From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 15th 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 & GruesomeIMPORTANT: Zimbabwe - Mugabe wants to hang White Politician Roy Bennett
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [Robert Mugabe absolutely hates Roy Bennett. Bennett is a wealthy white farmer who is extremely popular among black people who then voted him in as a member of parliament. Bennett is a strong characte (By News Poster)...More Farm murders in South Africa in 2009 than soldiers deaths in Afghanistan
Friday 13-Nov-2009: [A good friend of mine sent me his thoughts below. He refers to a top notch Afrikaans newspaper, DIE BEELD. They not only murder white farmers but also the blacks who work for them. In Zimbabwe, Mugab (By Jan)...HIV/Aids and Africa's Military - Are We Winning This War? [Opinion]
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Azad EssaIn this paper, Azad Essa explores the extent to which Africa's military has been affected by HIV/AIDS. He outlines the varied responses from Africa's armed forces, with a specific focus on (By News Poster)...[video]Geert Wilders: Warning to America
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: What a brave man! The Dutch have long been a very liberal people, and if even they are starting to wake up to the menace, its then that one knows things are really going bad. The last leader to be so (By JanOlifant)...History: The Bizarre story of Strong White Women in Ancient Europe.... especially the Germans
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Here is something to ponder over. I am sure most of you have heard the story of Spartan Mothers who would say to their son something along the lines of: "Here's your shield, return with it or retu (By Jan)...Africa: Africa - Donors Retreating On Aids
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - "After almost a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment we have seen substantial improvements, both for patients and public health. But recent funding cuts mean doctors and n (By News Poster)...[Afrikaans] Die nuwe Suid-Afrika (deel 3/3)
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Bly of gly? SA se toekoms lyk donker Deur Heinrich B Zaayman Al die streke van die ANC-regering in die verlede, insluitende Thabo Mbeki se rassepolitiek, begin vaal en onskuldig lyk teen die hu (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Bloody Justice
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: They planned their attack meticulously. The first robber - the domestic worker - was already at the Lenasia house. Two more would enter the house's adjoining surgery under the guise that their female (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dead, despite interdict on cops
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Fred KockottBefore he died in a hail of police bullets, kwaMaphumulo taxi boss Bongani Mkhize made one of the most startling interventions in the annals of South African law.He secured a High Court (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers Sample What Libya Offers
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - CHARL Senekal holds up a clod of Libyan soil and lets it trickle through his fingers. Behind him endless rows of neglected olive trees stretch into the distance. "This place is easy to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai's Terrifying Gamble
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Mary NdlovuA season of fear has returned to Zimbabwe and it is unlikely that the patchwork performed on the fraying coalition government will reverse its impact, at least not in the short run.Unlaw (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Seize Arms-Laden Cargo Ship
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Suspected pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship carrying weapons bound for war-torn Somalia, a regional maritime official revealed on Sunday.Andrew Mwangura, the head of East A (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I knew I was going to be raped'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterAllegedly raped in a police station toilet, turned away from laying a charge at another police station and then refused help by a district surgeon - a Pretoria mother is (By News Poster)...South Africa: President Admits Country's Crime is Most Violent
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - President Jacob Zuma yesterday became the first South African head of state to acknowledge that crime in SA was the most violent in the world while justifying changes to (By News Poster)...South Africa: War pilot pensioner beaten to death
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Greame HoskensCrime ReporterA Pretoria pensioner, who fought and survived both World War 2 and the Korean War as a fighter pilot, was found bludgeoned to death at his home.Frans Swemmer, 89, was fo (By News Poster)...Kenya: How Independence Era Leaders Laid Their Hands On Lands of 60,000 Quitting Whites
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: [As best I recall, at one time, 60,000 whites were living in the highlands of Kenya. They turned it into heaven on Earth. The blacks came and destroyed everything. They dynamited the farm houses, etc. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kazini Killed
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Steven CandiaKampala - Kazini's lover Draru who told court she killed the General; Major General Kazini was hit in the head early in the morningLover hits former army commander on the headFORMER ar (By News Poster)...Zim: Hey Robert Mugabe, All us Rhodesians would like to kill you...
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Dear Robert Mugabe, Just a little message to you from a Rhodesian. All of us to a man, would like to put a bullet through your head. Best Regards, Jan Lamprecht, A Rhodesian. I could not (By Jan)...S.Africa: God please help us! Our Police are shooting Civilians now - My Anti-theft device...
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: I am really concerned about the never-ending crime. I was saying to my Liberal friend that I think the bottom line is that President Zuma's attempts at solving the crime war are failing. Of course, th (By Jan)...Rwanda: Another Genocide Fugitive Arrested in Canada
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Felly KimenyiBarely a fortnight after a Canadian court slammed a life sentence on Desire Munyaneza for his role in the 1994 Genocide, Canadian police on Friday arrested Jacques Mungwarere another G (By News Poster)...Uganda: Was Kazini Plotting to Overthrow Museveni?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Observer TeamKampala - Maj. Gen. James Bunanukye Kazini is perhaps the only General of the UPDF who has fought in every single major war--internal and external--since President Museveni captured po (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two women held in drug bust at school
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterTwo Pretoria women were arrested for allegedly selling nyaope to primary school children in Hebron near Mabopane.The women were arrested yesterday after police from the (By News Poster)...Rising Star Rapper Killed in Petrol Station Attack
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Kwaito star Mingo Touch, popular for his hit, Tsotsi, is bearing multiple stab wounds on his face and back after he was attacked by gangsters near Zola (Old Naledi) in an incident that also left his r (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I have ejector seat failure'
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Lynnette Johns, Sam Clark, Andrew Ingram and Ian WilliamsAt first no one realised the seriousness of test pilot Dave Stock's predicament.Just before noon yesterday thousands of spectators at the bi (By News Poster)...Africa: South Africa, Going Zimbabwe's Way
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Owei LakemfaSOUTH Africa has again postponed the target date of its land reform programme. In its post apartheid election manifesto, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had promised to redis (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SA-Zimbabwe Treaty 'Excludes Expropriated Farms'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - THE compromise clause in the bilateral investment agreement between Zimbabwe and SA, due to be signed in Harare on November 27, provided security of tenure for all e (By News Poster)...Africa: Is Africa selling out its farmers?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Barry Malone and Ed CropleyBako, Ethiopia/Johannesburg - For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia's central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barl (By News Poster)...Uganda: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity, High Prices
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Faridah KulabakoThe shilling is appreciating against the US dollar but food is scarce and food prices continue to soar abnormally overturning the belief that Uganda is the food basket for the regio (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (12-11-2009)
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Howzit Please be aware that there will be no posting tomorrow... -o00o- The situation in Zimbabwe doesn't ever seem to change. Each day we read of abuses, arrests, abductions and then we hear (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa: Consider Gas for cooking - it may be cheaper than electricity - My excellent CADAC experience
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: A friend of mine in the Eastern Cape was telling me that gas may well be cheaper to use for cooking than electricity. I've been looking into it more and more and this is a viable option. In fact, (By Jan)...USA: EXCELLENT: Black Washington sniper executed - My Comments
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [Good stuff. I've seen many programs about this guy and how he engineered this. He was very clever I might add, but what he did was hideous planning these killings. I'm delighted that the scumbag was (By News Poster)...South Africa: Be very afraid of trigger-happy cops: experts
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Consider a scenario of a trigger-happy police force getting out of hand before crime does.Many a South African is somewhat scared of this happening, said crime expert Johan Burger this week. "One al (By News Poster)...Ghana: Police Winning War Against Armed Robbery
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By George Kyei Frimpong And Mashahudu Ankiilu KunatehKofi Afoakwa, aka Kofi Rasta, alias Not Nice , Weapons and ammunition retrieved from the homes of the suspectsThe Ghana Police Service (GPS) has ma (By News Poster)...Africa: Pirates seize weapons ship, attack another
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Abdi GuledSomali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a UN arms embargo, maritime exper (By News Poster)...Explaining Globalism: Fragile Democracy - The real reason NAZISM and RACISM are feared as evil...
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: The more I study history the more fascinating it becomes. The same old threads run through history. Nothing is new. Everything has been tried, in all sorts of combinations before. There is a lot of (By Jan)...Safari Lodges Use Local Women As Sex Slaves - Report
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Isaiah MorewagaeA report by international trade unions has revealed that some Batswana women are forced to provide sexual services to tourists at some safari lodges.The International Trade Union Co (By News Poster)...Two Top Cops Guilty On Theft Charges
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesTHE suspended Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police's Special Branch, Commissioner Neromba Lotti Uusiku, and a former high-ranking colleague, Joseph Kamati, were both convicted as (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Challenges of Allocating 10 Percent Federal Govt Equity Stakeholding in Oil Companies to Oil Producing Communities
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Emmanuel OjameruayeOne of the most significant dividends of the Amnesty Deal is the reported plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FG) to allocate 10 per cent of its equity stakeholding in the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Crisis Deepens at Country's Power Utility
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE crisis at Eskom deepened yesterday with board chairman Bobby Godsell resigning and citing lack of support from the government in the fiasco over CEO Jacob Maroga's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trigger-happy cops a tricky issue
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Schalk Mouton Consider a scenario of a trigger-happy police force getting out of hand before crime does.Many a South African is somewhat scared of this happening, said crime expert Johan Burger thi (By News Poster)...Africa: China is Not Trying to Colonise Africa-Envoy
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Brian BenzaThe 4th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be convened next week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, some African heads (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rhodie Shadow in MDC-T's Front Office
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Tafataona MahosoHarare - IN the African Focus column of October 25, 2009 in The Sunday Mail, this writer said that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's announcement of a partial pullout from the incl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Collateral damage is unavoidable - Mbalula
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: It is unavoidable that civilians will die in the crossfire between police and criminals, Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said as government on Thursday vowed to change the law to encourage poli (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Creates Safety Net by Diversifying Economy
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Nelly NyagahThe DRC with an estimated population of 65 million has the second largest land area in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is rich in natural and human resources and in need of foreign direct invest (By News Poster)...Today is Rhodesian Independence day... remember 11th November 1965...
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: I thought, in the light of Robert Mugabe's unending fear of the rise of Rhodesia from the ashes of his rotten Zimbabwe, that I'd remind everyone this is also 11th November. On this day in 1965, 44 yea (By Jan)...S.Africa: My former Liberal Girl-friend: Life is hard for Whites...
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: I used to have a girlfriend whom I was utterly crazy over. But she was a Roman Catholic and she was very Liberal in her outlook and she was a firm President Mbeki supporter. When it came to politi (By Jan)...Party Manifestos - Land and Agriculture
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichLAND and agriculture are key sectors in Namibia - agriculture is the largest employer in the economy with over 50 000 people directly and indirectly employed.It is thus no surprise (By News Poster)...N$250 Million for Additional Diesel Plant At Walvis
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE power utility NamPower has awarded an N$250 million tender for an emergency electrical power capacity at Walvis Bay to Barloworld Namibia.The additional 21,5 megawatt (MW) will (By News Poster)...[Afrikaans] Die nuwe Suid-Afrika (deel 2)
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Die wit newels van waansin Deur Heinrich B Zaayman Terwyl die Polisie om jou rondskarrel om leidrade te probeer vind, sit jy op die stoep in die son, op ‘n snikhete Desember-oggend onder ‘n ko (By JanOlifant)...Ethiopia: West Oppresses Ethiopia Through Zenawi Support
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Alemayehu G. Mariam'No alternative in the opposition,' they whispered anonymously. What a disgusting phrase to use in justifying support for a ruthless dictatorship.That is apparently the scuttlebu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops mum on mall security details
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Despite police promising that security will be beefed up during the festive season, especially at malls, they are reluctant to say how much manpower and what plans are in place.The response is the sam (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lobola killing: Murderer sentenced
Friday 13-Nov-2009: A 36-year-old man hired to kill a pensioner following a family dispute over lobola was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.Khulekani Vincent Mabaso (By News Poster)...World: Suicide bomber hits market
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Charsadda, Pakistan - A suicide car bomb tore through a crowded shopping street in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 32 people in the third militant attack to strike the nuclear-armed country in as many da (By News Poster)...Muslim Terrorists...Using A Similar Excuse As Black Liberators?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [With Communists who backed the black "liberators" of Africa, it was "racism". With self-describe Muslim terrorists such as the recent Fort Hood massacre, it was "Islamophobia" which made concern to (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Zuma: police do not have licence to kill
Friday 13-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma said on Friday that the police did not have a licence to kill. "I have noted continuing media reports about the use of force by the police, which has at times led to the tragic lo (By News Poster)...Renamo Displays Voter Cards As 'Proof of Fraud'
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Friday presented a stack of what it claimed were 950 voter cards of people who had not been allowed to vote in the northern district of Angoche (By News Poster)...[Afrikaans] Die nuwe Suid-Afrika (deel 1)
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Hierdie blog poog om 'n kroniek te wees van die ekstreme geweld en geheime volksmoord wat gepleeg word teen die blanke minderheidsgroep van Suid-Afrika. Tien duisende blankes is alreeds vermoor sedert (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Amnesty Approach to Niger Delta Crisis
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Moyibi AmodaLagos - THIS piece is an appreciation of the amnesty approach to the Niger Delta Crisis. An amnesty approach to security, politics and conflicts is a legal approach. An amnesty is a gen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South Africa Farmers to Receive No Protection From Own Government
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Alex BellA new bilateral investment protection treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa, that is set to be signed later this month, will exclude farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe re (By News Poster)...Science: Is Monsanto the answer or the problem?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Carey GillamSt Louis - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technolog (By News Poster)...USA: AMAZING: A better investment than Gold! How the Colt Peacemaker outshone gold...
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [This is quite amazing. Who would have thought that a firearm is a sound investment? Jan] By John Ittner Nov 5, 2009 13:27:00 (ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- There is an old and apocryphal sayin (By Jan)...Africa: Giant Buys a Lamb
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Mahmud JegaAbuja - Up until the 1950s, British schoolmasters made the pupils in this country's schools to read a book that easily reflected the Europeans' condescending attitude towards both Africa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma spy-tape report mystery - My Comments - ANC abuse of State Organs
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [The bottom line, as I told a friend of mine the one day is really simple: The ANC abuses its powers. All the organs of Govt are used and abused for ANC purposes. The ANC will sneak out information to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbers shoot pastor, 77
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Mpume MadlalaHorrified shoppers in Durban were stopped in their tracks when a 77-year old pastor on his way to deposit church takings was shot and robbed by two balaclava-clad gunmen.The pastor and (By News Poster)...Bah, More Noam Chomsky's Treason: Accuses U.S. Foreign Policy Of Being 'Mafia' Like
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: [This hypocrite has indeed no problem of Communists having a mafia-like mentality toward anyone who they disagree with. Aside from that, Chomsky is also pretending to be an anarchist too: (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Gang war over drugs hots up
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyAt least 16 people have been killed and 39 wounded in two months in a drug and turf war which is fuelling gang violence across the province.In a desperate effort to put an end to the at (By News Poster)...Africa: Economic Crisis Takes Centre Stage at African Economic Conference
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: The African Economic Conference (AEC) opened on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Launched by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in November 2006 in collabora (By News Poster)...Africa: Climate Change Boosts Need for Policies to Support African Farmers
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its priorities and programs are (By News Poster)...Party Manifestos - Crime and Safety
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Christof MaletskyTHE silly season, or politics of promises, as others know it, has seen different political parties making a myriad of promises to Namibian voters over the past couple of months.Wit (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Emulate China, Says President
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Mabasa SasaSharm El-Sheikh - CHINA'S partnership with Africa provides the best example of how countries should relate globally at the economic, political and cultural levels, President Mugabe has s (By News Poster)...Elections - How Serious Was Vote Tampering?
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Paul FavetWhen, on Wednesday, the President of the National Elections Commission (CNE), Joao Leopoldo da Costa, announced the results of the Mozambican general elections held on 28 October, he admi (By News Poster)...Opinion: Zuma Must Tell South Africans Where He Stands
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Allister SparksOUR country badly needs clear leadership. The silence at the top while cacophony rages in the ranks below is causing confusion and uncertainty. There is a sense of drift in the air.O (By News Poster)...Kenya: How Land Deals of the Early 1960s Came to Haunt the Country During Poll Chaos
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By John KamauNairobi - When chaos erupted in the Rift Valley shortly after the controversial 2007 Presidential vote tally, the land question became the bone of contention.But why did settlement scheme (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Corruption Can Only Be Defeated by Its Victim'
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Adeyinka Olumide-FusikaDr Sam Amadi has made a very good presentation on the theme of this second in the series of the Annual Law and Social Development Lecture organized by Bamidele Aturu & Co. an (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Turning a Blind Eye to Killing And Rape in DR Congo
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Navi PillayIn a debate that ended a few hours ago, the United Nations Security Council discussed the pressing, but still elusive issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict.Accountability fo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Push for Routine Offers of HIV Tests
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Tamar KahnCape Town - Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is pushing for a radical change in SA's approach to HIV testing, proposing that doctors and nurses routinely offer screening to all their pati (By News Poster)...South Africa: Innocent deaths 'unavoidable': Mbalula
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: It is unavoidable that innocent civilians will get shot in the crossfire between police and criminals, Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Thursday, as he defended plans to give officers gre (By News Poster)...Africa: Pirates seize ship carrying weapons
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Abdi Guled and Abdi SheikhMogadishu - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a Uni (By News Poster)...Uganda: LRA - Obstacle to Peace
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Tony OkeraforOnce upon a time, a military coup took place in the East African nation of Uganda, during the reign of returnee president, Milton Oboteh. That was in the early 1980's. General Tito Ork (By News Poster)...South Africa: Treasury is Right to Be Fussy About Land Reform
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - EVERY time director-general of land reform Thozi Gwanya gets up in Parliament these days he complains his department doesn't have enough money to meet the governmen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe Gov Cites Noam Chomsky For 'Western Propaganda'
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [Isn't this "coincidence"? Those Communists controlling the Zimbabwean government seem to LOVE Chomsky's propaganda. Chomsky's propaganda happily promotes the genocidal government of Robert Mugabe. (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Cop allegedly shoots three-year-old
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Gallery: Three-year-old shot dead in MidrandBy Poloko TauA single gunshot through the window of a parked car, and a three-year-old boy was dead. The shooter: a police constable.Atlegang Phalane, 3, w (By News Poster)...USA: The Global Economic Meltdown: Gold-heavy 'gold' funds are best in a crisis
Friday 13-Nov-2009: [Here is an interesting article. I am reading that the Gold supply IS RUNNING OUT. I am sitting here and wondering if we won't be seeing the greatest Gold "Super-boom" in history over the next 10-20 y (By Jan)...Uganda: Does Oil Hinder Democratic Development?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Prof KasoziKampala - IN a bid to stimulate the debate on Uganda's newly discovered oil and the sharing of the oil wealth, Business Vision runs a series of articles by Professor Kasozi, the director (By News Poster)...Ban the Observers, Demands Dhlakama
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Maputo - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has demanded that the Electoral Observatory, the main grouping of domestic election observers, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Insecurity - As Govt Plans Rescue Mission
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Tunde SanniLagos - Nigeria is presently burdened. The burden of assuring the world that in spite of its rich and abundant soil complemented with reasonable rainfall all year round, it is not being (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Are We Losing the Debate?
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Simon KolawoleLagos - Definitely, one debate that has been going back and forth in the last 24 or so years is on the so-called "fuel subsidy". The debate always generates passion and pain. It has l (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Soldiers Tortured to Death in Custody
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThere is rising tension in the Zimbabwe National Army after a number of senior officers allegedly died from torture whilst in military detention.The Herald reported on Wednesday tha (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Criminal when cops shoot a child'
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Poloko TauIt was "pure criminality" when police shot a street vendor or a three-year-old child, National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele's spokeswoman said yesterday.Nonkululeko Mbatha was reacting (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Gen. Nyamvumba Decries Logistical Mismatches Within Darfur Mission
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Kigali - Lt. Gen. Patrick Nyamvumba is the current overall Commander of the United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur, a peace keeping force overseeing a shaky ceasefire in the war torn Sudanese (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pardon could be Zuma's gift to Shaik
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Opposition political parties will be outraged if President Jacob Zuma grants a full pardon to his friend, fraudster Schabir Shaik.But, as speculation mounts that this is exactly what the president wil (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Cost of Tik Addiction
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Phakamile MagamdelaFor full media and transcript, click hereDrug use in general can be a costly habit. Richard, who recently discovered the highly addictive Tik, has learned this the hard way.Becau (By News Poster)...A Step Beyond: Confessions of a shoplifter
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Diana AppleyardMost women will be familiar with the feelings that Melissa Marshall is expressing so eloquently.Like most of us, she loves to shop. She admits she gets a physical high from the ritua (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA longest-active serial killer jailed
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Louise FlanaganDetective Inspector Fernando Luis dug through 21-year-old police case files to put behind bars the country's longest-active serial killer.This week, the Kimberley High Court sentenc (By News Poster)...Africa: Bid to Merge Three Trading Blocs Faces Disparity Threat
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Allan OdhiamboRelative advancement of Kenya, South Africa and Egypt's economies has emerged as one of the leading threats to the merger of three African trading blocs, trade experts said, citing po (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Great Gold Robbery
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Steve ManteawAccra - It just doesn't add up, but that appears to be the case - Ghana is subsidizing the operations of mining companies to the tune of GHC146 million, at a time when world gold price (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijackers target women
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Annie Dorasamy and Masood BoomgaardAn attempted hijack in which a Parkgate mother was shot in the face this week has highlighted the increasing number of women targeted in their driveways.The 40-ye (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Racist' DA must shut up: ANCYL
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: The ANC Youth League on Tuesday called on the DA to "shut up", claiming the party's complaints about security for its president Julius Malema were rooted in racism."The statements released by right wi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fresh Hope As Zuma Takes Over As Mediator
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - There is renewed optimism that Zimbabwe's on and off coalition government will be rescued after a regional body asked South African President Jacob Zuma to step in as the n (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation, Weep For My Country!
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Peter EseleLagos - We have proved over and over again that we are a nation that does not plan for tomorrow. Since 1990, the Nigeria economy has expanded and the population has grown, but it is now (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Do Not Have a Licence to Kill - Zuma
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma on Friday reiterated that no police officer has permission to shoot suspects in circumstances other than those provided for by law."The law does not give the police a l (By News Poster)...Uganda: Security Hunts for Somali Terrorists
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Milton OlupotKampala - SECURITY is investigating reports that a number of Al Shabaab Islamists have entered the country following their threat to strike Kampala and Bujumbura last month.Sources wit (By News Poster)...Ghana: Mills Cheating Cocoa Farmers
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Issah Alhassan, Linda Kotey and Stephen Odoi LarbiThe member of Parliament (MP) for the Kwadaso constituency in Kumasi, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has sternly criticised the government of the Nationa (By News Poster)...World: Danish calls for help on gang war
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Copenhagen - Picturesque Copenhagen, renowned for its fairytale palaces and Little Mermaid, has for more than a year been the scene of a full-blown gang war that the government admits it is powerless (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill not goverment policy - Zuma
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Caiphus Kgosana Political BureauPresident Jacob Zuma has warned that police don't have a licence to kill, and the secretary of police has pointed out that police killings of civilians were on the i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farm Labour Shortage Threatens Food Production
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Harare - An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money (By News Poster)...Five Arrested on Cocaine Charges
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Werner Menges and Luqman CloeteA MOZAMBICAN national and four South Africans are in Namibian prisons after they were arrested last week on cocaine smuggling charges involving a combined more than s (By News Poster)...Africa: Mercenaries from SA 'training' Guinea rebels
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Joe LauriaA Western diplomat has corroborated French media reports that mercenaries from South Africa are training forces loyal to the coup leader in Guinea.The diplomat, who has been briefed on th (By News Poster)...CNE Denounces Vote Tampering
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Maputo - The chairperson of Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), Joao Leopoldo da Costa, on Wednesday admitted that the general elections of 28 October were marred by the deliberate inval (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett case stokes tensions in Harare halls
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I landed on one of the motionless bodies'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Irene KuppanWhile Zimbabwean national Eugene Madondo told the Durban Regional Court how he was forced out of a fifth-floor window to land on top of a lifeless body on the pavement below, city counc (By News Poster)...South Africa: I don't know numbers - Selebi
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Alex EliseevJackie Selebi denied knowing his "friend" Glenn Agliotti's phone number when asked for it by the police investigating Brett Kebble's murder - for which Agliotti was la (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ports Official Loses Bail Bid
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Abdulwahab Abdulah, Gbenga Akanmu and Ifeanyi OkolieLagos - EFFORTS of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George, and five others, to secure bail from an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gang violence feared in Atlantis
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyMore gang violence is feared in Atlantis after a gangster brazenly walked up to a man outside the Magistrate's Court there and shot him in the face.At least five people have been killed (By News Poster)...South Africa: Seven robbers slain in depot shootout
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Alex EliseevNot since the 2006 Jeppestown massacre had paramedics from ER24 come across such a bloodbath. Responding to a shooting in Nirvana, Polokwane, they found seven bodies scattered inside a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops have become trigger-happy - most readers
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Ainsley DanielsA three-year-old was killed by a policeman while sitting in the backseat of his father's vehicle.This is the third incident whereby innocent civilians are killed by policemen after N (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mob justice claims another life
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Sherlissa PetersPietermaritzburg police are again calling for calm and urging people not to take the law into their own hands after yet another vigilante justice attack this weekend.On Saturday, on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Central Banker Must Go, Says Region
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaHarare - A SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) ministerial team that assessed the implementation of Zimbabwe's troubled power-sharing arrangement recommended that Reserv (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversial acne drug available in SA
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Gill Gifford and Los Angeles TimesWhile Americans have witnessed the sudden disappearance of blockbuster acne drug Accutane - the drug marketed locally as Roaccutane - South Africans have no reason (By News Poster)...South Africa: Victory for Soldiers Living With HIV
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - SA's AIDS lobby won a major victory last week when the Cabinet approved a new policy allowing the military to selectively recruit and deploy soldiers living with HIV. But critics say th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Lend to Farmers, Banks Told
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Victoria Ruzvidzo and Walter MuchinguriHarare - Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono yesterday read the riot act to banks for their continued reluctance to lend to the productive sector (By News Poster)...South Africa: First Uranium's New Deal With Wheaton Will Ensure Stability
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - GOLD and uranium miner First Uranium has entered into a second financing transaction with Gold Wheaton, which will help to cushion its gold production against future (By News Poster)...World: Abu Sayyaf survives crackdown
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Manila - The beheading of a kidnap victim is the latest proof that a small number of Islamic militants in the Philippines are defying a sustained US-backed military campaign to extinguish them, observ (By News Poster)...'People Who Buy Furniture Aren't Preparing For War'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party has dismissed as mere bluster the threat by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, that "Mozambique will burn", unless the 28 October g (By News Poster)...South Africa: Heist horror: KZN still 'in safe hands'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Mercury ReportersGangs have carried out two attacks, killing a security guard in one, as KwaZulu-Natal's new police commissioner has assured the public of a "safe" festive season. The guard was sho (By News Poster)...South Africa: Former top official gunned down
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Sibusiso Mboto Pietermaritzburg BureauA former top KwaZulu-Natal public servant was gunned down at the weekend as he came to his wife's rescue from armed robbers who entered their farm home near Ho (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema heckles Mantashe
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Tensions at the alliance summit threatened to overshadow policy discussions as unhappiness among ANC leaders about the left's influence led to fierce exchanges between youth league leader Julius Malem (By News Poster)...Kalafati's Friend Fears for His Life?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiTshepho Mosala, a close friend of the late John Kalafatis, has gone into hiding because his life is under threat from security agents, a Gaborone lawyer has revealed.Following Kal (By News Poster)...South Africa: Time's up for most wanted
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Gallery: Gang member nabbed after high-speed chaseBy Alex EliseevAs the bullets tore through the silver Mercedes-Benz, Kelvin Ludidi had no other option but to jump out of the moving vehicle and try (By News Poster)...Zambia: Media Face Beatings and Attacks
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Kelvin KachingweLusaka - When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president's return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopp (By News Poster)...Chomsky Lauds Turkey's Entrance Into The EU
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [How hypocritical is it for Noam Chomsky to criticize Israel for being "genocidal" but doesn't mind with siding with Turkey? When it comes to its treatment of Kurds and Armenians? How is it right Ch (By Lone Wolf)...World: Medvedev seeks change
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Guy FaulconbridgeMoscow - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia needed to embrace sweeping reforms to become a modern world power, but warned the opposition against sowing chaos in (By News Poster)...South Africa: White police allege discrimination
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A predominately white South African trade union accused the government on Thursday of putting racial job quotas ahead of fighting crime.The Solidarity union has filed applications in the Labour Court (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Country?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Chidi AmutaLagos - Nigerians may not all agree on so much else. But the crisis wracking the entire system is exerting such universal toll in terms of economic casualties that we all now are in trem (By News Poster)...South Africa: Metro cop, robbery suspect hurt in shoot-out
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A Johannesburg metro police officer was shot in the abdomen and a suspected robber in the leg during a shootout in Randburg on Thursday morning.Senior Superintendent Noxolo Kweza, a police spokeswoman (By News Poster)...World: 'I'm looking to be a martyr for long time'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Washington - The alleged 9/11 mastermind and four co-accused will be tried in a civilian court in New York just blocks from where al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Centre, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Bigwigs Battle for Posts
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Faith ZabaHarare - THE succession race has reached fever pitch ahead of the selection of candidates for the Zanu PF presidium this weekend, with four names surfacing for the two vice-presidents' po (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rape victim 'threatened'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterThe battle for justice for a Pretoria woman allegedly raped by a Rustenburg policeman hit another hurdle yesterday when a State prosecutor apparently refused to place th (By News Poster)...Africa: Legitimating Common Property and the Nobel Prize
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Korir Sing'oeiMuch time has already been spent in justifying or dismissing President Obama's selection for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. In contrast, little attention has been paid to the other No (By News Poster)...Africa: African Economic Conference Considers Prospects for Re-Launching Africa's Development
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Tunis - The 11-13 November Conference, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on the theme "Fostering Development in an Era of Fina (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Electricity Robin Hood' caught in the act
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Kneeling in front of an electricity box grappling with a mass of wires, Walter Khumalo is on the front line of an intensifying battle between South African suppliers and those trying to steal power.As (By News Poster)...South Africa: Union slams security measures for Malema
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: The weekend murder of former senior government official Warwick Dorning seriously questions the ruling party's selective security arrangements for its cadres, the trade union Hospersa said on Monday.A (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Build Cohesion in Divided Societies, Urges U.S. Envoy
Monday 09-Nov-2009: The American government’s new special adviser on the Great Lakes region, Howard Wolpe, comes to the post with the best part of three decades’ experience in the Africa policies of U.S. admi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Embattled Chegutu Farmer Takes Aim at PM Over Land Seizures
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Alex BellBeleaguered Chegutu farmer Ben Freeth has written yet another appeal to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, to urgently intervene in the ongoing land invasions across the country.The letter (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rain a threat to food prices
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Bronwynne Jooste and Fouzia van der FortStaff ReportersRecord rainfalls and widespread crop damage caused by severe drought in the Western Cape are threatening to drive up food prices, force farms (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man died after mob attack - police
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A 48-year-old man was killed in a mob justice attack in Zingcuka village outside Centane, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.Captain Jackson Manatha said community members descended on the man at noon (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Proposes Public Consent for Land Sale in Africa
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - A new report by the United Nations has called for curbs on the way that large tracts of land across sub Saharan Africa are being bought up by countries in the Far East and the (By News Poster)...Africa: Eleven killed in clan violence
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Skye WheelerJuba, Sudan - Tribal revenge attacks have killed 11 people in south Sudan, halting registration in the area for the first multi-party election in 24 years, officials said on Thursday.Su (By News Poster)...Uganda: Shock As Gen. Kazini is Murdered
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Rodney MuhumuzaMaj. Gen. James Kazini was yesterday morning found dead in a two-bedroom house in Namuwongo, the apparent victim of an iron bar smashed against the back of his head. The former army (By News Poster)...World: 'North Korea may retaliate'
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Seoul - South Korea's military was on alert on Wednesday for any retaliatory moves after a North Korean patrol boat was set ablaze in a naval clash, as Washington warned Pyongyang against escalating t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Petrol Subsidy is a Waste of Resources - Obi
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Mrs Nkechi Obi is the Managing Director, Techno Oil Limited, a significant player in the downstream sector of the oil industry. In this interview with Vanguard's Yemie Adeoye she speaks on infrastruct (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Mr Macintosh, you've got me'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Alex EliseevWhen the alleged leader of the notorious Razor Gang escaped from court in September, Inspector Bruce Macintosh made a promise to Bronwyn Paterson. No matter how long it would take, he w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Witness details meetings with Selebi
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Former police chief Jackie Selebi met several times with private security consultants where the possibility of using their services for the police was discussed, the High Court in Johannesburg heard o (By News Poster)...Comet-Watcher Murder Suspects Lose Trial Date
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesTHE trial of three men who are accused of murdering a Windhoek resident during an armed robbery that brought a comet-watching outing to a deadly end in early 2007 could not start as pl (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: After his Release, Simon Mann Seeks Revenge and a Book Deal
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release (By News Poster)...!Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-11-2009)
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. Okay, so there was a little disruption over the last few days as I sorted out my fife medically and otherwise - and, once again, this Friday, there wil (By The BeardedMan)...Kenya: Kenya Warned Against Courting Militia
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - Kenya could be sucked into the Somalia conflict unless the recruitment of youths to take part in the war stops, analysts have warned.Rashid Abdi, the Horn of Africa analyst (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent in the Global Carbon Trade
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Kristin PalitzaCape Town - Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Based on what s (By News Poster)...Mugabe Should 'Take a Slow Boat to China'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Faatimah HendricksCape Town - When Zimbabweans were being attacked and killed in political violence, a little-known South African musician was inspired to act by the stories she heard from refugees (By News Poster)...World: 'Devious' teen pleads guilty to rape
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to a catalogue of abuse against the five-year-old, including rape and child abduction.The attack happened eight days after he was (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Returns to Cabinet After Boycott
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a cabinet meeting on Wednesday following their 're-engagement' with ZANU PF.The MDC leader last week Thursday (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How to End Crude Oil Theft, By Bankole
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole yesterday decried the daily loss of revenue from crude oil as a result of the activities of illegal oil bunkering g (By News Poster)...Africa: Somali gunmen evade naval forces
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - Somali pirates seized a Greek cargo ship and a Yemeni fishing boat in the latest attacks demonstrating their ability to evade international naval forces, gunmen and officials (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Brothel' drama: First shooting, then suicide
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Nikita SylvesterStaff ReporterA man who shot a 17-year-old girl in the face turned the gun on himself and committed suicide after he was chased from the crime scene in Goodwood by an off-duty polic (By News Poster)...Science: SA plans biggest HIV campaign
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: South Africa is to stage the world's largest HIV and Aids counselling and testing campaign as the government embarks on a huge drive to contain the disease that is decimating the population.Health Min (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Trial of Genocide 'Bankroller' Begins in Belgium
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - The trial of Genocide suspect Ephraim Nkezabera, nicknamed the "Banker to the Genocide", yesterday began in Belgium but in his absence as a result of an alleged terminal illne (By News Poster)...South Africa: House party rape: Police constable arrested
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Lavern de VriesCrime WriterA Mitchells Plain constable has been arrested in connection with the rape of a colleague at a party at the home of a reservist in the area. Police spokesperson Inspector (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bring Back GMB Inputs Scheme
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Harare - Developments within the agricultural sector are worrying, especially with reports that very few farmers are on schedule with their land preparations.There are real problems out there as farme (By News Poster)...World: Fire at indoor shooting range kills ten
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Seoul, South Korea - A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said.Some pe (By News Poster)...World: 9/11 attack was a 'a noble victory'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By BEN FOXGuantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba - Alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed calls the September 11 attack a "noble victory" and President Barack Obama a liar in a letter released b (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Anatomy of Corruption
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Dele MomoduLagos - There is no better time than now to examine the socio-political dynamics of corruption in Nigeria. The landmark judgment handed down to some bigwigs of the ruling party last Mond (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijack suspect dead, two wounded in shootout
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Dasen ThathiahA man suspected of hijacking was killed and two others were injured in a shootout with police in Newlands West on Tuesday night.Minutes before the firefight, devotees at a nearby temp (By News Poster)...World: Fort Hood suspect refuses to talk
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Jeremy Pelofsky and Adam EntousWashington - US intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al-Qaeda and that the information was relayed to authorities b (By News Poster)...South Africa: ECape man killed in mob attack
Monday 09-Nov-2009: A 48-year-old man was killed in a mob justice attack in Zingcuka village outside Centane, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.Captain Jackson Manatha said community members descended on the man at noon (By News Poster)...Party Promises Won't Stop Crime
Monday 09-Nov-2009: NAMIBIANS were once again shocked this week to hear the news of the brutal killing of a radiographer at the hands of her boyfriend at the Nurses' Home in Katutura.In a separate incident the head of a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Merchant Navy Tasks Federal Govt On Illegal Importation of Arms, Oil Bunkering
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Catherine AgboAbuja - Nigerian Merchant Navy has called on President Umaru Yar'Adua to look more closely into the activities of the Nigerian Navy, particularly on issues of illegal importation of i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Imo State And the Amnesty Package
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Peter Claver OparahIhad no intention of mentioning this fact but circumstances are forcing me to do so.When Imo and Abia States were mischievously left out of the benefits that naturally should com (By News Poster)...Nigeria: November 9, 1989
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Kayode KomolafeLagos - It is tempting to be immersed in reflections on day-to-day problems and lose sight of global currents as they shape those issues with which we are pre-occupied. You may right (By News Poster)...World: Obama mourns alongside Texas families
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Fort Hood, Texas - United States President Barack Obama said no faith could justify the Fort Hood rampage, in an poignant address on Tuesday eulogising victims of accused gunman, Major Nidal Hasan, a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Officials pass buck on Malema speeding case
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Political BureauDeputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin says it is up to the Limpopo authorities to decide whether charges will be laid over the speeding incident involving ANC Youth League preside (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: KP Gives Green Light On Diamonds
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - Zimbabwe can continue mining diamonds under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme after the 70-member international diamond trade body accepted that Zimbabwe was reformi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged robber shoots himself in crotch
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Barry BatemanA Queenswood man who gunned down a robber at his father's home has pinned his level head and sharp shooting on the competency tests done when obtaining a firearm. The robbery in Edgehi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister's Lawyers Can Raise Torture Charges - Court
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Harare - DEFENCE lawyers for Deputy Agriculture Minister-designate Roy Bennett can raise torture allegations at his trial, a judge ruled yesterday in a case that has shaken Zimbabwe's troubled coaliti (By News Poster)...Science: 'This cancer disease is worse than malaria'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Katrina MansonDar Es Salaam - So crammed is Tanzania's only cancer treatment centre that Rukia Kondogoza, wrapped in bright kanga cloth, has to share her bed with another patient.A farmer from the (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Help Sex Workers, Says Senator
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Mantoe PhakathiMbabane - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senat (By News Poster)...Military's HIV Ban Unlawful
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - South Africa's High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the military's exclusion of HIV-positive people from recruitment, promotion and foreign deployment is unconstitutional."This case is (By News Poster)...Red Chinese Leader Promotes Cairo Speech To Appease Muslims
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [Why does it seem even a totalitarian nation like Communist China is even afraid of "upsetting" the Islamic World here? Lone Wolf.] China PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo speech By Jailan Zay (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Look to Donors As Disastrous Season Looms - Conseqences of Kicking out the White Farmers - My Comments
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: [So the Mugabe chased the whites out of Zimbabwe and he said: "What's so special about the whites? Can only they farm? Can't blacks farm too?" Well, its now 9 years later, and apparently the answe (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim union boss freed
Friday 13-Nov-2009: The head of Zimbabwe's national labour movement, detained for four days for holding an "illegal meeting", has been freed after a magistrate told the police that they have no right to interfere with un (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Slow Boat to China'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Faatimah HendricksCape Town - When Zimbabweans were being attacked and killed in political violence, a little-known South African musician was inspired to act by the stories she heard from refugees (By News Poster)...Somali Pirates Launch New Series of Attacks
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Melody ChirondaSomali pirates hijacked a vessel carrying 22 crew members that was heading to Durban, South Africa, early Wednesday morning. It was the fourth attack on a ship off the Somali coast i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delta Development Strategy is Hinged On Peace, Security, Human and Infrastructural Development
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: MR. Benard Okumagba is the Delta State Commissioner for Economic Panning.In this interview with Vanguard held in Asaba he provides insights into the workings and programmes of the state government.Exc (By News Poster)...Sudan: Obama Sudan Strategy Hailed By Africa Policy Specialists
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonDiplomats and Africa policy specialists are hailing the Obama administration's new policy toward Sudan as a practical approach to stopping violence in Sudan's Darfur region while (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farm attack - ANC concerned
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Mpume MadlalaThe ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has expressed its concerns on attacks on people living on farms after the brutal murder of a former chief of staff in the premier's office at the weekend.Dr Wa (By News Poster)...South Africa: '500 000 new jobs not enough'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Caiphus Kgosana and Carien Du PlessisPolitical BureauWhile Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge is confident that his department is on track to create the promised half a million jobs by next month, (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Blood will flow' threat follows fraud claims
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Ella SmookMetro WriterThe whistleblower and the investigator into fraud and corruption allegations at the Stellenbosch municipality have both taken "security precautions" after threats left them fe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops to charge witness in Jacobs murder
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Lavern de VriesCrime WriterA Cape Town man is to be charged with defeating the ends of justice after dramatically withdrawing a statement in connection with the murder of Mitchells Plain street com (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecutors Challenge Taylor at War Crimes Trial
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayProsecutors told Charles Taylor that he had "reason to lie" during his four months of testimony which he had spent rebutting charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his all (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Distributes Over 400 Tons of Food Relief
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Cape Town - Government has distributed between 400 and 600 tons of food to more than 100 000 people in need of emergency food relief since May, says Minister of Public Works Geoff Doidge.Briefing the (By News Poster)...World: 'Veil martyr' killer to be sentenced
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Berlin - A Russian-born German man who has admitted killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a frenzied court knife attack was to learn his fate on Wednesday in a case that has sparked outrage in the Musl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Money isn't funny in a cultured man's world
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Does anyone else read the editor's Monday morning column in a local business paper of restricted circulation? I only ask because, after gloozing over the picture of that square-jawed, eagle-eyed manda (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lucky to be alive
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Vivian Attwood, Buhle Mbonambe and Matthew SavidesKavisha Seevnarain landed in water no deeper than a dog's bowl after being thrown from a bridge over the Mkomazi River by hijackers and falling 60m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - This Opportunity Must Not Slip
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Yusuph OlaniyonuLagos - By my calculation, on May 29 2010, when President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua would be giving account of his stewardship on the third anniversary of his presidency, he would not be (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Armed gangs targeting Chinese'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Armed Angolan gangs are targeting Chinese workers in "mafia-style" attacks, a construction boss told AFP Friday, creating a climate of fear among the Chinese community in Luanda.A string of gang robbe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gold Price Soars But Output Tanks
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - Gold rallied briefly to a new record peak at 1122,85/oz yesterday, while platinum, palladium and rhodium all hit their highest levels in a year on a wave of speculative buy (By News Poster)...World: Obama pressured on jobs
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Alister BullWashington - United States President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would host a December conference to brainstorm how to beat back double-digit unemployment, and repeated a pledge to (By News Poster)...Africa: Harare finance chief calls for reform
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwe's government has failed to attract funding from foreign donors for next year's budget because they feared the money could be misused if the central bank is not r (By News Poster)...Africa: Genocide suspect goes on trial
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Arusha, Tanzania - Former Rwandan government minister Callixte Nzabonimana, described by prosecutors as "the Butcher of Gitarama", went on trial on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rw (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Abducted and Missing MDC Activist Escapes After 6 Months
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Lance GumaAn MDC activist who was abducted by state security agents last year in December, and was kept in captivity at an unknown location, finally escaped his abductors after 6 months. Twenty-nin (By News Poster)...World: Suspects charged in priest kidnapping
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Zamboanga, Philippines - Philippine police have filed charges against three suspected Muslim separatist rebels accused of kidnapping an Irish missionary priest who was freed unharmed after being held (By News Poster)...World: 'I was forced to have sex with dog'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Bill Draper and Heather HollingsworthLexington, Missouri - Authorities on Wednesday searched a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than (By News Poster)...World: Sniper takes answers to the grave
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Dena PotterJarratt, Virginia - Sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people that (By News Poster)...Africa: African Economic Conference - Knowledge-Sharing Exercise
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: A joint AfDB-UNECA press conference took place on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of activities of the African economic conference that is being held on the theme: "Fos (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Workers - No Provision for Expatriate Quote in Petroleum Deregulation Bill
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungThe proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), has continued to receive knocks from stakeholders and other concerned individuals and groups with workers in the upstream sector of th (By News Poster)...Africa: 'The pirates are armed to the teeth'
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler crew captive have kicked and spat on their hostages, the trawler captain said on Monday.Ricardo Blach, the skipper of the Alakrana tuna boat, seized with its 3 (By News Poster)...South Africa: No VIP protection for Malema - most readers
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Ainsley DanielsThe 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.IOL (By News Poster)...Africa: Khama calls for new Zim poll
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Gaborone - Botswana's president accused Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday of failing to honour a power-sharing deal with his foes and called for new elections to resolve the political deadl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agliotti scored R6,5m - KPMG
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Convicted drugster Glenn Agliotti scored at least R6.75 million from slain mining magnate Brett Kebble, allegedly for his access to ex-top cop Jackie Selebi, a KPMG report reveals.Selebi allegedly saw (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Split Over Sanctions
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Harare - MDC-T is reportedly divided on how to tackle the issue of illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe ahead of crucial inter-party meetings to be held before the weekend.Sources within MDC (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA mercenaries seen in Guinea
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Peter Fabricius Foreign EditorThe South African government is investigating reports that about 50 South African mercenaries are working for the military junta which seized power in Guinea late last (By News Poster)...Africa: Red Cross worker grabbed in Chad
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Geneva - Armed men have abducted a French Red Cross worker in eastern Chad near Sudan's Darfur region, prompting one charity to plan a reduction of its presence, official said on Tuesday.Laurent Mauri (By News Poster)...As I've warned: Africa: Millions of Poor Across Continent Set to Suffer Deepening Food Crisis, Warns UN Report
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: [I have been saying for years that black people across Africa will keep on getting poorer. Stick around... these are the consequences of BLACK RACISM towards whites... of the black love of SOCIALISM.. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi's spending habits provide clues
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: "Inferences" could be drawn from the way corruption-accused former top cop Jackie Selebi handled his finances in 2005, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Tuesday.State witness, forensic auditor D (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fears in Suleja Over Ritual Killings
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Ayegba Israel EbijeMinna - There are fears among residents of Suleja, Niger State, following a report yesterday that two beheaded bodies were found at the Eid prayer ground.The police said they cou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Amakhosi should help fight crime - Zuma
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Saturday called on traditional leaders to help government to fight crime. 'We urge our traditional leaders to assist us in arresting the incidents of crime in our communities, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Top-secret file on Agliotti missing
Friday 13-Nov-2009: A top-secret file detailing Glenn Agliotti's alleged criminal activities - and containing records of his phone conversations with former police chief Jackie Selebi - has vanished from police crime int (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank card blunders leave shoppers red-faced
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Noelene BarbeauSouth African consumers were left red-faced and out of pocket last week when their bank card payments were declined by national retailers. The problem meant consumers were embarrasse (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Nine-Year-Old Girl Killed In Cold Blood
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Edward SelasiniArusha - A nine year old female pupil of Ndoombo primary school in Arumeru district, Happiness Ombeni has been killed by two youths also of the same village after repeatedly raping h (By News Poster)...MDM Lists Examples of Alleged Fraud
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Maputo - The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the country's third largest political party, has protested at alleged tampering with votes at the polling stations during the general elections of 28 (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Bottom Line - Why Nation's Mines Are Losing Out On Gold Boom
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Colin AnthonyJohannesburg - FEW things highlight the extent of the problems facing SA's gold mining industry as the somewhat ironic news yesterday that, as the gold price broke another record, prod (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wild shootout leaves three injured
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Two of the three armed men alleged to have brazenly robbed a small home-based business were caught up in a wild street shootout before being nabbed.The two suspects are in hospital under police guard (By News Poster)...Opposition Rejects Election Results
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has continued its long tradition of rejecting the results of Mozambican general elections.In an immediate reaction to the (By News Poster)...Cabo Delgado Cholera Treatment Centre Attacked
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Maputo - Another cholera treatment centre in northern Mozambique has been vandalised by a group of people who believe that these centres spread cholera rather than cure it.The attack took place on a t (By News Poster)...Zambia: Lusaka Police Corner Murder Suspects
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: POLICE in Lusaka have picked up four Zambians in connection with the killing an Asian woman and wounding of her husband a week ago.And police in Kalabo in the Western Province arrested a couple they f (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Body Wants More Experts After Uranium Discovery
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Zephania Ubwani, ArushaTanzania's efforts to embrace nuclear technology may take much longer than anticipated because the country does not have nuclear scientists, according to the Tanzania Atomic (By News Poster)...Science: Smoking deadlier than Aids in 2015
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Deaths caused by tobacco could kill 50 percent more people than HIV and Aids by 2015 - and also be responsible for 10 percent of all deaths worldwide.This shocking forecast was made in the World Healt (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kids' driver moonlighted as robber
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Botho MolosankweA suspected robber could not pick up his employer's children from school because he was arrested while counting the loot he and his accomplices had allegedly taken at gunpoint.His e (By News Poster)...Africa: Somali pirates demand $3m for ship
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Mohamed Olad HassanPirates have hijacked a Panamanian-flagged ship with 18 crew off the east coast of Africa, the latest in an increasing number of attacks, a Somali businessman said on Tuesday.A g (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 51 Arrested in Police Raids
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Harare - Police have launched an operation that has netted 51 people, including six doctors, for allegedly dispensing expired and unregistered drugs.The blitz, code-named Operation Zambezi, has result (By News Poster)...World: Fresh claims of abuse against British troops
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: London - Britain's defence ministry said on Saturday it was investigating fresh complaints that its troops had abused prisoners in Iraq.News of the probe came after the Independent newspaper reported (By News Poster)...South Africa: UK Drugs Report Went Missing in Police Office
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - A REPORT from UK authorities on the activities of Glenn Agliotti -- since convicted of drug dealing -- disappeared from a police office in 2006, the high court in Johann (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farm attacks claim more lives than Afghan war
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Farm attacks in South Africa this year have claimed more lives than the war in Afghanistan, an agricultural organisation said in a report on Thursday.A total of 91 British soldiers died this year in t (By News Poster)...West Africa: Helping Pirates to Plunder the Oceans
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Hilaire AvrilParis - West Africa is one of the world's regions most affected by pirate fishers. Illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing has been devastating local livelihoods and ecosystems for (By News Poster)...South Africa: Auditor Admits All of Selebi's Cash Appears to Be Legitimate
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - THE director of auditors KPMG who analysed the bank accounts of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi admitted to the high court in Johannesburg yesterday that he cou (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV-Positive Persons Should Not Be Sentenced to Death
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Joy KafikoKampala - The utility of the death penalty has, of recent, attracted a lot of debate, especially when the landmark constitutional court decision of the Attorney General vs Susan Kigula an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cash heist turns fatal
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaA cash-van security guard has been shot dead during a cash heist in Umvoti, KwaZulu-Natal.Police Captain Khephu Ndlovu said security guards from G4 Security had been collecting a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Fake Cop Over Rape
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Imam ImamGusau - Zamfara State Police Command last Thursday, arrested one Bello Madawaki, who claimed to be a Police Inspector, after raping and extorting money from a 23-year old, Ramatu Abass of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyan Researcher Awarded for Efforts in Fighting Malaria
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By George OmondiEvery time Fredros Okumu spends his free time in a mosquito infested field, the world moves a step towards finding the elusive long term cure for malaria.Dr Okumu, a Kenyan researcher (By News Poster)...World: Alleged 9/11 plotters' hearing delayed
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Lucile MalandainGuantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and two suspected fellow plotters refused on Monday to attend a Guantanamo mili (By News Poster)...World: Texas gunman could face death penalty
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Chris BaltimoreHouston - The United States Army has charged a military psychiatrist with 13 counts of murder in last week's shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army base, which shocked the country as i (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'They forced me to jump from the fifth floor'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A Zimbabwean on Thursday told the Durban Regional Court how foreigners were forced to jump from a high-rise building by people wielding bush knives in January this year."When they forced me to jump fr (By News Poster)...South Africa: HRC to probe COPE's hate speech allegations
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Allegations of hate speech against Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula and the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association will be at the centre of the Human Rights Commission's next big investig (By News Poster)...Karibib Farm Victim Dies
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Adam HartmanLOTTIE Jooste (89) who was attacked by three men on a farm near Karibib on Saturday, died on Monday evening.Auntie Lottie was living with her son, Albert Jooste, on the farm Riksburg, 2 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Business ethics slammed - The Black Elite screw the masses - Remember Animal Farm?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [Do any of you remember that little book, "Animal Farm", which was satire written so many decades ago about the communists? In Animal Farm, the pigs gathered the animals together and they chased the f (By News Poster)...South Africa: Judgment reserved in pardons case
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Vivian MookiConstitutional Court judges reserved judgment in a case involving an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) member who wants to be pardoned for a political violence offence.This following l (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Suspected Smuggler Shoots Self Dead
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Harare - A 23-YEAR-OLD man from Beitbridge linked to a spate of car smuggling and fraud syndicates shot himself dead next to the Limpopo River at the weekend as police were closing in on him.Charles N (By News Poster)...World: Saudi beheads two murderers
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia beheaded two Saudis convicted of murder in the western city of Taif on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.Khalid al-Harthy was found guilty of shooting a man dead following an a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett's Trial Adjourned to Wednesday
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Violet GondaThe trial of Roy Bennett, the MDC Treasurer General and Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate who is facing terrorism charges, commenced in the High Court on Monday before Justice Ch (By News Poster)...World: Paramedics prevented from helping burnt child
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Boys as young as six threatened to shoot paramedics treating a toddler suffering from severe burns, forcing them to call for police back-up before they could take her to hospital.Vandals attacked a ra (By News Poster)...Pensioner Assaulted During Farm Attack
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Adam HartmanVIOLENCE shook the farm Riksburg in the Karibib district on Saturday morning when a small group of unidentified men assaulted and seriously injured an old lady and her housekeeper befor (By News Poster)...Africa: French navy storms pirate ship
Friday 13-Nov-2009: French commandos stormed aboard a Somali pirate "mothership" and arrested 12 gunmen, the military announced, adding that the gangs are increasingly operating in the deep waters of the Indian Ocean.Tip (By News Poster)...Big Brother Africa 4 - Murder She Wrote
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Natasha UysA KNIFE in the back. A puddle of blood...Who killed Ms Soprano?This week's Blues Revolution task has turned into a murder mystery, complete with closeted skeletons, buried secrets, cland (By News Poster)...World: 'I didn't mean to do it! He told me to!'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Paul J WeberOtty Sanchez got six weeks in a state mental hospital after she was found wandering around a drug store last year, shopping for an imaginary trip to China.She got a few hours in an emer (By News Poster)...Three Arrested for Armed Robbery
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Tlokweng police have arrested three men - a Motswana and two foreigners - who are suspected of breaking into Aldalph Bureau de Change, next to Oasis Motel, yesterday morning stealing P2,000, and R2,00 (By News Poster)...Zambia: DEC Nabs Angolan for Drug Trafficking
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested an Angolan for trafficking in over 700 grammes of pure grade cocaine worth millions of Kwacha.And more than 58 people have been arrested countrywide (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Must Honour Power-Sharing Pact
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: It is a relief that Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will now rejoin the government of national unity (GNU) after pulling out a while ago.Despit (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I did not have any way out but to kill her'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Killer Donovan Moodley's guilty-plea statement was contradictory: it said he planned to murder student Leigh Matthews and that her killing was not premeditated.Now he wants to use this plea statement (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister embroiled in Doidge-y tender process
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonarePublic Works Minister Geoff Doidge has been fighting fiercely to grant a multi-million rand contract to a law firm he previously hired for his personal matters, despite three direc (By News Poster)...Kenya: Poverty Rises As Malindi Salt Mines Expand
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Mazera NduryaNairobi - The lords of Malindi salt mines have been riding roughshod over area residents with impunity. Beneath the veneer of the successful mining firms are tales of hopelessness as m (By News Poster)...World: Two soldiers killed on border with Yemen
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Riyadh - Two Saudi soldiers have been killed and five wounded in fighting with Yemeni rebel "infiltrators" on the Saudi-Yemen border, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.Medical sources (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged killers were promised cash - police
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A 40-year-old woman and seven other people will appear in the Middelburg Magistrate's Court on Friday for the murder of her husband, Mpumalanga police said.Captain Leonard Hlathi said Adelaide Hlongwa (By News Poster)...Africa: Mismatch Between HIV Spending and Need
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - The global economic crisis may have the positive spinoff of forcing countries to allocate increasingly scare HIV/AIDS resources more efficiently.A recent analysis of national spending o (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Peace Corps to Bring New Focus to Food Security
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Andre van WykThe Obama administration earlier this year named a former United States Peace Corps volunteer, Aaron S. Williams, as the program's new director. The Peace Corps, which will soon celebr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Firearms amnesty period extended
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: South Africans will have four months to hand in illegal firearms under an amnesty in 2010, the Police Ministry said on Tuesday.Spokesperson Zweli Mnisi said the amnesty would extend from January 11 un (By News Poster)...Africa: Election workers threatened by Darfur rebels
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Khartoum - Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on Monday threatened to attack any election officials that came into their territory, underlining the challenges facing the country's first multi-party pol (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Survey to Inform HIV Programming for MSM
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Nairobi - A planned national survey of men who have sex with men (MSM) will be the first step in the government's plan to incorporate this high-risk group into the country's HIV programme, a senior go (By News Poster)...World: Man held after sex attacks on old folks
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: London - British police on Sunday arrested a 52-year-old man in connection with more than 100 sex attacks on elderly women and men dating back to the 1990s, a spokesperson said.A police task force has (By News Poster)...Africa: The Financial Crisis, an Opportunity to Accelerate Investment
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Introduced by a presentation by Oxford University Professor, Paul Collier, the session underscored the need to strengthen public finance management, resource mobilization through private investments, (By News Poster)...Africa: AEC Participants Discuss Impact of Foreign Direct Investments on Poverty Reduction in Africa
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: As part of the African Economic Conference, some 150 participants met on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at the UN Conference center in Addis-Ababa, where they listened to a presentation on: "Impact of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Atlegang's death - no apology for mom
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Poloko TauDid I have to learn in the media that police bosses were sorry that one of theirs pulled a trigger that ended my three-year-old son's life?This was the question asked by a grief-stricken (By News Poster)...Africa: Two more ships taken - pirates
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - Somali pirates said on Wednesday they had hijacked a fishing vessel and another ship in the Indian Ocean believed to be carrying oil.Pirate Hassan said by telephone from the c (By News Poster)...World: Nine Colombian soldiers killed during raid
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Hugh BronsteinBogota - Nine Colombian soldiers were killed when their post was attacked by Marxist FARC guerrillas in a south-western part of the country used as a cocaine smuggling corridor by the (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Left Country 'For The Sake of Peace'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor decided to leave the Liberian presidency for asylum in Nigeria because he wanted peace in his West African homeland, he today told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in (By News Poster)...Africa: Experts Rate Rwanda Land Reforms as Best on Continent
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Sam NkurunzizaKigali - Experts have named Rwanda's land policy reforms as the best on the African continent describing the achievements by the National Land Centre (NLC) as outstanding and impressi (By News Poster)...World: 'Sausage factory to blame for stench'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Chicago - A woman who lived for years with an alleged serial killer said she never suspected the putrid smell at their Cleveland, Ohio home came from decomposing bodies, after being told the stench ca (By News Poster)...Pathetic Pandering: Turkey's Leader Sides With Sudan's
Monday 09-Nov-2009: [Isn't this quite the hypocritical stance? Turkey's leader is happily denying that Sudan's leader is involved in genocide. But he was oh so out to suggest how Israel was "genocidal" for protecting i (By Lone Wolf)...Africa: Bashir changes his mind on summit
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Ibon VillelabeitiaIstanbul - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Sunday - a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictmen (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: War-Wounded Get Micro-Grants
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Freetown - Some 20,000 people wounded in Sierra Leone's war are receiving micro-grants as part of efforts to rebuild lives and livelihoods in the still fragile country.The initial grants of 300,000 le (By News Poster)...Africa: World Bank - Africa Needs U.S. $93 Billion For Infrastructure
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Etim ImisimAbuja - The World Bank said yesterday that the amount needed to fix infrastructure in Africa is twice what was previously estimated. It put the new figure at $93 billion half of which, i (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Policy to Boost Kenya's Bid to Go Green
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Kenya has come up with a new strategy for developing biodiesel industry as a clean source of energy. The move is aimed at reducing over dependence on fossil fuel imports. B (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Federal Govt Threatens Oil Firms
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Major oil companies in the country's upstream industry operations refusing to integrate downstream operations now risk withdrawal of their operated assets as government come (By News Poster)...SA's Deputy Police Minister Defends 'Shoot-to-Kill' Policy
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - An unapologetic Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has defended his and other ministers' statements of "shoot to kill" and said it was unavoidable that bystanders woul (By News Poster)...South Africa: Policeman wounded during exchange of gunfire
Friday 13-Nov-2009: A Johannesburg metro police officer, who was shot in the abdomen during a robbery in Randburg on Thursday morning, has been discharged from hospital."Donovan van den Berg, 33, was discharged from Milp (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen Kill Puntland's Chief Justice, Lawmaker
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Unknown assailants have gunned down Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aware, the head of Puntlad's 1st Law court in the commercial port city of Bossasso.According to eyewitness, masked men opened fire on Sheikh Awa (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Victory for Frelimo Amid Claims of Election Fraud
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Zenaida MachadoMaputo - The incumbent, President Armando Guebuza, has won the Mozambican 2009 elections in a landslide, obtaining three quarters of the votes, according to official results.Leopoldo (By News Poster)...South Africa: ECape schoolboy stabbed to death
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: A 20-year-old matric pupil was stabbed to death and three others hospitalised after a fight with pupils from other schools in Qhorha Village outside Dutywa, Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday. Th (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC to recall Rasool and Ozinsky
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Andisiwe MakinanaPolitical WriterThe ANC is expected to withdraw former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and MPP Max Ozinsky from representing the party in the national and provincial parliament (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Launch Longest Range Attack Yet
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Pirates today fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at a 330-metre long oil tanker sailing 1,000 miles from the Somali coast.The European Union's naval force patrolling shipping lanes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Remembering the supreme sacrifice
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Alex Eliseev Remembrance Day galleryAll year long, the Cenotaph sleeps. Pigeons flock to the top of its grey granite shell, politicians file in and out of the surrounding buildings, and vagrants so (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police push quieter Joburg CBD
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Central Johannesburg is notorious for robberies, pickpockets and violent crime, and on Friday the police added another to their list of headaches - noise."It's too loud," yells Superintendent Cedric O (By News Poster)...Sale of De Beers Shares Secures Future of AK6
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiThe future of the AK6 diamond project was put on a firmer footing on Wednesday with the announcement that Canadian-listed diamond junior, Lucara Diamond Corp, would be acquiring De (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I couldn't give birth to his child'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Kowthar SolomonsStaff ReporterA Tafelsig woman who says she was raped and then let down by the authorities and NGOs at every turn has secured the assurance of two provincial government ministers th (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Hello Glenn, what is that story...'
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi phoned Glenn Agliotti during a police briefing about the murder of Brett Kebble, court heard on Wednesday.Superintendent Paula Stefanie Rouland testified in th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sporadic Shooting Keeps Galadima Residents Awake
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Chika OtuchikerePersistent shooting from what sounded like automatic rifles in the early hours of yesterday morning, around Sun City Estate, Galadima, along the Suleja-Kubwa erxpressway, robbed res (By News Poster)...Liberia: Sen. Ballout Condemns Jubah's Brutal Murder - Says the Incident Is a Wakeup Call
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Senator John Ballout of Maryland County, who is chairing the Senate Committee on National Defense, Intelligence and Veteran Affairs, has strongly condemned the brutal assassination of Mr. Keith Jubah, (By News Poster)...Ghana: U/E Police Condemn Attacks on Officers at Bawku
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By William N. JalulahBolgatanga - The Upper East Regional Police Command has condemned attacks on police officers ensuring law and order at Bawku and its adjoining communities.Recounting the occasions (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ruling Party Condemns Call for Violent Change
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Chuks Okocha and Matthew OnahThe ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the veiled call for a violent change of government, accusing opponents of the President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua adm (By News Poster)...Zambia: KCM Riots Condemned
Friday 13-Nov-2009: THE two-day protests by workers at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Chingola are uncalled for, especially that unions and management are still engaged in neg3otiations, stakeholders from a cross section (By News Poster)...Tensions Run High in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Kauda - The Nuba Mountains, a former frontline region in Sudan's north-south civil war remain tense, years after the 2005 north-south peace agreement, local leaders and analysts say.Comprising some 48 (By News Poster)...Africa: Lack of Political Will Threatens Aids Funding
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Khopotso BodibeUniversal access to antiretrovirals in poor countries is under threat as donors reduce funding for AIDS programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).According to the MSF's recent (By News Poster)...HIV Positive South African Soldiers Win Battle
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - The South African cabinet has approved a new policy prohibiting discrimination against soldiers and would-be recruits on the basis of their HIV status.Previously, HIV-positive members o (By News Poster)...Liberia: Trial Background
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: The Hague - Name: Charles Ghankay TaylorNationality: LiberianProsecuted by: Special Court for Sierra LeoneCharges: 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of int (By News Poster)...East Africa: Poor Infrastructure, Port Delays, Inhibiting Use of Central Corridor
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Faridah KulabakoNeither the long distance nor the high transport costs is the reason for shunning the Southern Corridor route.Port handling constraints at Dar-es-Salaam including delays in off load (By News Poster)...South Africa to Reach Zuma's Jobs Target, Says Minister
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - NEARLY 224000 job opportunities have been created since April, according to Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge , but the poor are still being overwhelmed by the jobs bloo (By News Poster)...World: Obama plans meeting as peace bid flounders
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Jeffrey Heller and Ross ColvinWashington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Palestinians on Monday to resume negotiations with Israel, issuing the call before a meeting with Pres (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Case for Deregulation
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Emmanuel Ihenacho - Going back to the issue of deregulation and the merits of this market reform strategy, a useful re-entry point to this discussion would lie in the review of the central plank of th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kony a Fast Runner, Reveals LRA Returnee
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Oketch BitekKampala - THE Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chief Joseph Kony is a very fast runner whose speed has always helped him to escape when attacked, an escapee has said.Stella Acan, who was ab (By News Poster)...Workers' World Party Defend Fort Dix Terror Suspects
Friday 13-Nov-2009: [Simply sick display of ongoing treason by the Workers' World Party. Now instead of just defending the "Imam" from the mosque the FBI raided, these Communists are defending the Fort Dix terror suspec (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: 'Cops have been shooting civilians for years'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: The shooting of civilians by the police started at least three years ago and cannot be attributed to recent "sensational" media reports, Jenny Irish-Quobosheane, the public's representative in the pol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Methods to Maximise Yields
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Vusumuzi SifileGuruve - Last season, for the first time in her more than 20 years as a farmer, Elizabeth Runema harvested her maize crop at the beginning of February.Many farmers get a first harves (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Deregulation May Not Lead to Fuel Prike Hike'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku and Damilola OyedeleAbuja - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday declared that the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum indus (By News Poster)...World: My chimpanzee 'ripped her apart'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Paul ThompsonA woman who suffered horrific injuries after being mauled by a crazed chimpanzee has spoken for the first time about her ordeal.Charla Nash, who had most of her face torn off during th (By News Poster)...African Diaspora Marketplace Announces 60 Finalists; Entrepreneurial Proposals Collectively Represent More Than $22 Million In Diaspora Investment in African Communities
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Washington, DC and Denver - Sixty finalists for the African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM), with proposals representing more than $22 million of Diaspora business investment to spur job creation in their (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N20 Bribe - Mopol Kills 70-Yr-Old Man in Osogbo
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Abiodun FelixOsogbo - PANDEMONIUM broke out in Osogbo, Osun State capital last Saturday evening when a trigger-happy mobile policeman shot dead a 70-year-old man on his way from the wedding of his (By News Poster)...South Africa: Food Programme Helps Feed the Hungry
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Cape Town - An estimated 8 234 households have benefited from the government's Food Production Programme.The programme was introduced to enhance household and community food production primarily for c (By News Poster)...Kenya: Govt to Back Out of Deal With World Court?
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Nairobi - The Kenyan Government on Sunday appeared to be having second thoughts about an agreement to arrest and hand over to the International Criminal Court election violence suspects.Prosecutor Lui (By News Poster)...Africa: Kagame Addresses China-Africa Summit
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Our ReporterKigali - EGYPT - President Paul Kagame yesterday addressed the opening ceremony of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.Kagame is in North Africa (By News Poster)...Africa: Kibaki tells ministers to use one voice
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Ministers in Kenya's fractious coalition should stop squabbling in public because they risk doing further damage to the reputation of east Africa's biggest economy, the president said in Mombasa on Fr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma hails 'remarkable' Langa
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Parliamentarians bade farewell to former chief justice Pius Langa on Wednesday, simultaneously welcoming his successor, Sandile Ngcobo.Langa, who turned 70 in March this year, handed over the reins of (By News Poster)...Africa: Older People Need Help to Raise the Next Generation
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Nairobi - When the working members of a household die from HIV-related illnesses in northern Tanzania, older dependants have to work longer hours to cope financially, according to recently published W (By News Poster)...South Africa: Krog 'undermines' ideas of right and wrong
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Ella SmookStaff WriterFormer president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them.This "invalidates" them, in the same way that, for every white per (By News Poster)...Namibia: Govt Denounces Election Clashes
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Tileni MongudhiGOVERNMENT yesterday condemned the politically motivated violence between Swapo and RDP supporters at Outapi on Sunday.Information Minister Joel Kaapanda said Government was not happ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Department to Encourage Leaders to Go for HIV Testing
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Cape Town - In a bid to raise awareness around HIV and AIDS, the Health Department plans to encourage South African leaders in various fields to undergo HIV tests in a hope that others will lead by ex (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Meltdown Takes Toll On Tourism Industry'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Charles AjunwaLondon - The 2009 World Travel Market (WTM) and Euromonitor InternationalGlobal Trends Report, released yesterday said the global economic meltdown is taking a heavy toll on the trave (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Envoy Cites Need to Deal With Underlying Causes of Conflict
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the (By News Poster)...Police Fire Teargas to End Election Clash
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Oswald ShivuteCOMPLETE mayhem broke out at Outapi yesterday as Police were forced to try and diffuse a confrontation between supporters of Swapo and the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) durin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Booed But Clings On
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Angelo IzamaThis week Zimbabwe's diamond industry was saved from a ban by the 70-member global diamond trading group as a result of a campaign from human rights organisations. The Mugabe government (By News Poster)...Uganda: Last Exit From Afghanistan
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Gwynne DyerKampala - First the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the lat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijacker killed in shoot-out with cops
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: A hijacker was killed during a shoot-out with the police in Aconhoek, Vaal Triagle on Saturday, Gauteng police said. Four men driving a truck hijacked in Magaliesburg started shooting at police who we (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Dawn's Flagship Mine Shines
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Harare - TORONTO-listed New Dawn Mining Corp's Zimbabwe mining operations produced 3,059 ounces of gold during the quarter to September 30 2009, an announcement by the group said.The gold was produced (By News Poster)...World: Obama squeezes Afghan leader
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Sue Pleming and Adam EntousWashington - The United States squeezed Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday to show more backbone in fighting corruption and mismanagement as President Barack Obama (By News Poster)...Botswana: What's Driving HIV in Selebi-Phikwe?
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Selebi-Phikwe - In most respects, there is nothing remarkable about Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana with a population of about 50,000. The central business district is a sun-bake (By News Poster)...South Africa: Murderer jailed for life
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeThe leader of a gang of men, who killed a 65-year-old Hillcrest man at his home last year was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Durban High Court on Thursday.John van der Westh (By News Poster)...Election Results - Breakdown of Parliamentary Seats
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party will have an overwhelming majority of seats in the incoming parliament, according to the results of the 28 October general elections, officially announced in (By News Poster)...China's Farming Ambitions in Country Take Shape
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Munyaradzi MakoniCape Town - China is sending its farming expertise to Mozambique in a drive to increase the African country's agricultural productivity.The Chinese Agricultural Technology Research (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Price Hike Looms
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Victor Ahiuma-Young and Oscarline OnwuemenyiAbuja - THE Federal Government, on the second day of its meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, admitted that its planned d (By News Poster)...Africa: Govts Partner Alliance for Green Revolution on Food Security
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Jimoh BabatundeA groundbreaking partnership that will link African governments' commitment to agricultural development with concrete programs in seeds, soil health, policy, and markets was launched (By News Poster)...Africa: Zuma hailed by peers
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma, chosen as Africa's finest, had the prestigious African President of the Year award 2009 bestowed on him on Tuesday."As we accept these awards, it is proper that we (By News Poster)...South Africa: Barman shot dead by four gunmen
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A 37 year-old barman was shot and killed outside the premises of Woodlands Sports Club in Durban on Monday morning.Police Captain Thulani Zwane said the man was outside the sports club when four armed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How PPMC 'Saved Nation From Fuel Scarcity'
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Catherine AgboAbuja - Fresh revelations emerged last week on how the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation (NNPC), through som (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops deny ministers are at war
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Political BureauWhile Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and his deputy, Fikile Mbalula, have come out publicly to deny rivalry between them, the two are again set to separately address the media this (By News Poster)...World: Duo hanged for rape of girl
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Tehran - Iran has hanged two men convicted of rape and murder in the western city of Hamedan, the Kayhan newspaper reported on Sunday.The report identified the murderers as M.M., aged 25, and 20-year- (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC spokesperson killed in crash
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: ANC Free State spokesperson Teboho Sikisi, 38, died n a car crash outside Bloemfontein, police said on Sunday.Johnson Mdali, 39, also died by their BMW veered out of control and overturned about 40km (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gambler wounded during casino robbery
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: A gambler was wounded when 10 armed men stormed into the Meropa Casino, opened fire and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, Limpopo police said on Sunday.Superintendent Ronel Otto said the m (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA pushes on with Zuma, NPA challenge
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: The Democratic Alliance has again asked the High Court in Pretoria to review the decision to drop charges against President Jacob Zuma, arguing that it was irrational and unlawful.In a statement on Su (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC spokesman dies in car crash
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: An ANC Free State spokesman Teboho Sikisi, 38, died in a car crash outside Bloemfontein, police said on Sunday.Johnson Mdali, 39, also died by their BMW veered out of control and overturned about 40km (By News Poster)...South Africa: Customer shot in casino robbery
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: A gambler was wounded when ten armed men stormed into the Meropa Casino, opened fire and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, Limpopo police said on Sunday.Superintendent Ronel Otto said the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Judges look into issue of special pardons
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Justice Sisi Khampepe was the first to speak among the new judges who took up their seats at the reconstituted Constitutional Court this week. She asked Advocate Vincent Maleka, representing President (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ignore Okah's Threat
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Barely a month after the Federal Government sealed an amnesty deal to end the protracted violence and other criminal activity in the Niger Delta region of the country, an apparent threat of resumption (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Air Rwanda Plane Crash Kills One, Injures Four
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Kampala - A Rwandan woman was killed and four Ugandans were injured when an Air Rwanda plane rammed into the terminal at Kanombe airport in Kigali yesterday, reports Hellen Mukiibi.The Ugandan passeng (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Come Back Home, DRC Government Urges Refugees
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Kinshasa - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged its citizens who recently fled inter-ethnic clashes in the western DRC province of Equateur and sought refuge in the Republic of Congo, to r (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kuruman victims couldn't make it to Concourt
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: People injured in the racist Kuruman attack wanted to be there but had no money for transport. Those from the Worcester bombing made it to Constitution Hill in Joburg thanks to the generosity of donor (By News Poster)...UB Scholar Doubts RISDP Success
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Frederick KebadiretseThe SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Programme (RISDP)might never succeed because its assumptions are too unrealistic, Professor Balefi Tsie of the University of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Premier visits rape victims
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Nontobeko MtshaliGauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has called for more protection for children after a four-year-old was raped while her mother was out drinking in Jabulani, Soweto. The premier on (By News Poster)...Africa: Donors Backtracking on Funding Aids Treatment
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Phakamile MagamdelaLives of AIDS patients in poor countries could be severely compromised if donors and rich nations continue reducing their funding commitments to AIDS programmes.Independent human (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'He is a good friend of mine'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Corruption-accused former police chief Jackie Selebi told a police reservist to look after his friend Glenn Agliotti, after a hijacking at a Sandton complex, court heard on Thursday.Taking the witness (By News Poster)...Africa: China - Threat or Opportunity?
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Mauritius is so small that wherever you are in the country you are always so close to the port. While in the fashionable talks of the grave issue of climate change this seems like a premonitory statem (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court hears of missing Agliotti files
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A series of six crime intelligence reports in which convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti features are missing, a witness told the High Court in Johannesburg in the corruption trial of former polic (By News Poster)...Africa: Judge shot dead in Somalia
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Nairobi/Mogadishu - A Somali judge who sentenced four men with links to Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab to jail terms has been shot dead in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, local media reports (By News Poster)...Liberia: Judges Caution Taylor's Prosecutors on 'Fresh Evidence'
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayAs Charles Taylor faced his second day of cross-examination, his defense counsel objected to prosecution attempts to introduce "fresh evidence" after its case was closed, calling it a tr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ummah Support Group
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Hajiya BilkisuAbuja - We arrived early for the workshop and there were just a few of us in the room, most of them were staff of an NGO, the Society for Family Health SFH, which organised the event. (By News Poster)...Zambia: Riots Incited - KCM
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) has accused some employees at the Nchanga Integrated Business Unit (IBU) of inciting their counterparts to protest in pursuing information regarding wage negotiations.KCM sp (By News Poster)...South Africa: Burglar caught red-handed
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Kamini PadacheeA teenage burglar was caught red-handed as he fled from a Westville home yesterday. Constable Stephen Clark said police received a call from a resident at about 11am, reporting that (By News Poster)...Africa: The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying is (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Number of Civilians Escaping Tribal Violence on the Rise - UN
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A village on the Republic of Congo side of the Oubangui River, which marks the border with the DRC10 November 2009 - The number of civilians fleeing tribal violence in the Democratic Republic of the C (By News Poster)...Africa: Taylor nears end of the line
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Mike CorderThe Hague - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor ended 13 weeks on the witness stand on Monday by rejecting allegations that he commanded and controlled rebels who murdered and mutil (By News Poster)...Africa: 'One Can't Work 18 Hours a Day and Still be Poor'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Given the billions of dollars and euros that the U.S. and EU spend on trade-distorting support measures and the intractable lobby groups demanding these subsidies, these rich states' promises to redu (By News Poster)...STAE Denies Claims of False Electoral Registers
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Maputo - Felisberto Naife, the general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, on Monday categorically denied oppos (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett terrorism trial adjourned in Zimbabwe
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Zimbabwe's high court on Monday adjourned the terrorism trial of Roy Bennett, a top aide to Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, in a case that has rocked Harare's fragile unity government."Th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Now Collecting Agric Inputs
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Harare - FARMERS have started collecting fertilizer and seed from Grain Marketing Board depots countrywide after successfully applying for vouchers from local financial institutions.Banks that have be (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Experts Warn FG Over Importation of Petroleum Products
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Stan OkenwaExperts in international trade and security have cautioned the federal Government on the dangers inherent at the shipment of petroleum products into the country saying that the importati (By News Poster)...Slovenia: Trojan Horse For European Dependence On Kremlin Energy?
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: [Well, it seems here despite the "end" of Communism in Eastern Europe, one of those states-Slovenia has openly aligned itself with Russia in hoping to promote itself as a possible trojan horse for the (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Police Investigate Shooting at Oudtshoorn
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Pretoria - The South African Police Service and the South African National Defence Force Board of Inquiry are investigating a shooting incident at Kansasvlakte Oudtshoon.Corporal Tuis Dimakatso Maliti (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ribadu is Not Corrupt - Don
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Samuel AruwanKaduna - A university lecturer has argued that the exiled former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, is not corrupt but that he is a dec (By News Poster)...Integration Lowers Infrastructure Costs, Says World Bank
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Berna NamataKigali - African countries will have to continue pursuing regional integration if they are to cut costs across all aspects of infrastructure, the World Bank said in a latest report on A (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim judge in Bennett trial asked to step down
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Zimbabwean lawyers, defending MDC official Roy Bennett in a terrorism trial, on Thursday asked the presiding judge to step down, saying they believed he had previously made comments that could be prej (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops: Mom killed baby before leaping to death
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Nompumelelo MagwazaA Mandeni family's search for a missing relative came to a tragic end when they learnt that the woman had killed her baby before leaping to her death from the 11th floor of a Durban (By News Poster)...Namugongo Tells Court He 'Rebuffed' Bribe Bid
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesA PAYMENT of N$10 000 that a State witness in his corruption trial deposited in his bank account in mid-2006 was part of a failed attempt to bribe him, former Ministry of Environment a (By News Poster)...World: Mandela Day made official by UN - Will somebody please kill me now?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [No! No! No! What complete nonsense this is. Will somebody please come and kill me now? I can't bear this! The WHOLE WORLD WILL CELEBRATE MANDELA DAY? What a load of complete and utter rubbish. And wh (By News Poster)...World: Hariri forms unity government
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri formed a government of national unity on Monday, ending more than four months of tough negotiations with his Hezbollah-led rivals."Finally, a government of (By News Poster)...World: Clinton pushes Iran on nuclear offer
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Berlin - American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a UN-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad.Clinton, visiting Germany for celebratio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Policeman accused of shooting child
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A police constable was denied bail when he appeared in the Tembisa Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing a three-year-old, the Independent Complaints Directorate said.Constab (By News Poster)...Tjingaveta Goes for Title Defence
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Corry IhuhuaNAMIBIA'S World Boxing Organisation (WBO) lightweight Africa champion Jatoorora Tjingaveta says he sees no chance of relinquishing his belt when he takes on South Africa's Irvin Buhlalu (By News Poster)...Africa: Darfur peace talks delayed again
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Guillaume LavalleeKhartoum - Qatari-hosted talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels due to begin on Monday in Doha have again been postponed, a mediator said on Sunday, amid a linger (By News Poster)...South Africa: Four die in shebeen shooting
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Four men died when gunmen opened fire in a shebeen at the Nancefield hostel in Klipspruit on Sunday morning, Soweto police said.Inspector Kay Makhubela said patrons were drinking sorghum beer when two (By News Poster)...World: China detains dissidents ahead of Obama visit
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Beijing - China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.O (By News Poster)...South Africa: Jansen expects Reitz apology this month
Friday 13-Nov-2009: The former students at the centre of the Reitz race row would probably make a public apology before the end of this month, University of the Free State rector Jonathan Jansen said on Friday.Speaking a (By News Poster)...South Africa: SANDF corporal shot dead during training
Friday 13-Nov-2009: An SA National Defence Force Corporal died after being accidentally shot during a training exercise in Oudtshoorn, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday.Spokesperson Colonel Petrus Motlhabane said th (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Rwandair Aircraft Crashes, One Dead
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Ignatius Ssuuna, Edwin Musoni and Gasheegu MuramilaGasabo - A Rwandair aircraft yesterday crashed into the VIP lounge two minutes after taking off from the Kigali International Airport, killing one (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bail for suspected drug cops
Friday 13-Nov-2009: The three senior West Rand police officers facing drug-smuggling charges in the High Court in Johannesburg were granted bail on Friday.Senior Superintendent Dumisani Jwara, 43, paid R15 000 for his re (By News Poster)...USA: President Obama's ridiculous Nobel Peace prize - An African perspective
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Several weeks ago, President Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize. My Liberal friend phoned me because he had been following the story closely. He was quite incensed by the whole business because it smelled (By Jan)...RDP Condemns Outapi Violence
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE town of Outapi in the Omusati Region, which once again experienced violent clashes between supporters of the ruling Swapo party and the RDP opposition party on Sunday, has the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Judge Rejects Both Sides' Legal Arguments in MDC-Appointed Minister's Case
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Violet GondaHigh Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu on Wednesday rejected the legal arguments from both the prosecution and defence teams in the 'terrorism' trial of MDC Treasurer General Roy Ben (By News Poster)...South Africa: No extension to this year's tax
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: There will be no extension to the November 20 tax season deadline, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said on Wednesday."Sars has received a number of requests from tax practitioners and their representati (By News Poster)...Africa: The High Level Forum on Public Procurement Reform in Africa
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: To: 17/11/2009Location: TunisThe high-level forum on public procurement reforms in Africa will be hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in Tunis from 16-17 November 2009. The forum will (By News Poster)...South Africa: CCTV mars a 'perfect crime'
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyIt appeared to be the perfect crime. The surveillance camera was attached to a tree, invitingly within reach. And no one was around to watch their actions.But the suspects forgot to che (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Legal Tussles Over Bennett
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Harare - Attorney-General Johannes Tomana yesterday applied to have a defence outline by MDC-T treasurer Roy Bennett on terror-related charges thrown out, arguing it was filed out of time and in breac (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Someone at the NIA broke the law'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Opposition party members of the joint standing committee on intelligence (JSCI) say they are to call immediately for the report into the Zuma "spy tapes" to come before their committee.Theo Coetzee, D (By News Poster)...World: Obama to meet Netanyahu amid crisis
Monday 09-Nov-2009: US President Barack Obama will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday as US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks appear in deep crisis.A White House official announce (By News Poster)...Africa: Fear As Africa's Village Comes to Town And Forgets All About Home
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Izael Pereira Da SilvaAfrica is coming to town! By the '80s less than 30 per cent of the Africans were living in cities. The United Nations predicts that in less than 10 years time more than half o (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen Kill Former Government Official in Hiran Region
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiBeledweyn - Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a former member of the transitional government in Beledweyn town in Hiran region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.Rep (By News Poster)...Africa: Mugabe arrives in Rome for food summit
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Rome - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome on Saturday for a United Nations summit on food, the ANSA agency reported.Under sanctions imposed in 2002, Mugabe is banned from visiting Euro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Accuses Soldiers of Beating Up Orphans
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Lance GumaThe latest MDC-T newsletter carries a report saying that a dozen gun-toting soldiers ransacked an orphanage in Bulawayo last week and beat up children in the process. The soldiers went on (By News Poster)...World: Obama on denuclearisation of N Korea
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Seoul - North Korea can achieve security and prosperity if it honours its commitment to give up nuclear weapons, US President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Friday.The impoverished com (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Masvingo Families Evicted From Land
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Harare - AT least 50 families, who illegally occupied farms in the Masvingo East commercial farming area at the height of farm occupations, have over the past week been ordered off the land in a new s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bail case of 'King of Bling' postponed
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeWilliam "Mashobane" Mbatha's battle to get bail continued fruitlessly in the Germiston Regional Court on Thursday as squabbles continued between State and defence.Mbatha's appearanc (By News Poster)...Africa: Importance of Women Entrepreneurship in Times of Economic Crisis
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Tunis - These two popular sayings underscore the critical and timeless roles women play in society.Women are known to play incredible and soul-saving roles, mostly indiscreetly, in difficult times inc (By News Poster)...Kenya: How Kenyatta Government Flouted Loan Deal So That Big Names Could Get Land
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By John KamauNairobi - The take-over by the rich of farms meant to settle the poor in the high-potential areas infuriated the British Government and confused government officials who did not want to t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sue them, consumers told
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Political BureauConsumers have been urged to sue companies found guilty of colluding on food prices and other anti-competitive conduct.The deputy chairman of the Competition Com (By News Poster)...World: 'Nothing can happen without Hezbollah'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Beirut - Lebanon's new unity government will be united in name only because of unresolved deep divisions between rival parties, especially on the issue of Hezbollah's weapons arsenal, analysts say."Th (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-11-2009)
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Howzit Once again, Roy Bennett is the focus of our attention as the State attempts to pin terrorism and weaponry charges on him. The fact that this case somehow makes the headlines when it would be (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Court disrupted in Selebi trial
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A woman in the public gallery disrupted Jackie Selebi's corruption trial on Tuesday by asking to see the former top cop's lawyer."May I disturb the court? I'd like to see Jackie Selebi's lawyer immedi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Probe Into Maize Mega-Scandal Complete
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By David OkwembahNairobi - Investigations into irregular sale of 3.4 million bags of maize from the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) early this year has been completed. According to an annual (By News Poster)...Something's Odd Going On In Yemen: Iran Rushes To Bash Saudi Arabia's Role In Yemen
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: [It seems there is something quite odd going on in Yemen. Most recently, Yemeni rebels whom happen to be Shiite radicals stated that the Saudis sent a few jets to bomb their positions. It was report (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: 'I don't think I'll ever be as scared again'
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Leila SamodienAs the deadly typhoon Mirinae battered their yacht in the middle of the South China Sea, all the three young Capetonians aboard could think about was abandoning ship in an attempt to (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Over 157,000 Need Food Relief
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Hassan MghenyiOver 1.57 million people in 63 districts in 15 regions need free and subsidized food from the government beginning this November, revealed by the September 2009 Rapid Vulnerability As (By News Poster)...South Africa: Brother allegedly kills sister after food row
Friday 13-Nov-2009: A man was arrested for allegedly killing his sister with a wooden ornament in KwaMashu on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal police said."The 24-year-old man was arrested on Thursday [Thursday] for allegedly ki (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S., South Africa Press Govt Over Diamonds
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Andre van WykSouth African and American diplomats said this week that they expected Zimbabwe to implement "stringent controls" according to a "very tight work plan" to make the country's diamond (By News Poster)...World: Chinese seek answers from Obama
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Chris BuckleyBeijing - Chinese Internet users want to quiz US President Barack Obama about trade feuds, basketball, the Dalai Lama and whether he will cede California to China, according to website (By News Poster)...South Africa: Learners injured during exam chaos
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Two pupils from the Lagunya Finishing School in the Western Cape were injured on Thursday when police used rubber bullets to disperse an angry mob disrupting matric examinations at Langa Secondary Sch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Two Mopol Killed in Port Harcourt
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Chinedu WosuPort Harcourt - UNIDENTIFIED gunmen have shot dead two mobile policemen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.The hoodlums allegedly carted away N3 million belonging to a undisclosed company. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tygerberg kidnapping: Woman sentenced
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Jade WittenCourt ReporterThe woman who kidnapped two-week-old Siphisihle Ncumani from Tygerberg Hospital in July did so because she had heard it was easy to snatch a baby from the biggest hospital (By News Poster)...South Africa: TV Ad Delivers Silent HIV Message
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - A television advertisement that will air in South Africa in November aims to reach deaf people with vital information about how to protect themselves from HIV, while giving hearing Sout (By News Poster)...Gambia: World Unites to Tackle Global Arms Trade
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Every year, millions around the world suffer as a result of the non-regulation of the global arms trade.This year, on 30th October, 2009 at the United Nations, after years of discussions and debates, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi case: Friedman back in witness box
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Forensic auditor Dean Friedman will return to the witness stand in the trial of corruption-accused former top cop Jackie Selebi on Tuesday.The KPMG director of services will continue going over a fore (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stabbing victim dies in Soshanguve
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: An unknown man was stabbed to death in Soshanguve, Pretoria, on Monday afternoon, police said.Captain Solly Marindi said Block 8 residents saw the man run down a street and fall at 4pm. He was believe (By News Poster)...The 'Insignificant Others' Are in Need of Survival Manuals
Monday 09-Nov-2009: IF I was an angry Namibian citizen last week, I am now an angry Otjiherero-speaking Namibian! Since my last column on the Chinese bursaries, our Government responded through a press conference at whic (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eleanor Kasrils's death 'a tragedy for all'
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Former president Thabo Mbeki on Monday conveyed his condolences to the family of ex-intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils whose wife, Eleanor, died at the weekend."Mr Mbeki, who spoke to Mr Kasrils imm (By News Poster)...Young 'Born Frees' Have Issues With Politicians
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - They are called the "born frees", the children of Namibia's Independence, and they will vote for the first time this month. Struggle credentials mean zip to them, an (By News Poster)...South Africa: I bribed cops - 'escapee'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: A prisoner who allegedly jumped out of a moving police vehicle has claimed he had paid police officers for his freedom. Thami Jacob Ndengezi, 31, who is accused of robbing the Emnotweni Casino of mor (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'World class' system to keep cops in line
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Clayton Barnes2010 WriterThe days of metro officers running private errands while on duty are over, says metro police chief Rob Young.Briefing provincial police commissioner Mzwandile Petros and ME (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman and baby found dead outside flat
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Mpume MadlalaCentral Durban resident Fowzia Saib was shocked to wake up and discover the body of a 36-year-old woman outside the high-rise block of flats where she lives in Berta Mkhize (Victoria) (By News Poster)...More 'Mass Graves' Found - NSHR
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) says it has found more graves in northern Namibia and in southern Angola this year, where Namibians who have disappeared might be burie (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010 may be bad news for B&Bs
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Lebogang SealeIt has been almost a year since Neo Mamashela applied for her bed and breakfast to be accredited for the 2010 Fifa World Cup. If endorsed, Mamashela's B&B rooms will be among the offi (By News Poster)...Zim: The real reason Robert Mugabe hates white MDC politician Roy Bennett & wants to hang him
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [A friend who was in the Rhodesian Police's Special Branch in the time of Ian Smith sent me this comment about why Mugabe hates Roy Bennett with such a passion and tries to find any excuse to throw hi (By Jan)...World: Nowak escapes lengthy stay in prison
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Orlando - A former Nasa astronaut accused of attacking and trying to kidnap a romantic rival pleaded guilty to lesser charges on Tuesday and was sentenced to two days in jail followed by one year of p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rapist Stepfather Jailed 12 Years
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Harare - A BANKET man who raped his two-year-old stepdaughter before scalding her genitals with boiling water to conceal the offence, will spend 12 years in jail.The man also burnt the girl's twin bro (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Kill Septuagenarian
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Yinka KolawoleOsogbo - It was a black weekend in Osogbo, the Osun State capital when an anti-riot policeman shot and killed a septuagenarian simply identified as Jacob Odedeji.Odedeji and members o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RioZim Sets New Production Targets
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Harare - MINING giant, RioZim is planning to increase gold production to 80kg from the current 60kg a month.According to the Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited latest weekly report, the increase would (By News Poster)...Africa: Illegal Factory Ships Threaten Fish Stocks
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - Illegal fishing by factory ships is costing African countries over $1 billion a year as the threat to fish stocks reaches crisis level.At an international environment conferen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi witness missing: report
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Ex-Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach is one of three missing witnesses due to testify in the corruption trial of former police chief Jackie Selebi, the City Press reported in Sunday.The newspaper reported (By News Poster)...USA: Communism alive and well - Fidel Castro Still In Love With President Obama
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: [I apologise for hijacking this news item and excellent commentary by Lone Wolf. Lone Wolf, you're right. One Communist recognises another. I've said all along that Obama is a Leftie Socialist, reared (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: Govt Says It Won't Export DIamonds From Disputed Diamond Field
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S government won't export diamonds from its disputed Marange diamond fields until it has put in measures to better monitor trading in the gems."Zimbabwe agreed not to export Marange (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mines Engage Biti Over Funds
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Chris MuronziHarare - Mines have sought the intervention of Finance minister Tendai Biti in a bid to recover funds misappropriated by the central bank over the years, businessdigest can reveal. A C (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Among Food Crisis Nations - UN
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Kenya is among 31 countries in crisis requiring external assistance, because of lack of resources to deal with critical food security problems, the UN has said.The Food and (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Bottom Line - Hard to Gauge Effect of Telkom 'Abuse' Finding
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - WHAT is the likely effect of the Competition Commission's finding that Telkom has been found guilty of market abuse for charging internet service providers excessive prices for provisio (By News Poster)...World: Blame the music for rampage threat: accused
Friday 13-Nov-2009: An aspiring rap artist accused of threatening a shooting rampage is evoking violent lyrics by Bob Marley and Johnny Cash to claim the note on which prosecutors are basing their case was merely the wo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alliance tackles skills development
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: The issue of education and skills development will top the agenda of this week's ANC-led tripartite alliance meeting, Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini said on Thursday."This week we will be going to the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop, robber shootout shakes up Randburg
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A police officer was shot in the abdomen and a suspected robber seriously injured during a shootout in Randburg on Thursday morning, Paramedics said.Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the two w (By News Poster)...Africa: Guebuza scoops landslide poll victory
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique President Armando Guebuza won a landslide re-election with 75 percent of the vote, election officials said on Wednesday."The National Elections Commission announces that citizen Ar (By News Poster)...South Africa: A guilty silence in the house of Krog?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Gavin HaynesIt's been a bad week for Antjie Krog. Not only has she been accused of plagiarism, but her son's band, Black India, Cape Town's denizens of razor-sharp kraut-rock, have split up. The re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Skewed Land Ownership Will Lead to Calamity -- Nkwinti
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The government was "obsessed" with achieving the redistribution of 30% of agricultural land from white to black hands because failure to address skewed land ownership pat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two die in Woodstock shooting
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: A man and woman were killed in what police believe was a murder-suicide carried out by a traffic police officer in Woodstock, Cape Town, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.Yandiswa Klaas, 26, was s (By News Poster)...Africa: Head of UN Agency Applauds China-Africa Forum's Commitment On Food Security
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: The head of the United Nations food agency today welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infra (By News Poster)...South Africa: 76 crashes in wet weekend
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Torrential rain and strong winds across the Western Cape had emergency rescue staff scrambling to respond to scores of accidents on the province's roads over the weekend which left at least 10 people (By News Poster)...World: 'Candles and prayers' against the Berlin Wall
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Leipzig, Germany - East Germany's secret police had plans to crush every single threat to the communist regime "but it didn't reckon on candles and prayers".The comment by the head of the secret polic (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mpshe must explain Zuma decision, says DA
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Staff ReporterThe acting national director of public prosecutions, Mokotedi Mpshe, was trying to block from judicial scrutiny the record which led to his decision to drop charges against President (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petrol Price to Remain At R7.65
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Pretoria - South Africa's petrol price is to remain unchanged at R7.65, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday.The cost of petrol will not change when government makes its adjustmen (By News Poster)...World: S Korea on alert
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: South Korea went on alert briefly Sunday after a North Korean coastal battery unit turned its radar on for firing amid tensions after a recent naval clash, a report said.YTN television, quoting unname (By News Poster)...Uganda: Corrupt Politicians Are Killing Our Society
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Anthony OkechI write in reaction to two articles published in The New Vision of November 9, one by Michael Baingana about the immorality of the state, the other by Morris Komakech about the prescri (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (14-11=2009)
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Howzit Mugabe has made no secret of his dislike for Ian Khama, President of Botswana. Mugabe has even gone so far as to say that Khama is an objectionable man because he is of mixed race (his fathe (By The BeardedMan)...Liberia: Judges Give Taylor Prosecutors Time to 'Rearrange Strategies'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor's testimony was cut short for the second day in a row, as prosecutors asked for more time to "rearrange strategies" for the cross-examination of the former Liberian presid (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Are Unfair to Anambra State - Bankole
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: By Philip NyamAbuja - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole, yesterday expressed disdain at the current political situation in Anambra State, accusing Nigerian leaders of unfairn (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police to testify in colleagues' bail hearing
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A police representative was called to the witness stand in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday in a bail application by three West Rand policemen accused of smuggling drugs.West Rand organised (By News Poster)...Uganda: Govt Official Held Over Army Commander's Murder
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Kampala - THE local council chief of Wabigalo project zone, where former army commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini was slain, has been detained over the tragedy.Security officers said they picked up Bosco (By News Poster)...South Africa: Van Zyl sworn in as COPE's new MPL
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: Congress of the People interim provincial deputy chairperson Alta van Zyl was sworn in as MPL on Wednesday to replace Allan Boesak who left the party last week.Accompanied by her husband, Sep van Zyl, (By News Poster)...Africa: Dying mom tells Kony to make peace
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Godfrey OlukyaKampala, Uganda - The mother of one of Africa's most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death on Wednesday, according to a nurse at her deathbed: Mak (By News Poster)...South Africa: Consultant speaks in Selebi case
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: The fifth witness is expected to take the stand in the corruption case of former police head Jackie Selebi in the High Court on Wednesday.Expected to testify next in the trial, now running into its fi (By News Poster)...Man Jailed for Wearing Guebuza T-Shirt
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Maputo - A man was sent to the Maputo top security prison in late October for the crime of wearing a T-shirt bearing the portrait of Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, reports Tuesday's issue of th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Range of 'disasters' put to test for 2010
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Clayton Barnes2010 WriterFrom plane crashes to bombings and excessive flooding, the province's risk management authorities are readying themselves for any possible disaster during next year's World (By News Poster)...Kenya: Two Killed As Plane Crashes At Wilson Airport
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Nairobi - A cargo plane on Monday killed two crew members when it crashed at Wilson Airport, Nairobi.The pilot died as he was being taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, while his co-pilot later died a (By News Poster)...Somalia: Businessmen Denies Abducted Cargo Ship Was Carrying Weapons
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: Somalia - Somali businessmen have Monday denied that the cargo ship kidnapped by the Somali pirates was carring weapons to Horn of Africa nation, officials told Shabelle radio on TuesdayAbdirisaq Abdu (By News Poster)...Kenya: With All This Sex Abuse, Where Shall We Hide Our Daughters?
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Lucy Oriang'Nairobi - One quote sticks out in the debate on schoolgirl sex abuse. It belongs with the chairman of the national association of parents, Mr Musau Ndunda. He reportedly said, at a foru (By News Poster)...Uganda: Sudan Soldiers Strike Moyo
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Martin Okudi and Warom Felix OkelloThe Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have renewed their offensive against residents in Moyo District.This time, the attack by seven SPLA fighters occurred (By News Poster)...Africa: Funds Cuts Will Derail Fight Against HIV/Aids
Monday 09-Nov-2009: Nairobi - A new report by Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) indicates that Kenya among other countries are likely to feel the impact of the withdrawal of HIV/AIDS funds by the Global Fund that supports mo (By News Poster)...[Cartoon] S.Africa: The Police policy of shooting to kill... ahem...
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: I was chatting to my Liberal friend and we were discussing the Police shoot-to-kill policy and all this talk that the police were saying there would be "collateral damage" and civilians would be shot. (By Jan)...S.Africa: Crime hits the Middle-Class Non-Whites hard...
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: [This year I have heard more stories from non-whites working with me about crime than I've ever heard before. Indians and Coloureds and even Blacks talk about how they're being robbed in the same way (By Jan)...USA: The Economic Meltdown - total panic over the US Dollar? Keep your cool...
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: I see various people helping to drive up the panic about the US Dollar. As Jason Kelly concluded recently, and so have many others, the US Dollar is shot. Long term, its going to fall almost as fast a (By Jan)...Iranian Government Official Praises Fort Hood Massacre
Monday 09-Nov-2009: ["Coincidence" the shooter also chose the date, the day after the anniversary of the American embassy hostage crisis for his rampage? Lone Wolf.] 'Fort Hood incident signals fall of US empireýþ'þ (By Lone Wolf)...Al-Qaeda Getting On The Side Of Saudi Arabia And Yemen
Friday 13-Nov-2009: [Now here's something quite odd that's going on here in Yemen. It seems that al-Qaeda terrorists are getting on the side of the Yemeni government in its war against Shiite rebels allegedly backed by (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-11-2009)
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- "We Will Remember Them" -o00o- How short sighted does SADC think the Zimbabwean people are? Whenever the crisis makes the headlines (By The BeardedMan)...Hamas Gives Up Its 'Anti'-Fatah Stance; Praises The Late Yasser Arafat
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [It just seems to me all of this Hamas, Fatah "conflict" was all designed to get Israel into quagmire wars with not just Hamas, but also Hezbollah as well. In this case, Hamas has openly now praised (By Lone Wolf)...So how are Jan's attempts at learning T-line Shorthand going?
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: [I sent a friend the following note explaining how I was learning. I'm going as slow as a tortoise, but I keep on reminding myself that when I was at school, learning to read or write or learning my " (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-11-2009)
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: Howzit The more eagle-eyed of the readers of my other pages may have noted that Bundu Blog seems to have died. Which is a pity as it was a page that I had put a lot of work into. I will leave the l (By The BeardedMan)...Africa Should Apologize for Slave Trade
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: A Nigerian civil rights group has written an open letter to African chieftains calling for an apology for their role in the slave trade to America. (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...The Right Perspective on Fort Hood and Political Correctness
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Frank has harsh words for Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey this week. Gen. Casey equivocated last week's terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas with political correctness proving that, for the Left (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
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