Vetting Process
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: ZIMBABWE has placed the blame for not complying with the principles of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) on the global diamond trade regulator itself, saying the watchdog has reneged on (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zille sinks minister's probe
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Andisiwe Political WriterThe City of Cape Town says it will take court action and declare an inter-governmental dispute if Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka does not disband a task te (By News Poster)...World: Mann relishes family reunion
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: London/Malabo - Freed British mercenary Simon Mann said his homecoming was the "most wonderful" he could have imagined, after earlier expressing relief that his West African coup attempt had failed.Th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwean Suspect Faces Robbery Charges
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: A 68-year-old robbery victim yesterday told court of his encounter with assailants who stole his cell phone and hypertension medication.Lekgobo Makolo also told the court about how he managed to ident (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Okah Still Threatens Violence in Niger Delta
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Sopuruchi Onwuka - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), is threatening to call off ceasefire with the government if foreign oil companies do not leave the area.The threat comes jus (By News Poster)...Babynet Front Page: Men always think about sex: True or false?
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: London - You lose most body heat through your head. Chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven years. Lifting something heavy can give you a hernia.Every day you hear or read things about your body a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Policeman found dead in bathroom
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: An Oudtshoorn policeman appears to have shot himself in the head with a colleague's service pistol at the Bridgeton police community service centre on Monday, according to the police.Captain Malcolm P (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Price Now Free-for-All
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Hamisu MuhammadAbuja - November 1 came and went yesterday without the official take-off of the much-expected deregulation of fuel prices, but petroleum marketers in various parts of the country wer (By News Poster)...World: Obamamania now lukewarm support a year later
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Edouard GuihaireA year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that yielded America's first black president has retreated to tepid support for Barack Obama as he presses his ch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shareholders Desperate to Reclaim Troubled Banks
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Lagos - THE major shareholders, investors and other stakeholders in the eight troubled banks are making moves to reclaim them, vowing to co-operate with the Central Bank installed managements there.Th (By News Poster)...Somalia: Big Explosion Kills Five Commanders in Sol Administration North Region
Monday 02-Nov-2009: At least 5 high commanders of Sol administration have been killed and several others including civilians have been wounded in Las Anod town in Sol region after land mine explosion targeted to their ve (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmer killed in KZN identified
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: The farmer shot and killed on a farm near Pietermaritzburg has been identified as a former KwaZulu-Natal government senior official, SABC news reported on Sunday.Paramedics found Warwick Dorning, 55, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sokoto - Furore Over Panel's Report
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Rakiya A.muhammadSokoto - The commission of inquiry set up by the Sokoto State government to probe the immediate past government of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has recommended that the former governor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tax evader King believed to own Rangers FC
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: If the SA Revenue Service (Sars) is worried that notorious tax dodger Dave King is the secret buyer of Scotland's biggest football team and that he has made his 78-year-old mom Agnes the sole owner of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N5 Billion Scam - EFCC Launches Fresh Investigation Against Neco Registrar
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Golu TimothyAbuja - It is not yet over for the Registrar of the National Examination Council, (NECO),Prof Promise Okpala,as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a fresh (By News Poster)...Kenya: Chief Prosecutor Leaves Country, Awaits ICC Permission to Start Investigations
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Nairobi - International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo leaves on Saturday morning with the fate of Kenya's post-election violence suspects resting with judges at The Hague.Depending on h (By News Poster)...South Africa: People Living With HIV to Discuss Challenges At Conference
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Pretoria - About 300 people, including people living with HIV and AIDS, and health experts are expected to gather at the Gallagher Estate on Friday for the inaugural Positive Convention on Living with (By News Poster)...Chavez's Political Opponent Gets Assassinated
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [Quite typical here? It seems that a political opponent of Hugo Chavez was recently gunned down. Why does it seem like Leftist supporters of Chavez do not seem to care about this? Lone Wolf.] Ve (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Cops suspended for extortion
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Lavern De Vries Crime WriterTwo city traffic officers have been suspended after they were accused of extorting money from a man who they allegedly found in a compromising position with a woman pass (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fresh Fighting Breaks Out in Beledweyn Town
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Fresh fighting between forces loyal the Islamist fighters of Hizbul Islam and the transitional government soldiers has broken out in out of Beledweyn town in Hiran region, witnesses and officials told (By News Poster)...Ghana: Government is Committed to Return Lands to Rightful Owners - Alhaji Dauda
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, on Tuesday reiterated government's commitment to return parcels of land acquired but not utilised for public purposes to their owners.He (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mentally disabled toddler raped
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Two four-year-old toddlers were raped in separate incidents in Zola, Soweto police said on Wednesday.Inspector Kay Makhubela said the first toddler, who is also mentally disabled, was allegedly raped (By News Poster)...Botswana: Citizens Urged to Change Attitude in Relationships
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Calistus KolantshoSelebi-Phikwe - Batswana have been urged to change their attitude when they are in relationships and talk openly about HIV/AIDS and think beyond themselves.A social worker from Bo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Freed mercenaries due on home soil
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: South Africa was on Tuesday moving to repatriate four citizens freed by Equatorial Guinea for a failed coup, as President Jacob Zuma prepared to visit the West African state.The four South Africans we (By News Poster)...South Africa: US navy cleared for Simonstown visit
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has granted a nuclear vessel licence for a US nuclear powered submarine, the USS San Juan, to visit Simonstown Naval Base.The NNR granted the licence to the South (By News Poster)...Zambia: Fuel Prices Hangs in the Balance
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: LAST week's announcement of an upward adjustment in fuel prices by the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) and the later withdrawal seems to have created confusion and uncertainty in the industry.Just when (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pregnant woman killed for her baby
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A KwaZulu-Natal woman who miscarried four times hired a killer to murder a new mother for her baby, the Pietermaritzburg High Court heard on Tuesday.Lamuleni Mabunsi, 29, from Hibberdene admitted thes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two held after 'attacking cops'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: Two men were arrested for assault and public violence on Monday after they allegedly attacked metro cops who were demolishing illegal shacks in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, metro police said.Seni (By News Poster)...Zambia: Cannabis Consumption Remains a Huge Problem
Monday 02-Nov-2009: THE number of people arrested for trafficking in cannabis over the independence celebrations period is an indicator that cannabis consumption still remains a huge problem.Just in that short period, th (By News Poster)...South Africa: MK veteran laid to rest in Gugulethu
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Staff ReporterDespite years of service in Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military veteran died "sidelined and destitute".Archibald Vusmzi Mngeni, known within the MK as Carlos, was laid to rest in Gugulethu (By News Poster)...World: '109 arrests at Iran protests'
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Tehran - Iranian police arrested 109 people during opposition protests on the sidelines of an official rally marking three decades since the seizure of the US embassy, Tehran's police chief said on Sa (By News Poster)...Malawi: Mine Galvanizes Civil Society
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: By Jessie BoylanLago District, Mozambique - As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmen (By News Poster)...Somalia: Local Businessman Killed in Bosaso Town
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: A Somali businessman has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen overnight in the port town of Bosaso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday.Locals said (By News Poster)...Dhlakama Threatens 'Revolution', But Not by Him
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Maputo - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has once again threatened an "incendiary revolution", because of the alleged "theft of votes" in last week's general ele (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I knew he was going to hit her'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Dasen ThathiahIn a moment fuelled by adrenalin, a quick-thinking Edgars employee snatched her injured colleague away from further harm during a shooting at the store this week.Mystery still surroun (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Efforts to Achieve Anti-Poverty Goals in Peril'
Friday 06-Nov-2009: Africa's efforts to meet the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 deadline are threatened by the impact of the global financial crisis on the cont (By News Poster)...South Africa: Elderly woman's rape accused re-arrested
Friday 06-Nov-2009: A 27-year-old man accused of raping an elderly Port Elizabeth woman has been rearrested after his recent escape from custody, police said on Friday.Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg said Frankie Louws (By News Poster)...Africa: Violence in Sudan overshadows medical needs
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Laura MacInnisGeneva - Three quarters of people in South Sudan have no access to medical care, and 10 percent of children there and in Darfur die before their first birthday, a World Health Organis (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops try to crack case of Constantia crooks
Friday 06-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyA robber who handed some of his loot to employees in the Constantia mansion he broke into got away with millions of rand worth of jewellery.Four days ago three Constantia homes were tar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi: Third witness in the dock
Friday 06-Nov-2009: The third witness is expected to take the stand as the third week of former top cop Jackie Selebi's corruption case draws to a close.Martin Flint, father of Dianne Muller as well as the financial dire (By News Poster)...Your Baby: Sometimes beauty must wait to be born
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: It was a defining moment for Suzanne Ackerman-Berman when, while visiting a friend in hospital, she came across a hysterical new mother whose baby had been born with a cleft lip."I picked up the baby (By News Poster)...Africa: E Guinea four barred from speaking to press
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: The four South African mercenaries who were released from Equatorial Guinea's Black Beach prison - one of Africa's most notorious prisons - are off scot free for now. They will face no charges in Sout (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taxis burnt in Umlazi
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Three taxis were set alight in Umlazi on Thursday morning, KwaZulu-Natal metro police said.Superintendent Joyce Khuzwayo said the incident, believed to be related to ongoing taxi violence in the area, (By News Poster)...Africa: Angolans debate law of the land
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Luanda - The Angolan government on Wednesday kicked off a rare process of national debate, setting out three possible constitutions for the country and inviting public comment.The outcome of the debat (By News Poster)...Senegal: Groundnut Production in Freefall
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Koffigan E. AdigbliKaolack - Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Readers say no to nationalisation of wealth
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: By Ainsley DanielsThe National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) on Monday called for the nationalisation of the wealth of two of South Africa's richest men, Patrice Motsepe and ANC struggle hero, Tokyo S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawmaker Flays Activities of 'Omoniles' in Lagos
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A member of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mr. Ipoola Omisore, has decried the activities of land speculators who claim to be indigenes of the state and intimidate landed property owners.He alleged that (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kimberley Process to Strive for 'Consensus' On Harare
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: By Chamwe KairaWindhoek - Members of the Kimberley Process, a global body created to curb trade in diamonds to fund wars, would strive for consensus over Zimbabwe's membership and avoid a vote, the ch (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Calls for Probe Into Killings of Civilians
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: The head of United Nations peacekeeping has called for a joint investigation into the targeted killing this year of dozens of civilians in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by (By News Poster)...Kenya: The Demerits of Land Act Clause
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Ibrahim MwathaneLast week, I demonstrated how the invocation of section 143(1) of the Registered Land Act on first generation titles has been effectively used to defeat justice in parts of Kajiado (By News Poster)...The Race for Second Place
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Christof MaletskyNAMIBIA'S main opposition political parties say they are gunning for nothing less than a victory in this month's presidential and general but analysts believe the race is actually (By News Poster)...South Africa: More than 100 arrests in Joburg
Monday 02-Nov-2009: About 105 people were arrested in central Johannesburg over the weekend for various crimes, police said on Monday.Inspector Xoli Mbele said the arrests were conducted during a crime combating operatio (By News Poster)...USA: Federal regulators close 9 banks
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: [So far the Fed has closed 115 banks this year. It seems they all are merged into some sort of Govt owned bank – as far as I can tell. Jan] Regulators shut nine banks Friday, including Los Angeles- (By Gairk)...South Africa: 'F**k you, sit down and shut up'
Monday 02-Nov-2009: By Botho MolosankweA Bedfordview man believes he was sworn at, roughed up and jailed by three Ekurhuleni metro police officers because he is white. His wife, he said, was sworn at and pushed against a (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Corruption: Why don't YOU steal from the Land Bank too?
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I have a story to tell from a friend of mine. A buddy of mine has a black friend who works for the Land Bank and is studying part time for an MBA at one of the business schools in SA. His black friend (By Jan)...South Africa: My Long Flight From Freedom
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Why are so many South Africans leaving such an extraordinary country? From the time when Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 until the 2009 elections, much has happened in South Africa to the perception (By Gairk)...South Africa: Elderly Afrikaans Couple survive farm attack by Blacks weilding an axe, hammer & baton
Monday 02-Nov-2009: [A bakkie is a pickup-truck. Look at this farm attack. The Blacks just won't leave us alone. A friend of mine in Johannesburg had blacks bash into his house the other day. They brought a truck and rip (By News Poster)...[Humor] Zim: A Black man tells me: God gave us Robert Mugabe - Its in your Bible...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I was chatting to an old black man from Zimbabwe and he made me chuckle. Suddenly, out of nowhere he said to me: "Have you heard of Gabriel, in the Bible?" I replied, "You mean the Angel Gabriel?" (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-11-2009)
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: Howzit Just a quick reminder that there will be no posting tomorrow as I have an early appointment at the hospital on the other side of the city (they're taking the stitches out and checking the wo (By The BeardedMan)...YouTube Video: Noam Chomsky Endorses The Taliban And Al-Qaeda Terrorists
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [Once again, Noam Chomsky is committed to favoring the enemies of the USA in Afghanistan. He suggested into lying to his audience that Obama was for Hope and Change and now he's repeating how Obama's (By Lone Wolf)...Note: AfricanCrisis: Giving support to ALL Security Companies and Security businesses...
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Just a note folks. I am very much in favour of supporting anyone who is in the security business. So if people have products or services that are security related, I always have an ear open to this an (By Jan)...S.Africa: Should ANC supporters be kept away from Ant & Cockroach poison?
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I had a chuckle today. I bought some poison to kill ants and other insects and on the back of the box I read the following instructions in uppercase: KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN, ANIMALS AND UNINFOR (By Jan)...[Pic] S.Africa: Johannesburg: So how is crime in my suburb? An Aqua Armed Security report...
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: In my suburb we have one security company run by an Afrikaner man who takes no nonsense. A lot of Afrikaners work for this small company. Here is their report on crime in my area. Feel free to support (By Jan)...Hello, Africa! South Africa Cracking Down On Dissident Bloggers
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: Boer ex-expatriate Johann discusses last week's arrest of Uhuru Guru from the South Africa Sucks blog, and how the arrest is part of a larger campaign by the ANC on people speaking out against the reg (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Attention: Readers: How many of you & your friends surf the web with cell phones? Should AC be Cell Friendly?
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: I want to do a quick survey among YOU the readers - for some quick feedback. I am curious as to how many of you and your friends are surfing the internet using your cell phones. I saw a Blackb (By Jan)...Russian Federation Red Leader Agrees With Nanny-Statists?
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [Now here's something odd from the Russian media reporting. It seems open Russian Federation Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov is quite the open shill for a nanny-state in Russia. Where among the th (By Lone Wolf)...Chavez Cares About Local Venezuelan Indigenous People
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [It's always quite sad the Latin American Left suggest they "care" about the indigenous Native American peoples of Latin America and even North America. But it seems here they do not seem to care, th (By Lone Wolf)...USA: Pink Slips piling up: 2.5 times higher than Washington Monument!
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: Visualize the impact it will have when every member of Congress gets 1,000 "pink slips" delivered by Fed Ex every single day. Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, says that coul (By Gairk)...S.Africa: Nice new Crime website - Crime Aware - Be aware of crime in YOUR AREA...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: My neighbour sent me this link to a really nice and interesting website. Check it out: (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-11-2009)
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Oh wow! Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has stated that Mugabe would be a rebel if the unity government collapses... Is this the be (By The BeardedMan)...The War On Mohammedanism Comes Home
Saturday 07-Nov-2009: The War On Mohammedanism Comes Home this week and Frank and John discuss the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas by a Mohammedan service member; how Political Correctness is at the root of allowing i (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Humor] S.Africa: Johannesburg: My Friend's Mother from Hell: The Next of Kin story...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I have a friend whose mother must surely be the Mother from hell. I've told my friend that he really should write a book about about his mother because she is in a class all of her own. I will not eve (By Jan)...South Africa: Inauguration of the Wall of Remembrance
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [Brakenjan submitted this article about the Inauguration of the Wall of Remembrance at the Voortrekker monument, Pretoria, South Africa on 25 October 2009 for those who died between the period 1961 to (By Gairk)...[Humor] Walking Eagle joke
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: On a recent trip to the United States, South Africa's Black President, Jacob Zuma, addressed a major gathering of Red Indians. He spoke for almost an hour on his plans for improving South Africa 's (By Gairk)...S.Africa: A Fascinating fact about pain that a Pathologist told me...
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I had a long chat to a pathologist with over 30 years experience who also lectures at university on Forensic Pathology. During the chat the pathologist mentioned a most interesting fact. Apparently, o (By Jan)...S.Africa: Spar supermarkets... a sign of how bad the recession is?
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I buy most of my food from an excellent Spar supermarket down the road from me. Today on a noticeboard I saw something which made me think that this could be another sign of how tough the recession is (By Jan)...YouTube Video: Foreign News Media Russia Today Acting Like If It Were Back In the USSR?
Wednesday 04-Nov-2009: [Now this is indeed interesting. It seems Russia Today is trying to complain over the FBI watching the Tweets on Twitter over those "peaceful", pseudo-anarchists whom rioted during the G-20 Summit. (By Lone Wolf)...[Graph] USA: The Stock market struggling to break the 10,000 barrier... Teetering on the edge a bit?
Monday 02-Nov-2009: I've mentioned in the past that the Dow Jones index will hit a barrier in the 10,000-11,000 region when it rises. Here we will see a real test of this so-called recovery. For years thought, Harry Schu (By Jan)...[USA] [Humor] Please rob my neighbour...
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: I got this from a friend in the USA. That's the way it should be... (Photo) (By Jan)...[Pic] [Humor] A little gift I bought for an overseas friend of mine...
Tuesday 03-Nov-2009: A friend of mine visited me from overseas some months ago. I bought him this to put on his door. He quite enjoyed the humour - he is a Right Wing activist in his own country. (Photo) (By Jan)...
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