Monday, 26 April 2010

Weekly Southern African Report

From Jan Lamprecht 

Southern Africa in Crisis 

www.AfricanCrisis.co.za

Sunday, 25th April 2010

From 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 & Gruesome

S.Africa: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Transvaal Agricultural Union - Open Letter to President Zuma re: Kill the Boer - Ongoing Farm Murders - Expose Govt lies - Request meeting with President Zuma

Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [I can't tell you how excited I am about this letter. I did tell you some time ago that certain Afrikaner leaders intend speaking directly to President Jacob Zuma about the terrible events of rece (By Jan)...
AFRIKANERS FIGHT BACK - Translation of article from The Swedish Resistance movement...
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [Here is more on the article in Sweden where they protested against Boer Genocide and the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. Please support these people, and let's find more people like this in Europe who (By Jan)...
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: How to market a White Homeland in Africa to Black Africa and to the World's Power Brokers and King Makers...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: I would like to give people some of my thoughts on how one can make a serious attempt at marketing a White Homeland or a White Country in Africa. I think, as a result of the actions of President J (By Jan)...
[Pic]IMPORTANT: S.Africa: Prelude to a RACE WAR! Violent Riots - THE ANC DEFINITELY SUPPORTS: KILL THE BOER - more evidence...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [The continued chanting by the blacks on the ground - especially those affiliated to a COSATU based trade union - which has direct links to the ANC is cause for GREAT CONCERN. The ANC is also not (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup: South African Tourist Horror - What Tourists Need to Know About World Cup
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [This horror story is but one of the dangers facing tourists for the World Cup. Despite what tourists are seeing on nice television ads, its vital that tourists ultimately remember they are still in A (By JanOlifant)...
Kenya: Farming Butterflies Puts Food on the Table
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Ntandoyenkosi NcubeKakamega Forest, Kenya - For 10 years, Roselyne Shikami, sold boiled eggs at the bus station just outside the densely wooded Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, near the border wit (By News Poster)...
Russians Protest Boer Genocide
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: On the same day Swedes took to the streets of Stockholm and other cities to honor slain AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche and bring light to the silent Boer genocide in South Africa, a similar protest wa (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
[Pics] Sweden: Message to Oppressed Whites in Africa: You Are Not Alone! - They burned a New South African Flag
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [Check out the photos. These people set fire to a New South African flag. I'm telling you that must be the first instance in the world!!! Be AMAZED!!! Jan] [We the Boer people would like to thank o (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: Siener Van Rensburg, panicking whites: President Jacob Zuma & Julius Malema have made me a supporter of the super-radical Suidlanders...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: I am quite sure I met a guy some years ago, who is now in the Suidlanders. I lost contact with him some time back when the Suidlanders were very much in the news. I remember the guy, a young Afrika (By Jan)...
[Pics] South African Tourist Horror - Important Message for Men and Women Tourists
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [[It is important to tourists thinking of visiting South Africa, to remember South Africa is still Africa! This country is rife with violent crime, murder and genocide, and any tourists thinking of vi (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: VERY INTERESTING: Black journalist says: Disciplining Julius Malema could result in Malema defeating President Jacob Zuma - The History of the SACP's Communism that Blacks don't know about...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [The big problem with the ANC is that its core values really are represented by Julius Malema. The original script for the ANC was to fight the whites, drive them out, kill them, steal their property (By Jan)...
South Africa: Coal-Fired Denialism
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: With a request for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a new coalfired power plant, South African political leaders seem determined to entrench a policy on climate change that disregards clear evidenc (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Why I'm not a Helen Zille fan - Helen Zille is right on this - The BIG MISTAKE all Afrikaner negotiators including Mulder, make...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: I'm not a Helen Zille fan. There are a lot of things about the DA that I know that don't make me such big fans of them. Yes, they're the most successful people at this time, but I know a thing or two. (By Jan)...
[2 Pics] What Durban's beaches were like during Apartheid, and post Apartheid...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: [These photos have been doing the rounds for some years, but I thought it worth posting to show how Durban was transformed after Apartheid. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...
Message from a Russian Cossack to the Afrikaners
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [Thank you to our Russian Cossack brothers! The similiarities between the Cossacks and Afrikaners are so similiar...a small group of peoples, inseprable from our horses, disregarding the fact that we (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: SHOCKER: Nationlising mines & banks too - Julius Malema takes a delegation of youths & communists to Communist Venezuela to meet Chavez
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [Look at this disgusting story. Malema went to Venezuela to meet Hugo Chavez. They are not only talking of nationalising the mines - BUT BANKS AS WELL!! Once more... talking nationalisation and the sa (By Jan)...
Who is Barack Obama? The scariest list of facts about President Obama you've ever seen... The President who HATES America
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: [This list is truly shocking. Take a close look at how many communists/Marxists were his friends. Davis spied for the Soviet Union. Obama wants to shut down America's nuclear arsenal but won't interce (By Jan)...
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: ANC RACIST HYPOCRISY EXPOSED - THEY WANT WHITE GENOCIDE THIS TIME - What Julius Malema said disproves the ANC's latest lie about NOT disciplining him...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: The ANC yesterday told another huge lie. Lying is the mainstay of their existence I know, but yesterday they claimed that they can't discipline Julius Malema because the ANC Youth League is a separate (By Jan)...
Somalia: Engage or Disengage?
Friday 23-Apr-2010: With continuing conflict in Mogadishu, and reports of a forthcoming Transitional Federal Government offensive to gain control of areas of the city now controlled by Al-Shabaab rebels, debate about the (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: A Big Fat Mugabe lie that is NEVER CHALLENGED: Ian Smith's Rhodesia was NOT COLONIAL - White Africans REBELLED against Britain! Afrikaners are NOT Colonials either
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: I am sick to death of hearing Mugabe go on and bloody on about "the colonials". Mugabe must bugger off with this endless repetition of this total garbage which anyone with the most basic understanding (By Jan)...
[Pics] USA: How the CIA defeated Apartheid & the bizarre story of how Nelson Mandela endorsed racial hatred and white genocide by President Jacob Zuma
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: I think its time for a little reminder of the many things we forget so quickly. Let me take you back to some still photos I took of some film footage when President Jacob Zuma was elected as the head (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Sanctions and Solidarity
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: "In the case of Zimbabwe today, both supporters and opponents of sanctions exaggerate their importance. The international community, both global and regional, has other tools as well. Key issues are n (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: Race War - Quote from Government by Deception which relates to Eugene Terreblanche's murder; Julius Malema's Kill the Boer, Zuma's Machine-gun
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: I want to point you to a very important sentence on Page 77 of my book, Government by Deception (2001), which relates to President Jacob Zuma's singing of Mshwini wami ("Bring me my Machinegun") and t (By Jan)...
S.Africa: 2010: A Coloured man tells me: I'm 44 now, but I hope I die before I'm 50...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: I was at the supermarket yesterday shopping when a coloured man who is one of the managers there and whom I have spoken to many times, came up to me to ask me a question. He came up and asked me h (By Jan)...
AWESOME!! Did some people from the Swedish Resistance movement burn South African flags in retribution for Boer Genocide?
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Here is something fascinating I spotted on a South African blog where they mentioned the Swedish Resistance movement's protests in Stockholm. You won't believe this. Apparently, this is one of hundred (By Jan)...
S.Africa: VERY IMPORTANT: Institute of Race Relations says ANC will be out of power in 10-15 years - EXPECT BIG TROUBLE...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: A friend tells me he saw a most important letter in a newspaper. I think it was THE STAR. I stand to be corrected. The letter was to the editor of THE STAR and it mentioned an SAIRR study of the futur (By Jan)...
[5 Pics] S.Africa: IMPORTANT: Orchestrated Poverty of the Afrikaner
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [Below are images of the current 'Afrikaner Poverty', a direct result of the ANC's racist BEE/AA policies towards South Africa's minority. This settlement is one of hundreds in South Africa which inad (By JanOlifant)...
[Humor] There's always a Redneck way to protect your car...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: If you are short of money... try one of these ideas.(Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...
IMPORTANT: The Armoured Car President FW De Klerk got for betraying S.Africa - [Afrikaans] ‘n Pantserkar vir verraad
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [Here is an important article originally written in Afrikaans. This is so important I wanted to translate it for you all. This is written by Piet Rudolph who is a staunch Afrikaner patriot. Form (By Jan)...
[Pics] Photographs of the funeral of Eugene Terreblanche - The masses of whites who attended
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [A friend sent me these photos which were taken at ET's funeral. When last have you ever seen so many whites gathered in one spot, short of a rugby match? And this guy was on the fringe... Some intere (By Jan)...
Attention EVERYONE: S.Africa: Race War Hoax doing the rounds by Cell phone
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: I have just received a cell phone text message from an Afrikaans friend. The cell phone text message claims that blacks are giving out pamphlets in Pietersburg stating that they must kill as many whit (By Jan)...
[7 Pics] Zimbabwe: 2008 - Old White people the Blacks beat up...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: [Take a look at these photos from Zimbabwe in May 2008. Then ask yourself why Whites in South Africa fear the events that happened in Zimbabwe. Tell me why Whites shouldn't go to WAR when faced with a (By Jan)...
S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup: South African Tourist Horror - American Newspapers Warn Readers to be on Guard
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Even with these tips, you are still a massive TARGET! Americans thinking of visiting South Africa should rather visit Iraq or Afghanistan, as its a much safer option! Don't Risk YOUR Life! Janolifant (By JanOlifant)...
Interview with Jeff Rense - Jeff Rense and I discuss an Afrikaner Homeland - Jeff says: Get going NOW
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: I appeared on Jeff Rense's show today to give an update on events since the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. Jeff Rense is a firm supporter of a big solution to the Afrikaner/White problem. He sa (By Jan)...
[Pic] S.Africa: Banner, what MANY Whites think of Julius Malema...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Check this photo I pulled out from the funeral of Eugene Terreblanche. I think MANY WHITES think exactly this about Julius Malema. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
FROM Mugabe's Propaganda machine - The Herald - Zimbabwe: Malema - the West's New Bogey Man - Mugabe reads AfricanCrisis for sure - They HATE Jan Lamprecht's analysis - Did I save Julius Malema's life?
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [Here is a brilliant piece of Mugabe's ranting propaganda. Now enemy propaganda is always worth studying - with an analytical and skeptica mind. There are interesting things in it. They also dissemina (By News Poster)...
Afrikaners: Let's start our own country? We have no experience... but so what...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: I was chuckling. After my interview with Jeff Rense I was thinking: We have no experience in starting a new country... (Afrikaner Homeland), but WTF... neither did the founders of America or any one e (By Jan)...
What I predicted in Government Deception about Democracy in Zimbabwe & South Africa... Whites as Scapegoats...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Here is a quote from page 33 of my book, Government by Deception (2001). This has already been proved amply true in Zimbabwe. Even black people who did not believe in the idea now know it is true. And (By Jan)...
[10 Pics] Zimabwe: An example of a totally ruined farm in Zimbabwe - trashed by blacks, burnt out - Masapas Devastation
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [These pics and this story are part of a backlog of items I have. I received this in October 2008. Take a look at this. This is where South Africa is heading. I hear former President FW De Klerk (By Jan)...
Malema - South Africa's Own Chinotimba?
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Caiphas Chimhete and Vusumuzi SifileJULIUS Malema, South Africa's African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president, is young, famous, rich and very presentable.In appearance and stature, Ma (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Collapse in Motion - Rioters Storm Union (Government) Buildings
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Well folks, this is what most White South Africans have been saying since 1994...the ANC's misrule and abuse of South Africa will see it collapse. The economic successes of Apartheid South Africa saw (By JanOlifant)...
Somalia: Situation Reports
Friday 23-Apr-2010: "The current military stalemate in southern Somalia is less a reflection of opposition strength than of the weakness of the Transitional Federal Government. Since the nomination of Sheikh Sharif to th (By News Poster)...
[3 Pics] Zimbabwe Genocide: Sickening, horror, gore - The Black MDC man Mugabe's people tried to petrol bomb and burn...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Just look at these utterly horrific photos from June 2008. Look at "Free and Fair" elections Mugabe style. This is what happens to a black man who wants to vote for someone else other than the dictat (By Jan)...
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: UNITY - NOW! The Suidlanders - Police this week swooped on members of an extremist right-wing organisation
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [Wow! The Suidlanders have been busy. I'm totally gobsmacked by what these people got up to. Is it true they were recruiting people and accumulating weapons? This is a very dangerous thing to do indee (By Jan)...
Attention: Readers: Your input on: Supporting this website via: Facebook, Twitter, Stumble-upon, Digg - and also the question of Volunteers... Long Term Strategies for USA & South Africa...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: I am planning for the months ahead and I wanted to pick your brains. The last 7 months have been extremely, exceptionally hectic where my feet hardly touched ground. With my mother's death, my own (By Jan)...
S.Africa: Prophetic words from Eugene Terreblanche's AWB newsletter in 1993...
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [A lady who is a member of the AWB, sent me this copy of an AWB newsletter from 1993. Interestingly, the writer of this was a supporter in TEXAS, the USA! So even back then, they had some foreign supp (By Jan)...
Somalia: Govt, Al-Shabaab Accussed of Indiscriminate Killings
Monday 19-Apr-2010: New York - The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of southern Somalia to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, Human Rights Watch said in a report released (By News Poster)...
Africa: Africa on the Rebound - African Development Bank's new private sector emphasis spurs growth
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Shedding its long-standing "basket case" label, Africa is now one of the fastest growing regions in the world, behind only Asia and the Middle East, with a projected overall growth rate of more than 4 (By News Poster)...
Farmers always kicked ass: The incredible Greek Farmers who created the Western World & Invented Western Warfare... 21st Century - we return to Barbaric stupidity...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Check out these parallels between the Boers and Greeks. Some food for thought here. This morning I watched part of a documentary called: "Civilisation & War". It told the amazing story of how modern W (By Jan)...
Africa: Staying the Course on Aids?
Friday 23-Apr-2010: We must end the false dichotomy between prevention and treatment. If we choose one over the other we will fail. We know from our experiences in the 1990s, that if treatment isnt there, people will not (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Afrikaners - we have a few friends who say: Go for an Afrikaner homeland... Some new ideas I had...
Monday 19-Apr-2010: I don't have time to post these comments today, but I need to. Jeff Rense in the USA was saying that Afrikaners must start working harder towards getting this Afrikaner homeland. I'll publish his exac (By Jan)...
IMPORTANT: Mandela's Communist Wife Graça Machel Warns West to Keep Out of African Politics - Carte Blanche for African Dictatorship
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [I have always had an intense dislike for Graca Machel. Her first husband was the commie leader of Frelimo. Now she married another commie. She is quite vile and I've seen her make her statements. I h (By JanOlifant)...
[Pics] Africa: Wildlife: Now this is a Lucky Impala
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: I got these from a friend. I have no idea what the story is behind these pics whether they were taken in a game part or what. Maybe someone knows the story behind this? (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Ph (By Jan)...
Ghana: Bank of Ghana on the Assessment of the Economy
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Daniel NonorThe Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana last Friday completed its assessment of the health of the economy and subsequently reduce its Policy Rate by 100 basis points from 16 (By News Poster)...
Swedes Say 'Stop the boer genocide'
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: An ultra-right wing group calling for an end to "genocide in South Africa", referring to the killing of whites, burned a South African flag during a protest march to the embassy in Stockholm, an embas (By JanOlifant)...
SHOCKING EXPOSE: A Fresh View of Cold-War America
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [I cannot stress enough the importance of an analysis like this. This is dead on the money. Jan] This article is reprinted from MindingtheCampus.com (By Jan)...
In the Line of Duty
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Sasha Wales SmithIn 2006, the outbreak of an almost untreatable form of TB in Kwa-Zulu Natal struck fear in the public health community. TB is an airborne disease which is spread by coughing, sneez (By News Poster)...
Mail & Guardian FINALLY Cover Swedish March Against Boer Genocide (1 week later)
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: An ultra-right wing group calling for an end to "genocide in South Africa" burned a South African flag during a protest march to the embassy in Stockholm, an embassy official confirmed on Friday. T (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
South Africa: When the Price is Too High - Aurora Misadventure Points to Hard Choices
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - ANYONE looking to explore the potential tensions between narrow-based black empowerment and economic development need look no further than the debacle at Aurora Mining Systems.Aurora, w (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: South African Government Silent on Invasion of Bippa Protected Ranch
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Alex BellThe South African government is yet to make any move to condemn the invasion of a game ranch in Zimbabwe, protected by a bilateral investment protection agreement signed by the two countri (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: 30 Years On, Has Come So Far As a Nation
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Chrisopher MugagaHarare - A little boy goes to his father and asks: " Dad, where did all of my intelligence come from?"His father replies: "Well, son, I think you got it from your mother, because I (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Poor People's Movement Draws Government Wrath
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Durban - The rise of an organized poor people's movement in South Africa's most populous province, KwaZulu-Natal, is being met with increasing hostility by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) g (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: VERY IMPORTANT: Using new Chinese Weapons, Mugabe prepares for VICTORY at the next election
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: The MDC is walking a dangerous path. Can the MDC pull off another undisputed election victory like they did in 2008? I don't think so. I think Mugabe will do everything in his power to lie and cheat e (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Blood Flood in Jos - How to Defuse the Tensions
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Kola IbrahimAgain, hundreds of innocent lives - mostly of women and children - have been wasted away in Jos villages by ethnic bigots, who are banking on the failure of Nigerian government to secur (By News Poster)...
Zulu Racial Vilification of Whites Continue
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [Blacks are busy spreading propaganda around (origin from the ANC or 'government'??) which is increasingly dehumanising and vilifying Whites...because they are planning a RACE WAR...and they are well (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: New Lies: On-Off Malema 'Hearing' Raises Questions about Zuma's Intent - The ANC Deception game re: Julius Malema - Kill the Boer
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Take a look at this. Malema gets away with anything he wants to as long as he says, "I'm sorry". Then it is all forgotten. They get even more creative. Now they say, or want to claim, that his englis (By News Poster)...
Africa: Obama and U.S. Military Engagement in Continent
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Daniel VolmanWhen Barack Obama took office as president of the United States in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarised and unilater (By News Poster)...
[5 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: Collapsing Infrastructure - The disgusting water supply problems in Brits
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Just look at these hideous photos from Brits. This is their water. Water supplies are a problem in this country at the moment. Just days ago I mentioned that the water infrastructure is collapsin (By Jan)...
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Metes Out Repression in the South
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of southern Somalia to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Al- (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Government Could Lose More Assets in SADC
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Nyasha NyaungwaWindhoek - The Zimbabwean government could lose more of its assets registered in SADC countries following a landmark ruling by the North Gauteng High Court in February. The august co (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: MDC-T Snub Iranian Leader
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaThe MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai snubbed the arrival ceremony of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Harare International Airport on Thursday describing the visit as (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Quote from Government by Deception on Racist attacks on Whites & the lies & wordplay to cover it up - like now with Julius Malema...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: I really must point out, in the light of recent statements by the ANC as they try to cover up the Malema issue, that I wrote about this in Government by Deception (2001). On page 71, I discuss thi (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: No Space for Land Criminals
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Rogers TinarwoHarare - The Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Patrick Chinamasa recently said during a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affai (By News Poster)...
[Pic] Please don't kill me Julius Malema... I'm not a BOER - S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup Official Tourist T-Shirts?
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [This is doing the rounds. Its pretty funny. I don't think these t-shirts are real. If they are, I'd love to know where to buy some. I have received this from multiple sources, but clearly, this is (By Jan)...
Songs Used As Buoys to Keep ANC Myth Afloat
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Meshack MabogoaneJohannesburg - IT IS now customary that whenever something controversial or unacceptable happens "culture" or "tradition" are brought in to explain away the mess and make the rest (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Selebi Says He Asked for Meeting With Kebbles
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - FORMER police commissioner Jackie Selebi yesterday insisted that he asked for meetings with businessmen Roger Kebble, Brett Kebble and Gavin Varejes and was not persuade (By News Poster)...
USA: President Obama is a threat to US National Security - Almost 2 out of 3 Americans Believe That The U.S. Is More Likely To Be Attacked Because Of Obama’s Policies
Friday 23-Apr-2010: [President Obama is one scary guy. I hear now that an American Admiral will not answer this question: Will the USAF shoot down Israeli jets when they attack Iran? Obama wants to disarm America com (By Jan)...
South Africa: Rail Limits Putting Brakes On Coal Miners
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Artwell DlaminiJohannesburg - THE country's coal exporters are fast losing competitiveness to foreign rivals as a result of insufficient rail capacity, mining groups and industry observers say.Havi (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: More for the Race War? Is Julius Malema visiting S.American Mugabe - Hugo Chavez? The New Fidel Castro?
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: I heard from a friend of mine that apparently, Julius Malema is on a visit to Venezuela at this time. It does not say he is visiting Hugo Chavez, and perhaps that part is being kept secret. If anyo (By Jan)...
Govt Determined to Deliver - President
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Harare - We publish here the full text of the address by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Comrade RG Mugabe on the occasi (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Crimes Commission to Arrest Former State Governor
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Emma Amaize, Emma Ujah and Emma OvuakporieAbuja - THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday said it was mapping out a fresh strategy to arrest former Delta State governor, Chief (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: SUPER CORRUPTION: The ANC has created a huge 2nd Economy ONLY FOR ANC people, using Government Tenders
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: A supporter told me an interesting story. Apparently someone in the DA (official opposition) was telling him that the ANC is creating a MEGA-PYRAMID scheme beyond all belief. Apparently it is base (By Jan)...
South Africa: Opposition Puts Eskom On Spot Over Cheap Electricity for Mozambican Firm
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - MOZAMBICAN electricity distributor Motraco has been paying 12c/kWh for electricity from Eskom, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has alleged.The DA has released a document t (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Empty Promises for Free Expression - Media Reforms Fall By the Wayside Under Power-Sharing Government
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's power-sharing government has not carried out critical media reforms as promised under the country's September 2008 Global Political Agreement, Human Rights Watch said in a re (By News Poster)...
Iran, Zimbabwe Strike Secret Mining Deal
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: A top Zimbabwe official says Iran has struck a secret deal with Zimbabwe to mine its untapped uranium reserves in a move to secure raw material for its steadily expanding nuclear program. In turn, (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
South Africa: Dutch Fund Manager to Invest 250 Million in Local Mining Sector
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - DUTCH asset manager Algemene Pensioen Groep (APG) has committed 250m (about R1,8bn) to JSE-listed Pallinghurst Resources to invest in SA's mining industry.The equity inves (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Stakeholders Divided Over Suspension of Universal Banking
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Babajide Komolafe, Peter Egwuatu, Yinka Kolawole And Michael EbohStakeholders in the financial service sector are divided over the plan of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to replace universal ban (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Malema's Position and Mandela's Legacy
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Alexander KanengoniHarare - IT WAS inevitable that Julius Malema's visit to Zimbabwe two weeks ago would generate much interest.People on both sides of the Limpopo wanted to know the implications o (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Che Guevara's African Connection
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Reason WafawarovaON October 8, 1967, this writer was exactly 151 days old and a global revolutionary hero was seriously wounded and captured as a member of 17 Bolivian guerrilla remnants of a large (By News Poster)...
Africa: China Fund Expands Africa Network
Friday 23-Apr-2010: The China-Africa Development Fund's expansion plans moved a step forward with the opening of a new branch in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 30 March. The office will pursue greater cooperation with the Afr (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Is it possible that Julius Malema does cocaine? And... Infiltrating the AWB NOW...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: I heard something really interesting from a friend who has very, very serious connections. Apparently, it is quite well known that Julius Malema snorts cocaine. My friend also gave me a tip-off th (By Jan)...
[3 Graphs] My Technical Indicator: The Stock Markets reach their targets... Gold's progress... Buy or Sell?
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Let's take a quick look at some graphs so you can see where we are. You will recall that I mentioned to you that the Point-and-Figure charts were predicting the target for the current rise is: 11, (By Jan)...
South Africa: Charting a Course Towards Clarity for a Stronger Industry
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - PETER Leon, co-head of natural resources and regulatory law at commercial law firm Webber Wentzel, says SA's mining laws are not friendly enough for foreign investors." (By News Poster)...
[2 Pics] Evil knows no bounds - Two (short) Evil men together: Robert Mugabe and Mahmoud Ahmad
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [You will notice, as I've been pointing out for years that Communists/Dictators/Terrorists all work together. This is because Russia and China sponsored all these evil regimes. So you will see: Cha (By Jan)...
South Africa: How Transnet Derails Coal Export Expansion
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Artwell DlaminiJohannesburg - IT IS Transnet's fault. Xavier Prevost, a senior coal analyst at XMP Consulting, unapologetically stands by this statement, saying the parastatal is to blame for the e (By News Poster)...
Jewel Destroyed in 'Acts of Madness'
Monday 19-Apr-2010: WHEN President Robert Mugabe described the killings of the Gukurahundi era by his government as an "act of madness", it was widely believed that it had dawned on the ageing leader that the sanctity of (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Oil Marketers Bicker Over Second Quater Fuel Allocation
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - An intractable turf war has broken out between oil marketing companies in the country over the second quarter petrol import allocation issued last week by the Petroleum Prod (By News Poster)...
Bizarre Explanation for Armed Robberies
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Harare - FOUR suspected armed robbers in Kadoma are reportedly raising money to hire lawyers by committing a spate of heists in and around the town.Sources yesterday said information at hand showed th (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Science And Technology is Vehicle to Advance The Economy, Prof. Ibidapo-Obe
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: By Akoma ChinweokeProfessor Oye Ibidapo Obe is the president of Nigerian Academy of Science and former vice chancellor of University of Lagos. In this interview, he speak on why the country's leadersh (By News Poster)...
[Pics] S.Africa: Many more photos of extreme black on black violence from 2008....
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Here are more photos from the Xenophobia of 2008. Blacks setting blacks on fire, beating each other, the police fighting them off, and so on. Don't ask yourself why whites are afraid of these lunat (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Ten Years On, Chiminya/Mabika Murderers Free
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: TEN years ago, at a remote rural centre called Murambinda growth point in Buhera in Manicaland, MDC activists Tichaona Chiminya and Talent Mabika were brutally slain in broad daylight. It was a barbar (By News Poster)...
USA: The slow death of Liberalism? CNN's dying... and Larry King is fading...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [It appears that CNN, which once was so dominant is fading away in place of more conservative channels. Jan] "Respected U.S. newsman Larry King has filed for divorce from his country-singer wife, S (By Jan)...
Jan Lamprecht will be appearing on the Jeff Rense show this evening to discuss the issues in South Africa
Monday 19-Apr-2010: I will be on Jeff Rense's show tonight for an hour discussing South Africa and the most recent developments since the murder of Eugene Terreblanche. (By Jan)...
[Pic] Utterly Brilliant: Face book... er, South African style...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [This is total genius. This is "facebook", South African style... Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
Somalia: Somali-Led Peace Processes
Friday 23-Apr-2010: "How do Somali communities deal with their need for security and governance in the absence of a state? The reality is that since 1991 numerous Somali-led reconciliation processes have taken place at l (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: The Status of Afrikaner organisations, leadership and unity or lack thereof...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: I was having some discussions with some people and it was very interesting indeed. The one senior Afrikaner said this to me:- It is said that if two Irishmen end up on a deserted island, they start a (By Jan)...
Biti Raises Spectre of Price Controls
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Chris MuronziWHEN inflation soared out of control in 2007, President Robert Mugabe had a quick solution to the problem cut prices of goods by half and impose a freeze. Almost overnight goods disapp (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Seven Die in Kaduna Jail Break
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Ibraheem MusaKaduna - Seven prisoners were killed during an attempted jail break in Kaduna yesterday, while the administrative offices and workshop as well as entire prison records were razed down (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: 2010: Collapsing infrastructure - Major radio station, Jacaranda FM hands out clean water...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Take a look at this story. From the CORPA website. I'm going to urge people to join and support CORPA. Jan] We would just like to thank Jacaranda FM for their initiative to hand out bottled water (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Hints of Rescued Banks' Return to Profit Fail to Inspire Price Growth
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThe indicators of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed some resilience last week, as they bounced back closing the week in positive territories, after profit-taking forced (By News Poster)...
Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Conflict Escalating As Former Rebels Take Control of Mineral Trade
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Annie Dunnebacke And Emilie SerraltaNairobi - A group of fighters wearing the uniform of the Congolese national army have taken charge of the lucrative mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (By News Poster)...
[2 Pics] The Rhodesian soldier who dreamed he returned home... but he never did...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...
'Eugene Terre'blanche's kindness led to his death'
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: As Eugene Terre'Blanche's alleged killers are due to appear in court today, it has emerged that the AWB leader's decision to pay for his domestic worker's funeral could have led to his murder. A we (By JanOlifant)...
[Pics] Utterly incredible: Japanse crop art - crop circles Japanese style...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [I checked with Jason Kelly who lives in Japan. This is absolutely true. Its gorgeous and beautiful... almost beyond belief. Now this is civilisation. A friend sent me this and I nearly fell on my ba (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Jonathan Orders Police to Bring Former Governor 'Dead or Alive'
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Harris-Okon Emmanuel and Austin Oboh in LagosWarri - Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has reportedly told Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, to produce former Delta State Governor, Jame (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Green Agriculture Growing in Leaps and Bounds
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Isolda AgazziNairobi - Organic agriculture using natural farming methods rather than fertilisers and pesticides has made significant gains in African countries - not just among farmers but among co (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Women March Nude for Ex-Governor
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Emma Amaize and Ise-Oluwa IgeTHE drama of the renewed manhunt for former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, took a new turn yeste (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Reforming Shell?
Friday 23-Apr-2010: At last month's Oil & Gas Conference in Nigeria, outgoing Regional Executive Vice President, Shell Exploration and Production, Africa, Ann Pickard, forecast declining willingness to invest in Nigeria (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: New Monetary Policy - Raising Banks' Appetite For Lending
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Festus AkanbiLagos - On Friday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released the communiqué of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting which shows a conscious effort on the part of the apex bank (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Mugabe Supporters Warn of Violence After World Cup
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaVillagers in districts of Mashonaland East provinces have been told to brace themselves for more political violence, following 'promises' from ZANU PF officials they would be dealt (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Election Victory Widens North-South Gap
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Long before voting started on 11 April, it was clear that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum would maintain its iron grip on power and that interested governments would accept this, (By News Poster)...
South Africa: A Shot in the Arm for Exceptional Women Scientists
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Katy ChanceJohannesburg - NOT ALL my family are outdoors people - half of them don't understand what I'm doing at all. My grandparents took me on outdoor excursions as a kid, but my parents are cit (By News Poster)...
Angola: Oil Wealth No Benefit to Farmers
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Huambo - Joaquina Chitala Jarviso, 40, a small-scale farmer in Huambo, in the central highlands of Angola, is running out of options. Despite careful management and clever innovation, the high cost of (By News Poster)...
Slum clearance, South Africa-style
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: WAVING iron bars and pickaxes, the Red Ants, a rented mob of thugs in bright red overalls and crimson helmets, used the half-light of dawn for cover as they marched into the slum. Stamping out the fir (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
Zimbabwe: Petroleum Gas Worthy Panacea to Power Cuts
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Tichaona Zindoga and Roselyne SachitiHarare - "ZESA Holdings wishes to advise all its valued customers countrywide that the Zimbabwe Power Company will be conducting its mandatory annual maintenanc (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN Decries Under-Funding, Inefficiency of Cash Handing Services
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Peter EgwuatuThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has berated some cash handling services company for being underfunded, inefficient and uncoordinated in the provision of cash-in-transit and currency (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe celebrates 30 years of independence - 30 years of One Party State, One party Dictatorship under Mugabe
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [This, folks, is what we fought against. And look at Zim... 30 years on. A hell hole, as Ian Smith had predicted. Ian Smith's 14 years were fabulous. During the first 10 the economy grew... it was (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Jos Killing - Seven Bodies Exhumed in Riyom
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - Seven fresh dead bodies believed to be those of travellers were yesterday evening exhumed from three shallow graves by Military Special Task Force (STF) in Rahoss in Riyom local (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: How Jonathan Can Fix Electricity (i)
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - I have often wondered what it means to declare a "state of emergency" in the power sector. No one has been able to explain what it means. Would it involve the sack of PHC (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Foreign Link to the Clash Over Land
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Otieno OtienoNairobi - When a major British donor agency suddenly withdrew its financial support to Kenya's land reforms in 2007, accusing fingers immediately pointed to a local lobby of land owner (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN Reform Damaging Economy, Says Gusau
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Kunle AkogunAbuja - The National Security Adviser (NSA), General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd), has faulted the on-going banking sector reform, saying the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) intervention "s (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jos - Killing of Innocent Travellers Barbaric, Says Military
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - The military Special Task Force (STF) in Jos has described as horrible, barbaric, unfortunate and condemnable, the killing of innocent travellers in Tahoss village, Riyom Local (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jos - Seven Bus Passengers Dragged Out, Killed
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Abdulmutallib A. AbubakarYouths in Riyom Local Government Area barricaded the Abuja-Jos highway yesterday and killed seven people travelling along the route, introducing a new dimension to the tit- (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Country Will Miss Out On World Cup Benefits
Friday 23-Apr-2010: SOUTH Africa regularly hosts major international sporting events which have boosted its economy through direct and indirect benefits.Zimbabwe should have taken advantage of its location and tourist re (By News Poster)...
'Danger Pay' for TB Staff
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Kerry CullinanDurban healthworkers who treat patients with drug-resistant TB should be given special incentives such as "danger pay".This is according to Dr Iqbal Master, head of clinical services (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: South African Farmer Accuses Zimbabwe Authorities of Ethnic Cleansing
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaSouth Africa citizen, Ian Ferguson, who built up Denlynian Game Ranch in Zimbabwe's dry Beitbridge area into a prized tourism destination, has accused the Zimbabwean authorities of 'eth (By News Poster)...
VIDEO: Swedish Protest Against Boer Genocide
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: The protest march by the Swedish Resistance Movement, under the slogan Stop the Boer Genocide!, took place in Stockholm on Saturday 17th of April, without any major disturbances. Following here is a b (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
Kenya: Rising Inequality Poses Risk to Country's Growth Prospects
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Mwaura KimaniAt the end of the day, the measure of success of Kenya's growth interventions anchored in its development blueprint Vision 2030 is bound to be judged on one data point--their ability t (By News Poster)...
'Used Condom Found At ET Murder Scene'
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Baldwin Ndaba, Thabiso Thakali and Sheree BegaAS hundreds of uniformed and armed Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members and thousands of right-wingers thronged Ventersdorp, rumours began to do the ro (By News Poster)...
USA: The Evil DOUBLES - Now Iran Trades Oil for Enriched Uranium from Zimbabwe
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [So... now Zimbabwe becomes a bigger problem than it was before. And Iran becomes a bigger problem than before. Hmmm.... Maybe this serves the West right for not sorting out Mugabe. Iran is going t (By Jan)...
Africa: IGAD Yet to Find a United Stand On Organised Crime
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Fred OluochNairobi - Assorted security challenges have prompted the Inter- Governmental Authority on Development member countries to initiate joint security operations to tackle terrorism and other (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Six Farmers Per Parish Can Change the Face of Agriculture
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Joshua KatoKampala - There have been various criticisms of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) system of selecting six farmers per parish for development. Critics of the system clai (By News Poster)...
South Africa: The Political Week Ahead
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - PLANNED African National Congress (ANC) disciplinary action against youth league leader Julius Malema will top the political agenda this week, presenting the party's lead (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Cops Guilty in Death Case
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesWindhoek - SEVEN of the nine Police officers accused of killing a theft suspect during an extended interrogation session at the Keetmanshoop Police Station in early 2006 were found gui (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Ahmadinejad Slams West
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday afternoon to a rapturous welcome from the Islamic and Christian communities.President Ahmadinejad who will today officially (By News Poster)...
Kenya: High Global Crude Oil Prices Threaten to Burn Gains
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Global crude oil and refined fuel price rally threatens to reverse Kenya's economic growth prospects by triggering renewed inflation with retail petroleum products cost ris (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Government Borrowing Threatens Global Financial System - IMF
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Babajide KomolafeThe increasing level of government borrowing poses new threats to global financial system, says International Monetary Fund.In Nigeria, government borrowing dominated banks credit (By News Poster)...
Africa: World Must Retain Focus on Anti-Malaria Fight, Says Expert
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Cindy ShinerDespite recent achievements in fighting malaria, the international community must not become complacent or distracted, says Dr. Steven Phillips, medical director of global issues and pr (By News Poster)...
USA: The Return of Racism, Obama style - African American farmers want $1 billion for 'racial bias' settlement
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [I have been remarking that Obama, contrary to popular belief, won't improve race relations, he will make them worse. Who got the idea for this? I wonder if some of Obama's pals were behind this move? (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Govt Revises Indigenisation
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaGOVERNMENT is working on a raft of amendments to the punitive indigenisation regulations, which were suspended by cabinet last week following a storm of protest from the business and (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Zuma 'Back-Pedals' on Disciplining Youth Leader - Is President Zuma afraid of General Julius Malema?
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [Lookee... lookee here. Mugabe's mouthpiece was so very cross with my analysis of General Julius Malema... They said I was "malicious"... and yet, look at this. Is it just me or is President Jacob Zum (By News Poster)...
Lesotho: African Peer Review Mechanism - Deteriorating Country has a Steep Mountain to Climb
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Raymond LouwJohannesburg - ROCKETS are reverberating around the mountains of Lesotho over reports in SA that it is about to lose its sovereignty and become the 10th province of SA. The event that g (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Prisoners Tell Minister of Beatings
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Justice Minister Benvinda Levi on Friday visited the Maputo top security prison, where she spoke to prisoners with horrifying stories of beatings and other torture at the hands of (By News Poster)...
Kenya Polls Violence Witnesses Fear For Safety
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Andrew TeyieNairobi - THE credibility of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has been rocked after witnesses accused a commissioner of leaking their identities and safe houses to suspects tar (By News Poster)...
[Pic] S.Africa: How Criminals mark the houses of Whites before they rob them...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: [This is a news article from 2008, but it displays basically shows one of many methods black criminals have when engaging in crime. They even use bottles and plastic packets, etc to mark houses in a s (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Trade Unions Hail Land Reform, Indigenisation
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Harare - The International Organisation of Trade Unions in Food, Agriculture and Textiles has lauded Zimbabwe's land reform programme and economic indigenisation as positive developmental steps.The or (By News Poster)...
Somalia: 5 Headless Bodies Found in Rebel-Held Mogadishu
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Mogadishu - Five headless bodies have been found in a rebel-held area of Somalia's capital, and residents said Wednesday they suspect the Islamist militant group al-Shabab killed the men because they (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Another Bus Attacked in SA
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Harare - Another Zimbabwean bus was yesterday morning attacked by gun-totting robbers on the N1 Freeway in South Africa, bringing to two the number of such heists in a space of three days.Three people (By News Poster)...
[Pics] Company of Dictators - Mugabe and Ahmadinejad
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: They are two diminutive men, short in stature but long on anti-Western rhetoric. Yesterday two of America's staunchest opponents embraced as Robert Mugabe welcomed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinej (By JanOlifant)...
Somalia: 27 Killed in Central Somalia Clashes
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Heavy fighting between pro-government forces and Al-Shabaab fighters erupted in parts of Galgadud and Bakol regions in south central Somalia, causing the death of at least 27 people and injuries of mo (By News Poster)...
Mugabe's Call for Peace and Tolerance Greeted with Scepticism
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe Independence Day celebrations were, once again, attended mostly by those keen to watch the soccer match put on for their entertainment.Speaking at the occasion Robert Mugabe 'ap (By News Poster)...
Africa: Which Way Africa? Questions for Leadership
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Jarii Tjeja-TjatindiAS time is lapsing, Africans should pull up their socks and start questioning the impact of their actions on the next generation. We need to define our own problems genuinely, e (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: From Landlord to Shack Dweller
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteTEARS roll down her cheeks whenever Sipiwe Chigwada (35) passes through Mbare's Matapi Hostels, once her home for 17 years until she was forcibly evicted two years ago. The mother o (By News Poster)...
A Tale of Broken Promises
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: THIRTY years ago, Zimbabwe declared its Independence and Robert Mugabe became its prime minister. But the dreams of the emerging nation were short-lived. "We have abundant mineral, agricultural and hu (By News Poster)...
Should Africa Welcome Ahmadinejad?
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Bernard TabaireNice things first. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a tough guy. President Museveni, another fairly tough guy, is hosting him this weekend. Possibly more than any Iranian lea (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Selebi Denies Falsifying Document
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - FORMER police commissioner Jackie Selebi yesterday tried to defend himself against an accusation by the prosecution that he had fabricated a document he presented to the (By News Poster)...
Witness Says, Civilians Did Not Invade In Sierra Leone (NEWS)
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayA defense witness for Charles Taylor today claimed he did not see Liberians among the Sierra Leonean rebel forces which attacked the country in 1991. He also dismissed allegations that S (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Wary of IMF's Proposed Bank Tax
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Mariam Isa and Simon MundyJohannesburg - SA WAS not going to rush to impose a tax on banking profits, though it recognised the need to harmonise global regulation of the sector, a top Treasury offi (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Two Killed in Fresh Jos Shoot-Out
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Taye ObateruJos - TWO men, one of them an ex-soldier, were yesterday shot dead at Bisichi in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State by men of the Special Task Force maintaining security (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Banks Closing Their Lending Taps
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaTHE average loan-to-deposit ratio for Zimbabwe's commercial banks last year was 48,7% from about 72% in 2008 as banks slowed down on lending due to the liquidity crisis which followed (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Youths Target Son of Activist Murdered 10 Years Ago
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaZANU PF youths in Harare's Glen Norah suburb are reported to be persecuting the son of an MDC activist murdered 10 years ago in the run up to the 2000 parliamentary election. Tichaona Chi (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Women's Challenges Growing Food
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Godwin HarunaLagos - Mrs. Rebecca Mathias is a farmer from Bokkos, a village on the outskirts of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. Like all rural women, Mathias does her subsistence (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: GNU Parties to Nominate NEC Members
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Chris Muronzi and Bernard MpofuTHE country's three main political parties are expected to submit names of their representatives to the National Economic Council (NEC) a think tank to be established (By News Poster)...
Cadres at Play While Country Foots the Bill
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Rhoda KadalieJohannesburg - WOE betide African National Congress (ANC) members who dare to expose corruption within their party. In Limpopo the same fate has befallen 14 ANC councillors as befell H (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN Must Be Fair to Succeed
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Lawson OmokhodionI have no doubt whatsoever that many critics, as led by the hard punching "Renaissance Professionals", are waiting for the big mistake that will doom Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Go (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: NNPC JVCs Depleting Foreign Reserves, CBN Governor
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Emman Ujah and Oscarline OnwemenyAbuja - The governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, says some Joint Venture Cash Calls, JVCs, agreements entered into by the Nigeria National Pet (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Sanusi Blames NNPC Joint Ventures For Depleting Foreign Reserves
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Emma Ujah And Oscarline OnwuemenyiThe Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday disclosed that some Joint Venture Cash Calls agreements entered into by the Nigeria Na (By News Poster)...
South Africa: President Zuma Concludes Working Visit to Brazil
Monday 19-Apr-2010: President Jacob Zuma concluded his working visit to the Brazilian capital Brasilia on Friday, 16 April 2010, where he was attending the 4th IBSA Summit, which brings together the heads of state and go (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Snubs Iran's President
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Valentine MapongaIRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit has exposed differences between the country's three main political parties after the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC snubbed his arrival cer (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Malema Faces Suspension
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Caiphus KgosanaANC Youth League president Julius Malema, who looks set to face a charge of bringing the ANC into disrepute, could be suspended from the party pending disciplinary action.Rule 25 of (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Sizzla Returns, Continues to Sing Mugabe Praises
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By John MokwetsiBASHING reggae superstar, Sizzla Kalonji is back in the country, hardly two months after he sang praises at President Robert Mugabe's birthday party. The controversial Jamaican DJ, has (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Witchcraft murder: Black Man found with missing body parts
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Gauteng police appealed for help on Friday in tracking down the people who hijacked a Vereeniging man and then cut parts of his body off earlier in April. Nicodemus Ramatsebe, 51, was hijacked in V (By Jan)...
Congo-Kinshasa: UN Refugee Agency Dismayed By Impunity for Endemic Rape
Friday 23-Apr-2010: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today spoke out against the large number of rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), voicing concern at the impunity with which th (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Less Sex, More Violence for Teens
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - Schoolchildren in South Africa are having less sex, and those that are, are doing it more safely, the second National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) h (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Police Raid 'Slave' Warehouse
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteThe city's Vice Squad has rescued five teenage girls believed to be the victims of a suspected human trafficking ring operating from a small warehouse in Parow.The squad, acting on (By News Poster)...
Wintess Says, He Never Saw Taylor Or NPFL Commanders At Camp Nama (NEWS)
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayNeither Charles Taylor, nor any member of his Liberian rebel group, ever visited the base where Sierra Leonean rebel forces underwent training in Liberia, a defense witness for Mr. Taylo (By News Poster)...
[Pic] Yep... here it is... Liberal White Guilt on full display in America...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Yep, Obama... making as much out of White Guilt as the scumbag can. Nice strategy... wait for the PAYBACK... when Obama screws all those guitly whites... good 'n proper... (Photo) (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Shell Loses Appeal to Forfeit Bonny Terminal Land
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Innocent AnabaPort Harcourt - The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, weekend, re-affirmed a Rivers State High Court order, which ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company of (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Competing for Limpopo Water
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - Climate change will bring higher temperatures to Southern Africa while changing rainfall patterns will affect the amount of water available for food production."Irrigation is often list (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Gusau Charges Ministers On National Security
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Daniel IdonorTHE National Security Adviser, NSA to the Acting President and key official of the presidency, Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, rtd yesterday tasked new ministers on the nation's security an (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Task Force Kills Two in Jos South Village
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Andrew Agbese, Ahmed Mohammed and Mahmud LaloJos - Two men were yesterday shot dead by the special military task force in Plateau State at Bisichi village in Jos South Local Government Area while t (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Gold Battles to Regain Lost Glitter
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Leonard MakombeAROUND seven tonnes of gold are expected this year as the sector's anticipated revival is likely to be slow and painful. At its peak, Zimbabwe produced 24 tonnes of the precious meta (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Delta Amnesty At Risk of Unravelling
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Warri - The government's amnesty programme whereby militants in the Niger delta are to be disarmed and rehabilitated with a stipend, job training and a micro-credit loan, has been linked to reduced vi (By News Poster)...
Somalia: International Group Should Press All Sides to End Abuses
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Participants to this week’s international meeting on Somalia should press for an immediate end to abuses against civilians by Somalia’s transitional government, African Union forces, and a (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Rights Group Pushes for End to Abuse of Civilians
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: New York - Participants to this week's international meeting on Somalia should press for an immediate end to abuses against civilians by Somalia's transitional government, African Union forces, and ar (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Police Refuse to Investigate Chiyangwa and Chombo Land Deals
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaPolice are still refusing to investigate allegations of corruption leveled against local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and businessman Philip Chiyangwa, in a major scandal that saw (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Three Killed As Forces Clash in Mogadishu
Monday 19-Apr-2010: At least 3 people, two of them soldiers have been killed and over 5 others injured in gunfire exchange between two Somali government troops in the restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials sa (By News Poster)...
USA: Stunning & Shocking new book: The Case Against Barack Obama: The Fake Reformer & Fake Liberal...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [I have been pointing out from early on that President Obama is a FAR LEFTIST - actually, if put in its proper perspective: Obama is a foreign Communist who has taken root in America. That's pretty mu (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Iran's President Backs Mugabe
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Arnold MutemiBulawayo - Zimbabwe and Iran will stand firm against oppression by imperialist countries, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said.Officially openin (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Kagame's Opponent Held Over Genocide
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Josh KronKigali - A vocal opposition leader who is seeking to challenge President Paul Kagame in Rwanda's presidential election in August has been arrested and charged with crimes linked to genocid (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Bennett Compromise Divides MDC-T
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteA rift has emerged in the MDC-T after its negotiators in the ongoing talks succumbed to Zanu PF pressure and agreed to move deputy minister of agriculture-designate Roy Bennett to a (By News Poster)...
Empowerment Not for Fat Cats
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - FULL text of the statement delivered by Honourable Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment, updating the media on implementation of the National Econ (By News Poster)...
Sudan: U.S. Activists Call For 'Political Freedom'
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Jim LobeWashington - Activist groups called here Tuesday for the administration of President Barack Obama to hold the Sudanese government accountable for what the White House itself called "serious (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Govt Extends Indigenisation Deadline
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Harare - Government has extended by another month the deadline for submitting indigenisation plans for companies that failed to do so by April 15, Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowe (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Biti Moves to Rescue RBZ Assets
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Ndamu SanduTHE Ministry of Finance will move in to deal with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) debt and protect the apex bank from writs of execution, a development that might stop the stripping o (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: EFCC And Banks' Debt Recovery
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Lagos - On the surface of it the recent news that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered, so far, a whopping sum of N450 billion ($3bn) from bank debtors is commendable.To t (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Business 'Corrupt to Core' - BEE Pioneer
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - CORRUPTION in South African business stems from its historical culture of being closed to the world, said Sekunjalo Investment Group executive chairman Dr Iqbal Surve.He s (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Assembly Votes for MDM Parliamentary Group
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday amended its standing orders to allow the eight deputies of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) to form an officially (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: 64 Tonnes Gold Ore Lands Woman in Trouble
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [Oops! Jan] Police have arrested a 54-year-old Filabusi woman whom they found in possession of 64 tonnes of gold ore.The woman reportedly intended to process the ore at Pain Fountain Mine in the sa (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: A Race War with the ANC might be inevitable... A Note I sent a reader...
Friday 23-Apr-2010: I sent a reader of Government by Deception the following note:- "I hope the book makes you think. Deep down the original communist principles still drive the ANC. They will be at their most dangero (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: South Africa Rejects New Travel Documents
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Harare - SCORES of Zimbabweans are stranded at the Beitbridge Border Post after South African authorities refused to accept the recently introduced Temporary Travelling Documents.Reports indicate that (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Former Cop Joins Robbery Case
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Tileni MongudhiA FORMER Police officer yesterday appeared in court after he was arrested on Sunday on charges of robbery.Steve Kevanhu (32) is a former Police officer who is now a bodyguard to Rall (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Fresh Concerns About Women in Captivity
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - The fate of thousands of women and girls held as sex slaves and child soldiers by Uganda's Lords Resistance Army rebels hangs in the balance.Since the insurgency beg (By News Poster)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-04-2010)
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Howzit It is not even 0830hrs and I am major frustrated and quite annoyed. Firefox won't allow me to switch between tabs, and Internet Explorer just doesn't want to do what it is told. I am stuc (By The BeardedMan)...
S.Africa: 2010: CRIME: The Police can't reduce crime... so they're reducing their targets...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [I actually welcome some honesty. We knew they could never reduce crime. I just wish that they actually can achieve the targets they claim they can achieve. Jan] Police quietly lower targets By: (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Local Firms Given Priority in Oil Sector
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Kunle AkogunAbuja - As the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill finally got presidential assent, there are positive indications that Nigerian indigenous service companies that dem (By News Poster)...
More Travellers Stranded At Beitbridge
Friday 23-Apr-2010: SOUTH AFRICAN immigration authorities yesterday continued to refuse Zimbabweans using Temporary Travel Documents entry into that country, insisting the position will only change upon receiving officia (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Banking Ombudsman Warns over Internet Phishing and Card Cloning
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Simpson said two major problems they had to deal with -- and he begged customers to become aware of these issues -- were internet phishing and card cloning.While disputes repossessions formed the bulk (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Dinha Calls for Co-Existence On Farms
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Harare - Mashonaland Central Governor and Resident Minister Advocate Martin Dinha has urged white commercial farmers to co-exist on land with their black counterparts.Adv Dinha was speaking on Monday (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Chenge Sues NBC for Sh310 Million
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Bernard JamesFormer Cabinet minister Andrew Chenge has sued the National Bank of Commerce (NBC), demanding Sh310 million in compensation for alleged unauthorised disclosure of his banking details.M (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Bududa Pupils Struggle to Survive in the Camps
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Daniel EdyeguKampala - A woman digs a trench around her tent to prevent water from entering after an afternoon downpour at Bulucheke campThe landslide that buried over 350 people in Bududa last mon (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Halliburton Scam - FG Invites 74 Indicted Persons
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Wisdom Patrick And Alexandra MedeAbuja/Lagos - Seventy-four prominent Nigerians fingered in the controversial $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal have been asked to appear before a Special Inv (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Chiyangwa Set to Lose Land
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Jennifer DubeHARARE City Council is pressing ahead with its plans to repossess tracts of land in the plush Borrowdale area, which it says were irregularly acquired by Local Government Minister Igna (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Keetmanshoop DJ Stabbed to Death
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Luqman CloeteFORMER Karas Community Radio (KCR) DJ Charles Wesley Isaaks, known as 'Wafresha', was stabbed to death in a takeaway outlet at the town on Saturday morning.Isaaks sustained three stab (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Keetmanshoop DJ Stabbed to Death
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Luqman CloeteFORMER Karas Community Radio (KCR) DJ Charles Wesley Isaaks, known as 'Wafresha', was stabbed to death in a takeaway outlet at the town on Saturday morning.Isaaks sustained three stab (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Acting President an Emerging Dictator - COSEG
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Harris-Okon Emmanuel, Felix Igbekoyi And Akinwumi KingWarri/Asaba/Lagos - The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups (COSEG) says Acting President Goodluck Jonathan may turn the country into (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: SACU At 100 Eyes Transformation
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichWindhoek - THE Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) will be transformed from a customs union into a body to deepen regional integration in southern Africa beyond the existing five (By News Poster)...
South Africa: No Change in Rates 'For Some Time', Says Marcus
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - RESERVE Bank governor Gill Marcus said yesterday interest rates were likely to stay steady "for some time", dampening speculation of another cut next month.Marcus warned an (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Call for Compulsory African Language
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande has challenged universities and professional bodies to consider making an official African language other than English and Afrikaans (By News Poster)...
South Africa: 'Overvalued' Rand Constrains Economy
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE Bureau for Economic Research (BER) has revised its growth forecast for SA this year up to 3,4%, saying that if the global recovery continues, the outlook "is fairly pro (By News Poster)...
Iranian Leader Ahmadinejad Jets in Today
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jets into the country this afternoon to officially open the 51st edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo tomorrow.Presidents Mugabe (By News Poster)...
Sexwale, Banks Discuss Housing Incentive Fund
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - SOUTH Africans who do not qualify for government subsidies and housing loans from commercial banks stand to benefit from the R1bn guarantee fund that will be offere (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Military Personnel Worldwide Tackles HIV/Aids
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Arusha - Over 60 militaries from 70 countries around the globe gathered in Arusha from April 12-16 setting strategies to combat HIV infections affecting armies.President Jakaya Kikwete who officially (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: 'I Am Claiming What's Mine,' Says Mliswa
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Sandra Mandizvidza"FIRST people were calling me a land grabber, now they are labelling me a company grabber. What have I done to deserve this?" Temba Mliswa, a sports fitness trainer and businessma (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Time Ripe for Re-Engagement
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Harare - A THREE-MEMBER ministerial team led by Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Elton Mangoma leaves Harare for Brussels, Belgium, today to resume re-engagement talks with the Euro (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: MDC Suspends 'Violent' Youths
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaViolence broke out at Harvest House, the MDC Headquarters, in Harare last week when a group of youths attacked the party's Director General, Toendepi Shonhe and took his car. A statemen (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Police Arrest Fake Solar Energy Sales-Man in Lagos
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Ifeanyi OkolieWhen he walks into Corporate offices, neatly dressed in expensive suite with an identity card conspicuously swinging freely on his neck, one would pass Abubakar Tiza for a Super Sales (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Energy Crisis Set to Worsen
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Chris MuronziENERGY problems besetting the country are set to worsen for the rest of this month as it emerged yesterday that only one unit at Hwange Thermal Power Station is operational.According t (By News Poster)...
Gauteng ANC Pushes Party On Malema
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) leadership in Gauteng said yesterday it wanted the party to take "firm" action against ill-disciplined party leaders, especially (By News Poster)...
Senegal: Senegal Criticized for Abusive Islamic Schools
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Todd PitmanLagos - A leading international rights group called on Senegal's government Thursday to clamp down on Islamic schools whose leaders are subjecting tens of thousands of children to forced (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Dembare Lift Uhuru Cup
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Augustine HwataHarare - HARARE giants Dynamos turned back the hands of time to six years ago when they last won the Independence Cup by beating rivals Highlanders at a rain-soaked National Sports S (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Municipal Cops Must Be Disciplined
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - THE behaviour of some municipal police officers has gotten out of hand and something has to be done by Harare City Council to remind them that they are there to protect the people, not to end (By News Poster)...
Remembering Sam Matambo
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Joyce Jenje MakwendaHarare - The following song was composed by Sam (Samuel) Matambo in 1958 and recorded in 1961. It withstood the test of time up to 1980.When Sam Matambo and the City Quads wrote (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Members of Defence and Security Council Appointed
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday appointed its five members of the National Defence and Security Council (CNDS), the consultative body that deals with matt (By News Poster)...
Somalia: 'Al-Shabab must immediately free rights activist' - Amnesty
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Khartoum - The Somali armed opposition group al-Shabab must immediately free a human rights defender it captured last week and stop its relentless attacks on other activists, Amnesty International has (By News Poster)...
Farm Massacre Trial Again Postponed
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesTHE trial of the four men who are accused of having been involved in the massacre of eight people and an unborn baby at a farm in the Kalkrand area almost five years ago is scheduled t (By News Poster)...
Madagascar: Madagascar - Sharing Power With Opposition
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Djamel BelayachiLagos - Rajoelina seems to have recovered from his bout of stubbornness after assuring Malagasies, in a televised debate, last Wednesday, of his intention to adhere to a new road-ma (By News Poster)...
Gambia: Urban Centres Under Strain as Farmers Flee
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Banjul - Cash-strapped farmers in Gambia are flocking to towns and cities because of erratic rains in 2009 and the fact that a recently reformed system of extending loans to farmers is still not worki (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Number of Bank Users Set to Rise
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Walter WafulaKampala - The number of Ugandans who will have access to formal banking platforms is expected to expand by three times by mid 2011, Mr Roscoe Nsubuga, the managing director MapSwitch U (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Court Orders Oil Company to Forfeit Land
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is about to forfeit ownership of the land hosting its biggest export terminal in the country following the judgment of the Court (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Green Light for New HIV, Aids Roll-Out Plan
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Sunday will mark the launch of the roll-out of government's new and up-scaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan.President Jacob Zuma will usher in the new roll-out plan, which he f (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Ohakim Signs MoU On Nuclear Power Generation, Others
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Ikedi OhakimLagos - Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State at the weekend in Washington D.C., signed Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with three American companies.The companies are Barnett Holding C (By News Poster)...
Somalia: HRW Accuse Al-Shabaab of Cruelty
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of southern Somalia to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday. (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: MDC-T Boycotts Iranian Leader
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - MDC-T members of the inclusive Government were conspicuous by their absence at the Harare International Airport yesterday, where their Zanu-PF counterparts and hundreds of jubilant Zimbabwean (By News Poster)...
Medium-Term Plan Shot Down
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Harare - Cabinet ministers have reportedly rejected a draft Medium Term Plan crafted by the Ministry of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion for relying too heavily on foreign direct investment (By News Poster)...
Africa: South Africa Refuses to Accept New Travel Document
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaThousands of Zimbabweans have been left stranded at the Beitbridge border post after South African immigration officials refused to recognize a newly introduced Temporary Travel Document. (By News Poster)...
Namibia: NCCI Has Beef With Chinese
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithAN economic row brewing between Namibia and China over the quality of Namibian beef and mutton has prompted the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) to cancel a planned ma (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Museveni Owes Almost Everything to the Kings
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Alan TaccaPerhaps as expected, in his interview with the Monitor Managing Editor, Mr Daniel Kalinaki, President Museveni dismisses Africa's ancient rulers as figures who did some work to unite the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Deregulation - Solution to Constant Petroleum Supply Shortages
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeTHE Current situation in the downstream petroleum sector The dependence on imports, inadequate supply and distribution infrastructure and poor state of the refineries, as well as the hu (By News Poster)...
'Syndicate Stealing Baggage'
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Clayton BarnesA sophisticated crime ring, aided by airport security personnel, is behind the rising incidence of baggage theft and pilferage at the country's airports, says SAA.Acting chief executi (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN - Credit Squeeze, Major Threat to Economy
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Kunle AderinokunUyo - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday admitted that the current credit squeeze in the banking sector was a major threat to the economy.To forestall the looming crisis, t (By News Poster)...
Zuma Rape Acquittal Judge Gets To Job
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: The judge who acquitted South African president Jacob Zuma of rape charges last year has been recommended for a top spot on the High Court in Gauteng province - leaving some to speculate a political p (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
Nigeria: HIV/Aids Message Spreads On Sokoto Farms
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Rakiya A.muhammadSokoto - Spreading the HIV/AIDS message and not the virus has been a crusade many have emphasized, but how understood is the message and comprehended by Nigerians is yet to be asce (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Oil Tank Fire Kills One Injures 11
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Frederic NtawukuriryayoHuye - A petrol tanker lost control and swerved off the road on Thursday night, igniting an inferno that left several people and crops burnt in Maraba Sector, Huye district.T (By News Poster)...
Africa: Africans Advance Quest for a Malaria Vaccine
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Dr. Tsiri AgbenyegaOn World Malaria Day 2010, the international community marks a historic milestone in the fight against malaria. This past year, we launched a Phase III efficacy trial of the worl (By News Poster)...
Zim: Tsvangirai snubs Ahmadinejad
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [Good. Jan] BusinessDay Tsvangirai snubs Ahmadinejad FOREIGN STAFF PUBLISHED: 2010/04/23 07:38:10 AM IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for a two-day st (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Jonathan Goes Tough On Terrorism, Money Laundering
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday gave the House of Representatives up to the end of June 2010 to pass the Anti -terrorism and Money Laundering Bills pending be (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Shamva Gold Mine Strike Ends
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - A THREE-WEEK strike by Shamva Gold Mine workers which had halted operations at the mine, one of Metallon Gold Zimbabwe's key mines, has ended.About 900 workers had downed too (By News Poster)...
Increase in Civil Litigation Poses a Challenge
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Laurence BoulleJohannesburg - THE Judicial Service Commission heard this week that Gauteng's high courts have had a 400% increase in civil cases in the past 20 years, without a commensurate increas (By News Poster)...
South Africa: How Eskom Has Generated an Ethical Dilemma
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Eusebius MckaiserJohannesburg - MORAL philosophers indulge in intellectual masturbation when ethical dilemmas are thrown their way. Courtesy of an enthusiastic whistle-blower at Eskom who found a s (By News Poster)...
Africa: Investing in women farmers key to halving hunger
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Investing in women smallholder farmers is the key to halving hunger in Africa and results in twice as much growth as investment in any other sector[i], a new ActionAid report reveals.Less than one per (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: EFCC Arraigns Six Bankers Over N12.6 Million Fraud
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrai-gned six former bankers at an Abuja High Court over a N12.6 million fraud.The suspects - Lekan Olubade, Prince O (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Zuma to Launch HIV, Aids Roll-Out Plan
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will on Sunday launch the roll-out of government's new and up-scaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan, Cabinet announced on Thursday.Zuma, will usher in the n (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Ibori - Militants Ambush Onovo's Men
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Boco Edet And Misbahu Bashir And Kayode EkundayoAbuja/Lagos - An attempt to arrest former Delta State Governor James Ibori failed yesterday as militants protecting him attacked police officers dele (By News Poster)...
Ahmadinejad Visit Providential
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Harare - THE scheduled official opening of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, on Friday, by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is providential coming as it does at a time when Western nations, (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Halliburton Scandal - Report Says Abdulsalami, Etiebet, Bayero Got U.S.$50 Million
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: In the 'tsunami of all bribes' doled out by Halliburton, nothing less than $50 million was allegedly paid to former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar; his Minister of Petroleum, Don Etiebet; former (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Shake-Up Looms in Oil Industry
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - A major shake-up is imminent in the oil industry, which is likely to affect key officials in the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Nigerian National (By News Poster)...
Africa: Govt Ready to Manage Floods
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Isaiah EsipisuNairobi - Mozambique's government learned some tough lessons from the devastating floods that hit the country a decade ago. Experts say the disaster management plans drawn up since ar (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Police Step in to End Gun Battle
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Security officers on Wednesday moved in to end a fight between two clans over a land dispute in Marakwet East district.A fierce exchange of fire between Kachepkosir and Katemke clans started (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Govt 'Has Hand in Tanesco Troubles'
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has been driven to the brink of bankruptcy through interference by top government officials and bad contracts, which have fuelled its financial problems, the (By News Poster)...
Africa: You Want an Early Death? Try Giving Birth
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Nairobi - A major decline in the number of women dying at childbirth in the region signals hope for containing the sad scenario that has gripped families for ages.Despite the sharp decline in Kenya ov (By News Poster)...
West Africa: Defence Chiefs Reject Military Coup
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Lagos - The 27th ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) meeting has ended in Cotonou, Benin Republic with a resolution that "enough is enough with regards to military intervention in the p (By News Poster)...
Africa: Meteorology Services Gear Up for Climate Change
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: By Cheryl PellerinScienceOn the continent most vulnerable to climate change, officials from across Africa have committed to working with international partners to strengthen national weather and clima (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Farmers Loose Thousands Due to Improper Grading
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Harare - SOME dealers are taking advantage of farmers bringing improperly graded tobacco to the auction floors by offering to buy the crop at low prices before reselling after grading it.Farmers are l (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: MDM Demands a Seat on Council of State
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) on Thursday demanded the right to appoint members to such bodies as the Council of State (an advisory body to the President) and the National Defence (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: EFCC Defies Court, Goes After Ibori - Truckloads of Security Men Invade Ex-Governor's Home
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Chesa Chesa, Rotimi Akinwumi And Alexandra MedeAbuja - Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, has disclosed that he has a warrant granted by a court to arrest former Delta State Governor, Jame (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Opposition Leader Arrested
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been arrested and accused of genocide denial and collaborating with a "terrorist organisation," reports Agence France-Presse.The news agency quoted an a (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Anger As Diluted Fuel Hits the City
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Peter NyanziWhen Ms Grace Onyango hurriedly pulled over at a petrol station to fill her car one morning last week, she took everything for granted thinking she was getting good petrol as usual.Howe (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: We're One People - President
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Sydney Kawadza and Chakanetsa ChidyamatiyoHarare - A colourful crowd of tens of thousands yesterday filled the National Sports Stadium as Zimbabweans from all walks of life converged to commemorate (By News Poster)...
Liberia: Diamonds Missing
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy cannot account for over 9,000 carats of diamond and is operating with unidentified mineral dealers, coupled with illegal revenue collection and usage, the just (By News Poster)...
Shanghai Expo - Country's Marketing Opportunity
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - ZIMBABWE'S participation at the Shanghai World Expo, scheduled to run from May to October this year, presents the single biggest platform and opportunity for the country to m (By News Poster)...
Kenya: State Seeks Oil Drilling Experts as Search Deepens
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Allan OdhiamboThe government has stepped up the hunt for investors in the oil exploration business by calling for consultants to establish the potential of drilling in the Rift Valley.The move is a (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Halliburton Revisited
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Lagos - This newspaper did the nation a world of good with the exclusive publication on Thursday last week of the list of 80 Nigerian beneficiaries of the Halliburton bribery scandal, as compiled by t (By News Poster)...
Mali: NGO Raises Alert on Aid Shortfall
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Bamako - The government and some NGOs say they are short of funding to adequately scale up an emergency response to the needs of 629,000 people who face food insecurity in parts of western, northern a (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Child Sex Abuse Not Limited to the Catholic Church
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Henry F. MulindwaAfter the resurrection, Jesus appeared to groups of his shaken disciples and always said, "Do not be afraid" or "Peace be with you". While Catholics in the United States are being (By News Poster)...
Mali: Oxfam Raises Alert on Funding Shortfall
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Bamako - The government and some NGOs say they are short of funding to adequately scale up an emergency response to the needs of 629,000 people who face food insecurity in parts of western, northern a (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Emergency Landing At Hosea Kutako
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Jana-Mari Smith and Werner MengesCLOSE to 40 people emerged shaken but unscathed from an SA Express passenger jet on Saturday after the aircraft was forced to carry out an emergency landing at Hose (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: How Jonathan Can Fix Electricity (ii)
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Lagos - It is gratifying that the first part of this series elicited a very important e-mail from an old friend and colleague Lai Yahaya. Lai, who is now at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Govt Lacks Will to Fight Corruption
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Taddeo BwambaleKampala - Lack of a political will remains the biggest challenge to the fight against corruption in East Africa, the head of a regional anti-corruption body has said.Tito Rutaremara, (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Mining Comes First in National Indigenisation Programme
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaIndigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere said on Tuesday that the government 'unanimously' agreed that the first target of the indigenisation programme in Zimbabwe wil (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Ohakim, American Firms Sign MOU On Nuclear Power Generation
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Washington D. C - Imo Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, at the weekend in Washington D.C. US, signed Memorandum of Understandings, MOUs, with three American companies.The companies are Barnett Holding Com (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Eskom Can Now Seek Other Funds, Says Finance Chief
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM was looking at various funding options to reduce its R190bn funding gap, finance director Paul O'Flaherty said yesterday.The finalisation of the 3,75bn World Bank (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Govt Calls for More Black Mining Engineers
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - TRANSFORMATION in the South African mining industry had to happen at operational level as well as at equity level, Minerals and Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said yeste (By News Poster)...
Treasury Foils NBK Board Plot Over Government Shares
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - The battle to control the pace and direction of the privatisation of the National Bank of Kenya - the third largest bank in the country - has taken a new twist with revelatio (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Foreign Investors Safeguarded From Obligations to Locals
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Isolda AgazziNairobi - Parts of the Tana Delta on Kenya's northern coastline are being leased to foreigners to grow food and bio-fuels for export. Civil society organisations are worried about such (By News Poster)...
Kenya: New Maize Probe on After Shake-Up
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Nairobi - A fresh investigation has been ordered into the scandal through which a scheme to subsidise maize for the drought-hit poor ended up enriching the political and business elite.The orders to r (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Absa to Grow Nonretail Operations
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - ABSA wanted its nonretail banking operations to contribute half of group revenue by 2012 as it sought to diversify revenue streams after the financial crisis, deputy CEO L (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Banks 'Ll Be Forced to Resume Lending - Afrinvest
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Peter EgwuatuThe current tight credit squeeze in the Nigerian banking sector occasioned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)'s reforms will soon become a thing of the past as pressures by customers (By News Poster)...
Liberia: Global Witness welcomes Dutch court decision to retry timber baron Guus Kouwenhoven for crimes committed during Liberian war
Friday 23-Apr-2010: The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2008 ruling by the Court of Appeal which cleared businessman Guus Kouwenhoven of charges of involvement in illegal arms deals and war crimes during the civil w (By News Poster)...
Assembly Elects Members of Council of State
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday elected its seven members to the Council of State, a body that advises the President of the Republic.In reality, this is n (By News Poster)...
Africa: World Bank Steps Up to Plate in War on Malaria with U.S.$200 Million for Bed Nets
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Backing a call for greater action from the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, the World Bank today committed $200 million to provide people in sub-Saharan Africa with treated bed nets to protec (By News Poster)...
Hitachi 'Unaware' of ANC Connection
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - HITACHI Power Africa yesterday denied knowing that Chancellor House was an African National Congress (ANC) front company when it entered into an empowerment deal with i (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Approves the Snip - Living With Aids # 428
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Khopotso BodibeMedical male circumcision now forms part of government's policy to reduce new HIV infections. "By 2011, medical male circumcision must be practiced all over South Africa", Health Min (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Trial Date Set for Mayor and 8 Councillors in Chiyangwa Case
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA Harare magistrate has set the 6th May as the start of the trial in the defamation case brought against Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda and eight councillors, by businessman Phillip (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Is Alison-Madueke the Best Man for the Job?
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Mrs Miriam SpiffIt is interesting how business, personal and parochial interests are dressed up for public consumption as national interests. Since the appointment of Mrs Deziani Alison-Madueke as (By News Poster)...
Africa: Ash Cloud From Iceland Volcano Has Global Economic Impact
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Stephen KaufmanThe economic devastation caused by the activity of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is mounting, with airlines reporting losses on the scale of $200 million per day following (By News Poster)...
Govt to Review Labour Laws to Reflect Current Economic Situation
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Lloyd GumboHarare - GOVERNMENT will expedite the review of labour laws to make sure they are in tandem with the current economic trends, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.Addressing journalists (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Pirates Head East to Attack Vessels
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: On 18th April 2010, three Thai fishing vessels from Djibouti, were hijacked 1200 nautical miles east of the coast of Somalia.These latest hijackings are the furthest east of any pirate attacks in the (By News Poster)...
Teacher Gets June 2011 Date for Murder Trial
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesRETIRED teacher David de Jay, who is accused of murdering his wife in a knife attack outside Keetmanshoop early last year, will be going on trial in the High Court in Windhoek only in (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Diamond Sales Continue Recovery
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyDIAMOND mining, hailed as one of the main vehicles to drive Namibia out of recession this year, produced 2,9 per cent more carats in the first quarter of 2010 than in the last quarter (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: They all misunderstood Julius Malema... he didn't say: Kill the Boer...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: A friend of mine came up with this one - he was mocking Malema of course and the current excuses which they are coming up with, regarding Malema. They're saying, "We misunderstood him". And his englis (By Jan)...
South Africa: Gold Fields Extends South Deep Mine
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - GOLD Fields was deepening a shaft at its South Deep mine in Westonaria in a bid to mechanise the operation fully and boost production to about 800000oz of gold a year by 2 (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Unhappy Central Bank Investors Want Profit Share
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A SMALL group of disgruntled shareholders at the Reserve Bank has demanded a share of its profits and lambasted its governor, Gill Marcus, for criticising them in public.In (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Country Secures Sh38 Billion in Bank Funding
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Allan OdhiamboKenya stands to benefit from an annual Sh37.5 billion funding over the next three years after the World Bank executive board of directors endorsed a new partnership strategy for the c (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Russia Keen to Invest in Local Mines
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Harare - RUSSIA has expressed interest in investing in Zimbabwe's mining sector as it moves to enhance diplomatic ties.Speaking to journalists after meeting Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya M (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Top Army Generals Arrested
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Two of Rwanda's most senior army officials were arrested after a major shake-up in the military was announced by President Paul Kagame.Lieutenant-General Charles Muhire and Major-General Emm (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Suspected Killers of American Citizen in Police Net
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By George OnahPort Harcourt - Three persons suspected of killing an American citizen, Mr. Cyril Amadi, about two weeks ago, have been arrested and are being detained by the Police in Port Harcourt, Ri (By News Poster)...
Burkina Faso: Cross-Border Land Conflict Risks
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Ouagadougou - Conflicts in Burkina Faso between herders and farmers threaten to spill into neighbouring countries as herders seek grazing pastures, according to the government."Competition for shrinki (By News Poster)...
N$10,000 Reward for Alleged Farm Murderer
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Adam HartmanTHE children of the late Jannie (80) and Toets (75) Kruger have again offered a N$10 000 reward for the arrest of their parents' alleged murderer, Ebson 'Kavari' Tumbireek (29).Kavari e (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Russian Jets and George Orwell's Animal Farm
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Margaret WokuriReflecting on why the white man had defeated Umofia, Obierika in Achebe's Things Fall Apart observes that the white man could have had superior weapons, but some of the repressive Af (By News Poster)...
Even President Jacob Zuma admits it - S.Africa's Civil Service is the WORST in the WORLD - Stop blaming Apartheid says the President
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [Thank you. Its about time we heard some truth out of the mouth of our supposed leader. I appreciate this. And more truth coming coming out of their mouths, FOLLOWED BY ACTUAL ACTION WHICH BACKS UP TH (By Jan)...
Sudan: Urgent Food Assistance Needed As Southern Region Stands On the Brink of Serious Famine
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By MediaglobalAn extremely serious food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan, and the area around Akobo has been described by UN officials as "the hungriest place in earth."There is serious conce (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Shabangu Puts Safety At the Core of Mines
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has raised concerns over the safety of miners, saying her department will focus strongly on enforcing safety measures to curb mining deaths.Tabling (By News Poster)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-04-2010)
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- For a couple of months I have been telling the world that Mugabe is treading water until the World Cup in South Africa is over, and then in (By The BeardedMan)...
Kenya: Energy Ministry Seeks Control At KPLC
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Nairobi - The Energy ministry on Tuesday announced it would be seeking to acquire a controlling stake in Kenya's only electricity distribution company.Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi and Permanent Sec (By News Poster)...
SA Tabloid Continues Pushing Gay ETB Rumor
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: The South African tabloid that sparked charges of Eugene Terreblanche's murder was the result of a gay tryst gone wrong is continuing to push the now-discredited story, implying that "White men" are i (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
South Africa: Calls to Probe Gov't HIV Prevention Campaign
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Anso Thom and Kerry CullinanThere are growing calls for a forensic audit into Khomanani, Government's flagship HIV prevention campaign which has cost the taxpayer millions of rand but has very litt (By News Poster)...
OPM There to Do a Job, Not for Limelight - Nahas
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: A NEW Cabinet was appointed three weeks ago and while some new faces popped up, several tested cadres with 20 years of service behind them earned another five-year term, like Prime Minister Nahas Angu (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Renewed Interest in Stocks Bolster Investment Banks
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguIncreased activity at the Nairobi Stock Exchange is changing the fortunes of stockbrokers and investments bankers as intermediaries recover from losses incurred in last year's subdue (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Tea Farmers Can Uproot Bushes Under New Bill
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Justus OndariNairobi - Giving farmers the right to uproot their tea or deliver their green leaf to a factory of their choice are some of the radical changes that will be introduced in the country's (By News Poster)...
South Africa: SAB Banks On Black Label in Battle for Market Share
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - BREWING giant SAB would wield its Carling Black Label brand to fight off the challenge from locally produced Heineken and Amstel, SAB MD Norman Adami said last night.SAB (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Send Troops to Somalia, Say Parliamentarians
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliamentarians who are members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) will propose that the Mozambican government sends troops to join the African Union's peace keeping mission (By News Poster)...
Liberia: Applause Over Gus New Trial
Friday 23-Apr-2010: The environmental rights group, Global Witness, has applauded the Dutch Supreme Court's decision ordering a new trial for Mr. Gus Kouwenhoven, one of former President Charles Taylor's key business and (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Banks 'Need to Adopt Customer-Centric Approach'
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - BANKS were being tardy in implementing the Competition Commission's 2008 recommendations on bank charges, the chairman of the board of the Ombudsman for Banking Services, (By News Poster)...
South Africa: HIV, Aids Plan to Inject Hope in North West
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Over 80 health facilities in the North West will in the next three months implement the new and up-scaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan.The provincial department of Health and (By News Poster)...
Ahmadenejad Meets Mugabe
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Call it a meeting of the evil minds: anti-White, Marxist, Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe has welcomed anti-Israeli, Socialist, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into his country with open arms an (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
Hoodia Farming Creates Many Jobs
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: A PROJECT to commercially grow the indigenous hoodia plant in Namibia has created many jobs, the permanent secretary of the National Planning Commission (NPC), Mocks Shivute, told a workshop for hoodi (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Blatter Among 36 to Be Honoured by Zuma
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Cape Town - FIFA President Sepp Blatter, musician Hugh Masekela and Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos are among 36 South Africans and foreigners that will receive national orders from President Jac (By News Poster)...
Ghana: Only 10 Percent of Ghanaians Know Their HIV Status
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Akwasi FreduaThe Executive Director of Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), Vicky Okine, has said that only 2.2 million Ghanaians out of the 23 million, representing 10% of the populatio (By News Poster)...
ANC Will Not Discipline Malema: Source
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: South African president Jacob Zuma has decided to not discipline Julius Malema after a Monday meeting to discuss the ANCYL's recent public controversies, a youth league source tells Reuters. Malema (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
Tanzania: Songas Warns Against Its Buyout
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Faraja MgwabatiDar Es Salaam - SONGAS Limited says plans by government through Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) to buy it would hardly help to reduce the cost of electricity, warning that (By News Poster)...
Icasa Races to License Mobile-TV Operators
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - THE broadcasting and telecoms regulator is racing against time to issue mobile-TV licences in time for the Soccer World Cup tournament starting on June 11.The Independ (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Government Troops, Gunmen Clash in Mogadishu
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Somalia - A clash between government troops and armed militia has broken out in parts of Derkenley district in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, killing civilian, injuring a soldier, witnesses told Shabe (By News Poster)...
Lack of Staff Hampers Mpumalanga TB Progress
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Khopotso BodibeMpumalanga's cure rate of 60% for Tuberculosis falls far below the national target of 70% and is a sign that the province's TB Control Programme is failing. Many patients are default (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: ACBS Secures U.S.$400 Million for Microfinance Banks
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Sola OsipejuA Nigerian finance mediation firm, Africa Capital and Business Support Limited, has secured funding totaling $400million for microfinance banks in the country. The funds were provided b (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Maxaquene Residents Complain of Power Cuts
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Maputo - Residents of the Maputo suburb of Maxaquene on Thursday complained to President Armando Guebuza about the lengthy power cuts they frequently suffer.Maxaquene was the first stop for Guebuza on (By News Poster)...
Employment Creation Vital to Prevent Social Unrest - Muheua
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE high unemployment rate in Namibia should be solved urgently, otherwise the country might face a revolution, new Deputy Labour Minister Alpheus Muheua has warned."We must do som (By News Poster)...
Namibia: Survived Global Downturn - Calle
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichNAMIBIA has managed to come out of the world economic meltdown rather well so far, largely thanks to prudent fiscal discipline, the new Deputy Finance Minister has said.Delivering (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Police Free Priest Nabbed Over Defilement
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Frank MugabiKampala - The Catholic priest who had been arrested for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl in Pakwach, Nebbi district, has been released amid protests from the victim's parents.The P (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Vandalism Costs Power Firm Billions
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Paul JumaNairobi - Kenya Power and Lighting Company loses more than Sh4 billion annually due to illegal power connections and vandalism.According to the firm's customer service manager, Mr Joshua M (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Pirates Hijacked Vessel in Gulf of Aden
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: On the morning of 21April 2010, the Panamanian Flagged (Liberian owned) M/V VOC DAISY, a bulk carrier of 47,183 dead weight tonnes, was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, 190 nautical miles East South East (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: N67 Billion Fraud - EFCC Arrests Afribank Chairman, Five Others
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Erasmus AlanemeAbuja - In what looked like a direct response to the statement from the Presidency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Yesterday in Lagos continued the war against s (By News Poster)...
Somalia: 10 Killed in Mogadishu Shelling
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: At least 10 people, most of them civilians have been killed and over 15 others injured in new shelling that rocked different parts of the war-torn Somali capital of Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.On (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Fire in Military Warehouses Caused by Short Circuit
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Commission of Inquiry set up by the General Staff of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) to investigate a fire that swept through military warehouses in January has declared that the fire (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Jomic Bemoans Political Violence
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Harare - The Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee has bemoaned political violence in parts of Zimbabwe following recent attacks on Zanu-PF supporters in Mashonaland Central by suspected MDC-T (By News Poster)...
[Pics] S.Africa: This is a hoax email doing the rounds, claiming to be Julius Malema's house...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [A friend of mine did some checking up. This is definitely a hoax. This email was sent to me by a friend. We've seen many such hoax photos before claiming to be Mugabe's house or Zuma's house. I ha (By Jan)...
Mali: Rush for Land Along the Niger
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Soumaila T. DiarraBamako - Domestic and international investors are taking over increasing amounts of arable land in Mali.In the Macina commune of south-central Mali, a giant irrigation canal is in (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Denel to Provide 8x8 Turrets to Malaysian Armed Forces
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Denel will be part of a number of companies to supply the Malaysian Armed Forces with 8x8 Vehicle Turrets.According to the state owned entity, it will be part of several companies that will (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jonathan Warns National Assembly
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiLagos - Acting President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday warned the National Assembly that if it fails to pass two financial crimes, bills within the next two months, such action could i (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Babangida Plans Comeback
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Reuben Buhari with agency ReportKaduna - Former military president and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, yesterday sai (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Experts Task Locals on National HIV Response
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Chioma ObinnaWith over 80 per cent of the country's national response to HIV and AIDS donor-driven, health experts have expressed fear that the global economic recession may affect the efforts to c (By News Poster)...
East Africa: Uganda to Pay More for Bank Services
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Bernard BusuulwaNairobi - Uganda's banking population will pay higher charges to make up for an anticipated loss of income from reductions in lending rates and changes in stamp duty collection. Ind (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Europe Air Flight Ban Derails Talks
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Harare - A new threat has emerged to the immediate resumption of Zimbabwe-European Union re-engagement talks and this time it is not disagreements among the parties involved, but a force of nature.A c (By News Poster)...
Woza 4 Spend Independence Weekend Behind Bars
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaThe four activists from the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), who were arrested in Harare last week, spent the Independence Day celebrations in police custody for protestin (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Governor Fails to Appear Before Commission
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Tunde OpeseitanLagos - Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, on Sunday expressed surprise over enquiries from the media on why he did not show up at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Two Die, Five Wounded in a Clash Between Soldiers in Capital
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Bitter clash between the transitional government troops has killed 2 and wounded 5 others including soldiers and students in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.Re (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Obasanjo Named in Halliburton Scandal
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Nigeria's own internal inquiry shows that those who include former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the man who trumpeted an anti-corruption hurricane benefited from the Halliburton bribery scandalthat s (By News Poster)...
I Respect 'Father' - Doc Khumalo
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Roy MatikiHarare - DOCTOR KHUMALO -- one of South Africa's greatest football players of all-time -- has paid a glowing tribute to the quality of Zimbabwean players, plying their trade across the Li (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: EFCC, ICPC, Representatives Probe Ex-Minister Ruma
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Erasmus AlanemeAbuja - STRONG indications came up at the weekend that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: UN Requests Canada to Deny Asylum to FDLR Rebel
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Irene V. Nambi and AgenciesKigali - The United Nations on Tuesday formally requested Canada to deny asylum to a senior member of the FDLR currently in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (By News Poster)...
South Africa: New Bank Curbs Not the Answer, Says Marcus
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - RESERVE Bank governor Gill Marcus warned yesterday that there was danger that greater regulation of banks could lead to complacency.New banking regulations would create a (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Working Together to Conserve Water
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Terna GyuseGaborone - The river basin organisation people are gathered in Botswana again: the theme this year is "benefit-sharing", an approach to allocating water that, it is promised, will accomp (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Two MDC District Leaders Arrested for 'Disrespecting' ZPF Governor
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaPolitical tension is intensifying in Mashonaland Central between MDC and ZANU PF supporters, resulting in two provincial leaders from the MDC-T being arrested on Tuesday for allegedly d (By News Poster)...
Africa: Minister urges WFP to Release Food from Mogadishu Stores
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Somalia's government has asked the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to release food stocks in Mogadishu for distribution to hundreds of thousands of needy internally displaced persons (IDPs), Interior Mi (By News Poster)...
Ghana: Food Vendors and the Health of Locals
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Bernice BessyI visited a kenkey seller at her house recently, and to my surprise, I saw chicken droppings on the corn dough which she would be using to prepare kenkey the next day.This tells how un (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Minister Urges WFP to Release Food From Mogadishu Stores
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Somalia's government has asked the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to release food stocks in Mogadishu for distribution to hundreds of thousands of needy internally displaced persons (IDPs), I (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap Two Germans
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Lagos - Gunmen have kidnapped two German men in Azumini, Abia State, the second abduction of foreign workers in the last 10 days. security sources said yesterday.According to an agency report, the two (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Lebanese Arrested for Money Laundering
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Maputo - A joint operation by the Mozambican police and customs authorities led to the detention, on Wednesday morning, in the central city of Chimoio, of a man of Lebanese nationality in possession o (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Ethiopia Troops Expel Al Shabaab From Border Town
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Heavily-armed Ethiopian troops accompanied by Somali troops have reportedly crossed the border into south central Somali town of El Barde in a bid to oust insurgent Al-Shabaab, Radio Garowe reports.Al (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: We'll Get Former Governor, Says Commission
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Lagos - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday said there was no hiding place for the former Delta State governor, James Ibori, warning that he can't create an impression that he i (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Country Aims for 'Knowledge Society' With ICT Bill
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Munyaradzi MakoniZimbabwe is expected to pass legislation that could help it take better advantage of information technology, despite the economic crisis that has gripped the country.The Informatio (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Opposition Leader Appears in Court
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire, the embattled leader of the yet-to-be registered political party, FDU-Inkingi, was yesterday arrested and arraigned before Gasabo Intermediate Court (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Youth Risky Behaviour Shows Decline, But Minister Still Concerned
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Gabi KhumaloJohannesburg - Although the 2008 South African National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey shows reductions in risky sexual behaviour as compared to a previous survey, Minister Collins Chabane (By News Poster)...
South Africa: ANC Tells Members to Clean Up Party's Image
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng started its campaign for next year's local government elections yesterday, telling its members to clean up the party' (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Left And Right in SA is Not As Clear Cut As Black And White
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Chris ThurmanJohannesburg - IN THE space of a few weeks, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) has morphed from a moribund and fragmented collection of white supremacists led by a widely derided f (By News Poster)...
Tourism Minister Urges No Protests Against North Korean Soccer Team
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Alex BellTourism minister Walter Mzembi has urged civil society organisations to drop plans for protests against the arrival of the North Korean football team next month, saying 'politics' should n (By News Poster)...
Africa: High-level White House Meeting with African Union
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Washington, DC - Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike HammerNational Security Advisor General Jim Jones welcomed a delegation from the African Union to the White House today. The meeting between General J (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Fewer World Cup Fans Expected but More Will be Spent
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - SA's hosting of the World Cup would give gross domestic product a 0,5% boost this year, a welcome fillip when overall annual growth of 2%-2,5% was expected, auditing fi (By News Poster)...
South Africa: A Failure to Read the Signs - Bank Under Marcus has Been More Forthcoming
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - MANY noses were out of joint in SA's financial community when the Reserve Bank unexpectedly cut interest rates at last month's monetary policy meeting.Only two of the financial institut (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Alleged N104 Million Fraud - Ogbulafor for Trial
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: By Dayo Benson, Henry Umoru and Ikechukwu NnochiriThe Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, has assigned the case of alleged N104 million corruption charges against the National Chai (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Excitement as Government Lifts Ban on Food Export
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Orton KiishwekoDar Es Salaam - EXCITEMENT is rising among farmers following the government's lifting of a ban on export of food crops and now agricultural producers are aiming at clinching the neig (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Top Businessman Found Dead
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: By Lynnette JohnsThe man credited with regenerating Claremont's CBD has been found dead outside his office block the Stadium on Main building.An inquest docket has been opened into the death of Chris (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Rep Condemns Warri Bomb Blasts
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Daniel GummWarri - A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has described the bomb blasts which occurred Monday at the venue of the Post-Amnesty Dialogue in the Delta State G (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Police Hail Dev't Partners
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: By Edwin MusoniKigali - The National Police and its Development Partners yesterday signed a Board of Recognition document aimed at appreciating the role played by the donors in boosting the force.The (By News Poster)...
Violence Hampering Aid Deliveries in Mountainous Part of Darfur, UN Official Says
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Increasing violence has cut off aid deliveries to the mountainous area of Darfur and the living situation for the estimated 100,000 people there will worsen as the dry season comes to an end, the top (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Waragi Death Toll Hits 65
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Robert MuherezaKabale - Twenty-four more people have died in the past week bringing the number of deaths thought to be caused by contaminated waragi in Kabale District to 65. Over 100 people have b (By News Poster)...
Mozambique: Chinese Support for Armed Forces
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican Defence Ministry on Friday received agricultural equipment, valued at around 615,000 US dollars, donated by the Chinese government.The equipment includes eight four-tonne truck (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Lack of Rules Hinders Use of Biotech Seeds
Monday 19-Apr-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Lack of regulations is hindering the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) from carrying out cotton and maize field trials in biotechnology.According to the Internat (By News Poster)...
Angola: UN Representative Warns Armed Civilians of Danger
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Luanda - The United Nations representative in Angola for regional disarmament, Agnes Marcaizzou, Saturday here warned the civilians in possession of firearms to be aware of the danger it poses to thei (By News Poster)...
Goldstone Report Author Can Go To Bar Mitvah
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: The author of a United Nations report condemning Israel of war crimes has reached an agreement with Zionist groups that will allow him to attend his grandson's bar mitzvah. Richard Goldstone the ir (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
South Africa: ‘Drug cops phone calls acceptable’
Friday 23-Apr-2010: The transcript of a telephone conversation between West Rand senior officers and drug dealers will be used as evidence in the trial, the Johannesburg high court ruled yesterday. Judge Nico Coetzee (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
S.Africa: CORRUPTION: Disclosure of asset: President Jacob Zuma found guilty of violating code of ethics
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [Ethics? What's that? You think the ANC criminals care about ethics? They couldn't give a hoot. Jan] Johannesburg - A report by Public Protector Thulisile Madonsela has found President Jacob Zuma g (By Jan)...
State-funded SA Airways hostess lodges complaint against passenger for speaking Afrikaans to her
Monday 19-Apr-2010: [So now speaking Afrikaans is illegal!? Well before they make it illegal, atleast remove it as one of the OFFICIAL eleven languages! This is a breach of HUMAN RIGHTS...the very human right to communic (By JanOlifant)...
S.Africa: When President Zuma negotiates with the Afrikaners, he will make a mistake if he follows Lenin's principle...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: President Zuma is a cheap talker. The ANC always have been. All these black liberation movements are. They're cheap talkers. But talk... and then they think you've forgotten the issue. Today they're i (By Jan)...
Iran/Venezuela: If Osama Bin Laden Were Iran's Supreme Leader...
Friday 23-Apr-2010: [...I'm sure Hugo Chavez wouldn't mind paling around with him as he is doing with Ahmadinejad. Osama bin Laden's 1998 fatwa speech sounds a whole lot what Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is repe (By Lone Wolf)...
S.Africa: Apparently Malema will be up on 5 charges at a disciplinary hearing...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: I hear that apparently there will be 5 charges against Malema at a discplinary hearing. Among them:- o Bringing the ANC into disrepute o Creating division within the ANC o Stirring up racial te (By Jan)...
Malema Rant Gets Dance Floor Redux
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: ANCYL leader Julius Malema's now-infamous rant where he threw out a BBC reporter has gotten a dance-floor makeover, as DJ's have sampled excerpts from his racist tirade into their hip-hop mixes. (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
S.Africa: 2010: Collapsing Infrastructure: Join this organisation & get some support from our totally worthless Municipalities
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [I checked out this website. Its pretty good. Got some wild stories there and photos. This country is collapsing at so many levels. Please support these people and spread the word about them. These mu (By Jan)...
Saturday on AfricanCrisis: I will discuss & shock you with my new views on the very radical Afrikaners like the Suidlanders - the ones who want a war NOW...
Friday 23-Apr-2010: Today I was running around taking care of private things and did not get around to posting on AC. But I must address the issue of the Suidlanders. I think they are the most radical Afrikaners arou (By Jan)...
South Africa: Black Share of Mine Ownership 'Remains Small'
Friday 23-Apr-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - THE mining industry is still largely white-owned, eight years after the signing of the mining charter aimed at transferring significant ownership to black people, accordin (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Weird: Small Earthquakes hit three provinces
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [Strange. Jan] FOUR earthquakes rocked Gauteng, the North West province and Limpopo on Wednesday, the Council for Geosciences reported yesterday. The first was at 1.28pm in the Gamoep area of (By Jan)...
Rhodesian Pilot Nigel Lamb Performing well in Red Bull Air Race - Perth
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [You may remember the Lamb family ? Their boys went to Umtali Boys high...their father was abducted and murdered by Gooks - Zanu terrorists in the Chimanimani -Melsetter area. Anyway, this media (By JanOlifant)...
[Cartoon] Mugabe the racist pianist...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [This is totally brilliant. Yep, that's the Mugabe we've come to know and would like to shoot in the head. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
USA: U.N.'s Ballooning $732 Million Haiti Peacekeeping Budget Goes Mostly to Its Own Personnel
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [The UN is a waste of time. Us whites in Africa have seen how the UN supports terrorists. Its a worthless organisation. I've quipped before that the UN should be shut down and turned into a brothel. J (By Jan)...
Hello, Africa! Archive: The TAU/SA's Open Letter to Jacob Zuma
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: Mnr. Chris van Zyl of the Transvaals Agricultural Union of South Africa talks about his group's open letter to Jacob Zuma, which highlights the concerns of the South African farming community and dema (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...
[Cartoon] S.Africa: Julius Malema Vs Helen Zille...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: (Photo) (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: The continued, sickening sell-out of Morgan Tsvangirai... Bennett as a bargaining chip...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: [I read a news article over the MDC and how it continually gives in to Mugabe. This disgusts me. The MDC seem to be all over the place these days, floundering around and going nowhere. Look at how (By Jan)...
[Pic] S.Africa: A Black Policeman ... er, hard at work...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: This photo appeared in an Afrikaans newspaper. This black cop was not quite so busy... (Photo) (By Jan)...
S.Africa: 2010: Collapsing infrastructure & mismanagement: Major dam near Pretoria full of E.Coli
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Be shocked. I have even more shocking things to post. Jan] 17 February 2010 - 09:22 A lab has conducted tests on the water in Hartebeespoort and says the E.coli count is excessively high. (By Jan)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-04-2010)
Monday 19-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Yesterday was a difficult day. My ISP had a spectacular crash on Saturday evening which, along with the internet, took out cable television a (By The BeardedMan)...
[Cartoon] The Malema dilema...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: [Here is a cartoon about Julius Malema from last year. Malema flunked woodwork at school... yet... he might yet make the cabinet (in politics). Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
[YouTube] [Video] The amazingly different ways US Marines treat 2 Presidents: George Bush Vs Barack Obama...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: Take a look at this. What do the US Marines know that the rest of us do not. (Well, methinks, they know Obama hates America and hates them). Click on the link below and be amazed:- (By Jan)...
[Cartoon] Hillarious... guess who is the author of the Economic stimulus bill...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [This is completely brilliant. That's pretty much the level of economics these days. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
AfriForum welcomes ruling on Hlophe
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Media Statement 16 April 2010 AfriForum welcomes ruling on Hlophe AfriForum welcomed the ruling by the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town today setting aside the decision not to proceed wit (By JanOlifant)...
A Good Patriotic American website worth supporting...
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: [I made contact with this guy and I like what he's posting. Some of you might want to check out his site. I saw this horrific photo of a Muslim stoned to death on his site. This, folks is an examp (By Jan)...
[Video] USA: Totally Brilliant: A College student explains Obamanomics - unbelievable...
Wednesday 21-Apr-2010: [This is a must see. It is only a minute and a half, and it will totally blow your mind. It couldn't be demonstrated more clearly. Jan] Recently Obama announced that over the next 90-days he is goi (By Jan)...
[Pic][Humor] Hey... God gave you skin color... use that RACE CARD... over and over...
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: [Yep, milk it for what its worth!! Make those white scum pay... Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe - Things are real weird...
Tuesday 20-Apr-2010: Zimbabwe is really weird. It seems to me a lot is going on and its all highly sophisticated... games, within games within games. Not quite sure what to make of it at this time. I need to sit back (By Jan)...
[Cartoon] Very bad... a knife better than a Swiss knife...
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: These cartoons are really nasty, but hillarious if you enjoy sick humour like I do. (Photo) (By Jan)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-04-2010)
Sunday 25-Apr-2010: Howzit A very quiet Sunday news wise, so we'll crack on with whatever is available to us. I must apologise for the haphazard formatting of this post. In the "Compose" window, all appears as it s (By The BeardedMan)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-04-2010)
Saturday 24-Apr-2010: Howzit I suppose that this is one way to get around the empowerment regulations - sell the shareholding to ZANU PF - and, in so doing, also receive the full backing of Mugabe's violent party. No (By The BeardedMan)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-04-2010)
Thursday 22-Apr-2010: Howzit Well - that was a most interesting encounter yesterday morning. Obviously I will not be spilling the beans on everything that happened as I have no wish to jeopardise the results, but suffic (By The BeardedMan)...