From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 4th April 2010From 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 & GruesomeS.Africa: 2010: Attention: President Jacob Zuma - Do you want a Race War with the Afrikaners IMMEDIATELY?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I would like to ask everyone a special favour. Please, please, please, spread this following message around via email, website or blog or by any means you have. It is a statement I am making and I wa (By Jan)...S.Africa: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: The Murder of Eugene Terreblanche was DEFINITELY a Planned Assassination....
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: A friend of mine phoned me up with a most stunning fact he has spotted in the newspapers. He used to be in Military Intelligence decades ago, and scanning newspapers was his daily job. He told me t (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: EXCELLENT: Thanks for your support in my challenge to President Zuma on a RACE WAR - NOW!!!
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: Well folks, you have certainly stunned me. I did not expect it. I thought a lot of you would regard me as a kook for doing it. However that article I did where I stated the case about having a racial (By Jan)...Yahoo News: The ANC's Kill the Boer Hate speech led directly to the murder of Eugene Terreblanche
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [The gist of it is that the ANC's hate speech and Julius Malema's race baiting and race hate mongering has led directly to the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. This is one possibility - that the speech (By Jan)...VERY IMPORTANT: Julius Malema - President Zuma's Secret Agent Visits Mugabe: We will take White Farms in SA...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: On the very weekend that Eugene Terreblanche is murdered, it so happens that Julius Malema is suddenly sent on an "official mission" to Zimbabwe! To my knowledge this is the first time he's been sent (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: What S.Africa's Intelligence Services will do Secretly now that Eugene Terreblanche is dead...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: I thought I would warn people of what South Africa's Intelligence services, under the direction of President Jacob Zuma will do in the wake of Eugene's death. They will probably be spying on all Af (By Jan)...S.Africa: Testimony from an ex-Airforce Flight Engineer who knew Eugene Terreblanche...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I received this message from a man I have spoken to in the past, who knew Eugene Terreblanche personally. The airforce guy below, is basically saying that in his view Eugene's death was an act of TER (By Jan)...VERY IMPORTANT: The Murder of Eugene Terblanche - I just heard about it: The ANC's Coming Race War against Afrikaners...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: I went to bed at 1am this morning, and when I got up the first email I checked on my cell phone was a condolence from an Afrikaner supporter in Israel who told me he'd heard of the murder of Eugene Te (By Jan)...Long Term Afrikaner survival in Africa: The 3 crucial goals of Afrikaner survival by Orania founder: Professor Carel Boshoff...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Recently, I was sent a DVD of the small 21st century Afrikaner pioneering outpost of Orania. I was so delighted. The DVD is short, but I was very impressed and it left me wanting to know more. I h (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: S.Africa: 2010: Afrikaner Leader: Eugene Terreblanche Murdered
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the South African far-right group AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging) was found murdered on his Ventersdorp in the North West on Saturday evening. He was 69. AWB spoke (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Another Ally and friend: Help Save the Whites of South Africa: Genocide being perpetrated against them...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [Here is a nice website that supports us. At the bottom of the article are some very fascinating links. Jan] Genocide Being Committed Against South African Whites Every day hundreds of mails ar (By Jan)...Kenya: Post-Election Violence Not Spontaneous
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Nairobi - In a landmark judgment that could see perpetrators of post-election violence have their day in court, judges at the pre-trial chamber at The Hague gave Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo pe (By News Poster)...Africa: At least White leaders are not utter COWARDS like Black Leaders are: Eugene Terreblanche & Ian Smith... men to the end...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: I recently mentioned that Julius Malema, that race-baiting, black, communist attack dog, and personal mouthpiece of President Jacob Zuma is such a whining crybaby. See these:- [Cartoon] ZAPIRO explai (By Jan)...URGENT: ATTENTION: Afrikaners must call for International Investigation into ANC assassination of Eugene Terreblanche - Write to Embassies NOW...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: Folks, This murder of Eugene Terreblanche cannot go without a proper response. I have been sitting here for 2 hours non-stop writing about this. Remember this: Foreign Western countries have emba (By Jan)...UK: Times say: Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994 - Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate
Monday 29-Mar-2010: [Excellent. Its good to see someone telling the truth out there. Well, OF COURSE the ANC is fanning the flames of hate. Jacob Zuma spent a whole election campaign singing "bring me my machinegun". Jul (By Jan)...[Pic] The BEST ObamaCare poster EVER... Alias: HitlerCare, Alias Obama's Healthcare...
Monday 29-Mar-2010: [A friend sent me this. I think this is brilliant. This is more like Obama. As I was remarking when I appeared on Jeff Rense's show, Obama thinks the best way to run America is to follow the example o (By Jan)...S.Africa: ANC propaganda claim about why Eugene Terblanche was murdered?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [This is from the Daily Mail & Guardian and it already includes the pre-prepared reason, before any true investigation already telling you basically, "Eugene Terblanche got what he deserved, he deserv (By Jan)...S.Africa: Julius Malema's race-baiting - Did the ANC invent the hoax that Whites want to kill Malema?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: Julius Malema, the crybaby, coward, black racist, mouthpiece of President Jacob Zuma has been claiming that there is a R2 million hit on his head by whites who want to kill him. I have said before, (By Jan)...Uganda: A Bitter Harvest From the Seeds of Gun Culture
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Benon Herbert OlukaWithin a week, four Ugandans have been shot dead by the very security agents mandated to protect them. It is the continuation of a trend that exposes the ugly side of Uganda's gu (By News Poster)...[Cartoon] ZAPIRO explains Racist, Communist, Crybaby race-baiting attack dog Julius Malema completely...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: [I think this is the final word on Julius Malema. Thought I must admit, I do enjoy his trash talk. And Julis buddy, you want to race bait the whites and you want to meet us on the battle field one day (By Jan)...South Africa: Breakthrough in Body Parts Trade Investigation
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: Witchdoctors are paying as little as R10 000 for a body brought to them to use in the concoction of muti.Discovering the price for the illicit trade in bodyparts has been a major breakthrough into the (By News Poster)...[Cartoons] ZAPIRO: Brilliant cartoons ripping into Jacob Zuma and crybaby Julius Malema
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: [Some of these are completely brilliant... especially the ones about crybaby Julius Malema who first screams at whites and insults us and wants death to visit us... and then whines and runs off crying (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: SW Radio Interviews Mining Company CEO on Diamond Mines Controversy
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Journalist Violet Gonda presents Hot Seat where she speaks to Andrew Cranswick, CEO of African Consolidated Resources, the company in the middle of a legal wrangle with the government over the Chiadzw (By News Poster)...Africa: S. Africa - a Deal Gone Wrong?
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Udo W. FroeseOver 20 years ago, on February 11, 1990, South Africa's retired President and Nobel Peace co-laureate, Nelson R. Mandela, left the colonial-apartheid prison of "Victor Verster" outside (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-04-2010)
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Howzit The auto-pagination problem with Blogger seems to be getting worse. I note that the archive for March 2010 consists of only the last 4 days of the month. The inability of Blogger to allow re (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: It's About Land, Stupid
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Itayi GarandeHarare - ZIMBABWEAN online media were, last week, awash with news that the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 was never explicit on compensating white farmers for land reform.A House of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Impostor Who Led Warri Bomb Operation
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Emma AmaizeIN the world of militants in the Niger-Delta region, Commander Jay (not real name) is not ranked amongst the first 200 and in Delta state where he hails from, he is not reckoned with in (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: 2010: Brave 85 year old White Afrikaner man fights off 3 black armed robbers...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: [The black criminals, being the cowardly scum they are, robb old people and women. They only have courage when they outnumber a lone white person... but sometimes, despite all the odds being in their (By Jan)...Zimbabweans Living in Squalor in South Africa
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Alex BellHundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa are still living in desperate squalor, in a country that offers them no official sanctuary.This is according to a new report rel (By News Poster)...Malema Facebook Fan Counts Dead Boer
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: A Facebook fanpage dedicated to ANCYL leader Julius Malema has been shut down after an alleged supporter posted death threats against Whites and South African president Jacob Zuma on it. [caption i (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Condelences to Eugene Terreblanche from Israel - I share The Terreblanche Vision for Afrikaners
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [When I woke up this morning and checked my cell phone, this was the first message I received and the first time I had heard of the death of Eugene Terreblanche. This is from Yoel Lerner, a Conservati (By Jan)...[Afrikaans] Letter to the Editor of Rapport: Will Pieter Groenewald of the FF+ please stop misleading White people?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [This letter was copied to me by an Afrikaans friend of mine who holds a high position in a noted Afrikaner organisation. He wrote this letter to the editor. I will get a proper translation of thi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Unsafe Abortion - New Concerns About an Old Problem
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Chioma ObinnaPastor Edward is a renowned man of God. He abhors the very thought of abortion not to speak of the act itself. To him, termination of a pregnancy whether wanted or not, even when the w (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Interesting: Arthur Kemp's comments on Eugene Terreblanche's use of Black Labour - Abandon the Blacks I say...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I found this piece where Arthur Kemp apparently told Eugene Terreblanche not to use black labour. In this piece is this most important sentence: "The relationship between Afrikaners – actually all wh (By Jan)...Nigeria: CBN - Don't Sell the Banks
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Oghene EgohThe world economy is one wide market; whatever economic catastrophe that affects the worlds biggest economy can reverberate in other countries. Modern means of communication such as inte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Locals Groan Under ATM Fraud
Friday 02-Apr-2010: More Nigerians are losing money every day to fraud perpetuated through the Automated Teller Machine (ATM)."I was duped N200,000 through the ATM last month and when I reported to the bank, they told me (By News Poster)...Liberia: Voodoo as a Tool in Crime Busting
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Tom KamaraIn our little town of Sodu, swallowed in the bushy enclave that borders Guinea and Sierra Leone and surrounded by hills and swamps, witches were not in short supply, for the unknown was a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: As Cholera Epidemic Looms, Citizens Hope UN Will Not Repeat Past Mistakes
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By MediaglobalA cholera epidemic has plagued Zimbabwe for some time, with ongoing outbreaks occurring there sporadically since 2003. The developing country has suffered long-term political instability (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Cynical: President Jacob Zuma appeals for calm after Terre'Blanche death
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I find this quite cynical coming from the man who I am quite convinced murdered Zimbabweans just a while back. I'll publish a list of related articles on this subject. I notice Zuma's use of the term (By Jan)...Nigeria: When Rivers Showcased Scorecard to Envoys
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuLagos - The last time an Israeli official visited Rivers State and gave pass mark on the security of the state where he observed that there was no place without crime, he was embarras (By News Poster)...The Worst idea the West ever adopted: Limited War - Why the US will lose to Middle East terrorists
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [I am going to post a series of pieces on this because this is a very important topic that is dear to me. I have observed how the Western world loses war after war to guerillas/insurgents/terrorists . (By Jan)...Botswana: An Eye for an Eye
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Ndaba NkomoIt was exactly 0400hrs. The morning breeze was chilly because of the biting winter cold. A close family friend was staggering and trembling with fear.Moving forward to face his fate he t (By News Poster)...INCREDIBLE: Robert Mugabe admits: I am addicted to prostitutes - he cheats on his pretty wife...
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [When I read this, I could not believe this was true. In fact, I wrote back to the man in Britain who sent this to me. I have a lot of admiration for the ZimEye website. They write really good, credib (By Jan)...Africa: Obama Expands Military Involvement
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Daniel VolmanWashington - When Pres. Barack Obama took office in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarised and unilateral security pol (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nationwide Red Alert Over Calabar Airport Incident
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: By George Oji, Chinedu Eze and Ernest ChinwoLagos/Abuja/Calaba - Security has been beefed up at the airports in the country following Wednesday's incident in which a commercial driver rammed into an A (By News Poster)...Africa: Sexuality Discourses - Between Patriachy, Pornography and Pleasure
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Kavinya Makau and Zawadi Nyong'oMention sex in most places on the African continent and you are likely to be met with questioning glances. Most quietly wonder 'What is this person up to?' Venture i (By News Poster)...SA: TAU Bulletin-So What Are We Going To Do About It?
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Submitted by K. Nel: 29 March 2010 10:57 AM SOUTH AFRICA BULLETIN SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? The South African media, civil society, the townships, overseas journalists and just ab (By JoAn)...The Day Machel Came to Zimbabwe
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Harare - On Monday, August 4 1980 Zimbabweans from all walks of life paid special tribute to a statesman, Mozambican leader President Samora Moises Machel for the immense contribution that his country (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teaching Girls to Report on the World Cup
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Brian DalekNew York - For the nearly 50 million people of South Africa, the 2010 World Cup represents an opportunity to show the world its progress through sports. But for a new nonprofit organisat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: ATM Deployment - CBN Insists On March Deadline
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By By Comfort EkelemeLagos - With less than 10 percent of the Nigerian banks complying with the March 31, 2010 deadline given to them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to move their Automated Telle (By News Poster)...Forty reasons to ban guns... the stupid logic of Liberals and Leftists... like Gun-Free South Africa the scum...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: This article was actually posted on my new website, AmericanCrisis. It was too good to pass up. Some of these reasons are so applicable to South Africa. I like the one about: "The more helpless you ar (By Jan)...S.Africa: The Far Left Vs the Far Right: Payback for Chris Hani - Killing Eugene Terreblanche
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: A friend was saying to me that killing Eugene Terreblanche is about as "high" as you can go if you want to strike a blow against the Afrikaner. ET might not have been the leader of the Afrikaners, but (By Jan)...Nigeria: Understanding Bayelsa's Stimulus Package
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: By Salami TajudeenIt is incontrovertible that the sole purpose of any government is to reduce human suffering, protect the vulnerable and push forward the frontiers of civilization. In 2009, the Inter (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'How $147 PB Oil Price Shocked Country, Others'
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: It will be 50 years in September since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was created in Baghdad with five founding member countries. OPEC Secretary-General, El-Badri trails the bumpy r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Loan Repayment - Troubled Banks Face Hostile Acquisition
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - Any of the eight bailed banks that fails to complete the repayment of its own share of the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) survival lifeline given to them in August 2009 before t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Secret Land Deal At Lancaster
Monday 29-Mar-2010: BRITAIN has always been one of Zimbabwe's biggest aid donors, especially in recent years while the country's economy has been in such dire decline. Britain put tens of millions of pounds into land ref (By News Poster)...East Africa: Lessons From Greek Crisis as EAC Seeks Common Currency
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: By Mbui WagachaActing mostly in their self-interest, leaders occasionally challenge their countries and regions to greater heights; and succeed.When they stumble, going back can be messy.Examples are (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kuimba Shiri - Wings of a Dream
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Jairos SaunyamaHarare - Lake Chivero is more than one of Harare's major supply dams. It should also be a good place for a day out; but there is not that much to do there, a bit surprising when you (By News Poster)...West Africa: How Ecomog Has Evolved in 20 Years
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - Mr. Abdul Fataou Moussa is the director of political affairs at ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States]. Mohammed Ibn Chambas is the outgoing president of the ECOWAS (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Biofuels Will Worsen Global Food Crisis, Expert
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Akoma ChinweokeDr. Olanrewaju Oginni, Vice president, Consumer Protection Organization of Nigeria, holds a Ph.D. in consumer economic/social communications. He is also the executive director, All-N (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31=03-2010)
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- This was all over the headlines on television here in the UK yesterday and what I was happy about was that this didn't take years to come t (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Used Rape and Intimidation to Garner Votes - Report
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaZANU PF allegedly used rape and other forms of sexual abuse against women between 2000 and 2008 as punishment for those perceived to have voted against it, a National Constitutional (By News Poster)...S.Africa: IMPORTANT: Eugene Terreblanche was in favour of the Zulus having their own country...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I received this from a long time friend and supporter of mine. This lady also informs me that she is going to get involved with the AWB AGAIN!!! EXCELLENT IDEA FOLKS! Those of you who want to join th (By Jan)...Namibia: Whither the Shine in Country's Peace, Democracy and Development?
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Tangeni AmupadhiCountering the motion: 'This House believes that Namibia is a shining example of post-colonial peace, democracy and development.'Good evening ladies and gentlemen.It is sad indeed, (By News Poster)...Kenya: International Criminal Court Approve Investigation Into Post Election Violence
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: The Hague - A majority of a pre-trial chamber of International Criminal Court (ICC) judges today approved the ICC prosecutor's request to open an investigation into Kenya's 2007 post-election violence (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Security - Experts Make Case for Urgent Action On Small Scale Farming
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Charles KumoluBUT for the acute shortage of food stuff in Lagos and the Jos killings, the deceit that Nigeria is not a hungry nation would remain. This is inspite of the 2009 global hunger index wh (By News Poster)...Africa: Economy Depressed Economic Growth and Higher Unemployment
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Claire NgozoLilongwe - Due to the global economic and financial crisis, growth on the African continent dropped to an average of 1.6 percent in 2009, compared to 4.5 percent in 2008.These figures w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: If Jonathan Finds the Missing Billions...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Sam EgburonuLagos - I have followed with concern, the story of the missing billions of Naira at the Presidency, especially the latest speculations that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan may have a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Victory for Farmers as Zimbabwe Property Seized in Country
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Alex BellZimbabwe's embattled commercial farmers had a small taste of victory this week, after a multimillion rand property owned by the Zimbabwe government in South Africa was seized by their lawy (By News Poster)...Kenya: Has Anyone Been Raped to Meet the International Standards?
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: Reading the minority report of the International Criminal Court declining to authorise investigations into the post-election violence, one cannot help but be impressed by its sagacity and depth of kno (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Concessions from Mugabe, says South Africa's Delegation
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaRobert Mugabe has reportedly said he will not appoint provincial governors from the MDC, as they may not be loyal to him. He has also dug in his heels and said that Attorney-General (By News Poster)...Africa: Bank-Funded Coal Plant Tests Green Agenda
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Matthew BergerWashington - Decision-makers around the world are in a period of transition when it comes to the future of supplying energy. Even if everyone agrees that a low carbon future is the in (By News Poster)...[Pic][Humor] Hillarious... Deeply profound thoughts by men about WOMEN...
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: [This is one of the funiest jokes I've read in a long time. Jan] Deeply profound thoughts by men Two men are out just fishing quietly and drinking beer. Almost silently, so as not to scare the f (By Jan)...[Pics][Humor] Totally Brilliant: The Children sure are being dumbed down...
Monday 29-Mar-2010: [These are too funny. Jan] You won't know whether to laugh - or cry. exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams (By Jan)...Kenya: Draft Law Promises a Bold New Kenya
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: Nairobi - The draft constitution passed by Parliament on Thursday will change the face of Kenya by introducing the most far-reaching institutional reforms the nation has seen since independence.If a m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Reforming the Reforms
Monday 29-Mar-2010: At the end of 2005 when the then existing 89 banks in the country were collapsed into 24, it was hoped that the consolidated banks would be strong enough to safeguard depositors' funds as well as cont (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Ugandan Rebels Kill More Than 300 - Report
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Vision ReporterKampala - A human rights organisation yesterday released a chilling report indicating that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed at least 321 civilians during a previously unreport (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Crime & Assassination hell: Two black men held for AWB head Terre'blanche's murder - Are they heroes?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [Here's a challenge for you: We must get the names of these 2 guys and watch them as follows:- (a) To see the soft landing the ANC gives them in jail and then sets them free. (b) To see if they are (By Jan)...Year-On-Year Inflation Rises to 0, 7 Percent
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index rose by four percentage points on the January rate of -4,8 percent to -0,7 percent in February.This m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Finally, the Rice Revolution is Here
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Taiwo OlawaleLagos - Rice is one of Nigeria's most popular staple foods. Unfortunately however, the production of this popular food falls far short of demand, leading to large imports and the atten (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Maximus' Shooting Galvanises Police Crack Team
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Freeman RazembaHarare - The Saturday morning murder of Detective Sergeant Joseph Maximus (29) by a suspected armed robber has unlocked an emotional side of the Police Crack Team that many may not k (By News Poster)...South Africa: Men Battle Gender-Based Violence
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Davison MakangaCape Town - When Mbuyiselo Botha decided to take the African National Congress League President, Julius Malema, to court for hate speech against women, he was confident from the star (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petrol Price Increase May Lead to Further Problems for Economy - Analysts
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The rise in petrol by 48c-49c countrywide will have a range of negative effects on the South African economy according to analysts.The price of petrol will rise by between 48 and 49 cen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Withdrawing Universal Banking Licence
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Boniface ChizeaLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has served notice of its intention to withdraw the Universal Banking ( UB) license of all the banks now operating in the country in eighteen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Terror Breaks Out in Muzarabani
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaThere have been numerous reports from human rights organisations and from the MDC-T of an upsurge of violence in rural areas such as in Mutasa North, Mudzi, Bindura and Masvingo, by ZAN (By News Poster)...2010: FIFA World Cup Soccer: S.Africa, Land of Assassination: Did President Zuma murder Zimbabweans and Eugene Terreblanche?
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: I mentioned several times in pieces that I firmly am of the opinion that President Jacob Zuma is involved directly in plotting the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. But let me point out that I also said (By Jan)...Journalists Under Attack in Sierra Leone
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Mohamed FofanahFreetown - Sierra Leone has become a place of torment for journalists practicing their profession.Recently 10 journalists were manhandled and beaten during the opposition Sierra Leon (By News Poster)...Jason Kelly: After the Gold Standard went... there were just LOTS of Stock Market super-bubbles...
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: [Take a look at what investment analyst, Jason Kelly has to say about the Gold standard and its effects. I saw a shocking article in a South African newspaper the other day. I must scan it and put it (By Jan)...Nigeria: Ogun Land Management, Administration Revolutionised, Says Ogunnoiki
Monday 29-Mar-2010: The Director General of the Ogun State Bureau of Lands & Survey (BLS), Gbenga Ogunnoiki, speaks to PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, Michael Simire, on how the Isheri/Magodo axis has transformed over the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Warri Bomb Blast
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Lagos - The bomb blast Monday, March 15, which killed three by-standers and wounded eight others in Warri, Delta State must rank as a definite escalation and paradigm shift in the war of attrition tha (By News Poster)...TREASON! Is an American General selling out his troops for Political Favours?
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [Take a look at General McChrystal's statements below, and the comments by a US Army Colonel's wife whom I discussed this with. If the American military structure is going to be politicised with Ge (By Jan)...Mozambique: Renamo Rejects Government Programme
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Parliamentary deputies of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Tuesday insisted that the government should outlaw branches set up by the ruling Frelimo Party inside (By News Poster)...South African facilitators back in Zimbabwe as power-sharing parties miss deadline
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Here to take delivery of a report “acceptable†to Mr Zuma Ntungamili Nkomo & Patience RusereWashington - A South African facilitation team was back in Zimbabwe Monday to resume work with n (By News Poster)...West Africa: Illicit Drugs Threaten Regional Stability, Says Drugs Czar
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, has called on stakeholders to intensify drug control efforts as he id (By News Poster)...Witness Agreed That RUF Rebels Used Terror to Keep Control (NEWS)
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayA defense witness for Charles Taylor today agreed with prosecutors that Sierra Leonean rebels used terror to keep themselves under control during Sierra Leone's brutal 11-year conflict. (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA 'Must Decide in a Year' On Nuclear to Keep Up With Rest
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SA MUST make a decision on its nuclear programme within a year in order to keep pace with countries that are moving towards nuclear-generated electricity, Areva SA chai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Women Survive Political Violence Alone
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - Mary Pamire will never forget the day a group of men took turns to rape her.In June 2003, Pamire was among scores of people who participated in a mass demonstration organise (By News Poster)...South Africa: UNHCR and South African Police Coordinate to Protect Refugees
Monday 29-Mar-2010: What began as a protest by disgruntled commuters against a decision to reduce the number of trains to Pretoria's Phomolong Informal Section because of attacks on Metrorail property, quickly evolved in (By News Poster)...Hermanus Beukes - the Relentless Fighter (1913 to 2004)
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Catherine SasmansHermanus Christoffel Beukes was born at Rehoboth on June 20, 1913. His father was the second cousin of Samuel Jacobus Beukes, the first Namibian petitioner to the League of Nations (By News Poster)...Future of Shooting Bleak
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Collin MatizaHarare - THE future of the sport of shooting looks bleak in Zimbabwe after South African firearm authorities are reported to be refusing to sell ammunition to local shottists.Ira Lariv (By News Poster)...Somalia: Wanted Suspected Somali Militia Member Arrested in Uganda
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Katende Bob RobertsKampala - Security agents in Kampala arrested a suspected Somali Al Shabaab terrorist linked to the Al-Qaeda.Hashi Hussein Farah and a dozen others were arrested by the Joint Ant (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Talks Collapse as Parties Prepare Report for Zuma
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaCollapse is a word the political parties in Zimbabwe have avoided using to describe their marathon talks, but on Thursday it did not require a rocket scientist to figure out this is what (By News Poster)...Twenty Years for Taxi Driver Killers
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesWHILE Namibians looked forward to a weekend of celebrating 20 years of freedom, three men convicted of armed robbery and murder had the prospect of 20 years of the opposite to digest a (By News Poster)...Good: The Far Right is now rising in Hungary...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I'm glad to see conservatism rising in so many countries these days. Conservatism is the basic lesson of history. Its that simple. Jan] Rise of Hungary's far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing ec (By Jan)...Kenya: Nation Laments Pirates' Burden
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Fred Mukinda and Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - Kenya has given conditions that must be met before accepting to detain and prosecute suspected pirates arrested in international waters.Internal Security (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bakondja Pleads Guilty to 15 Charges
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesFORMER serial escapee and super-slippery fugitive from justice Bakondja Katjiuongua yesterday started laying some unfinished business to rest by pleading guilty to 15 charges dating ba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Petroleum Products Prices And Subsidies in Nigeria - Chief Martin Onovo
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Lagos - Chief Martin Onovo, a Seasoned Petroleum Engineer And the National Leader of the Strategic Union of Professionals for the Advancement of Nigeria, Supa in This Analytical Presentation Argues, U (By News Poster)...Uganda: When Museveni And Mengo Collide
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaKampala - The killing of three Baganda youths by President Yoweri Museveni's security detail at Kasumbi tombs is shocking but not surprising. There is a quiet battle between Museven (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC to Fight Ruling Against Struggle Songs
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THERE can be no moral equivalence between a just war against apartheid and those who sought to protect it, the African National Congress (ANC) said yesterday.The party wa (By News Poster)...Sudan: Why Oil is Critical in Preventing a Return to War in Sudan
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Rosie SharpeNairobi - While there are many outstanding issues in the implementation of the 2005 Sudanese peace deal, the issue of sharing oil revenue stands out as potentially decisive, and could l (By News Poster)...Africa: Crisis is an Indictment of Africa And the UN
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: By Jerry OkunguKampala - Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rogue rebels are at it again! If they are not maiming and butchering helpless civilians in Chad, they are ravaging the Congo basin m (By News Poster)...Kenya: ICC Verdict on Poll Chaos Raises Fear of Political Risk
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Jim OnyangoKenya's political risk profile may be downgraded in the coming months following the International Criminal Court's decision to allow its prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to start investigat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Health, Poverty Remain High in Bonthe Island, Sierra Leone
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Adeze OjukwuLagos - Recently a 17-man team, under the aegis of Nigerian Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) and Africa Vision Tract House (AVTH) embarked on a one-week free medical mission to Sier (By News Poster)...South Africa: Seizure of Zimbabwean Property 'Drop in the Ocean'
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Wyndham HartleyJohannesburg - A Zimbabwean property valued at R2,5m in Cape Town was seized yesterday to cover the legal costs of obtaining an order against President Robert Mugabe for illegally co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Give MPs Information On HIV
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Harare - The HIV and Aids pandemic has ravaged the country and many others in sub-Saharan Africa causing untold damage to the socio-economic lives of Africa's populations.Many breadwinners, bright bra (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe's premier struggles for slice of power
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: In office but not in power CommentBy Tony Hawkins in HarareWhen Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, agreed to open an exhibition commemorating victims of political violence, the poli (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Reform Agenda Faces Zanu PF Resistance
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has cobbled up an ambitious plan that might see government relaxing draconian media and security laws by the end of the year but analysts sa (By News Poster)...Africa: Population Explosion - Africa is Sitting On a Time Bomb
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Peter MuliraKampala - With the population of Africa predicted to double within the next 30 years, the economic future of its people is set to be very bleak unless something is done to combat the un (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Firm Sues Bank over Unlawful Sale of Property
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Innocent AnabaA construction company, Buebe Ventures Limited and its Managing Director, have sued Skye Bank Plc before a Lagos High Court, challenging the sale of a property the company used as col (By News Poster)...Uganda: Crime Drops
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Rodney Muhumuza & Andrew BagalaKampala - For the second consecutive year, according to a new report, the police are reporting a decrease in the overall crime rate, a scenario said to be inspired by (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: D-Day for Banks
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Harare - FINANCIAL institutions are today expected to have met the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's deadline for new minimum capital levels, with indications being that most of the banking institutions have (By News Poster)...South Africa: Proposed Property Reforms on Shaky Ground
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Nichola De HavillandJohannesburg - THE right to land tenure and ownership is inextricably linked to the right to human dignity. Yet little progress has been made in the past 15 years to undo the ce (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Probe Orders Arrest of Phillip Chiyangwa
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Feluna Nleya and Jennifer DubeA special committee investigating the illegal and irregular sale of land by the Harare City Council has recommended that property mogul Phillip Chiyangwa be arrested f (By News Poster)...ANC's Malema to Address Rallies in Country
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Harare - FIREBRAND African National Congress Youth League chairman Cde Julius Malema is expected in Zimbabwe on Friday to show solidarity with the people and their fight for full economic independence (By News Poster)...Country Still Struggling to Come to Terms with Its Past
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: A year after setting up Zimbabwe's unity government, the southern African country is still struggling to find ways of coming to terms with its past.President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe sinc (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Cops Shot My Sleeping Son'
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Nompumelelo MagwazaPolice were on the hunt for a dangerous prison escaper when they stormed into a house near Empangeni late on Wednesday night.Shots rang out and a 15-year-old schoolboy, who had a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Asks Obama to Revisit Terror Blacklist
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaActing President Goodluck Jonathan has urged President Barack Obama to revisit the classification of Nigeria by the United States as a "country of interest" on the terror list follow (By News Poster)...South Africa: SACP Says Spying On Media is 'Corrupt'
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - THE South African Communist Party (SACP) yesterday joined President Jacob Zuma in condemning the alleged investigation of journalists by politicians.Speaking at the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Amcon - CBN's Controversial Reform
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Bamidele AdekunleLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is taking a radical step - strategic reengineering - in the management and sustainability of the financial market in Nigeria. The recent r (By News Poster)...Uganda: Zuma Leads SA Firms in Mineral Hunt
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By David Malingha DoyaNairobi - South Africa is leveraging historic liberation ties with Kampala in a hunt for mining investment opportunities in Uganda -- a quest that gained added urgency with SA Pr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Business Deals Worth Billions Signed with China
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - SA's leading trading partner, China, took its partnership to a new level with the signing of business deals worth R2,3bn yesterday.The contract s, which will see SA su (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Contentious Issues Abound as Zuma-Led Talks End
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Dumisani Muleya and Faith ZabaNEGOTIATORS from the three political parties in the inclusive government yesterday finished the current round of talks with a mixed bag of outstanding contentious issu (By News Poster)...Killer Diseases of Africa's Poor not Publicized
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Pamela OletSleeping sickness, elephantiasis, leprosy, helminthiasis, trachoma, leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcers, schistomiaisis and yaws are among neglected diseases that still ravage lives covertly as (By News Poster)...East Africa: The Military as 'Agents for Change'
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Kigali - East African armies should be used as a resource to fight HIV/AIDS in the general population, a workshop on HIV/AIDS in the peace and security sectors heard in the Rwandan capital, Kigali."Pe (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-03-2010)
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- I think that when you run an internet page - be it a blog or a website - that it has to be run responsibly. By messing about with a photogr (By The BeardedMan)...Africa: Africa Groans Under Foreign Shipping Domination
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Andrew AirahuobhorTHE PHRASE, 'He who controls transport, controls the trade' has remained a truism. Especially in Africa, where there is a near total dependence on foreigners to provide shipping s (By News Poster)...Mozambique: IMF Mission Praises Country Economic Management
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued further glowing praise for the Mozambican economy, following a visit by an IMF mission in the second half of March.The mission conducted a six (By News Poster)...South Africa: Let us be Serious about Land Reform
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Stephen HofstatterJohannesburg - THERE's an almost calculated recklessness about the way our top land officials are steering the national debate on limiting land ownership rights. One moment we're (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's parties will have little to tell Zuma as Mugabe once again digs in his heels
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Stanley Gama, Foreign ServiceHarare - President Robert Mugabe appears to have dug in his heels again, and so negotiators from Zimbabwe's three main parties are expected to have little progres (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Step Up War Against STIs
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Harare - THE near-doubling in recorded cases of sexually transmitted diseases in Harare and its satellite towns last year is more than just worrying.The figures strongly suggest that the generation th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Small Banks Must Consider Mergers
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Harare - IT LOOKS increasingly likely that some banks will not have met the minimum capital requirements set by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe when the deadline expires today.This is unfortunate. The re (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Constitution Interpretation Not Solution to Present Problem, Says Rev. Okotie
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Sam EyobokaONE person who is not fascinated by all the talks about impeaching ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and making Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as a substantive president of Nigeri (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Three Injured in Bomb Blast
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - Three people were seriously injured in a bomb blast at about 13.30 on Tuesday afternoon outside a four storey house on Avenida do Zimbabwe in the plush Maputo suburb of Sommerschield.The expl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Jos Massacre Fostered Reconciliation Among Feuding Politicians
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiLagos - Although the recent crisis of January 17, 2010 in Jos, the Plateau State capital, which resulted in loss of lives and properties left devastating effects on the people of the (By News Poster)...Uganda: Banks Crave for Partnership With Govt
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - Uganda's banking industry is counting on collaboration with the different arms of government to speed up reforms necessary to minimise risk and lower the cost of doing busines (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Agreement in Sight as Talks Deadline Passes
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Alex BellAn agreement meant to be thrashed out by Zimbabwe's feuding political parties has remained out of sight, with a deadline for an agreement to be reached passing on Monday.The deadline was s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe students arrested as police crash demo
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: The police beat the protestors Harare - Police have arrested 15 students in Harare and 10 in Masvingo as they pounced on the students who were preparing for a demonstration demanding the full (By News Poster)...Uganda: Countries in Frantic Search for Affordable Electricity
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Cosmas ButunyiNairobi - Experts are urging African countries to wean themselves from reliance on expensive thermal sources of energy used during emergency power production.If this call is heeded, g (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robbery - Deposit Your Money With Us, Police Advise Petrol Stations
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Kingsley OmonobAbuja - Following alleged robbery attacks on two petrol stations along Airport road, in the FCT, authorities of the Lugbe Police division, have sent instructions to the owners of pet (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I Need Re-Building, Not Re-Branding
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Moses IlohLagos - My name is Nigeria ! I am divided into 36 unequal states, plus my capital territory, christened ABUJA . I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of wat (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Frelimo And Renamo Clash Over Government Programme
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - Voting in favour of the Mozambican government's five year programme for 2010-2014 "means voting for economic and social progress and for the industrialization of Mozambique", declared Margari (By News Poster)...North Africa: Colonial-Era Laws Lead to High Rate of Executions
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Sanjay SuriLondon - The Middle East leads the world in executions after China, says an annual Amnesty International report released Tuesday."The Middle East and North Africa have the highest per ca (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabwe Properties Attached to Pay Farmers
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - CIVIL rights group AfriForum plans to serve attachment orders today against four properties in Cape Town owned by the Zimbabwe government.This marks the first time (By News Poster)...South Africa: Local, Swedish Church Leaders Lash Out at Arms Deal
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Munyaradzi MakoniCape Town - South African and Swedish church leaders have reiterated grave concerns that a 10-year-old arms deal that involved Sweden with South Africa threatens the fledgling Afri (By News Poster)...Coastguard Seizes Pirates, Frees Hostages
Monday 29-Mar-2010: This afternoon, 29th March, the EU NAVFOR Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) from the Seychelles supported the Seychelles Coast Guard vessel Topaz to locate and apprehend a hijacked ship.Robust action fro (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Apology to Women Victims a Welcome Step
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) welcomes the apology given by Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma on Saturday to women victims of the country’s 10-year armed conf (By News Poster)...Kenya: Excitement Over Oil Discovery Rekindles False Find Memories
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Zeddy SambuIn the plains of Isiolo in Northern Kenya, the search for oil continues as drilling gangs -- hoping to strike the elusive wealth -- faithfully sink millions of dollars in the dream.Optim (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV/Aids Spread On the Increase in the North
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Sam Lawino And David OkumuReports show that there has been an increase in the spread of Aids due to alcohol abuse, commercial sex, multiple sex partners and poverty among others, Sam Lawino and Dav (By News Poster)...East Africa: Piracy Threat Rises as Tactics Improve
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Joe MbuthiNairobi - Maritime security is under a much bigger threat from the Somali pirates than earlier thought, a spokesman for the French chief of staff said on Friday.Speaking to a visiting gro (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Land Rights Education Empowers Kisarawe Women
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Orton KiishwekoDar Es Salaam - THERE is a significant sense of change among women's lives in Kisarawe following public education on their land rights, saving them from cultures and traditions which (By News Poster)...Defense Witness Says, Taylor Did Not Help Plan The Invasion Of Sierra Leone in 1991
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayA defense witness for Charles Taylor has told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague that a prosecution witness lied in his 2008 evidence when he testified that the former Li (By News Poster)...South Africa: SACP Warns On 'Tenderisation' of the State
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE South African Communist Party (SACP) yesterday called for a reconsideration of how government tenders were awarded in order to stem the tide against corruption.Addres (By News Poster)...Namibia: Otavi Farm Murder Case in High Court
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA FARM murder and robbery case that has been languishing in the lower courts at Otavi and Otjiwarongo for the past four and a half years finally landed in the High Court yesterday.More (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Crime hell: Murder of Terre'Blanche must be condemned
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [The same old claptrap from Zuma. Jan] South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, has appealed for calm and warned against "agents provocateur" inciting violence after the murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche (By Jan)...Africa: Southern Africa Has Potential for Geothermal 'Clean' Energy
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Recent geological surveys have provided evidence that Malawi, Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania have huge potential for geothermal energy, which could reduce heavy reliance on hydropower (By News Poster)...How 'free and fair' are 'regular' elections in Country?
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Rampholo MolefheBlack History month offers an opportunity for some introspection about the manner in which Botswana has acquitted itself with regard to the practice of democracy.USAID, in recent ye (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country, China in R2.3 Billion Trade Agreement
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Pretoria - South Africa and China have signed trade contracts for products such as wine, frozen fish abalone and chrome oil worth R2.3 billion."This signing ceremony will mark the deepening of mutuall (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma-Led Talks to Be Concluded on Monday
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe country's rival political parties were expected to conclude their talks on Monday, on the remaining issues in the Global Political Agreement, exactly two years to the day since (By News Poster)...South Africa's Malema to hold rallies in Zimbabwe, Herald says
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Repeatedly sings "Kill the whites" Julius Malema, leader of the youth wing of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, will visit Zimbabwe this week to hold political rallies, the Hera (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fresh Twist to MDC-T's Sanctions Call
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Tendai MugabeHarare - MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai has succumbed to pressure from elements within his party to backtrack on calling for the lifting of illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, s (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clan Fighting Kills 25 People in Central Somalia
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: At least 25 people, mostly fighters from both sides, are killed while dozens others wounded on Wednesday after inter-clan fighting broke out in a village in central Somali region of Mudug, reports say (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: NGO's Seek Meeting with Zuma over Upsurge in Violence
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaA grouping of NGO's, under the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, say they are seeking an audience with South Africa's mediating President Jacob Zuma, over the rising levels of violence and ha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 80 Arrested in Masvingo Gold Rush
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By George MapongaHundreds of fortune seekers from all over Masvingo have descended on Kimberley and Kismet farms just outside the city following discovery of gold deposits there.The gold rush has rais (By News Poster)...Uganda: Citizens Still Afraid of the Lord's Resistance Army
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still afraid to return to their villages, despite a lull in attac (By News Poster)...Zim: Kasukuwere blasts Gono
Monday 29-Mar-2010: "We will only take note of him when the governor stops his megaphone criticism" Chris MuronziIndigenisation and Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere has slammed Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gov (By News Poster)...Kenya: Somali Militia Attacks in Territory
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A joint police and military force was on Wednesday deployed to Liboi in Garissa District following an incursion by Somalia's al-Shabaab.Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe confirmed the team was (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Villagers Face Eviction to Make Way for Biofuel Cultivation
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe construction of a US$600 million ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Manicaland province has ignited a storm of protests and claims that it could result in thousands of families being (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bududa Landslide Victims Struggling to Move On
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Daniel EdyeguKampala - A massive landslide swept down the slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern Uganda on March 1, killing at least 80 people, with 350 missing and feared dead. Despite warnings of looming (By News Poster)...Eskom Price Hikes - Hay or Nay?
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - DID the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) do the right thing by allowing Eskom successive 25% price hikes over the next three years?It's an impossibly hard question to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Shocked By Mugabe Claims
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteMdc-T has described President Robert Mugabe's claims that the three political parties in the unity agreement have not reached an agreement as a "gobsmacking political somersault" wh (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CT Nigeria Unveils 'Diesel Tracker' Solution
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Lagos - In a bid to guarantee management and control of expenditures in the provision of standby electric power supply to primary and remote facilities of organisations, Communication Towers Nigeria L (By News Poster)...Africa: Black Heritage Festival Takes Centre Stage
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: By Ade AdetulaIN THE history of Black Race, the 17th century stood out and left an indelible mark. It was the period a continent of millions was violated and sentenced to a century of backwardness and (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Bomb Blast Suspect Arrested
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested a suspect in the case of a bomb blast in the Maputo suburb of Sommerschield on Tuesday afternoon, reports Thursday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".Th (By News Poster)...Navy Planning Deployment of Three Frigates to Protect World Cup - Blood from a Rock
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: South Africa's arms-deal frigates are being deployed to protect coastal soccer stadiums during the World Cup - but parliament wants proof that they are capable of doing the job. (By JanOlifant)...Mozambique: High Growth, Low Inflation Remain Government Targets
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government's programme for the 2010-2014 period, presented on Tuesday to the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, seeks to ensure an average annual growth rate o (By News Poster)...Africa: Ministers, Central Bank Governors Meet On Global Crisis
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianFinance Ministers and Central Bank governors from South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal and Ethiopia began a two-day meeting hosted by the African Union and the Uni (By News Poster)...Afriforum seizes Zim property
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: "We are sending out a message to show the Zimbabwean government that there are certain consequences to their abuse of human rights" Afriforum seized a Cape Town property belonging to the Zimba (By News Poster)...South Africa: Low HIV Prevalence on University Campuses
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - HIV prevalence rates among South Africa's university students remain low, but risk is never far off according to one of the largest surveys ever conducted in the country.The study of al (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Investigators Barred from Controversial Mine
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Alex BellA parliamentary committee that was to investigate operations at the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields were this week barred from entering the site, with sources claming Mines Minister (By News Poster)...Kenya: ICC Prosecutor Welcomes Decision to Move Forward with Violence Probe
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today welcomed the body's decision to grant his request to investigate alleged crimes against humanity committed in the wake of disputed Kenyan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Aganga - Nation Needs to Spend On Quality Projects
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - A Managing Director of US international investment bank Goldman Sachs, Mr. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, has said Nigeria's budget deficit is not bad in itself as long as the mone (By News Poster)...No Surprises Expected in Budget
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Jo-Maré DuddyNO major surprises - good or bad - are expected when Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila tables Namibia's 20th main budget, and her seventh, in Parliament this afternoon.The re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 33 Perish in Road Crashes
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Harare - THIRTY-THREE people were killed and 19 others were seriously injured in three separate road accidents in Honde Valley, Kwekwe and Bindura yesterday.Fourteen farmers died early yesterday morni (By News Poster)...Power Cuts Worsen After Thermal Plant Shuts Down
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaThe Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) on Saturday issued a statement warning customers to expect extended power cuts following the complete shut down of the Hwange thermal plan (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Seize Clothes of Kasubi Tombs Fire Suspect As Probe Hots Up
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Kampala - The police on Wednesday interrogated the family of Joseph Musoke, the man who said he burnt Kasubi tombs a fortnight ago, reports Francis Kagolo and Jeff Lule.Sources said the Police also vi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Poor Returns for Ukambani Farmers
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Nairobi - There is a bumper maize harvest in Ukambani but not many happy faces among farmers. The region has harvested up to 300,000 bags of maize planted during the short rains season but the growers (By News Poster)...East Africa: Region Integrates HIV Policies
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Kigali - As the East African Community (EAC) becomes more integrated, countries in the region are developing a common HIV Prevention and Management Bill that will establish minimum standards for HIV s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyans May Soon 'Adopt' Aids Patients as Donors Close Taps for Drugs Funding
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Kenyans may have to dig into their pockets to help fund Aids treatment following a huge deficit caused by the country's failure to get cash from the Global Fund.The government is agonising o (By News Poster)...Zim: No, I can't take such racism: Kasukuwere
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Walked out of the meeting after Hawkins likened the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act to apartheid law Sunday Mail ReporterYouth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Cde Savio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Low HIV Prevalence Among Students - Study
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Anso ThomSouth Africa's student population recorded an HIV prevalence of 3,4% in the first comprehensive study to survey the scope and impact of HIV and AIDS on the higher education sector in South (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Warriors Ready to Roll
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - WARRIORS skipper Method Mwanjali wants his home-based troops to keep alive their love affair with the fans by maintaining their unbeaten run in the African Championship of Na (By News Poster)...West Africa: Ecowas Launches Appeal for Partners to Help Regional Effort to Check Proliferation of Arms in Region
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Abuja - Nigeria - ECOWAS has launched on appeal to its European Union partners to help limit the influx into West Africa of small arms and light weapons West Africa which had contributed to more than (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Seize State Property
Friday 02-Apr-2010: DISPOSSESSED white farmers in Zimbabwe have struck back through the South African courts by seizing a property in Cape Town owned by government.The house has been attached by the sheriff's office afte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shell Threatens Further Shut Down of Gas Plants
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - The increase of 3,362mw of electricity generation recorded by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) last weekend may be short-lived as Shell Petroleum Development Comp (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Child-Centred Approach Vital in Art
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Roselyne SachitiHarare - THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawanda Maponga (not real name) of Mbare was born with HIV and he is aware of his status.Tawanda and his mother Sheila rented a small dark room in Mbare a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Environmentalists Will 'Fight Hard' Against Eskom Loan
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - LOCAL non-governmental and environmental groups are relentless in their opposition to Eskom's $3,75bn loan, despite indications that the World Bank is keen to grant the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Artist Arrested for Controversial Exhibit Released
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaOwen Maseko, the artist who was arrested last week for staging an exhibition in Bulawayo about the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres, was finally released on bail of $100 on Tuesday. He has a (By News Poster)...Somalia: EU NAVFOR Dutch Warship Tromp Disrupts More Pirate Action Groups
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Continuing success by EU NAVFOR over the last 24 hours by Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) and EU NAVFOR HNLMS Tromp, has led to the detention of 10 suspected pirates and the destruction of a Pirate Act (By News Poster)...Uganda: Zuma Opens Tambo Leadership School
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Anne MugisaKampala - SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma yesterday officially opened the Oliver Tambo Leadership School at Kaweweta in Nakaseke District.He and President Yoweri Museveni also laid wr (By News Poster)...Ghana: Confusion Over Oil Revenue Estimates
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Frederick AsiamahAccra - As part of managing people's expectations ahead of the first flow of oil from the Jubilee Field in the last quarter of this year, some players in the oil and gas industry o (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting in Mogadishu Kills 20, Injures Over 30
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: At least 20 people were killed and more than 30 others injured on Friday in fresh fierce fighting that rocked parts of Somalia 's restive capital Mogadishu, medics and witnesses said.Witnesses said cl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett Faces New Charges as Judge Defers Terrorism Ruling
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaRoy Bennett, the MDC-T Treasurer General and Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate, was hit with a summons to appear at the Chipinge Magistrates' Court in April, on a new charge of a (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Seize 11 Somalia-Bound Ships
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Somali pirates have reportedly hijacked at least 11 commercial boats bound for war-torn Somalia over the last 2 days.Somali traders reported that the eleven Mogadishu and Kismayo-bound commercial boat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Human Rights and Electoral Commissions Sworn in
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaNew commissioners for the independent Human Rights and Electoral Commissions were sworn in by Robert Mugabe in Harare on Wednesday.While many people have hailed the new developments (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Sexual Violence Against Female Students in Country
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Jeneba KoromaThe term "sexual violence" as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is "any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Kidnappers of Two Local Students at Lagos Airport
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorThe police at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, has arrested the kidnappers who abducted two female Nigerian students studying in Malaysia, while waiting fo (By News Poster)...Malta flagged oil tanker evades pirate attack
Monday 29-Mar-2010: On the morning 27 of March the Malta-flagged tanker MV SAVEH with a deadweight of 150 000 tonnes, was attacked by a Pirate Attack Group (PAG) approximately 300 Nautical Miles north east of Seychelles. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Will Oil Wealth Improve the Economy?
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Dr. Ian ClarkeKampala - MOST people assume that when the oil starts flowing the economy will automatically improve, but this is not a given. There will definitely be more finance flowing into Ugand (By News Poster)...More Proof That Richard Branson is in It for the Long Haul
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - SIR RICHARD Branson, champion of the downtrodden consumer, flew into the country last week to officially launch the newest Virgin company in SA, V Australia.In true Vir (By News Poster)...Kenya: Global Fund Denies Funding for HIV/ Aids
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - Pregnant mothers who are HIV-positive could soon find it challenging to access life-saving HIV drugs because Kenya was denied 270 million dollars in funding from the Glob (By News Poster)...Namibia: The Experts Comment
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyECONOMISTS' first reaction last night to Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila's Budget varied from "quite impressed" and "overall good" to "not bad at all", "okay" and "disappoi (By News Poster)...Namibia: Budget Balloons
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesFOR the third year running, Government plans to boost its spending in the coming financial year.State spending during the 2011-11 financial year is projected to increase by some 14 per (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Judge Releases Traffickers in Women
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Maputo - A Maputo judge has released the seven people arrested earlier this month for trafficking women from Mozambique to South Africa.The spokesperson for the general command of the Mozambican polic (By News Poster)...Zim no go area: German business group
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: “Under the current circumstances Zimbabwe is a 'no go' area for foreign investment" By Own CorrespondentHarare - A German business delegation has cancelled a visit to Zimbabwe, put off by Ha (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-03-2010)
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Howzit I begin today with a story which is almost unbelievable. A pro-ZANU PF governor is blaming sanctions upon the fact that she travel over one thousand kilometres to work each week. This is (By The BeardedMan)...Sudan: Sudanese Go to the Polls in Less Than Two Weeks
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Sudan goes to the polls in less than two weeks in what seems to be an exciting prospect for the country that has been under one party rule for 21 years.Both the Northerners and Southerners will be tak (By News Poster)...Date Set for Outjo Child-Murder Trial
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE man accused of committing some of Namibia's most shocking crimes of 2009 was informed in the High Court in Windhoek last week that his trial is scheduled to take place at Oshakati (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: The Coast is Not Clear Yet
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: IT'S reporting season again and big corporates in Zimbabwe are giving their verdict on the health of the economy.Companies that have published their financials to date have applauded the positive deve (By News Poster)...Zambia: State Targets More Canadian Investment
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: PRESIDENT Rupiah Bandahas saidZambia will intensify efforts to attract more Canadian investments to accelerate the country's economic growth.President Banda said yesterday at State House that increase (By News Poster)...Angola: Head of State Highlights Reconciliation in Nation
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Luanda - President José Eduardo dos Santos on Wednesday in Luanda highlighted the fact that Angola is now a country in peace and reconciled, which does not intend to return to tread the path of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ministers - Battle for Petroleum Portfolio Begins
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Kunle AkogunAbuja - As the Senate rounds off the screening of ministerial nominees tomorrow, high-wired lobbying and horse trading have already started over who gets the juicy petroleum portfolio.H (By News Poster)...Somalia: Both Sides in War Have Links in Kenya, Says UN
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Kevin J KelleyNairobi - Kenya serves as "a major base" for Islamist groups battling Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, the United Nations says in a recent report that also details the Kenya (By News Poster)...Kenya: MPs Hit Dead End On Constitutional Review
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Members of Parliament are staring defeat in the face in their quest to introduce amendments to the draft constitution which requires at least 145 of them voting to pass each of the more than (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-04-2010)
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- There aren't very many sectors that Mugabe's thirty year destructive rule has left untouched. The entire country is falling to pieces and peo (By The BeardedMan)...Somalia: Clannish Fighting Kills Three People in Central Somalia
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Mataban - At least three people have been killed and several others wounded after clannish fighting broke out at Mataban district in Hiran region in central Somalia, witnesses told shabelle radio on T (By News Poster)...Somalia: Prolonged Conflict Necessitates Importing of Food
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Prolonged conflict in Somalia and rising world food prices have severely undermined food security, forcing most Somalis to rely on imports.However, the challenges of importing food into the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever Affecting Humans
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Dozens of farmers, veterinarians and farm workers have been infected with Rift Valley fever in South Africa, and at least two people have died, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) repor (By News Poster)...Uganda: China to Support Oil Sector
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - CHINA is increasingly looking beyond Africa's established markets to tap into opportunities in Uganda, which is expected to become a crucial new frontier in the continent's oi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Call for Calm After Murder of White Supremacist
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: South African President Jacob Zuma has called for calm following the murder of white far-right leader Eugene Terre'blanche, according to news reports.Terre'blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Future Generations Will 'Inherit Only the Wind'
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: By Ignatius BandaBulawayo - The plumes of smoke rising above the dense working class suburbs of Bulawayo are a sign of the environmental impact of Zimbabwe's electricity crisis.In January, the Hwange (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'We Are Ready', Says Health Minister
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: By Khopotso BodibeHealth Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has assured South Africans that all systems are in place to make the most ambitious HIV testing campaign the world has ever seen a success that it (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiefs' Best Foreign XI
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - ZIMBABWE international midfielder Tinashe Nengomasha has been named as one of the best foreign XI players to feature for South African glamour football club Kaizer Chiefs in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers INEC Commissioner Escapes Assassination
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By George OnahPort Harcourt - There was an attempt to assassinate or abduct Rivers State Commissioner for Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr. Austin Okojie, at the Old GRA in Port Har (By News Poster)...South Africa: Female Students Bear the Brunt of HIV Infection
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Khopotso BodibeHIV prevalence among university students in South Africa is lower than in the general population, according to a new study. But HIV infection among female students is more than doubl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Results Show Economy is Recovering
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa's revenue performance for the past year could be confirmation that the country's economy is on its way to recovery.The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on Thursday repo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Weathered the Recession - Motlanthe
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Pretoria - South Africa has come through the recession reasonably unscathed, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe."We have come through the sharpest recession in many decades with all our instituti (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Spill - Mobil, Host Community On Collision Course
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Okon BasseyUyo - Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited, operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC/MPN Joint Venture has confirmed an oil spill along Ibeno coastline in Akwa Ibo (By News Poster)...Africa: Genetic Engineering Not the Solution to Hunger in Africa
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Kumi NaidooGenetic engineering is a technology in search of a problem; a product in search of a market. This should be foremost in the minds of civil society leaders, farmers and politicians attend (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Standard Chartered Suffers U.S.$6,4 Million Loss
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Harare - STANDARD Chartered Bank Zimbabwe Limited suffered a US$6 million loss before tax, in the full year to December 2009, weighed down by a huge asset impairment and high operating costs.One of Zi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Petroleum Industry Bill
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE continued non passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is holding up the long awaited reform of the petroleum sector and if the country must move forward we challenge the National Asse (By News Poster)...Angolan Researches on Combat to Organised Crime
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Luanda - Angolan magistrate João Francisco Pedro is part of a group of judges, investigators and attorney generals from the USA and Canada appointed to carry out a scientific research on the fi (By News Poster)...Angola: Judge Part of Organised Crime Research
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Luanda - Angolan magistrate João Francisco Pedro is part of a group of judges, investigators and attorney generals from the USA and Canada appointed to carry out a scientific research on (By News Poster)...Deputy Minister Lays Down the Rules to Chinese Investors
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Jo-Maré DuddyTJEKERO Tweya yesterday made his debut as Deputy Trade and Industry Minister by telling China to stop flooding Namibia with unskilled labour and goods, and to help develop the country (By News Poster)...Senegal: American Delegation To Take Part In Country's Celebration of 50 Years Of Independence and Unveiling of the African Renaissance Monument
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: New York - Heads of state and key representatives of the African Diaspora to join three-day celebration of the future of Africa"It is the destiny of Africa, after four centuries of incomprehensible co (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Anti-Counterfeit Laws Threaten Universal Access to ARVs
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Wambi MichaelArusha - East African countries risk not attaining the millennium development goal (MDG) on universal treatment of people living with HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases if the re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rights Group Says Villagers Flee Violence in Shamva
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaAnother disturbing report from Mashonaland Central was issued on Thursday, saying more MDC supporters have been forced to flee their homes by ZANU PF youths.The Restoration of Human Rig (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arik - 200 Passengers Escape Terrorist Attack
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Bassey InyangCalabar - ABOUT 200 passengers and crew members narrowly escaped death at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar on Wednesday when a young man, apparently on a suicide miss (By News Poster)...Kenya: International Court Grants Probe into Post-Election Violence
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: The International Criminal Court (ICC) today granted the prosecutor's request to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Kenya in post-election ethnic violence two years ago, when s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Men Take a Hands-On Approach to Pregnancy
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Men in rural Zimbabwean are taking a hands-on approach to pregnancy - and to preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission.The UNICEF-sponsored "Male Champions" programme is working to ge (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Policeman Accused of Murder
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police confirmed on Monday that a police officer shot a 26 year old civilian dead in the plush Maputo suburb of Sommerschield in the early hours of Sunday morning.Maputo police (By News Poster)...South Africa: Optimum Coal's JSE Listing 'to Aid Growth'
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - OPTIMUM Coal, a black-owned and controlled coal mining and exploration group, listed in the "general mining" sector on the JSE main board yesterday morning, opening with i (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Drought and Floods Bring Food Shortages
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Extensive flooding along the rivers of central and southern Mozambique during March, in tandem with persistent drought in other parts of the same areas, have left 465,000 people in need (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Universal V Specialized Banking - As the CBN Decides
Monday 29-Mar-2010: The Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, recently disclosed that the apex bank is in the process of discarding the universal banking system for a "new order" that would usher in speciali (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Killer Cop Arraigned, Remanded in Custody
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel UgwuUmuahia - The police constable, Christopher Obano, who shot and killed a butcher at a check point, was yesterday arraigned at an Umuahia Chief Magistrate court on one Count charge of m (By News Poster)...Gambia: PW2 Cross Examined in Gidda-Giboro Land Case
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Kebba CamaraFamara Sanneh, the Station Officer at Mandinaba Police Station, who earlier testified in the ongoing Jidda-Giboro land case, was cross examined on Monday, 29 March, by Defence Counsel B (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SA Govt Opposes Ruling on White Farmers
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Lloyd GumboHarare - THE South African government has appealed against a ruling by a Pretoria High Court judge last month upholding a Sadc Tribunal judgement ordering Zimbabwe to compensate white fa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 6000 Megawatts - '1 Bilion Metric Tonnes of Gas for Power Plants Realisable'
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Udeme ClementThe National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) says recent target given to major gas companies by the Federal Government to provide one billion metric tonnes of gas s (By News Poster)...Somalia: Traders Help Keep the Country Fed
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Despite the insecurity and the lack of a formal banking system, the private sector is alive and well in Somalia - and helping feed the country.Against all the odds, more than 50 percent of the food co (By News Poster)...South Africa: Vavi to Tackle ANC Over Malema's 'Disdain'
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi yesterday said the bilateral meeting with the African National Congress (ANC) next (By News Poster)...Uganda: Chamber of Petroleum And Minerals Formed
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Kampala - Entities involved in oil exploration, mineral extraction and service providers to the natural resources extraction industry have formed a chamber. Uganda chamber of Mineral and Petroleum is (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnappers, Robbers Lay Siege to Port Harcourt
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Ofonime UmanahPort-Harcourt - Like a whirlwind, daredevil armed robbers swept through Port Harcourt on Monday, storming a new generation bank at Government Reservation Area (GRA) in the Garden City (By News Poster)...American History: Myths about the Black Slaves during the Civil War....
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: [Here are excerpts from some discussions I had with a lady friend who is very interested in the Civil war. Jan] I wrote:- This is so utterly fascinating. There is no doubt in my mind lincoln t (By Jan)...Africa: Religious Leaders Call for Strong Arms Trade Treaty
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Fredrick NzwiliKigali - African religious leaders meeting in the Rwandan capital of Kigali have called on their governments to support calls for a strong and comprehensive treaty against arms tradi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Blasts in Warri
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Two explosive devices recently went off at the venue of a meeting in Delta State Government House Annex in Warri, held to advance the Federal Government's amnesty programme for militants in the Niger (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Uganda Army Disputes Report on LRA Massacre
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Benon Herbert OlukaKampala - The army has disputed a report that recent massacres allegedly committed by the Lord's Resistance Army in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo proves that the reb (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Backs Bail for Judge's Wife
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Fatima SchroederThe pair accused of murdering Acting Cape High Court Judge Patrick Maqubela were back in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court to apply for bail.The judge's widow, Thandi Maqubela, and N (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Intercept Copper Cables
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Harare - POLICE have intercepted eight tonnes of copper worth thousands of United States dollars that were being smuggled into South Africa aboard a Malawi haulage truck.Six suspects, three of them Ma (By News Poster)...Zambia: Local Clergy Breaking Silence On HIV/Aids
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Jessie Ngoma-SimengwaTHE Church in Zambia has in recent years generally shifted from being hyperconservative to adopting fresh approaches to issues in order to remain relevant to its members, who a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Claim Stakes in Big Mines - Kasukuwere
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Harare - Government is moving at full speed to implement the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act with calls for locals to claim stakes in big mines that are wholly owned by foreign investors.A (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ocampo Coming in a Month
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Nairobi - The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday announced that he will travel to Kenyan in May to start investigations into the post-election violence.Addres (By News Poster)...Liberia: Blood Bottles Sent to Ivory Coast
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Jerome ToeThe Ministries of Justice, Internal Affairs, and Information have disclosed in a joint news conference Tuesday that investigations in the Maryland County ritualistic situation must be han (By News Poster)...America's Homegrown Communist Revolution: What has Obama been up to the last 20 years?
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [I asked a friend of mine who has a lot of information at his fingertips about Obama. It appears to me American did not really know who this Obama guy was. In the movie "We the People" which is all in (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Charges Suspects of Jos Crises With Terrorism
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Ahmed MohammedJos - The Federal Government has charged 32 persons over the January 2010 Jos crisis and the raid in Dogo Nahauwa and Rasat villages with terrorism.The charges filed through the Assis (By News Poster)...South Africa: Khanyi Dhlomo Finds that Magazines are her Destiny
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Doug GordonJohannesburg - KHANYI Dhlomo is the kind of business executive that movies are made about.Now 35, she's taken 15 years to graduate from media princess to publishing entrepreneur. Today, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Some Banks Still Operate Off-Site ATM's in Lagos
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Some banks in Lagos are still operating their off-site Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) after the expiration of central bank's deadline that banks close all such machines.The CBN had directed banks to (By News Poster)...West Africa: Rice Versus Vegetables
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Dakar - Rice may still be a symbol of food security across Africa, but the cereal does little to boost nutrition, unlike vegetables, according to the India-based International Crops Research Institute (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Government Will Digitalise Land Register
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government intends to digitalise the national land register so as to speed up the granting of land tenure rights, Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca told the country's parliamen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Woodlots - Alternative Source of Curing Tobacco
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - ZIMBABWE'S land reform programme marked the increase in the number of small-scale tobacco growers in the country.This has resulted in a massive shift in the tobacco-growing b (By News Poster)...Kenya: Let Farmers' Needs Drive Research
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - The world's agricultural scientists have done life-saving work in university laboratories, global research centres and government agencies.Millions across the developing world (By News Poster)...Angola: South African Ambassador Praises Nation's Role Within SADC
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Brazzaville - The new South African ambassador to the Republic of Congo, Manelisi Genge, praised on Tuesday in Brazzaville the socio-economic progress of Angola since the achievement of peace for the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S. Collaborate with Country, Private Companies, to Reach Energy Targets
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Daniel AlfredTHE American Ambassador to Nigeria, Robin R. Sanders has disclosed that the U.S. Government is collaborating with the government and with the Independent Power Providers Association of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No End in Sight for Country
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe's feuding political parties look set to miss yet another deadline to conclude talks on outstanding issues from their power sharing agreement with indications that sharp differences h (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe police support for sacked Anglican bishop uncovered
Monday 29-Mar-2010: “One church led by Kunonga" Harare - An operational order has uncovered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) support for excommunicated former Anglican Church of Zimbabwe Bishop Nolbert Kunong (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Task Force Averts Another Crisis
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Andrew AgbeseJos - The special task force maintaining peace in Plateau State has so far arrested 252 persons for various offences.The special task force made up of the military and other security a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Crane Bank Posts Highest Profit Ever
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Patrick KagendaKampala - Last year was a year of excellent results at Crane Bank. The bank achieved its highest profit levels since its inception in 1995."Not only did the bank receive the Banker a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Man Confesses to Torching World Heritage Site
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Herbert Ssempogo, Annet Naluggwa and Edward AnyoliKampala - A MAN yesterday walked to a Kampala Police station and allegedly confessed setting ablaze the Kasubi Tombs, a renowned world heritage sit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Equitorial Trust Bank Fires 150 Staff
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeEquatorial Bank yesterday fired 150 staff in a bid to restructure its operations for increased efficiency.ETB is one of the eight banks rescued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (By News Poster)...Nigeria: No Joy for Dora - And Other Stories
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Simon KolawoleLagos - Have you heard the news? Professor Dora Akunyili, the former Minister of Information and the woman who, as it were, engineered the declaration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as acti (By News Poster)...Uganda: Opposition Leader to be Probed for Claiming Museveni Sold Lake Kyoga
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Milton OlupotKampala - President Yoweri Museveni has said opposition leader Col. Kizza Besigye will be questioned by the Police over his remarks that the Government has sold Lake Kyoga to a South A (By News Poster)...Uganda: NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says UN
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Paul VirgoRome - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are guilty of judging a palm oil project in Uganda on innuendo rather than its merits, the United Nations poverty agency supporting the contro (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Small' Capitec Makes Big Profit Splash
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - CAPITEC Bank may still be small by the standards of SA's big banks, but its shareholders are likely to be happier than their big-bank counterparts after Capitec reported a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Signs RBZ Bill Into Law
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Harare - President Mugabe has signed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Bill into law, which will see a number of administrative changes at the central bank.Chief Secretary in the Office of the President an (By News Poster)...Govt Seeks U.S.$135 Million to Ease Power Cuts
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Loughty DubeGOVERNMENT is seeking about US$135 million from two African financial institutions to deal with the current electricity shortage that has resulted in increased power rationing throughou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: No Investment Without Deregulation, Ajumogobia Tells Senate
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi , World Bank Country Director, Onno Ruhl, during the inspection of Amaku General Hospital, Awka, on Tuesday.Indigenous oil firms contribute onl (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Bank of Kigali Profits Drop 7%
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Saul ButeraKigali - Bank of Kigali (BK) has recorded a plunge in its total earnings for 2009 at the back of the global financial crisis.The bank's financial results, which were released on Monday, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Withdraws Two Ministerial Nominees
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - Former Minister of National Planning Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman's hope of being re-appointed to the new cabinet may have been dashed yesterday.His nomination has been stepped down, (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Large' Rift Valley Fever Outbreak
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), described as "large" by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), has claimed the lives of two people and poses a signi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: World Bank Projects - African Leaders Seek More Funding
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaNew York - Leaders of the African continent, concerned about an emerging funding crisis at the World Bank, have called on member countries of the global bank to support the bank's bi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Katto in Court Over Junk Chopper Bribe
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Edward AnyoliKampala - In February 2005, Emma Katto was charged with offering a bribe to Gen. Caleb Akandawanaho, a.k.a Salim Saleh, allegedly to influence him to award him a tender to supply MI-24 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Survey Disputes World Cup Ripoffs
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - THE overwhelming majority, 74%, of SA's accommodation establishments are not hiking rates substantially for the Soccer World Cup, according to a Grant Thornton study is (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: The Death of Eugene Terreblanche is a Declaration of War...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: White supremacist's killing a 'declaration of war' VENTERSDORP, South Africa (AP) - A top member of a South African white supremacist group says the slaying of their leader is "a declaration of war (By Jan)...Prime Minister Detained, then Released (NEWS)
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Paul OhiaPrime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior of Guinea Bissau was detained yesterday and later released by soldiers who threatened to kill him if there are any solidarity rallies by his supporters.S (By News Poster)...South Africa: Maize Millers 'In Far-Reaching Price-Fixing Cartel'
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - SA's maize millers now face charges of price-fixing, after the Competition Commission yesterday said it had referred a probe into them to the Competition Tribunal.Miller (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dairy Industry in Dire Straits
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Harare - The dairy industry in Zimbabwe is facing collapse and Government should move in swiftly and take stock of existing dairy farms to help them revitalise the sector.Giving oral evidence before t (By News Poster)...Parliamentarians probing Zimbabwe diamond field abuses hit corporate barrier
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Wanted to inspect Canadile's facilities for the storage of diamonds Sandra NyairaWashington - As Zimbabwe Parliament committee members opened a fact-finding mission to the Marange diamond fiel (By News Poster)...South Africa: Company May Pump R200 Million Into Local Business
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - SA HAS been selected as one of three African countries for investment by LeapFrog Investments, the world's first micro-insurance fund, and up to R200m could be invested in (By News Poster)...Kenya: Moi to Lose Mau Land Without Pay
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Paul Ilado and Geoffrey MosokuNairobi - POWERFUL individuals including former President Daniel arap Moi who were allocated huge parcels of land in the Mau Forest will not only lose their land but w (By News Poster)...Zim: No respite in Anglican feud
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Hundreds of parishioners hold their sermons in the open By Jennifer DubeMolly Mudiwa (54) is a bitter woman. She is a strong Christian, but this time Mudiwa believes she has no option but to l (By News Poster)...Somalia: New Battle Breaks Out in Mogadishu
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Somalia - Heavy conformation between the transitional government troops backing by the African Union troops AMISOM has broken out in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing one, wounding 5, wit (By News Poster)...Kenya: Blast Kills Somali District Commissioner
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The district commissioner of Hamar Jabajab, one of the neighbourhoods controlled by the Transitional Federal Government, has been killed by a landmine while inspecting a residential area.The (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Bars MPs from Touring Chiadzwa Fields
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Kelvin JakachiraGOVERNMENT yesterday barred MPs from the Mines and Energy portfolio committee from touring the Chiadzwa diamond fields on a fact-finding mission amid allegations of underhand dealin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Maya Charged With Inciting Violence
Friday 02-Apr-2010: Harare - Former presidential candidate Shakespeare Maya last week appeared in court for allegedly inciting MDC-T supporters to violently overthrow the Zanu-PF Government in 2005.Maya, who contested an (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Hunger Pushes Kony Out of Darfur
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Risdel KasasiraKampala - Lord's Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony and his fighters have crossed back to the Central African Republic from southern Darfur looking for food, the Uganda People' (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mom Kills Two Daughters, Then Herself
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Murray WilliamsA De Doorns woman has shot dead her two teenage daughters in their beds before lying down between them and turning the gun on herself.The drama unfolded in the Winelands town on Wedn (By News Poster)...Somalia: Tension High in Somalia as 22 Are Killed
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Clan elders and other peace advocates are trying to defuse tension at settlements in Mudug region in Central Somalia after a war broke out between two militias at Amara (By News Poster)...Mozambique: MDM Gives Qualified Support to Government
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Maputo - The opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) on Wednesday gave its qualified support to the government's five year programme, currently under debate in the country's parliament, the As (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Besiege General's Home
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Abubakar YakubuThe wife of Major-General Suraj Alao Abdurrahman in the early hours of Monday escaped an attack by armed men, who invaded her residence at Nigeria Army Post Service Housing Scheme Es (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N58 Million Fraud - Police Arrest Bank Workers, Bursar
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By James SowoleAkure - Men of the Ondo State Police Command from the Ijebu-Owo Division have arrested two workers of first generation bank, Owo and the Bursar of the Ondo State owned Rufus Giwa Polyte (By News Poster)...Press Release: South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Submitted by K. Nel: POSTPONEMENT OF COURT CASE BETWEEN SAHGCA AND MINISTER OF POLICE The Firearms Control Act (Act 60 of 2000) (FCA) was implemented on 1 July 2004. This Act requires that all (By JoAn)...South Africa: State Fury As Mittal Ramps Up Steel Prices
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - THE government's long-running feud with ArcelorMittal boiled over yesterday, as the Department of Trade and Industry vowed to take the steel producer to the Competition Co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tension in North
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Lagos - Tension and suspense brewed yesterday in some parts of the north, particularly Maiduguri, Borno State, as the Nigerian police and immigration services were kept on red alert, as they received (By News Poster)...Kenya: Endorois get their Land Back - What about You?
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By L. Muthoni WanyekiNairobi - Those of you around Lake Bogoria last Saturday - or around their television screens - will have noticed the huge celebration taking place there.The Endorois community, o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Guruve Farmers Defy Drought
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileWHEN life became really tough, Mbuya Erica Chirimanyemba's husband deserted her and went to live in Dande, leaving her to battle with perennial droughts in the Mashonaland Central Di (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trial of 91 Over Jos Killings Begins
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Ise-Oluwa IgeAbuja - The Federal Government, last Friday, charged 91 persons suspected to have participated in the brutal killing of residents of Dogo Nahawa and Razat villages of Plateau State bef (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Urged to Fight Corruption
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Funmi OgundareLagos - Director General, Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Dr. Abdullahi Shehu, has stressed the need for the country to place more eff (By News Poster)...Angola: South African Official Praises Meeting with Former Combatants
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Luanda - South African deputy minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Thabang Makewtha, on Friday here considered as a historic moment the meeting he held with former combatants and war veterans of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S. Moves to Remove FG From Terror List
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Chinedu OfforWashington DC - Pressure by Abuja to get Nigeria off America's terrorist watch list seems to have paid off as Washington has promised to "revisit the issue."A senior White House offici (By News Poster)...West Africa: Ecowas Appeals to EU to Help Curb Arms
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Aisha Umar AgaieECOWAS has launched an appeal to its European Union partners to help limit the influx into West Africa of small arms and light weapons which has contributed to more than a decade of (By News Poster)...Namibia: Tough Union Choices Still to be Made
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: LABOUR analyst Herbert Jauch, pondering the destiny of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) 10 years ago, wrote that there were "some tough choices to be made by Namibia's trade unions".Indee (By News Poster)...MDC-T Speaks On 'Terror Bases'
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Lloyd GumboHarare - Minister of State in the Organ for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration Sekai Holland has dismissed reports that Zanu-PF has set up bases for purposes of violence ag (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Allegedly Kills Wife, Flees
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Harare - A MBARE man has gone into hiding after allegedly strangling his wife to death on Saturday night accusing her of being promiscuous.Police are looking for Shepherd Nyanyiwa (45) whose whereabou (By News Poster)...Over 33 Students Arrested During Countrywide Demos
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaAround 33 students were arrested countrywide on Monday after they staged a series of demonstrations protesting high tuition fees and the political deadlock in the country. The protests we (By News Poster)...Burundi: 'Peace' Villages Come with a Price
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Bujumbura - When the first "peace village" was set up in Burundi in 2003, it was meant to foster healing and reconciliation among the country's three ethnic groups - Hutu, Tutsi and Twa - at the end o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power Supply - Who is Fooling Who?
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: Lagos - When the government failed to achieve the 6000 megawatts power generation capacity target and improved electricity supply by end 2009, it was largely attributed to poor gas supply.But with las (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Exim Bank to Install New Software for Efficiency
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Austin BeyadiDar Es Salaam - Exim Bank is expecting to install new software system mid this year which will, among other things, allow its customers access to internet and mobile phone banking in t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lagos Lawmakers Task Jonathan On Power, Petroleum Sectors
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Gbenga AkanmuLagos - Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, during a plenary urged the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to urgently address the power and petroleum challeng (By News Poster)...Namibia: Youth Forum Wants Swakop Council to Stop Selling Land
Monday 29-Mar-2010: THE Chairperson of the Erongo Regional Youth Forum (ERYF), Ernest Weather, on Wednesday told the Swakopmund Town Council "to stop selling land and gambling with the people's assets".A media statement (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cabinet Split Over New Constitution
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The widening division within Cabinet is emerging as the biggest threat to the constitution review as the nation enters the eighth week since the last session of the Cabinet was convened.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC is Broke
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Hamisu MuhammadThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is broke. It is on the spotlight again not for fuel scarcity but because its spiralling debt profile is shaking the foundation of i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Equity to Join Mobile Banking
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Scola KamauKampala - Equity Bank has announced its intention to join mobile banking.This was revealed last week by Equity Bank Uganda's Executive Director Apollo N. Njoroge during the official open (By News Poster)...Liberia: Govt Loses Several Cases in Grand. Bassa -Over Nine Defendants Acquitted
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: The Government of Liberia has lost two cases due to the lack of sufficient evidence to prosecute the defendants charged with various crimes.The first case is the Buchanan Renewable Technical Services (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Bans SA Meat Imports
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Harare - Government has banned, with immediate effect, importation of all animals and meat products from South Africa following an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in that countryThe ban is a precautiona (By News Poster)...City to Sell 'Green' Electricity to Consumers
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: By Bianca SilvaThe announcement that Cape Town is make 'green' electricity certificates available to power purchasers marks another milestone in the move toward renewable energy in South Africa.The ci (By News Poster)...West Africa: Country Supplies Gas to Ghana Through West Africa Pipeline
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Nigeria has started the supply of gas to Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic, through the West Africa Gas Pipeline, just as Ghanian Vice President John, Dramani Mahama, stated that t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror War - FAAN Installs Body Scanners At MMA
Tuesday 30-Mar-2010: By Anthony OmohLagos - Following December 25, 2009 botched terror attack on board a United States bound aircraft, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has installed two 3D body scanners at (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Tourism Earnings Continue to Rise
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Maputo - Tourism earned Mozambique 195 million US dollars last year, according to the Minister of Tourism, Fernando Sumbana, speaking in Maputo on Monday at the opening of a national tourism planning (By News Poster)...South Africa: Union in Bid to Save FNB Workers From Cull
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - FINANCE union Sasbo is trying to save 34 First National Bank (FNB) branches from closure.The union has suggested ways of saving the jobs of 200 FNB staff members, ma (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Women Dancers Can Fill Granaries
Monday 29-Mar-2010: By Ntandoyenkosi NcubeJohannesburg - "Some said, how can women dancers tell us about climate change? Some said, how can dancers talk about planting trees? Others asked, how can women dancers build sch (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nyerere - Man of Steel, Catalyst of Freedom
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: By Noni JabavuHarare - "TUESDAY December 2 1980, the arrival on his state visit of President Nyerere of Tanzania to Zimbabwe" -- was that not a golden day for the masses, the people of Zimbabwe, our c (By News Poster)...Namibia: Turning to Wild Bean for Protein
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By Moses MagadzaWindhoek - Obed Kamburona has tried to grow many different crops on his large farm, but the dry sandy soil in Otjovanatje has thwarted him every time."I have a big farm but I can't gro (By News Poster)...Rwanda: FDLR Attacks on Civilians Declining - DRC Army
Friday 02-Apr-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - Attacks by the FDLR on the population of the Eastern Democratic Republic Congo have drastically reduced in the past months, Congolese army spokesman, Capt. Olivier Hamuli ha (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Media Coverage on Genocide Improves, MHC Report
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Charles KwizeraKigali - A report by the Media High Council (MHC) has indicated that the local media has stepped up efforts to report about the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.This was announced yes (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Swears in Commissioners
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: By Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - President Mugabe yesterday swore into office the Zimbabwe Human Rights and Zimbabwe Electoral commissions at State House in Harare in line with the Global Political Agr (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Ban Names New Head for UN Mission in Chad and Central African Republic
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named a veteran United Nations official as his Acting Special Representative for the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT), which was set u (By News Poster)...Cabinet to Focus On Jobs, Development
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday said that over the next five years Government should work towards addressing poverty, unemployment and rural development.He said unemployment demanded Governmen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN to Learn From Malaysian Central Bank
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: Abuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Bank of Malaysia as the bedrock for the success of its own going banking reforms.Bank Negara M (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe the Racist, Communist harrasser - won't leave a white man alone for a second: New charges for Roy Bennett
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [What the bloody hell is wrong with the MDC? Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is trying to get some concessions out of Mugabe... and has NONE. The Fake talks, with fake interest from South Africa... g (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe artist granted bail after Matabeleland exhibit
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: The artist was arrested at the National Gallery in Bulawayo along with the gallery curator Zimbabwean artist Owen Maseko has been granted bail after being arrested under public order and secur (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Election Promises Must Become National Agenda - Guebuza
Monday 29-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Sunday told the Central Committee of the ruling Frelimo Party that the electoral promises made by Frelimo last year must be transformed into "a nationa (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: The Racist murder of Eugene Terreblanche - Lady writes: I knew him, he was a soft-spoken gentleman....
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [This is from a lady I've known personally for many years. This is what she has to say about Eugene Terreblanche. Jan] Hi Jan I was a member of the AWB prior to 1994. I met Eugene at Schweizer Rey (By Jan)...S.Africa's Blood service runs out of blood...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [Some of you will recall some years ago how I mentioned that our blood supply is in danger. I stopped donating blood and since couldn't care less. Once upon a time I was a regular donor. Now I don't b (By Jan)...[Pic] S.Africa: Amazing medical technology - detailed MRI cancer scans
Monday 29-Mar-2010: A friend of mine who left to live in Australia has an older family member dying of cancer. The doctors in South Africa hardly seem to care any more. These 2 old people spend weeks going from one speci (By Jan)...Zuma Will Help Afrikaaner Poor
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: During a visit to an Afrikaaner-shantytown last Tuesday, South African president Jacob Zuma vowed government resources will be made available to all, based on need and not race. "Poverty knows no c (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...My Technical Indicator Experiment: Another Gold BUY signal... for TODAY... The US Dollar preparing to fall?
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: Damn! Another Gold buy signal. We seem to be in such an indecisive period. This goes up, that goes down and its straddling across my Technical Indicator. Though I see the MACD chart seems to be almost (By Jan)...Another website that supports us: Fellowship with besieged white South Africans
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [These people also support us. Jan] Small excerpt:- Excerpts from Boerevryheid Forum - The rest of the world doesn't care about South Africa and even less about the Boere. I'm afraid that's tr (By Jan)...Americans who support us and understand that a white man can be framed as a racist....
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: [I asked one of my AmericanCrisis volunteers to post my challenge to Jacob Zuma on a website she also frequents. The comments by the Americans show that they have a grasp of how a white man can be fra (By Jan)...S.Africa: Is TELKOM lying to you about your ADSL line speeds? The REAL REASON ADSL doesn't work properly...
Monday 29-Mar-2010: More than a week after my ADSL line was "fixed" (and trust me, Telkom sent me one text message after another telling me the problem is now "fixed")... I have a partial problem again. This morning I (By Jan)...My message to a leader in Orania: Orania is fabulous... The Afrikaners must keep their dream alive...
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [I sent this quick message to John in Orania, who was kind enough to send me copies of the Orania dream video. Rest assured, the ANC and the Liberals do NOT want to see the Afrikaners succeeding in Or (By Jan)...S.Africa: I sent a copy of my book, Government by Deception to Eugene Terreblanche in 2006...
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: While I was writing about Eugene Terreblanche's murder, it hit me that I'd sent him a copy of my book, Government by Deception as well as a letter. I went and checked in my records and yes, I have his (By Jan)...Hillarious: Mark Twain's commentary on Religion & Politics... The Wisdom of the Masses is a lie...
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: [I did not know that Mark Twain was actually very anti-Christian. However, on a page of such quotes, I saw a quote of his about people believing in other people's analyses. What he describes below (By Jan)...[Pics]The Incredibly long career of Queen Elizabeth... unbelievable the people she's met...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: [The Queen of England has had a long and incredible career. This woman must have met more heads of state (and terrorists and communist dictatorial scum) than anyone else on earth. Sadly she's so polit (By Jan)...[Cartoons] Totally brilliant, naughty male humor...
Wednesday 31-Mar-2010: [A coloured co-worker sent me these. Totally hilarious. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...[Pic] And to think they call us Honkeys...
Thursday 01-Apr-2010: A friend sent me this pic of a black guy with a really big nose... and I thought to myself... and they call us HONKEYS!!! (Due to our noses!)... (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-04-2010)
Saturday 03-Apr-2010: Howzit I see that Blogger's problems continue to have an adverse effect on this page. The page is set up to display the last 10 postings, and it shows just 4 - and any archived month, going right b (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-04-2010)
Sunday 04-Apr-2010: Howzit "A Zimbabwean youth has been sentenced to life in prison for his part in the murder of a Manchester school-boy who was shot dead outside a Stretford pub in May last year. Njabulo Ndlovu, (By The BeardedMan)...
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