Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 9th May 2010From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & Gruesome
S.Africa: Many thoughts, Orania explodes with interest, Zuma wipes his bum on Afrikaners to prove they are NOTHING... Don't give up... Get ANGRY, get ACTIVE...
Friday 07-May-2010: I hear that some Afrikaners were arrested for bombs or whatever. I saw it on billboards as I rushed to work. Then one of my english-speaking South African friends phoned me and asked me (he's one of t (By Jan)...S.Africa: Nelson Mandela supports Julius Malema & supports: KILL THE BOER. Why was Mandela silent on Mugabe & Matabele Genocide?
Tuesday 04-May-2010: I spotted in an article by Adriana Stuijt, that there was mention of banners that had been "approved" for the Boer Genocide protests in London. One of those banners asked: Where is Nelson Mandela? Why (By Jan)...WorldWide: Blacks are at the top of their game - they think they're INVINCIBLE - The Super White Racism of the 21st century... is COMING...
Saturday 08-May-2010: I got an email from someone in an Eastern European country - supporting Afrikaners. In Eastern Europe the whites aren't the Politically Correct wussies that exist in the Western world. I've seen over (By Jan)...Tuesday on AfricanCrisis - A surprisingly cute Kill the Boer story... The Prize I won at work... and the seeds I am quietly sowing... What if I'm fired from my work? Should I get a bodyguard?
Monday 03-May-2010: Its 9pm and I thought I'd check in for the day. I got to work really late this morning... and got a tongue lashing for that. All in all, my first day back at work started out really rotten despite hav (By Jan)...[2 Pics] Where can I get my pistol engraved like this?
Thursday 06-May-2010: [This cool email was doing the rounds and comes from an American source. Jan] Where can I get my pistol engraved like this? Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) Things that I found helpfu (By Jan)...S.Africa: “We are now in the final days of white life in this country.” - UK's Times Report
Wednesday 05-May-2010: [Too bad the British never mentioned to us it might be like this one day when they were so busy pushing for the previous Govt to hand over power to the ANC. Anyhow, let's at least be tremendously grat (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: My Race War challenge to President Zuma - how it reached my work again... with hillarious consequences...
Sunday 09-May-2010: I was mentioning to Peter from THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE how that post he did on the TRP's Website once more reached me work. I really need to tell people about it. I believe I got some job offers this (By Jan)...S.Africa: WILD!! Almost everyone at my work knows about my website & activities... blacks and whites...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: I was totally stunned by 2 incidents today when blacks and whites chatted to me about AfricanCrisis my books and my challenge to Jacob Zuma. It was wild. I have always kept my work and politics separa (By Jan)...S.Africa: Is Julius Malema busy beating President Zuma? Is Julius Malema heading to be the NEXT PRESIDENT - SOON?
Tuesday 04-May-2010: I dislike the ANC intensely. But, I'm going to tell you something. No matter what the ANC is, they do have certain values that they were founded on. The Liberals in South Africa would like to belie (By Jan)...S.Africa: Is the ANC planning & preparing for an Army to fight the Whites, Zimbabweans & to keep itself in power undemocratically?
Saturday 08-May-2010: Very recently, the ANC floated an idea. The idea is one of "National Service". Normally national service is something you keep for when there is a war and one requires a long term pool of soldiers to (By Jan)...S.Africa: Black Racist Communist Julius Malema sings Kill the Coward (What does it mean?) AND says: Mines will be Nationalised...
Saturday 08-May-2010: Apparently Julius Malema was back on the singing circuit, but this time he was singing: Kill the Coward instead of Kill the Boer. This makes sense. The ANC used to reserve necklacing (pouring petro (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: 16 years after Apartheid Blacks say: The Apartheid houses for Blacks were BETTER than the ANC's RDP houses....
Wednesday 05-May-2010: I forgot to tell you this little gem which I heard from a friend. This comes from the same friend who was chatting to the black lady about her little 3 year old kid singing: "Kill the Boer". See: (By Jan)...Military History: The Incredible story of the Stupid White men with Pots on their heads who won the greatest military victory in history...
Saturday 08-May-2010: Even I was fooled by the modern Politically Correct garbage interpretations of what happened in South America so that I never truly appreciated what exactly happened there when the Spanish Conquistado (By Jan)...The Three Phases of everyone's life... and also of every nation's life... Blacks may be entering Phase 3... The Final Game of Life is...
Monday 03-May-2010: Once when I was browsing through books on Amazon I came across a book that mentioned the three phases of a person's life. It was some academic who mentioned it. The more I thought about it the more I (By Jan)...Africa: Africom and the U.S.'s Hidden Battle for Continent
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Ba KarangWhat is the current meaning of the 'War against Terror' for Africa? The true intention of America's recent military interventions in the African continent (both covert and open) is nothing (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A Stunningly cute KILL THE BOER story... from a Black Woman...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: A friend of mine had to take his mother to the hospital the other day. While there, he struck up a conversation with a black woman. While chatting to her they started discussing politics. By the way, (By Jan)...SHOCKING MYSTERY: 2010 FIFA World cup - From Stratfor who advise the CIA: Brief: 2.5 tons of stolen Explosives Recovered in South Africa
Monday 03-May-2010: [I don't recall hearing this mentioned in the South African media. This comes from a report from STRATFOR in the USA. Stratfor do analyses for the CIA. What they don't mention here is anything abou (By Jan)...[Pic] What Johannesburg International Airport will be like the day that Julius Malema becomes President...
Sunday 09-May-2010: [A friend sent me this. Yes, this is about true. But... my personal views folks is this: Why must WE RUN AWAY? Why doesn't Julius Malema run away? Why should WE flee? Why doesn't he and his cronies (By Jan)...More 'Stop Boer Genocide' Protests in Europe - London
Tuesday 04-May-2010: The Jack Hindon Scouts in the UK plan to hold a silent protest action against the Boer Genocide in central London's parliament square this Saturday May 8 2010 from 10 to 12am. They have ten approve (By JanOlifant)...From Australia: New racism grips South Africa - The NEW Apartheid where the Racists & Thugs are BLACK!
Tuesday 04-May-2010: [Here's a stunning article from an Australian newspaper. Very nice. Dead on. Jan] WE all know that racists - especially South African ones - are white. We also know that ending apartheid in South A (By Jan)...[YouTube] [Video] Dr David Duke speaks out about the Genocide of White Farmers in South Africa
Friday 07-May-2010: I loyal supporter sent this interesting link. Some pretty good facts here. Click on the link below for this 10 minute video:- (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Protecting Investors, but What About the People? - Dissecting the Contradictions of Agricultural Investment
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Joan BaxterOn 25 April 2010, representatives from a host of organisations and nations with the clout to shape policies and millions of lives around the world gathered for a Roundtable at the headqu (By News Poster)...Potential Energy: White people have been holding back for a long time... but Black people don't realise it...
Sunday 09-May-2010: I just want to mention that Black people don't realise how much white people actually hold back. The blacks think that they've defeated the whites. They don't know what white people truly are capab (By Jan)...10,000+ South African Cops In Jail
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Speaking at the funerals of two police officers killed in the line of duty, South African National police commissioner General Bheki Cele announced Tuesday that more than 10,000 cops are sitting in th (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: 2010 - FIFA World Cup - Massive electricity crisis...
Saturday 08-May-2010: My neighbour told me he doesn't have hot water. It turns out that they have been switching all our geysers off at night - hence he has no hot water. But when they start this business of switching (By Jan)...A Brilliant Afrikaner Strategy... The best I've seen in my 30 years in South Africa... President Zuma is going to look like a total asshole...
Saturday 08-May-2010: I was chatting to someone I know who is involved in some planning as part of one of the Afrikaner organisations that is co-operating with respect to taking up Afrikaner issues with President Zuma. (By Jan)...South Africa: What is the True Role of Banks?
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Sim TshabalalaJohannesburg - WHAT is the true role of banks? Can they grow too fast for SA's good? These are the questions exercising the minds of many thoughtful people in the aftermath of the glo (By News Poster)...S.Africa: We have 1 billion condoms & 40,000 sex workers... we're ready for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer - The Police don't want Obama here...
Sunday 09-May-2010: [This is the story that's out there. The DrudgeReport ran it... pointing to CBS news... and CBS news pointed to GlobalPost. What's soccer without a lot of sex in the most HIV+ country in the world? (By Jan)...S.Africa: The Big Myth of those Moderate Blacks who will defend the Whites... The JOB of Leaders is to manipulate the Masses...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: I am so sick to death of hearing of these black moderates. As I wrote recently, the whole Western world bet its monies on MODERATE BLACK LEADERS. The first one they tried to back was: Buthelezi. Y (By Jan)...Nigeria: When Oil Dries Up...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Gbenga OgunbufunmiRecently, experts predicted that with the rate at which some oil wells are now getting dried up in the country, the natural resource, which serves as the mainstay of Nigeria's eco (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Malema Victimised, Says Zanu-PF Youth League
Friday 07-May-2010: Harare - THE Zanu-PF Youth League has expressed concern at the decision by the African National Congress to take disciplinary action against its Youth League president Cde Julius Malema for going agai (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party Split Over Its Youth Leader
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - EMBATTLED African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema, flanked by his defender Mathews Phosa, appeared before the ANC's national disciplinary com (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Boycotting By Day, Pestering By Night
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Dambudzo MapurangaHarare - IT is common cause that MDC-T is not only broke but has waning political fortunes, and its stunt against visiting Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was nothing more th (By News Poster)...Whites Arrested In Fifa World Cup Bomb Plot
Saturday 08-May-2010: South African police have charged five White men with allegedly planning to bomb next month's Fifa World Cup tournament. Police believe the suspects were going to set off bombs in Black townships j (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (06-05-2010)
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- I don't like to dabble in the politics of the United Kingdom, but, despite my emailing the party offices asking to be taken off their mailing (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Festive HIV Testing Launch
Monday 03-May-2010: By Kerry CullinanThere was a festive atmosphere at Edendale Hospital on Friday as hundreds of people attended the launch of the province's HIV counselling and testing (HCT) campaign, headed by Premier (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fifa Warns Against Ambush Marketing
Friday 07-May-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraJohannesburg - FIFA has warned against ambush marketing within the precinct of all 2010 host stadia and fan parks during the upcoming tournament to ensure the FIFA brand is protec (By News Poster)...THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE: White people are the root of all evil in America - White Lies From The Ministry of Lies
Sunday 09-May-2010: [I received this from Peter at The Right Perspective, and I thought I'd throw my 2c worth in. Of particular importance is this sentence: "... they are looking to blame Whites for all the ills in A (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (07-05-2010)
Friday 07-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- At last we see some reaction from SADC on the ongoing impasse in Zimbabwe... "SADC chairperson President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic (By The BeardedMan)...S Africa: Did I stand next to South Africa's sleaze king the day before was killed in a "hit"?
Saturday 08-May-2010: Did I find myself standing next to South Africa's sleaze king Lolly Jackson the day before he was killed? There's a month to go before the soccer World Cup, and for most of this week headlines were (By A Different Perspective)...South Africa: A Need to Be Seen Doing Something
Friday 07-May-2010: One in every four adult South Africans is uneployed, one in three, if disillusioned job-seekers who have given up looking for work are taken into account. That is a crisis by any standard, one that sh (By News Poster)...Somali Crisis Is Not 'Hopeless' - UN Envoy
Monday 03-May-2010: By Reed KramerNairobi - Peace in Somalia is not only possible but is 'relatively easy' to achieve, according to Ambassador Amadou Ould-Abdallah, a veteran diplomat who has served as Mauritania's forei (By News Poster)...Sorry Folks... it will have to wait: Jacob Zuma's new anti-Farming strategy... My Race War challenge... keeps rocking...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Its 1am and I need to get to bed. I have a short night's sleep ahead. I posted as much as I could. I hope you all enjoyed it and it got you thinking. I will make a note to discuss Jacob Zuma's (By Jan)...BoereJode - The Jews who fought on the Boer side in the Anglo-Boer war - How did the book launch go?
Sunday 09-May-2010: [Peter at the Right Perspective asked me how the launch of this book went at the synagogue here in Johannesburg - I make it sound as if there's one, but there are dozens and dozens. Jan] Peter ask (By Jan)...South Africa: Pitfalls of a Growing Appetite for Credit
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - NOT QUITE CUT AND DRIED: Absa was recently found guilty of lending recklessly to an elderly couple and has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision. The bank says (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Stunning letter from an Indian Lady to Julius Malema about hating Whites & bringing War to South Africa
Tuesday 04-May-2010: [Some points in this stunning letter need clarification though. This was written by an Indian lady. This is a good defence of people, and its really nice to see someone standing up in a sense about th (By Jan)...20 Years of Namibia's Business Environment
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Johannes !gawaxabWHEN I look at my own children, I can't help but think "my, how time flies". It was not so long ago that this small child of mine was bouncing on my knee. Now this same child is ou (By News Poster)...S.Africa: How shocking: Black Businessmen want to join a White Chamber of Commerce - because whites get things DONE!
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Here's a little bit of inside info for you. I will not repeat where and when this took place except to say it was at a meeting held somewhere in Johannesburg. Some time back they formed a Black (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Uganda's Minor Rebels Wreak Major Terror
Thursday 06-May-2010: Niangara - They may number as few as 100 men, women and adolescents, but Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) units scattered across the forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Orientale Provin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Private Investment Key to Reviving Power Sector
Monday 03-May-2010: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiThe parlous state of the Nigerian power sector received a shot in the arm with the recent issuance of a $100 million grant by the World Bank to guarantee private investment with (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teenagers' Health At Risk over Alcohol, Drugs
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Kristin PalitzaCape Town - "I sometimes drink alcohol because it makes things funny," 15-year-old Senelo* giggles shyly. "I go to unlicensed taverns. They sell alcohol without asking questions."The (By News Poster)...Justice Outside the Main Legal System
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Maria Jutta MahalieOn the eve of the implementation of the Community Courts Act, 10 of 2003, I find it necessary to give an overview on the Community Courts, as they are called in Namibia.Community (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Don't believe all the propaganda about how GREAT Mozambique is doing... Portuguese Whites there also fear...
Saturday 08-May-2010: I was chatting to a man who has a business in Mozambique. He really put incredible effort into this place. He was telling me that what few Portuguese whites are there also fear. He did not go into (By Jan)...Africa: Wounded Kony Could Be Our Biggest Gift to Africa
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboJoseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has been back in the news again in recent times, killing civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.The LRA might still be alive and (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robbers Lay Siege On Filling Stations in Abuja
Monday 03-May-2010: By Ben AgandeAuthorities of the Nigerian Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, Abuja are battling to resolve a pattern of crime at petrol stations along the airport road that appear to indi (By News Poster)...THE END DAYS ARE UPON US: GRAPE+++ - The Grape Vine: (financial collapse)
Sunday 09-May-2010: [I thought I'd post this for fun. This comes from a friend of a friend, and the guy's background is pretty interesting, but I have to keep it a bit quiet. The guy who writes this is very much into (By Jan)...My Technical Indicator: The latest stunning P&F news on Gold... Gold heading to incredible new levels...
Thursday 06-May-2010: I just had a look at Gold on the P&F charts... and its simply staggering. The P&F prediction for gold is not $136 as before, but now $142 - this is for the ETF - GLD. That means... we are looking (By Jan)...Opinion: Africa - The Mythology of Eurocentricism
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Reason WafawarovaTHE dominance of Eurocentric values, the overriding Western influence in world affairs and the rule of imperial authority -- where a European population comprising 10 percent of th (By News Poster)...My Technical Indicator: Crashing Stock Markets - In Free Fall? - The NEXT LEG DOWN... in full swing? The strange GOLD TWIST...
Thursday 06-May-2010: Just a quick note. Wall Street opened 74 points lower than yesterday. This means it has met the Head-and-Shoulders target of 10,800 which I mentioned a few days back! However, the Point-and-Figure (By Jan)...[2 Graphs] My Technical Indicator - Has the great stock market slaughter at 11,000 begun? Market falls 200 points in one day, but another 300 points further to go!!
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Today was a wild day on Wall St. I want to refer you to an article I wrote more than a month ago about the possibility that there will be a great slaughter at 11,000 and that this could be where "the (By Jan)...Uganda: New Gold Refinery to Boost Economy
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - RUSSIAN investors have installed a $1.5m gold refinery, the first of its kind in the Great Lakes region, underscoring the Government's efforts to ensure valued-addition on a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S. Oil Firm Leases Face Legal Hurdle
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - The agreement allegedly reached in November last year between Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU) on behalf of ExxonMobil Corporation US and the Ministry of Petroleum R (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZRP Reform First Before National Healing
Monday 03-May-2010: By Nevanji MadavinhireZimbabweans are getting angry with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and many think that the process of national healing, reconciliation and integration will come to naught if t (By News Poster)...'High Production Costs Fueling Inflation'
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Leonard MakombeBUILDING inflationary pressures, more than a year after the central bank's printers went silent, have exposed the country's unenviable economic position and the lethargy in industry (By News Poster)...Africa: What Will Continent Export If It Leases Farmland to Arabs?
Monday 03-May-2010: By George OmondiWhen Citadel Capital announced its plan to open an eastern Africa office in Nairobi by January this year, there was little excitement even as the Egyptian firm went ahead to explain th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Names Kampala Robbery Taxis
Friday 07-May-2010: By Steven Candia and Eddie SsejjobaKampala - MANY victims of taxi robberies yesterday reported to Police stations in the city hoping to recover their stolen valuables.Meanwhile, the Police have issued (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Small Bands of Rebels Can Wreak Havoc
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Niangara - They may number as few as 100 men, women and adolescents, but Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) units scattered across the forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Orientale Provin (By News Poster)...[Humor] Julius Malema's son goes to Pretoria to study....
Thursday 06-May-2010: [I received this joke from a friend. This is a joke based on the fact that Julius Malema is raking in millions with his ANC connections - you know from THE ANC ONLY ECONOMY which they have created. Ja (By Jan)...Sudan: Congressman Calls on Obama to Shift Approach to Khartoum
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Office of Representative Frank WolfWashington, DC - Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), long recognized in Congress for his work on Sudan, today called for a change in how the Obama Administration deals with K (By News Poster)...S. Africa: Black SANDF 'General' Attacks White Soldier - 'I hate whites'
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Adriana Stuijt COMMANDER OF ARMY COMBAT TRAINING CENTRE HATES WHITES Brig Gen. Ms Nontobeko Mpaxa, commander of the army combat training centre at Lohathlha, picture, is being sued by an Afrikaner wa (By JanOlifant)...Uganda: Iran Urges Govt to Go Nuclear
Monday 03-May-2010: By David Malingha DoyaNairobi - For all the controversy that surrounds its relationship with Iran, Uganda is gaining a lot. For one, it has been accorded a second opinion on national strategic questio (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-05-2010)
Sunday 09-May-2010: Howzit This is a very sad household today. Last evening we were told that our neighbour who has not been very well lately, passed away on Friday evening in hospital. No names - no pack drill, bu (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: Who Will Stop These Assassinations?
Monday 03-May-2010: By Sola OsipejuJust last Saturday evening, Edo Sule Ugbagwu, a correspondent with The Nation newspaper was murdered by yet to be identified gunmen. This occurred a few months after Bayo Owu, an Assist (By News Poster)...Great Britain, now the Great Nanny State that pounces on every move a citizen makes..
Monday 03-May-2010: [Recently, one of our posters from THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE, Peter, posted this story: .UK May Send Un-PC Jokers to Jail For 7 Years One of our volunteers sent me this note about Britain. It seems in (By Jan)...[Pic][Humor] Only in Africa... Have you ever been soooo angry that...
Friday 07-May-2010: This is cute. (Photo) (By Jan)...Nigeria: Senate Passes Bill to Buy Rescued Banks' Debt
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Sufuyan Ojeifo and Emele OnuAbuja/Lagos - After an exhaustive clause-by-clause consideration, the Senate yesterday approved the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Bill to buy bad debts (By News Poster)...South Africa: Address by President Jacob Zuma at Freedom Day Celebrations
Sunday 09-May-2010: The following is full text of the Freedom Day address by South African President Jacob Zuma.Ministers and Deputy Ministers,Premier and MECs,Mayor of Tshwane Dr Ramokgopa;Fellow South Africans,I am dee (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Congo's Kabila Intervenes in Unity Govt Dispute
Friday 07-May-2010: By Faith ZabaHarare - SADC chairperson President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has intervened in the current dispute between the three political parties in the inclusive government (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S.$250 Million Loan to Boost Power Output
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Harare - Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Export and Import Bank of China for a US$250 million loan to expand the Kariba Hydro Power Station, an official told New Ziana yes (By News Poster)...Shock as Jobless Toll Increases to 25,2 Percent
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA's jobless rate rose unexpectedly to a five-year peak in the first quarter. Officials blame this on seasonal factors and the end of World Cup preparations.The official un (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NUJ Protests Journalists' Murder
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Gboyega AkinsanmiLagos - Scores of journalists yesterday stormed the streets of Lagos, protesting the incessant killing of their colleagues in the last two decades while calling the Acting Presiden (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Oil And Gas Law And Its Monitoring Board
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Lagos - A major outcome of the enactment of Nigeria's new Oil and Gas Content law is the setting up of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), a body responsible for content reg (By News Poster)...[Graph] Wall Street: My Technical Indicator - Is the Market about to fall another 200 points to below 11,000?
Monday 03-May-2010: Here is something I would like you to take a look at quickly. This is more an experiment than anything else. I thought it would be interesting to watch since it has to happen within a few days or not (By Jan)...Secretary General's Possible Motives in Defending Malema
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - SEVERAL explanations have been proffered as to why African National Congress (ANC) treasurer-general Mathews Phosa is representing youth league president Julius Malema in (By News Poster)...Zambia: Ministry, Council Grapple With Lusaka Land Crisis
Monday 03-May-2010: By Sylvester MwaleTHE significance of owning a piece of land in Lusaka has sparked an unquenched desire by many people to acquire land through various means including dubious ones.As the capital city (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (06-05-2010)
Thursday 06-May-2010: Howzit A friend sent me a short email yesterday which I found quite amusing. "We were in slow-moving traffic the other day and the car in front of us had a picture of President Mugabe on the rea (By The BeardedMan)...Sudan: Vote-Fixing May Undermine Ruling Party
Tuesday 04-May-2010: A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April. Yet the ruling National Congress Party faces a succession of challeng (By News Poster)...Nigeria: It's Amazing That We Can't Tell How Much Oil is Pumped Daily- Peterside
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Dr. Sofiri Ofiri Joab-Peterside, a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt and Acting Executive Director of the Center For Advance Social Science (CASS), Port Harcourt, River State spoke recently (By News Poster)...Sudan: Election Losers - People of Darfur
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Sean Brooks And Celeste RobinsonNairobi - As Sudan's historic nationwide polls closed and the world awaited results, many who documented the vote declared the people of Darfur to be among the loser (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Opposition Infighting Raises Spectre of Violence
Friday 07-May-2010: Harare - A public disagreement between Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Finance Minister Tendai Biti over pay increases in public servants' salaries is being seen as evidence of great (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Proudly Amharic, Proudly Ethiopian
Friday 07-May-2010: By Elyas Mulu KirosFirst, let me state clearly that I am an expert neither on identity nor on nationalism; I am only a student who is interested in issues related to Ethiopia; this article is just a r (By News Poster)...Africa: Kagame and Mugabe Among Violators of Press Freedom
Monday 03-May-2010: Nairobi - There are powerful people behind press freedom violations whose responsibility is not always apparent. Whether presidents, ministers, religious leaders or the heads of armed groups, these pr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Special Report On Desertification - the Sun Eats Our Land
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Hugo OdiogorThat land is one of the most cherished resource of Nigeria is a fact often taken for granted to the extent that not much care is given to adverse conditions that affect this vital resou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Audit Committee and Fraud-Related Risk
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Proctor NyembaHarare - From the weeks when I started writing this column I have noted with great concern that I was not talking about fraud risk considerations to the corporate audit committees.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Controversy Trails Death of Cattle Rearer
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Evelyn UsmanResidents of Havanna estate in Arepo area of Ibafo, Ogun state have been going through untold robbery attacks, some of which were sometimes foiled by policemen from Ogun state command.H (By News Poster)...South Africa: Jobs in Free-Fall Prompt Talk of Another Repo Rate Cut
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A SURPRISE leap in the jobless rate during the first quarter of this year has raised the odds of an interest rate cut at the Reserve Bank's policy meeting next week, analys (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Activists Ousted During World Economic Forum
Friday 07-May-2010: Nairobi - The Tanzanian government has deported several AIDS activists and cancelled a demonstration to protest decreasing funding for HIV at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the commercial capital, (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Aids Activists Detained by Tanzanian Authorities at World Economic Forum on Africa
Thursday 06-May-2010: On Wednesday 5 May, the opening day of the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF) in Dar Es Salaam, a group of nine AIDS activists from across the continent were detained for questioning by Tanzanian au (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Reassure Investors With First Quarter Scorecards
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianLagos - It is no longer news that only few Nigerian banks could submit positive results for the year ended December 31, 2009, neither is the fact that even those who closed po (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Reassure Investors With First Quarter Scorecards
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianIt is no longer news that only few Nigerian banks could submit positive results for the year ended December 31, 2009, neither is the fact that even those who closed positive d (By News Poster)...Kenya: Be Careful Before Signing Up for Low Interest Bank Loans
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Isaiah OpiyoA fortnight ago, when local commercial banks started lowering their base lending rates, I visited the city streets to seek views from the public on what they felt about the wave of redu (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Aid Chief Highlights Ills Caused by Drought, Conflict in DR Congo
Friday 07-May-2010: The world still has time to avert catastrophe in Niger, where more than half the population have been hit by drought, while crucial humanitarian aid in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (By News Poster)...Namibia: Long Delay in Trial On Murder of German
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE two men accused of murdering and robbing a German flight instructor and then trying to burn his remains in Windhoek near the end of 2005 face a further wait of more than seven mont (By News Poster)...MDC-T Suspects Hidden Hand in Skirmishes
Monday 03-May-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteMDC-T has hired private investigators to unearth the hand behind the violence that recently erupted at Harvest House after fears that an internal probe alone could produce biased fi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bank Shares As Collateral
Monday 03-May-2010: By Boniface ChizeaLagos - The news suddenly was in the air that the Central Bank has banned the acceptance of bank shares as collaterals for lending. Some said the ban is limited to trading in stocks (By News Poster)...South Africa: Jobs Numbers Could Be Interest Rate Clue
Monday 03-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A KEY manufacturing survey and unemployment data for the first quarter of this year will grab the attention of local markets this week.Figures today should show that SA's p (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fear Lingers After Blast in Oil City
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - THE use of powerful explosives such as dynamite in settling political scores first reared its head in Bayelsa in 2001 when the state assembly complex was blown up by unkno (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Paying Lip Service to Corruption
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Mukanya MakwiraHarare - "IT is said power corrupts, but actually it's truer that power corrupts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things other than power," said David Brin, t (By News Poster)...Namibia: No Bail for Record Robbery Suspect
Friday 07-May-2010: By Werner MengesA RENEWED attempt to win his release on bail after almost a year in Police custody has ended in failure for one of the three men charged with what would have been the largest cash robb (By News Poster)...Somalia: Islamist Militia Seize Pirate Haven
Monday 03-May-2010: Hundreds of fighters from Somalia's militant group Hizbul Islam on Sunday moved into the strategic northern pirate lair of Haradhere and captured without a fight, forcing pirates to flee with their ho (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Revelations of the Real Evil Intentions of the Self-Professed Humanitarian, Paul Rusesabagina
Friday 07-May-2010: By Felix MuhetoIn a court appearance of the would-be presidential candidate, Ms Victoire Ingabire, the prosecutor’s witnesses revealed much more than had been expected by the less suspecting.Ind (By News Poster)...Mob Justice Killed 78 People in 2009
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Maputo - Mob justice is still a cause of concern in Mozambique, with 78 people lynched in 2009 translated in 51 homicides, down from 68 recorded in 2008, leading to the initiation of 26 criminal proce (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen kill veteran broadcast journalist
Thursday 06-May-2010: Three gunmen shot dead veteran broadcast journalist Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey on Tuesday evening as he was returning home from work at the state-run Radio Mogadishu, local journalists told CPJ. Gunmen a (By News Poster)...Namibia: Serial Rapist Gets 20-Year Jail Term
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Werner MengesA WINDHOEK resident convicted of the violent rape of two women in the city's Goreangab Dam area in late 2005 and September 2007 was sent to prison for an effective 20 years on Friday.N (By News Poster)...Kenya: CBK Targets Gulf Cash with Sharia Compliant Bonds
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By James MakauThe Central Bank is working on a framework that will eventually lead to the flotation of sharia - compliant bonds and treasury bills in the local money market.The move to entrench Sukuk (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stand Up Against Sanctions, SA Tells Tsvangirai
Monday 03-May-2010: South Africa's African National Congress national chairperson, Cde Baleka Mbete, at the weekend urged Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to play a visible role in calling for the lifting of sanctions im (By News Poster)...Malawi: PMTCT Battles Missing Drugs, Missing Moms
Friday 07-May-2010: Lilongwe - Services to prevent the mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV are gaining ground in Malawi but the country continues to battle drug shortages and mothers and infants that disappear to (By News Poster)...Africa: Agriculture - a Lucrative Solution to the World Food Crisis
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Investment in Africa's agriculture is growing tremendously, with several private equity funds injecting capital in the agribusiness sector. The sector currently presents one of the biggest opportuniti (By News Poster)...Uganda: NRM Won't Tax Idle Land
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Moses ByaruhangaKampala - LAST Thursday I was hosted on Etop radio in Soroti. The moderator requested that we discuss land issues. First he said the opposition politicians from Teso were telling th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG's Renewed Strategies On Power Generation
Friday 07-May-2010: By Austin ObohLagos - Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, appears to be working towards fulfilling his promise of significantly improving the power sector in the next few months, going by proposed ac (By News Poster)...Sudan: Joint AU-UN Force in Darfur Still Lacking Crucial Equipment, Ban Says
Wednesday 05-May-2010: The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in the conflict-affected Sudanese region of Darfur is nearing full capacity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report in which he wa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Promises Investors Equitable Fiscal Terms
Monday 03-May-2010: By Hector IgbikiowuboSENATOR Lee Maeba is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream). Those who know him describe him as irrepressible, blunt and indefatigable. In this interview wit (By News Poster)...Kenya: Drug Barons Getting 'Real Dirty'
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Mugumo MuneneNairobi - Kenya is increasingly becoming a destination for hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, thanks to the lawlessness in Somalia, local and international experts have warned.The Som (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ACR Diamond Company Official Locked Up at Matapi Police Station
Friday 07-May-2010: By Violet GondaIan Harris, the Financial Officer of African Consolidated Resources (ACR), who was 'abducted' in Harare on Thursday, is in police custody and is being held at Matapi police station in M (By News Poster)...Uganda: He Helped Kato Kajubi Win Ritual Murder Case
Friday 07-May-2010: Kampala - RICHLY experienced and renowned criminal lawyer McDusman Kabega successfully defended businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi against charges of killing a 12-year-old boy in what authorities suspect (By News Poster)...South Africa: FIFA World Cup Trophy Welcomed by Nelson Mandela in South Africa
Thursday 06-May-2010: On 15 May 2004 the long walk to the 2010 FIFA World Cup started with Nelson Mandela lifting the FIFA World Cup in Zurich.With tears of joy in his eyes, he proclaimed that he felt `like a boy of 15` on (By News Poster)...Angola: Top Oil Official Raids His Company
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Rafael Marques De MoraisIn 2008, Manuel Vicente, the chairman of the board and director general of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, restructured the company and its main subsidiaries for hi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Killing Too Many
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Lagos - In what is becoming a feature of journalism in Nigeria, practitioners are being killed at an alarming frequency. The murder of Mr. Edo Sule-Igbagwu, the Judiciary correspondent of The Nation N (By News Poster)...Angola: Top Executive Takes Shares in State Oil Company
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Rafael Marques de MoraisIn 2008, Manuel Vicente, the chairman of the board and director general of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, restructured the company and its main subsidiaries for hi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Private Firm Tackling Power Problems Head On
Friday 07-May-2010: By Jaco MaritzNigeria's power supply problems are having a detrimental effect on the country's economy. A local company, Geometric Power Ltd, has taken the bull by the horns and is currently developin (By News Poster)...Uganda: Violence and Youth Participation in Politics
Friday 07-May-2010: By Kalinge NnyagoThe youth in Uganda have been at the forefront of political change since pre-colonial times. In the tumultuous post independence period, more youth held guns to kill, and they were ki (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Gold Miner Buys 49 Percent Stake in Chizim
Monday 03-May-2010: Harare - SOUTH African gold miner DRDGold invested US$1 million (R7,5 million) for a 49 percent stake in a local firm, Chizim Investmen,t for gold exploration at Leny claims near Norton.DRDGold spokes (By News Poster)...[Pic] More Sheriffs and Police Officers like this are needed...
Sunday 09-May-2010: [One of our volunteers in Nevada sent me this note and the story of Sheriff Joe. I've published Sheriff Joe's antics before. Honestly, we DO need to stop molly coddling criminals everywhere. Here in S (By Jan)...Somalia: AMISOM Warn of Suicide Bombings
Friday 07-May-2010: The African Union mission in Somalia , AMISOM has warned of insurgent-planned series of synchronized suicide attacks in the country's war-ravaged capital Mogadishu and other parts.In a statement, AMIS (By News Poster)...Sudan: UN Condemns Killing of Peacekeepers in Darfur
Friday 07-May-2010: The United Nations has voiced outrage after two peacekeepers serving with the joint African Union-UN force in Sudan's war-scarred Darfur region were killed and three others seriously wounded in an amb (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somali Warring Sides Condemn Mogadishu Mosque Blasts
Monday 03-May-2010: A twin bomb explosion that killed scores of people inside a mosque in Somalia 's restive capital Mogadishu on Saturday has been strongly condemned by all warring sides involved in Somali conflict.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Technical Preview - When Doubt Abounds Gold is a Proven Hedge
Monday 03-May-2010: By Jean TemkinJohannesburg - I'M WATCHING gold and suggest you do too as last week's market chaos proved the fragility of world economics. Unusually the dollar and the dollar gold price are moving upw (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party's Youth Boss Faces Charges
Monday 03-May-2010: By Linda EnsorMUCH will be at stake today when African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema appears before a disciplinary committee of the party on four charges of bringing the (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ngugi's Book Warns Africans to Shed European Culture or Perish
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Peter MwauraHis latest book is slim but packed with an impassioned message: If Africans do not shed Europhonism, they stand to lose their memory. A people without memory are in danger of losing the (By News Poster)...South Africa: A Fair Case for Land Reform
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Johannesburg - IF PEOPLE like Julius Malema and Jimmy Manyi didn't exist, the African National Congress (ANC) would surely have to invent them. Perhaps it cunningly did.Certainly, their provocative an (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Resists Govt Pressure for Early Pullout
Tuesday 04-May-2010: The top United Nations humanitarian official today ended a five-day to areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that have witnessed some of the worst atrocities against civilians, stressing (By News Poster)...Uganda: RDCs Told to Resolve Land Conflicts in Teso Sub-Region
Monday 03-May-2010: By Richard OtimSoroti - Resident district commissioners in Teso-sub region have been directed to preside over land cases. The move is aimed at quelling increasing disputes over unsettled land wrangles (By News Poster)...Inequality at Root of White Fears Says Young Communist
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE Young Communist League yesterday extended peace overtures to AfriForum's youth wing - a civil rights lobby group connected to trade union Solidarity - but the latter (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Sharia Banking Services Launched
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Muhidin Issa MichuziDar Es Salaam - SHARIA banking products were officially launched in Dar es Salaam on last night, with the government challenging bankers to strive for more education to the mass (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Why the Fight Against Aids is Still a Challenge
Monday 03-May-2010: By Joseph KamugishaKigali - Ever since the AIDS problem was discovered nearly 30 years ago, the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome remains a challenge to the society.Now, it is important that (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 82 Year-Old Chief Nyamombe Attacked by Zanu PF Thugs
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPolice in Nyazura, Manicaland province are refusing to investigate the attack on 82 year old Chief Jameson Nyamombe, which left him hospitalised with head injuries and a temporary l (By News Poster)...Africa: allAfrica Founder Cites Explosion of Independent Media
Monday 03-May-2010: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonAfrica's independent media is becoming a driving force for greater political and economic openness, with mobile phones potentially playing an important role in the process, says (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Begins Investigations into Alleged UK Financial Irregularities
Monday 03-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA commission of enquiry appointed by the MDC-T to investigate alleged financial irregularities by the UK national executive, began its proceedings on Sunday.The three-member team is (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ruling Party Boss Guilty of Fraud, Says Corruption Group
Monday 03-May-2010: By Ise-Oluwa Ige and Ikechuku NnochiriAbuja - THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has given an Abuja high court sitting in Maitama, an account of how the inc (By News Poster)...Tatekulu Laban, the Unrecognised Freedom Fighter?
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOnashiku - They may not be forgotten heroes but Tatekulu Fidelis ya Laban ya Iiyambo ya Iileka and his wife Kuku Erna Lahja Shivolo remain some of the unrecognised true freedom fighte (By News Poster)...Kenya: Unease in the Rift Over Prosecutor's Visit
Saturday 08-May-2010: Nairobi - As the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocamp moves in to start investigations into the post-election violence, the issue of land -- identified in Agenda 4 of the gr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MPs Should Stay With Constituents
Friday 07-May-2010: Harare - LAST week I talked about the need for Members of Parliament to fulfil their election promises once they are voted into power.I got interesting contributions on the subject but there is one th (By News Poster)...Somalia: Drama as Hijacked Oil Tanker Freed
Thursday 06-May-2010: The Liberian hijacked tanker Moscow University, which was hijacked yesterday, has been dramatically freed by the Russian warship, the Marshal Shaposhnikov.Yesterday morning the Liberian flagged (Russi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Hague Prosecutor Willing to Meet Violence Suspects
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Bernard NamunaneNairobi - Key suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court over the post-election violence will have a chance to meet prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo when he visits on Saturday (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZEC - the Devil is in the Detail
Monday 03-May-2010: The long-awaited Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was finally sworn in at State House apparently a few hours before April Fools' Day on March 31 2010.Will this body deliver free, fair, transparent (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - Why National Assembly Must Tread Carefully
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Dakas CJ DakasLagos - The National Assembly must strike a balance between legitimate counter-terrorism measures and protecting human rights in the anti-terrorism Bill currently before them.In the a (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Islamic Banking 'Invades'
Monday 03-May-2010: By Faraja MgwabatiDar es Salaam - TANZANIANS will from today experience new waves in the banking sector as they start to enjoy the benefits of Islamic Banking, which forbids earning of interests in th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nedbank Planning 'Substantial Turnaround'
Monday 03-May-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - NEDBANK Group plans to exceed its diluted earnings per share target for the year to December 31 2010, which will represent a substantial turnaround from the 29,8% decline (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Cashless Society Not Feasible in Now'
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Festus AkanbiLagos - Amidst the campaign by financial sector regulators for the adoption of a cashless society to mitigate against losses incurred during robbery operations, industry operators said (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Did my friend hear Lolly Jackson of Teazers pleading with the Police before he was murdered?
Sunday 09-May-2010: Last weekend a friend of mine phoned me and we had a chat. He told me how he had to take his mother to the Police station. Then while he was there he sat next to a man who was telling the Policeman th (By Jan)...Zesa Fails to Secure Partners for Power Station Development
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Tendai MugabeHarare - The country's power utility, Zesa Holdings is failing to secure serious partners to develop two power stations worth US$3 billion that may help to ease power woes bedevilling (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transport Workers Threaten Big Strike Ahead of World Cup
Monday 03-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - AS MANY as 50000 Transnet workers may strike next Monday in a bid to improve wages, unions representing staff at the parastatal said on Friday.The strike would "affe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Cry Foul Over Low Cotton Prices
Monday 03-May-2010: Harare - Cotton farmers are disgruntled with the low prices they are being paid for their crop and as result are contemplating shifting to the more lucrative tobacco.Buyers are paying US30c a kg, whic (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sanctions Must Go Completely
Friday 07-May-2010: Harare - THERE is nothing to celebrate in the decision by some US lawmakers to propose amendments to their sanctions law, the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, which they have used to push (By News Poster)...War Veterans to Meet Biti
Thursday 06-May-2010: Harare - LEADERS of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association are today expected to meet Finance Minister Tendai Biti to air their grievances over the alleged non-payment of their ben (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 20 Percent of Oil Subsidy Unaccounted for, Esele
Monday 03-May-2010: By Udeme ClementPeter Esele is the president general, Trade Union Congress (TUC) and former president, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). He is a key player in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Patronises Legitimately Angry Youth
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Jacob DlaminiJohannesburg - THEY just don't get it, do they? Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu told Parliament on Tuesday that she wanted to reintroduce conscription. According to a report by Busines (By News Poster)...Africa: Economic Forum Aims to Unlock Continent's Growth Potential
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Lucas LigangaGlobal business executives, top decision makers and political leaders, including their host, President Jakaya Kikwete, last night outlined at a major conference in Dar es Salaam, some (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Feingold, Isakson, Kerry Push Bill to Encourage Democratic Reforms
Tuesday 04-May-2010: U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and John Kerry (D-MA) introduced bipartisan legislation today to help advance a genuine transition to democracy and stability in Zimbabwe.In (By News Poster)...Liberators Meet in Tanzania
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Hebert ZharareHarare - President Mugabe arrived here yesterday to attend a meeting of liberation movements that seeks to find ways of offsetting resurgent neo-colonialism in Africa.The Head of Stat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Car Bomb Rocks Yenagoa
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Segun JamesYenagoa - About two months after deadly bomb devices placed inside vehicles rocked the oil city of Warri in Delta State, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, was on Sunday night hit by a simi (By News Poster)...Mega Loan 'Only Way Forward'
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SERIOUS lobbying either for or against Eskom's 3,75bn loan application to the World Bank is playing out in the open while SA awaits the bank's decision on the matter sh (By News Poster)...Zanu - PF Assassinate 15 Year Old
Monday 03-May-2010: A tragic event involving a 15 year old schoolboy and a fatal stabbing in a church, has sent shivers down my spine. It should be ringing alarm bells both in and outside Zimbabwe because this, mor (By JanOlifant)...Uganda: Understanding Food Adulteration
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Dan-Marlone NabutsabiKampala - Food is essential for life. But if it is to maintain human health properly, food should be pure, nutritious and free from any form of adulteration.But despite improve (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Wheat Shortfalls to Worsen - CFU
Friday 07-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWE needs to import wheat worth over US$128,8 million to meet an expected shortfall of 339 000 tonnes, which bakers say could cripple operations.Farmers, hamstrung by lack of cap (By News Poster)...South Africa: Power Supply Threat From Transnet Strike
Friday 07-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - TRANSNET confirmed yesterday that it had received official notice from the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) and the United Transport and All (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Law to Compel Shell, Chevron, Mobil And Other Oil Coys to Build Refineries Underway
Monday 03-May-2010: By Tordue SalemA Bill seeking to make it mandatory for all oil companies operating in Nigeria to invest in crude refineries, awaits public hearing in the House of Representatives.The Bill seeks to lim (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma's Thoughts and Other Metaphysical Puzzles
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Eusebius MckaiserJohannesburg - BETWEEN Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC) we are presented with some really cool metaphysical puzzles.The best way to make pretentious concepts such (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Sworn in As President - Absent At Yar'Adua's Burial
Friday 07-May-2010: By Sam Akpe, Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Obiora Ifoh, Chesa Chesa, Augustine Madu-West, Austin Oboh and Hamidu SaboKatsina/Abuja/Lagos/Kano - At exactly 9:20 a.m. on Thursday, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Youth Leader Out on Free Bail after Allegedly Insulting Mugabe
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaMDC provincial youth chairman for Mashonaland Central, Tonderai Samhu, appeared in court on Tuesday facing allegations of insulting Robert Mugabe.Samhu handed himself over to the la (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Official Warns on Rapid Move to Cities
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Ray NaluyagaThe World Economic Forum should send a warning on rapid urbanization to all levels of leadership in Africa.The undersecretary general and executive director of the United Nations Human (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Gono to Chair New Reserve Bank Board
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Lance GumaFinance Minister Tendai Biti on Tuesday announced the appointment of a new board, chaired by bitter rival Gideon Gono, to oversee operations at the Reserve Bank. The appointment is despit (By News Poster)...South Africa: Michael Uredi, "My Wife Was Raped Because I Gave My Opinion to a Newspaper"
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Cape Town - Michael Uredi, 37, a cabinet maker, came to South Africa from the Eastern Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) eight years ago. He is a member of the Bembe ethnic group, m (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Al-Qaeda Search' Warrant Thrown Out
Monday 03-May-2010: By Fatima SchroederCape Town - The Western Cape High Court has ruled that a search warrant used to raid the Muizenberg homes of two men suspected of being involved in terrorist activities was tainted, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Hands Off Banks - BAZ
Friday 07-May-2010: By Leonard Makombe and Paul NyakazeyaTHE banking sector should be exempted from empowerment regulations compelling foreigners to cede controlling stakes in their companies to blacks, a body representi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA-Based Robbery Suspect Nabbed
Friday 07-May-2010: By Thupeyo MuleyaA South Africa-based 22-year-old man from Mberengwa had been arrested in connection with armed robbery after three weeks on the run.Three weeks ago, Mpumelelo Moyo allegedly opened fi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai Travel Separately to Tanzania
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Lance GumaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe traveled in separate planes to Tanzania this week, for two summits whose agenda's were in complete opposition to each other. M (By News Poster)...Africa: Harnessing Continent's Potential Through Infrastructure Development and Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 05-May-2010: The recent Fourth Annual Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference brought together industry leaders from all sectors and policymakers from the United States and Africa t (By News Poster)...Tanzania: New Mining Law to Unlock Nation's 'Hidden' Wealth
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Wilfred EdwinNairobi - Tanzania is reviewing its 12-year old mining policies in order to unlock the full potential of its mineral wealth. Though it is home to the world's most precious minerals suc (By News Poster)...Mystery of Mutorashanga Green Pool
Monday 03-May-2010: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - It is a cool, enigmatic and mythical pool loaded with history, baffling and awing locals since 1960 when the Ethel Mine asbestos quarry filled with water.Known as the Green P (By News Poster)...Kenya: Muslims Step Up War on Drugs
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Galgalo BochaNairobi - Muslim leaders in Coast Province plan to mobilise residents to boycott shops owned by businesspeople they suspect to be behind drug abuse.The Council of Imams and Preachers o (By News Poster)...Namibia: NDF Officer Alleges Police Brutality
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Denver KistingA CAPTAIN in the Namibia Defence Force claims that he was beaten and kicked in the groin by the City Police over the weekend.David Shidinifa (43) alleges that the City Police also rob (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigerian Navy Seizes Ship with Stolen Oil, Arrest Ten
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Nigerian navy, in a crackdown on a multi-million dollar smuggling racket, has arrested ten crew members comprising two Ghanaians and eight Nigerians and confiscate their Greek-flagged vessel carrying (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The most successful Black people in the ANC aren't originally ANC people... they're UDF people... moderate blacks...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: My Liberal friend has had a theory for quite some time, which I must admit may turn out to be pretty accurate. I don't know all the finer detail of where the various blacks inside the ANC come fro (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-05-2010)
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Howzit No one wishes ills upon our children, and, in this respect, I send my best wishes for a speedy recovery from her injuries. "Minister of Education David Coltart's daughter suffered injurie (By The BeardedMan)...Ripple Effects of the Greek Crisis
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Johannesburg - WEEKEND scenes of Greek riot police clashing with protesters in the streets of Athens over the austerity measures Greece's government is going to have to impose were a stark reminder of (By News Poster)...Minister Wants to Merge Saps, Metro Police
Friday 07-May-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said yesterday he intended to amalgamate all metropolitan police services with the South African Police Service.This was to meet what he ca (By News Poster)...South Africa: Aids Law Project Relaunches With Broader Focus
Friday 07-May-2010: By Kerry CullinanThe legal 'bull terrier' that has protected people with HIV for 17 years is changing into an organisation that fights against all adverse socio-economic conditions.When HIV positive p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Review Welcome
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Johannesburg - THE decision by the Cabinet to launch a review of the Reserve Bank's legislative framework is to be welcomed. The act that governs the 90-year-old Bank has not been amended since 1989. (By News Poster)...East Africa: Race On to Unseat Kenya From Region's Leadership
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - The Chinese seem to have dug up every road in and around Nairobi to expand them, build overhead bypasses, and all manner of ring roads.The effort currently under way i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: China to Help Build Two Electricity Plants
Monday 03-May-2010: Harare - THE Chinese government will assist Zimbabwe construct two electricity plants and a biogas facility in the next three years among various other developmental initiatives, Beijing's Ambassador (By News Poster)...South Africa: U.S. Team to Harness Pebble Bed Technology
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - US ENERGY group Westinghouse would use pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) technology in the conceptual design and planning of the next generation of nuclear plants in th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Land Reform - We Raked in N18.6 Billion in 2009 - Lagos
Monday 03-May-2010: By Michael SimireThe land reform initiated several years ago by former Governor Bola Tinubu is fast turning into a goldmine for the crowded city-state of Lagos, where increment in land charges has see (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Absence of Cyber Crime Law, Threat to ICT Investment - Nitda
Monday 03-May-2010: By Christopher AdedejiAbuja - National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has attributed low investments in Information Technology (IT) to absence of cyber cime law in Nigeria.Director (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: Security Sector Reform Hangs in the Balance
Friday 07-May-2010: Dakar - Security sector reform has stalled since the 1 April detainment of the prime minister and his ally the army chief in Guinea-Bissau, and political instability and lack of significant progress o (By News Poster)...Africa: Partnership Key to Unlocking Africa's Potential
Friday 07-May-2010: The 20th World Economic Forum on Africa opened today in Dar es Salaam. Twelve African heads of state/government are taking part along with over 1,000 participants from 85 countries. Rethinking Africa& (By News Poster)...Uganda: Economy to Grow by Six Percent - Expert
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - THE economy will grow by 6.5% this year thanks to a rebound in agricultural production and oil prospects. "Our 2010 gross domestic product (GDP) forecast has been revised to 6 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finance Minister Acts Against Bank Rebels
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan yesterday unveiled legislation to be passed urgently to curb the influence of a group of Reserve Bank private shareholders he accused of thr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Light and Shadow in Economic Data
Thursday 06-May-2010: Johannesburg - A RATHER mixed picture is emerging from the latest set of economic data, one that suggests that although SA is on the road to economic recovery it is hardly speeding.Economists are pred (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Liquidity Provisions 'Not Sensible' for Banks
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - IT WAS unreasonable to expect local banks to implement the new liquidity provisions contained in the updated Basel 2 global banking convention proposals, Nedbank CE Mike B (By News Poster)...S. Africa: Black Nationalist Group Call for War on Whites
Tuesday 04-May-2010: writing on: PAN AFRICANIST UNITY (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Protection of Sarb Independence a 'Contradiction' - Analysts
Monday 03-May-2010: Johannesburg - The bill will, amongst other things, allow the Reserve Bank governor to serve less than five years and also limit the powers of South African Reserve Bank (SARB) private shareholders ac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Probe Car Bomb Near Official's Property
Monday 03-May-2010: By Paul ArheweNigerian police on Monday began investigation on a car bomb explosion that shook a residential area in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state on Sunday night. The bomb exploded near two properties owned (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Probes Killings by Ugandan Rebels
Monday 03-May-2010: By Risdel KasasiraThe United Nations is investigating the alleged LRA massacre of at least 100 people in DR Congo in February.Mr John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said on a visit to the country (By News Poster)...Namibia: Serial Stock Thief Jailed for Ten Years
Friday 07-May-2010: By Werner MengesA FIFTH conviction on a charge of stock theft earned a Windhoek resident a stint of ten years behind bars last week.A long criminal record going back as far as 40 years did Salomon Aib (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation Mourns As Yar'Adua Interred
Friday 07-May-2010: By Imam Imam And Ibrahim ShuaibuKatsina - As the nation continues to mourn the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, his remains were yesterday evening interred at the Dan Marina Cemetery in Katsina (By News Poster)...Uganda: EU, UPDF to Train Somali Forces
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Henry MukasaKampala - THE European Union (EU) and the UPDF will train 2,000 Somali forces. The EU head of delegation, Vincent de Visscher, announced yesterday that 150 EU officers will conduct the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JFT Intercepts 800 MT of Stolen Crude in Bayelsa, Arrest Foreign National
Monday 03-May-2010: By Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - The Joint Task Force has smashed yet another syndicate with international connection that specializes in lifting stolen Nigerian crude following the interception of a vess (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Turns Heat On Media
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - Rwanda's government is blaming the international media for creating hype about the forthcoming presidential elections.Foreign Affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo on Saturday t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Heads for New Clash?
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - THE inclusive government is headed for another clash over an impending reshuffle in the judiciary and the re-assigning of ambassadors by President Robert Mugabe.MDC-T, which (By News Poster)...USA: Obama Exposed - but, Angry Journalists Refuse to Review Anti-Obama Book - BYPASS THE MASS MEDIA...
Sunday 09-May-2010: [The Mass Media is covering up for Obama like there's no tomorrow. My advice to people is to BYPASS THE MASS MEDIA. If they won't tell the truth, then normal folks should. Jan] One of the worst way (By Jan)...East Africa: Anti-Counterfeit Policy Will Provide 'Proper' Generics
Friday 07-May-2010: The anti-counterfeit draft policy and law that the East African Community (EAC) is currently considering will ensure access to "proper" generic medicines and not fakes, EAC secretary general Juma Mwap (By News Poster)...Kenya: Land Owners Conspiring to Deny Women Rights in Draft Law Debate
Friday 07-May-2010: By Cabral PintoOn Sunday we celebrate Mother's Day. While honouring our grandmothers, mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, Kenyan men should ponder on the gains that will be made by our women under (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ya'Adua's Legacy
Friday 07-May-2010: By Adekunle Adekoya and Funmi KomolafeRHETORIC aside, one notable achievement for which Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will be remembered is the defusing of tension in the Niger Delta region through the A (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Deploy 6,000 Officers in Ekiti
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Yaqoub Popoola With Agency ReportAdo Ekiti - More than 6,000 policemen from five states are now in Ekiti to beef up security for today's judgment by the tribunal adjudicating the election dispute b (By News Poster)...Africa: African Leaders Commit to a Peaceful Future
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Durban - The Presidents of Burundi and South Africa have joined prominent civil society voices including Dr Graca Machel and African Union Commission Chairperson, Jean Ping, to congratulate Sierra Leo (By News Poster)...Witness Says, NPFL Did Not Scare Civilians With Human Skulls (NEWS)
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Alpha SesayClaims that Liberian rebel forces displayed human skulls and intestines at checkpoints to terrorize or scare civilians are false, Charles Taylor's defense witness told Special Court for (By News Poster)...East Africa: Energy - Sink Or Swim for EAC Common Market
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaArusha - Dreams of petrodollars have followed the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities in Uganda but this bonanza could make or break the fledgling East African Community (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Investors Anxious Over New Laws
Monday 03-May-2010: Foreign investors' mounting protests over new laws they fear will harm their businesses are shaping up into an acid test for President Jakaya Kikwete's government.The government has lately come under (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Management of Maximum Security Prison Suspended
Monday 03-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Justice Minister Benvinda Levi, suspended in Maputo on Friday the management of the Maximum Security Prison, (commonly known as the "B.O") in the outlying suburb of Machava, due to (By News Poster)...'Principals Hindering GPA Implementation Progress'
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaNEGOTIATORS and facilitators of talks on outstanding issues of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) have raised concerns that Zimbabwe's political principals were hindering progress (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police, Army Clash Averted over Illegal Road Blocks at Seme/Badagry Road
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Albert AkporWHAT would have resulted in a bloody clash between some policemen attached to the Lagos state police command and some army personnel was Tuesday night averted following alleged mounting (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Useful Discussions Held with Potential Investors, Says Guebuza
Friday 07-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza told reporters on Friday that the meeting of the World Economic Forum on Africa, held in Dar es Salaam over the past three days, had proved a useful oppor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Danny Jordaan - The Master Planner
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Fred Vubem TohHe is the architect behind South Africa's success in hosting the World Cup.Daniel Alexander Jordaan is a South African sports administrator as well as a former lecturer, politician an (By News Poster)...Three Motorists Lose Cars to 'Clients'
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Harare - THREE motorists lost their vehicles to armed robbers who had hired them as taxis in separate incidents in Harare over the weekend.In one of the cases, the robbers used a toy gun to seize cont (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Reconciliation in Country Was Among the People - Chissano
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano said in Maputo on Tuesday that the reconciliation in Mozambique, following the war of destabilization that ended in October 1992, was not between the gover (By News Poster)...Africa: The Challenge of Organisation
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Fred Vubem TohMany doubted Africa's capability to host the world football jamboree but all is now set for the event.Owing to the huge economic benefits which go along with the organisation of the W (By News Poster)...Chad: Ban Outlines Proposals for Reduced UN Force
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out his proposals for a revised mandate for the United Nations mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad in a new report released today, including a sig (By News Poster)...I've No Row With Biti - PM
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Mabasa SasaHarare - MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has likened the tension in his party to that which led to a split in 2005, but downplayed reports of divisions between him a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Navy Chief Blames Arms Proliferation On Illegal Bunkering
Monday 03-May-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - Flag Officer Commanding Nigerian Navy (Western Naval Command) Rear-Admiral Ola Saha'ad Ibrahim, has blamed the worrisome proliferation of small arms in the country on illeg (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transport Strike Set to Hit Country
Sunday 09-May-2010: Pretoria - Strike action over wages at parastatal Transnet is set to continue despite a new wage offer, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) said on Sunday.Speaking to BuaNews (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Fuel Prices Hike
Friday 07-May-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - Despite a firm subsidization strategy, the government yesterday finally succumbed to the mounting pressure from a volatile global oil market and announced an increase on pum (By News Poster)...Viewpoint: Helping Sierra Leone Develop
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Samura KamaraWith the strong support of the international development community, Sierra Leone is emerging from a legacy of conflict which has delayed hopes for a better future for millions of our p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Legislation on Zimbabwe Must Align U.S. Policy with Democratic and Reconstruction Aspirations
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Today Africa Action applauds three members of the U.S Senate for introducing legislation that confronts many of the challenges facing Zimbabwe today.U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Johnny Isakson (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 31 MDC-T Supporters Defect to Zanu -PF
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By George MapongaAt least 31 MDC-T supporters here publicly denounced their party and joined Zanu-PF at the weekend.Zanu-PF political commissar Cde Webster Shamu hailed them for their decision and rem (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Breaks Promises on Press Freedom
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Busani BafanaBulawayo - Fourteen months after Zimbabwe's government of national unity was formed, harassment, arbitrary arrest and general intimidation of journalists remains common.In a statement (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Babangida - Who is Fooling Who?
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Emma AguYou have to read beyond the stated reason if you are to understand the real motive of a political statement. For often times, politicians engage in what an ace journalist once described as (By News Poster)...Address Chaos At Tobacco Floors
Saturday 08-May-2010: Harare - THE chaos at the tobacco auction floors since the start of the current selling season needs urgent redress.Reports of farmers spending days in queues and corrupt dealings that disenfranchise (By News Poster)...South Africa: Services Group Finbond Reports Debt Impairments Up 5.3 Percent
Saturday 08-May-2010: Finbond - Financial Services Group, Finbond says its year-end profit before tax is R61,4 million, up 198.9%, basic earnings per share is 16.1 cents, up 170%, but has also reported a headline loss per (By News Poster)...Kenya: Govt to Seize Weapons in North
Friday 07-May-2010: Isiolo-Samburu - Thousands of security personnel have been deployed across northern Kenya to confiscate weapons after a voluntary disarmament exercise netted only a small fraction of the 50,000 guns t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister Attacks Colleague on Salary Freeze Saga
Friday 07-May-2010: By Valentine MapongaHarare - PUBLIC Service minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro yesterday openly attacked Finance minister Tendai Biti and sided with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the civil service (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Speaks on Investment and Governance
Thursday 06-May-2010: Maputo - "When we attract investment, we must have good governance", declared Mozambican President Armando Guebuza in Dar es Salaam on Thursday.Speaking as a member of a panel on investment, during th (By News Poster)...My Technical Indicator: Another day of slaughter on the markets but Gold rises towards $1,200 on Europe debt fears
Thursday 06-May-2010: [So this time it is the implosion of Europe that is bringing the markets down. I was watching the slaughter with tremendous interest as the markets go into ever more free fall. Jan] SAN FRANCISCO ( (By Jan)...Kenya: Firms Line Up for Agency Banking as CBK Sets Rules
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Victor JumaBusinesses with strong cashflows are set to benefit from the newly-introduced agency banking, which will see financial institutions use companies to reach potential customers in underser (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bank Plans Five-Group Structure
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Ayodele Aminu and Emele OnuLagos - First Bank of Nigeria Plc is proposing a massive restructuring of its operations, which will culminate in the floating of five groups under a holding company (Hol (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Denies Report of Army Executions
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Emmanuel ChacoMbandaka - A report alleging that government troops summarily executed fifty civilians in early April in fighting around Mbandaka, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's no (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Suspected Militants Kidnap Seven in Delta
Monday 03-May-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - No fewer than seven workers were kidnapped, yesterday, at Okerenkoko community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State by a suspected militant (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Mass Media Without the Masses
Monday 03-May-2010: By Thabani KhumaloMonday, 3 May 2010, marks the annual commemoration of World Press Freedom Day - a day when all global citizens should remember, celebrate and protect the crucial role that free media (By News Poster)...From Jan: Haven't had a chance to read or reply to Readers' comments in a week... Zim unresolved, SA in the news for the next 10 years, Global Financial Collapse...
Sunday 09-May-2010: Joan was telling me there are lots of readers comments including some private messages to me. I'll make a plan tomorrow evening to go through them to read and reply to them. I've got a bizarre sci (By Jan)...MDC Cannot Always Be in Sync With Govt
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Moses MudzwitiLAST weekend Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai went back to his roots, the trade unions.He addressed the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions on Workers' Day. Tsvangirai told workers that (By News Poster)...Africa: Ecobank to Develop Trade Corridors Between West, Eastern and Central Regions
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Babajide KomolafeEcobank Transnational is set to leverage on its presence in 32 African countries to develop trade coridors within the West, East and Central African sub regions.Also, the company w (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Attorney's Office Still Facing Challenges
Thursday 06-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Attorney General Augusto Paulino admitted on Wednesday that his institution is still facing challenges in terms of dealing with different juridical and criminal situations, despite (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Church Resolves to Intensify Its Response to Aids
Thursday 06-May-2010: African church leaders met in Johannesburg recently to find common ground in response to HIV and AIDS. At the meeting, the church acknowledged that it has failed to react timeously and effectively to (By News Poster)...Kenya: Possible International Court List of Investigations Leaks
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Nairobi - Ahead of the arrival of the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Saturday this week, The Star has obtained a list of people Ocampo might investigate.The leaked (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Boss Waziri Orders Probe as Fire Razes Office
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Albert AkporPANDEMONIUM broke out Tuesday at the Awolowo road, Ikoyi Lagos, head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after in the early hours of fire razed down four offic (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motsoaledi to Address 25,000 in Vienna
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Anso ThomHealth minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will address the world's largest AIDS gathering in Vienna later this year.Organisers of the 18th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) announced tha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anxiety Heightens Over Impending MFB Policy Review
Monday 03-May-2010: By Amaka AgwuegboDespite the fact that microfinance banks are empowered by the Microfinance Policy Framework to take term deposits from customers, speculations are rife that the Central Bank of Nigeri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Controlling Traffic in Hazardous Wastes
Monday 03-May-2010: Abuja - The Nigeria Customs service (NCS) recently detained the captain and two crew members of the ship, MV Nashville, alleged to be carrying toxic wastes at the Tin can Island in Lagos. An official (By News Poster)...Africa: Energy Access Vital to Success of Millennium Development Goals
Monday 03-May-2010: By Nosh NalavalaEfficient access to energy in the developing world is key to both the mitigation of the climate change problem and to the achievement of global health and poverty reduction goals, acco (By News Poster)...WEF On Africa Draws to a Close
Saturday 08-May-2010: Pretoria - Today is the last day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa where delegates are exchanging ideas on Africa's growth strategy, the continent's response to the global economic crisis, a (By News Poster)...Japan Gives U.S.$2 Billion for MDGs
Friday 07-May-2010: By Hebert ZharareHarare - Japan has released more than US$2 billion to assist African countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals through the Tokyo International Conference for African Developm (By News Poster)...Kenya: Two Technicians Shot Dead at Safaricom Station
Friday 07-May-2010: By Fred MukindaNairobi - A police response to an emergency call ended tragically after officers shot dead two technicians working on a telecommunication transmitter on Thursday.The officers had rushed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Workers Urge Jonathan to Concentrate on Stable Power Supply
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungWORKERS in the nation's oil industry have called on the Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to concentrate on providing stable power supply to Nigerians even as, they conde (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Gaston Mbali, 'When We Heard the Whistles, We Knew We Should Escape'
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Niangara - Since June 2009, when a Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) unit attacked his village, Gaston Mbali, 30, an agricultural trainer, has lived in a rudimentary camp for displaced people in Niangara, (By News Poster)...East Africa: Fine Threatens Regional Bank
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - A Tanzanian firm, Blueline Enterprises Ltd, has won a staggering $110m (about sh250b) court case against the East African Development Bank (EADB), which may cripple operation (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Aquarius Submits Indigenisation Plans
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Harare - PLATINUM mining company, Aquarius, says it has submitted a proposal outlining its indigenisation plans to Government but did not provide any details on the structure of the plan.Government ha (By News Poster)...Sudan: Egyptian Peackeepers Killed in Darfur
Friday 07-May-2010: Today at about 11.30hrs, a military convoy from UNAMID's Egyptian contingent, with three vehicles and 20 personnel, was ambushed near Katila village, 85km south of Edd al Fursan, South Darfur, by a gr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trailing Behind As World Steel Usage Up By 10.7 Percent
Friday 07-May-2010: By Abdulkadir Badsha MukhtarDespite the possibility that world steel consumption would increase by 10.7 percent before the end of this year and a further increase of 5.3 percent in 2011, Nigeria is st (By News Poster)...South Africa: Disciplinary Inquiry is Biased, Says 'Dr Death'
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - WOUTER Basson, nicknamed "Dr Death", will ask the high court in Pretoria today to interdict the Health Professions Council of SA from continuing with a disciplinary inqu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanitisation - Microfinance Banks to Partner EFCC, ICPC
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Bamidele Ogunwusi With Agency ReportMicrofinance banks in the country have reiterated their commitment to partner and cooperate with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) towards ensuring the emergence (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ripples of Banking Reforms
Monday 03-May-2010: The banking reforms which were started by the new CBN governor Lamido Sanusi Lamido some months ago have continued to wreck devastating consequences on the "glitterati" and "literati" of the banking s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cash-Flush Banks Race for Housing Projects
Friday 07-May-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguThe battle for mortgage business is intensifying as cash-flush institutions such as Kenya Commercial Bank and Housing Finance pour cash into more housing development projects.The cou (By News Poster)...Sudan: Activists Across the U.S. Support Congressman Wolf's Call for a Change of Course on Sudan
Thursday 06-May-2010: Today Sudan activists and Sudanese expatriates from around the country commended Congressman Frank Wolf for his bold call to President Obama for a change of course in dealing with Sudan. Twenty-five r (By News Poster)...Uganda: Government Plans Shift from Free Market Economy
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Dicta AsiimweKampala - President Museveni this week launched the National Development Plan (NDP) whose drafters say is meant to transform Uganda from a peasant to a prosperous country within the ne (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Same Problems, Less Funding
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Johannesburg - Without adequate funding, barriers to HIV treatment are likely to remain unchanged in spite of growing demand, a new report has warned.A new report by the International Treatment Prepar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Death Threat - Akunyili to Meet Security Agencies
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Paul ObiAbuja - Following the death threat issued to four Abuja-based journalists over the ouster of Independent National Election Commision, INEC chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu and the incessant case (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RBZ Official Throws Out Farmworkers
Monday 03-May-2010: By Sandra MandizvidzaABOUT 80 Chinhoyi families are stranded after they were evicted from Friedwall Farm in Chinhoyi by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Edward Mashiringwane last week.Mash (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Criminals Attack Army General in His Residence
Friday 07-May-2010: Maputo - Criminals still at large broke into the residence of Joao Americo Fumo, a retired general of the Mozambican Armed Defence Forces (FADM), and shot him in the back at about 20:00 hours of Wedne (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tasks Before New NNPC Boss
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Lagos - THE new Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Shehu Ladan, is bearing a heavy burden and how well or otherwise he carries the cross will d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Eyes Billions From Private Buy-in
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - Eskom is thinking of raising R40bn by selling minority stakes in existing power stations now that the disposal of a 30% stake in the R144bn Kusile power station is looking in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers - Militants Attack Shell Facility
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Dennis NakuPort Harcourt - Fighters of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), umbrella body of all militant groups in the Niger Delta, yesterday, attacked the Creek Manifold belonging to Anglo-Dutc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: As Dansadau Probes FCT Land Deals
Monday 03-May-2010: By Nasir ImamThat land values in the FCT are among the highest in Nigeria is no longer in dispute therefore land racketeering may have informed the recent suspension of key officials of the Abuja Geog (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Must Probe Yar'Adua's Death, Handlers - Akintola
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Ise-Oluwa IgeAbuja - Ibadan-based member of the inner bar, Chief Adeniyi Akintola (SAN), yesterday, asked the Federal Government to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of former President (By News Poster)...Hello, Africa! Archive: UK Rally Against SA Crime - May 15
Saturday 08-May-2010: South African ex-pat Ivan Cornelius talks about his upcoming protest march against South African crime, planned for May 15th in London, UK. Everyone is to meet at Piccadilly Circus in Central Lon (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Nigeria: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua - the Last Trip Home
Friday 07-May-2010: He was an unlikely choice for president when he was elected in 2007 to lead Africa's most populous nation; when he died last Wednesday night, three months shy of his 59th birthday, Alhaji Umaru Musa Y (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Lubanga Chronicle #77 Pieces in a Puzzle
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Sheila VelezThe Hague - Determined to undo what seems to have become a big tangle, Lubanga´s lawyers now challenge the credibility of the participating victims who have testified before the C (By News Poster)...U.S. 'Amends' Sanctions Law
Thursday 06-May-2010: Harare - UNITED STATES lawmakers have, for the first time, admitted that the discredited sanctions law, the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, has brought untold suffering to ordinary Zimba (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rural's Future is in Solar and Biofuels
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Izael Pereira Da SilvaThe Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) is a very interesting body. As other institutions work as three and make the noise of 300, UNCST does exactly th (By News Poster)...U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Review Sanctions
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Violet GondaA bill to review the targeted sanctions imposed on members of the Mugabe regime (Zimbabwe Transition to Democracy and Economic Recovery Act) has been tabled in the US congress to try to (By News Poster)...Djibouti: Half Rural Population Need Emergency Food Aid
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Nairobi - About half of Djibouti's rural population will need emergency food assistance this year due to the combined effects of drought, livestock losses, unfavourable livestock-to-cereal terms of tr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Board for RBZ
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Harare - FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti yesterday appointed a new board for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in yet another major step towards refocusing the bank to core functions and solving challenges it (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Rate Cuts Spur Price Wars
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Wachira Kang'aruNairobi - In what is the biggest win for Central Bank of Kenya in its push to have banks cut their lending rates, the country's largest lenders have entered into a price war on unse (By News Poster)...Angola: Nation Presents Strategies On Food Security
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Luanda - Angola will present at FAO 26th Conference, happening since Monday in Luanda, the steps taken by the government in terms of implementing programmes aimed at achieving food security in the cou (By News Poster)...Rwanda: BCR to Expand Its Loan Portfolio
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Berna NamataKigali - Rwanda Commercial Bank (BCR) will expand its loan book this year to cater for the increasing demand of credit from the privates sector, signalling a steady recovery from last y (By News Poster)...Uganda: Banks Urged to Extend Mobile Services to Rural Areas
Monday 03-May-2010: By Martin Luther OketchKampala - Ms Ruth Nankabirwa, the state minister for Microfinance, has said commercial banks should extend mobile banking to the rural poor through the use of Information Commun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawmaker in Police Net Over Pump Action Gun
Monday 03-May-2010: By Simon EbegbulemBenin - A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, member in Edo State House of Assembly (names withheld), was yesterday arrested with a pump action gun by the police in Benin City.It was lear (By News Poster)...Biti Promises to Pay War Vets
Sunday 09-May-2010: Harare - FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti has pledged to pay war veterans their outstanding dues by next Friday after the freedom fighters stormed his offices yesterday demanding a meeting.The war veteran (By News Poster)...Namibia: Flick Your Plastic for a Beer in Omuserra-Komba
Friday 07-May-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - A very positive development in the financial services industry was announced this week. By the grace of the Deutscher Entwickelungsdienst, the Nampost Savings Bank will b (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Obama, Zuma Other World Leaders, Mourn
Friday 07-May-2010: U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday condoled with the Government and People of Nigeria over the death of President Umaru Yar'Adua."President Yar'Adua worked to promote peace and stability in Afric (By News Poster)...Energy Access Vital to Success of Millennium Development Goals
Friday 07-May-2010: By Nosh Nalavala"If the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved, energy access to developing countries is crucial," Kandeh Yumkella, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Developme (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anxiety in Ekiti As Tribunal Delivers Judgment Today
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Gbenga AriyibiPanic and anxiety have gripped the residents of all the major towns and villages in Ekiti State as the election petition tribunal delivers its judgement today on the 24 April 2009 gov (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Recover N1 Million From ATM Fraudsters
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Vincent UjumaduAwka - THE battle against Automated Teller Machines, ATM, fraud has yielded positive dividend in Anambra State with the recovery of N1 million in the last one month from fraudsters.T (By News Poster)...Uganda: Residents Chase Surveyors From Disputed Land
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Moses NampalaKampala - Angry residents on a disputed boundary between Tororo and Butaleja districts recently chased a team of surveyors trying to mark the boundary.The residents of Kirewa sub-count (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister to Strengthen Police Watchdog
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - A NEW legislative framework for the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) was envisaged as soon as July, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said last night.The idea wa (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Aims to Attract R115 Billion Investment Within Three Years
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - The government has set itself a target of attracting foreign and local investment of R115bn in the next three years, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies announced yesterda (By News Poster)...South Africa: Namibians Dance on Ship
Tuesday 04-May-2010: The OYO Dance Group, which has already built up quite a name for itself locally and internationally, added another achievement to its tally when it performed to a huge audience of parliamentarians on (By News Poster)...Namibia: Standard Bank Reports Huge Fall in Profits
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Clemencia JacobsWindhoek - Standard Bank Namibia this week announced a 17% drop in profits for the financial year ending 31 December 2009, a situation the bank attributes to a revision in risk appe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimplats Approves U.S.$445 Million Ngezi Expansion Project
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Harare - THE Zimplats board has approved the technical aspects of the proposed Ngezi Phase II expansion project at an estimated cost of US$445 million.The project will consist of a two million tonnes (By News Poster)...Kenya: Central Bank Seeks to Grow Islamic Finance
Monday 03-May-2010: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - The government is studying the Islamic finance model with a view to making the country competitive.Central Bank of Kenya says this form of finance is fast catching up.Govern (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Car Bomb Goes Off in Major Oil City
Monday 03-May-2010: By Samuel OyadonghaAnother powerful explosion Sunday night rocked Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital causing fresh panic among residents.A salon car believed to have been packed with deadly explosive w (By News Poster)...North Africa: Can Nile Basin Talks Still Lay a Bridge Over Troubled Waters?
Monday 03-May-2010: By Patrick GatharaNairobi - The Nile River has been the source of life and of conflict in the Nile Basin for centuries. The basin's three million square kilometres cover about 10 per cent of the Afric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Customs - How to Check Influx of Military Wares
Monday 03-May-2010: By John IworiLagos - Nigeria Customs Command (NCS) has intensified surveillance at the nation's seaports, international border posts, and airports to ensure that items in the Prohibition Import List a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IG Deploys 300 Policemen to Combat Oil Pipelines Vandals
Monday 03-May-2010: Lagos - The Inspector-General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, weekend ordered serious onslaught against pipeline vandals all over the federation. To this end, no fewer than 300 heavily armed police officers (By News Poster)...South Africa: Japan Agree to Start Nuclear Energy Talks
Monday 03-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - SA's relations with Japan took a new turn last week when the two countries agreed to start negotiations on future co-operation on friendly nuclear energy that could be (By News Poster)...Uganda: State Orders Arrest of Priest Over Rape
Friday 07-May-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - THE Director of Public Prosecution, Richard Butera, has ordered the arrest of a Catholic priest in Nebbi district who allegedly defiled two girls, and possibly infected them (By News Poster)...Uganda: World Bank Considers Supporting Oil Sector
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - THE World Bank will consider supporting Uganda's oil sector, urban development and improving governance as some of the key areas in its new $1.8b country assistance strategy t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Says Solution to Country Crisis Lies in Fresh Elections
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe deputy organizing secretary of the MDC-T, Morgan Komichi, reckons the only way to find a definitive solution to the crisis in the country is having fresh elections, once a new c (By News Poster)...Winnie Mandela: Nelson Let Blacks Down
Wednesday 05-May-2010: This one's a few months old, just stumbled across this the other day.... don't know if it's been posted already but it is interesting to say the least! -NG ------------ The ex-wife of Nelson Mand (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...East Africa: Fuel Hits 3,150/- Mark
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Chris KiwawuloKampala - The price of petrol has hit the sh3,000 mark in the past few days as fuel shortages continued to worsen across the country.Dealers said shortages were being experienced acro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Renaissance Poised to Enter SA With BJM Deal
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - RUSSIAN investment bank Renaissance Capital said yesterday that it was set to enter SA after agreeing to buy the brokerage arm of financial services group Barnard Jacobs M (By News Poster)...Uganda: Harare's Whyte Raids Uganda
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Nairobi - Zimbabwe's James Whyte swept the 2010 KCB Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally at the weekend, driving away with a huge fan base in the process as Kenya's lone ranger Ben Muchemi battled to a superb (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Rajoelina Negotiates on Army Demands
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Madagascar's ruler, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to be conducting talks with military leaders in an effort to meet their demands that he bring to an end the country's political crisis.This follows a d (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabab and Ahlu Sunna Claim Victory Over Fighting in Mogadishu
Tuesday 04-May-2010: The Islamist officials of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen and Ahlu Sunna aljama'a have claimed victory over fighting that continued in parts of Hodan and Hawl-wadag districts in Mogadishu over night.The (By News Poster)...Africa: Leaders Go Public With the Test
Tuesday 04-May-2010: South African President Jacob Zuma recently launched one of the most ambitious voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaigns in history by disclosing his HIV-negative status.Ministers and provinci (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: In Search of 'Made-to-Measure' HIV Prevention
Monday 03-May-2010: Addis Ababa - With more than half of all Ethiopian adults tested for HIV in the past five years and a campaign for behaviour change in place, specialists are now calling for a more targeted approach." (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Troops in Darfur Decorated
Monday 03-May-2010: By James KaruhangaDarfur - A Rwandan Battalion, referred to as Rwanbatt 19 (73 Infantry BN), currently deployed in the AU-UN hybrid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) held a medal award ceremony for its women (By News Poster)...Tunisia: Central Bank Reports Improvement of Growth Prospects
Monday 03-May-2010: Tunis - The state of the national and international economic and financial affairs was the focus of the meeting of the Executive Board of Tunisia's Central Bank (BCT) held on Thursday.The Executive Bo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Attack Shell Facility in Rivers
Monday 03-May-2010: By Dennis NakuFighters of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), umbrella body of all militant groups in the Niger Delta, have attacked the Creek Manifold, belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Pe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RioZim Seeks U.S.$40 Million
Monday 03-May-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - MINING resources group RioZim could come on the market to raise a phenomenal US$40 million through a renounceable rights issue to stabilise and recapitalise its existing opera (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MTN Stake in Telecel Limited to 40 Percent
Monday 03-May-2010: Harare - MTN Group Ltd, Africa's largest mobile phone company, can only buy not more 40 percent of Orascom Telecom Holdings' interests in Telecel Zimbabwe, officials said last Friday.One of the offici (By News Poster)...USA:President Obama is telling BLATANT LIES when he says the Stock Market was sabotaged last week...
Sunday 09-May-2010: I just want to put on record my own views that I think the White house is putting out a big blatant lie that the stock market was sabotaged last thursday. You will recall that for months I have bee (By Jan)...Kenya: Ocampo Arrives to Begin Kenya Probe Process
Sunday 09-May-2010: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has arrived in Kenya to meet with post election violence victims.The plane carrying Mr Moreno-Ocampo touched down (By News Poster)...Liberia: Life for Life - Jubah's Killers Get Death by Hanging, but...
Friday 07-May-2010: By Marcus ZolehCriminal Court "A" has sentenced the nine men accused of killing Keith Jubah to death by hinging.Judge Sikajipo Wollor's yesterday's judgment was confirmation of the unanimous guilty ve (By News Poster)...Namibia: Fitch Affirms Nampower at 'BBB-' Outlook Stable
Friday 07-May-2010: Fitch Ratings last week affirmed Nampower's longterm foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB-' and Short-term IDR at 'F3'.At the same time, Fitch has also affirmed NamPower's National Lon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Shuns Yar'Adua's Burial
Friday 07-May-2010: By Tony Ailemen, Muyideen Salawu and Mohammed KabirAbuja/Katsina - Thousands of mourners gathered in Katsina, Kastina State yesterday for the burial of former President Umaru Yar'Adua, who died late (By News Poster)...Angola: Residents Hope 2010 Flooding Prompts Govt Action in Luanda
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Louise RedversThe water seeped into Feliciana Teresa Matia's home from beneath its mud floor and when her 20-year-old son Francisco got up to go to work, grabbing a metal pole for guidance in the d (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Pregnancy and Birth Complications Kill Eleven Women a Day
Thursday 06-May-2010: Maputo - At least 11 women die each day in Mozambique, due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, this according to a new study published in Maputo on Wednesday by the Health Ministry ( (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mines Minister Offers Police Diamond Mining Licence
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Lance GumaMines Minister Obert Mpofu last Friday invited the police to apply for a diamond mining licence, effectively confirming earlier reports that Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri had alre (By News Poster)...STOCK MARKET HELL: The Black Thursday of 2010... FEAR is back with a vengeance... The SLAUGHTER I predicted at 11,000...
Thursday 06-May-2010: I never expected the unbelievable action that happened on the markets today. I was watching the market sliding down faster and faster. At the time of writing Gold is up 2.51% for the day!!! (By Jan)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Army to Court Marshal Officers
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - General Officer Commanding Third Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Major General Saleh Maina, has said the military is a disciplined institution with laws, rule and regulati (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bill to Declassify Hundreds of Former State Secrets
Thursday 06-May-2010: Cape Town - Hundreds of former state secrets which have long been classified information will be open to the public when a new bill regulating state security information comes into effect.Concern has (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police, RDF Receive Speed Boats
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweBugesera - The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Agnes Kalibata, handed over 25 boats worth Rwf 346m to Rwanda National Police (RNP) and Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) to be used by marines (By News Poster)...Uganda: Poisoned Food Kills Four
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Hope MafarangaKampala - FOUR people died in Kyenjojo district and another four are in a coma, suspected to have taken poisoned food. Mwesige Kagoro, the Myeri LC2 chairperson, said the victims were (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Committee Was Ready to Call Fifa for Emergency Funds
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - THE local organising committee for the Soccer World Cup said yesterday it was operating on a tight budget but would be ready to host the opening and closing matches. (By News Poster)...Somalia: One of the Injured Civilians Dies in Kismayu
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Kismayu - One of the civilians injured in the blast targeted to a mosque in Kismayu town died for his injuries in the town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, witnesses told Sabelle radio on We (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Reviews Harare Sanctions
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - The United States is reviewing the decade old sanctions against Zimbabwe. But the measures are unlikely to end the travel restrictions and asset freeze imposed on President (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Rules Out Govt Pay Rises
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Harare - FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti has poured cold water on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Workers' Day claim that Government salaries have not been frozen, insisting that civil servants' remun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawmaker Sues ICPC Over Corruption Concealment
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Honourable Eseme Eyiboh, has dragged the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) before a Fede (By News Poster)...Africa: Ernst and Young Upbeat About Move to Grow Africa Profile
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - GLOBAL accounting giant Ernst & Young says it expects rapid business growth in Africa with its initiative to expand the firm's practices across the continent.The Africa (By News Poster)...Africa: Food Safety Training to Boost EU-Africa Trade
Monday 03-May-2010: By Halima AbdallahNairobi - The European Union will spend E13 million ($17.10 million) this year to train Africans in international food safety standards.This is in preparation for competitive trade b (By News Poster)...Nigeria: As Gusau Faults Banking Reforms
Monday 03-May-2010: Lagos - The National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Aliyu Gusau, was recently reported to have given the thumbs down to the banking reforms initiated by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sa (By News Poster)...South Africa: African Eagle Continues to Back 'Hot' Metal
Monday 03-May-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - LOWER nickel prices will not deter African Eagle Resources from continuing to focus on its major nickel project in Dutwa, Tanzania, chairman Euan Arthur Worthington said o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Security Leaks Force Tech Firm to Suspend Share Trading
Monday 03-May-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - STRUGGLING technology firm Faritec has suspended trading in its shares as it fears that sensitive information related to its financial woes is leaking.Faritec is fight (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Energy Crisis Killing Local Companies
Monday 03-May-2010: By Tunde SanniIbadan - The Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Nigerian Wire and Cable Company (NWC), Ibadan, Oyo State, Chris Idowu, has enjoined the federal government to urgently resolve the ener (By News Poster)...Stock Theft Suspect in Court After Car Chase
Monday 03-May-2010: By Werner MengesA SUSPECTED cattle thief who was arrested east of Windhoek following a high-speed car chase last week is remaining in Police custody after making a first court appearance on Friday.The (By News Poster)...Waterskiers Win Medals in SA
Friday 07-May-2010: By David AdetonaWindhoek - Namibian waterskiers excelled by winning numerous gold medals against South Africa's top skiers during the recently held South African National Championships on a privately (By News Poster)...Namibia: Lion Killer to Be Charged
Friday 07-May-2010: By Denver KistingTHE trophy hunter who admitted that he shot and killed a protected lion in the Sesfontein Conservancy recently might be in for a surprise when he returns to Namibia next week.Criminal (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimplats to Settle U.S.$23,5 Million Tax
Friday 07-May-2010: By Walter MuchinguriHarare - THE country's leading platinum producer, Zimplats, will settle the additional profit tax of US$23,5 million to Zimra in full by the end of this month.This follows a Govern (By News Poster)...Uganda: Govt Finally Gives CMI Land Title to Sudhir
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Mercy NalugoProperty mogul Sudhir Ruparelia has finally taken over the 6.5 acre piece of land currently occupied by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala to b (By News Poster)...Botswana: Greater Support Needed For Women Farmers
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Alma BalopiOn the outskirts of Botswana's capital, Gaborone, Charity Molefhi is learning the ropes of the horticulture industry.The 32-year-old former insurance consultant is one of many female far (By News Poster)...Namibia: Migratory Birds At Risk
Thursday 06-May-2010: By Absalom ShigwedhaWHEN a wetland begins to lose its ducks, flamingos, herons or swallows, it is a signal that the water quantity and quality of that lake, river or estuary is declining, which bodes (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Allotted $5.6 Million in UN Emergency Funds to Fight Measles Epidemic
Thursday 06-May-2010: Some 5 million children in Zimbabwe will receive urgently needed protection from a growing spread of measles thanks to $5.6 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).Despi (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Activists to Demand More Cash During WEF Meet
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Bernard Lugongo and Hellen NachilongoAs the two-day World Economic Forum (WEF) starts in Dar es Salaam today, African activists will be demonstrating around the conference centre to pressurise worl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sisulu Moots Idea for National Service
Wednesday 05-May-2010: Cape Town - Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has revealed a plan to set up a national service to provide training and instil discipline in youth.Briefing the media ahead of her Budget Vote speech on Tu (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Gulf African Bank to Expand to Tanzania And Uganda
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Dinfin MuluphiGulf African Bank (GAB) has announced it is planning to enter Tanzania and Uganda by the end of the year. The plans follow the Islamic bank's successful launch and growth in the Kenya (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Dam Construction Stirs Up Controversy
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Rebekah MintzerA dam under construction in Ethiopia that aims to provide hydroelectric power to the country and surrounding areas has become the center of controversy in recent weeks.The Gibe III D (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: China in $400 Million Power Plant Deal
Tuesday 04-May-2010: By Tradeinvest Africa StaffZimbabwe has signed a $400-million agreement with China's Sinohydro to expand its Kariba hydro electricity plant, reports Reuters.The Zimbabwe Power Company says Sinohydro w (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland President Defends Anti-Piracy Policy
Tuesday 04-May-2010: The president of Somalia's Puntland State government returned home Monday, after a weeks-long trip to neighboring countries, Radio Garowe reports.Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed "Farole," Puntland's elected ci (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Electricity Fund - Oil Coys to Pay 2 Percent Profit
Monday 03-May-2010: By Tordue SalemAbuja - A law seeking to empower the Federal Inland Revenue Service to deduct 2% of the profit made annually by every oil company registered in Nigeria awaits concurrence and passage in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZPS Ventures Into Serious Farming
Monday 03-May-2010: Harare - THE Zimbabwe Prisons Service has ventured into serious farming projects to produce adequate food for prisoners and surplus to sell to the Grain Marketing Board.ZPS has 24 farms, including Chi (By News Poster)...Is President Obama shutting up the American Mass media with hideous rules?
Monday 03-May-2010: [I received this very interesting news item from a friend. This is pretty wild stuff. Obama seems to be able to completely shut up the mass media in America like turning off a tap. This would be inter (By Jan)...Gold! Gold! Jim Sinclair's--wild comments - ALL Currencies will collapse...
Sunday 09-May-2010: [I seem to recall that we've discussed Jim Sinclair before and that he is well respected by Harry Schultz whom I know. Jim is one of the best of the "Gold bugs" out there. What Sinclair is writing (By Jan)...[5 Graphs] Wall Street Meltdown - The Black Thursday from hell - My Technical Indicator - Technical Analysis & new predictions for the next step...
Friday 07-May-2010: Yesterday was an absolutely wild day. Here is a summary of events and my quick technical analysis of the situation. Take a look at the graph below. It is a 5 day graph with each vertical line sepa (By Jan)...Science: Thanks to Global warming in 200BC - Hannibal was able to attack and invade Rome...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Here's an interesting titbit I spotted in a recent documentary (I think it was on National Geographic). It was a documentary about how the Alps formed in Europe. Evidence showed that the Alps was form (By Jan)...Boerejode - the Jews who fought on the Boer side in the Anglo-Boer War: The first Jew killed was an American, Harry Spanier
Sunday 09-May-2010: Approximately 300 Jews who lived in the two Boer republics fought on the side of the Boers in the Anglo-Boer. These Jews, very many of whom were practicising Jews who fled from from Eastern Europe, ha (By A Different Perspective)...South Africa: Motlanthe Hails the Return of Freedom Charter
Saturday 08-May-2010: By Chris BathembuJohannesburg - Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says the return of the original copy of the Freedom Charter to South Africa marks another important milestone in the history of the c (By News Poster)...USA: The failed bomb in New York - was it a diversion for a bigger bomb? My comments...
Monday 03-May-2010: [I looked at this and here are my own thoughts on the matter. I think this bomb was pretty much it. This bomb failed. That callers who phoned in - was the enemy - and you can never trust what the enem (By Jan)...Taliban Terrorist cells in New York City - President Obama's White House keeps their mouths shut...
Friday 07-May-2010: [Here are some excerpts from a discussion I was having with a friend who has a good knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs. Jan] The White House is SILENT about it, but they're now searching for Talib (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-05-2010)
Monday 03-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- "The cash-strapped Zimbabwe Prison Service has come up with a novel solution to the problem of transporting suspects to court in a country (By The BeardedMan)...SA Agri Minister Stiffs Farmers' Union
Thursday 06-May-2010: South African Minister of Agriculture Tina Joemat-Petterson has stood up farmers union TAU/SA for a pre-scheduled meeting, opting to be out of the country instead. This marks the second time in a r (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Pic] S.Africa: 2010: Please don't kill me... I'm not THE BOER... Who did this? Where was it taken?
Friday 07-May-2010: [I think I've posted this photo before, but its worth posting again. This seems to be from a set of real t-shirts. I've actually seen other photos of this same group and it seems to have really taken (By Jan)...USA: Multiculturalism requires a Police state to maintain order - Is it Immigration Control or a Police State?
Sunday 09-May-2010: [Here is an exchange between a friend of mine and Jame Edwards who runs the brilliant site/radio show: PoliticalCesspool. Take a look at James' concept that: Multiculturalism requires a POLICE STAT (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti-Islam Bashers Find Another Lightening Rod
Wednesday 05-May-2010: By Aishatu UmarIt is really unfortunate that the menace of using nongovernmental organizations to attack Islam has arrived in Nigeria. NGOs have now become weapons of fighting Islam as part of the cur (By News Poster)...S Africa: Pre Soccer World Cup flagsand mirror covers on cars - A South African phenomenon or not?
Saturday 08-May-2010: About two months ago the first cars started appearing with small South African flags flapping from plastic sticks hooked into their windows. For a month the numbers didn't grow very much. But abou (By A Different Perspective)...S.Africa: Afrikaners arrested... Busy working on some news articles now...
Friday 07-May-2010: I hear some Afrikaners were arrested. I am busy working on some news articles now. Will post them shortly. (By Jan)...Stock Markets - for a short while TOTAL MELTDOWN... on Wall St... incredible... 600 point fall in 10 screaming minutes!!! My note to Jeff Rense...
Thursday 06-May-2010: [I blasted off this short note to Jeff Rense. I've never seen anything like this. It shows just how dangerous these markets can be. Some of us have been saying for MONTHS that the markets were risign (By Jan)...Saturday on AfricanCrisis - from Jan...
Friday 07-May-2010: I will prepare 3 articles for saturday:- o Is the ANC preparing an army to fight whites & keep itself in power? o Blacks are at the top of their game... they believe they are invincible. o The ne (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: A day of absolute slaughter on the Stock Markets - Please check in tomorrow for predictions and signals...
Thursday 06-May-2010: I have been sitting here in amazement - not even watching news, just watching the slaughter on the markets as the markets implode, and gold is flying. Today Gold went up 1.96% so far! The mark (By Jan)...Ooops... posts are late... caught in a firestorm of revolution at my work...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: I'm struggling to even have a lunch time. I need to upload some important posts I promised yesterday. Just bear with me... was swamped by people when I walked in. That's the price you pay for star (By Jan)...An American friend of mine finds a real gem: Peace with Rhodesia, a Testament to Freedom
Thursday 06-May-2010: [A long time friend of mine in the USA just found this. This is something I never knew of an I wonder what the history is. I've asked him for a copy. Jan] Subject: JAN - I FOUND A REAL GEM! Jan: (By Jan)...[Humor] Notice from Eskom on our collapsing Electricity infrastructure...
Thursday 06-May-2010: [This email is doing the rounds. This is a jibe as the "Previously Disadvantaged" which is a PC reference to non-whites in South Africa. What about the CURRENTLY DISADVANTAGED? Jan] Eskom would li (By Jan)...USA: Wall Street is dropping like a rock again... Are we getting to the slaughter at 11,000?
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Just a note... the DOW JONES Index has dropped a straight 200 points - like a rock - in opening trading this morning. Am watching with interest to see how the day goes. The most important point is: (By Jan)...Terrorism in America: Spreading... In Pennsylvania... Taliban in New York...
Friday 07-May-2010: [Here is something a friend of mine in France sent me. I was just busy discussing with another friend the strong possibilty that the Taliban is in New York City. It appears to me, terrorists are st (By Jan)...More thoughts from Jan later... job offers... my work, prize, and other stuff...
Thursday 06-May-2010: Hi All, Its been hectic. Last night I had a friend over and we went over some work I need to finalise for him. I needed some sleep last night - a good night's sleep. I have other things to comment (By Jan)...From Jan... What a wild wild day this has been... news coming shortly...
Tuesday 04-May-2010: Hi All, Its 11pm. I can finally sit down and post something. I had hoped to post something proper on the site at 8:30am this morning. But my feet have hardly touched the ground all day. And what a (By Jan)...I'm busy working on some new posts which will go up shortly...
Sunday 09-May-2010: Just a note that I'm busy writing frenetically. I have several posts that are coming up. (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-05-2010)
Saturday 08-May-2010: Howzit Apart from the absolute chaos in Zimbabwe, there are Zimbabweans relocating all over the world, and, sadly, many of them are dabbling in illegal practises and activities and have been caught (By The BeardedMan)...
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