African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
08-27-05
| S.Africa: Amazing, Incredible Political & Racial moves in ANC split 27-Aug-2005: ... Click here to read the rest. |
| Sense of Total Doom among Jews as USA dismantles Israel 26-Aug-2005: Here is what he wrote:- The mood here is one of doom. Total collapse. Impending war. To put things into perspective for you (as an antedote to the news media version): there were over 30,... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Vice Pres: We transferred R50 billion to the Blacks 26-Aug-2005: Cape Town - South Africa has since 1994 transferred R50bn to the poor - the majority of them women, says Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka. In a written reply on Friday to a question from... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Funny: Man tells Police 3 women tried to rape him 26-Aug-2005: Police say that a trio of women have been accused of forcing a 30-year-old man to have sex with them at gunpoint. On Wednesday the women had been driving a maroon BMW in Roodepoort, when they prete... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zimbabwe Cabinet minister dies in South Africa 26-Aug-2005: Josiah Tungamirai, Minister for Black Empowerment and Indigenisation in Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government, has died while receiving treatment at a clinic in South Africa, state radio... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Black Girl says father raped her on kitchen floor repeatedly 26-Aug-2005: A 15-year-old Ermelo girl was so sick and tired of being raped by her father that she went to the police after her fifth night on the kitchen floor with him, said police. The 45-year-old man told t... Click here to read the rest. |
| Namibia: Oil Exploration set to kick off 26-Aug-2005: DESPITE an apparent lack of interest by international oil companies to tap Namibian oil, the time has come for local minerals to be explored to the fullest, says the Minister of Mines and Energy, Erkk... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Blacks shoot brother & try to rape White girl 26-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - They tried to rape her and insisted that she pointed out all the valuable items in the house - this while her brother lay bleeding in the room after being shot. This was the hor... Click here to read the rest. |
| The Man who had a Private Army says Afrikaners must bow before God 26-Aug-2005: For years he was loved and hated by the media in equal measure ñ wherever Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was there would be a story. He had a sense of the dramatic, ma... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Reserve Bank Govt Lies: Not $1 billion for Zim 26-Aug-2005: RESERVE Bank governor Tito Mboweni lashed out yesterday at the instigators of a "media frenzy" over claims of a proposed $1bn bale-out for Zimbabwe, saying no such loan had been discussed. This... Click here to read the rest. |
| Iraq on brink of meltdown 26-Aug-2005: The credibility of Iraq's political process was in danger last night as parliament again failed to vote on a draft constitution which a Sunni politician said was "fit only for the bin". The go... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim: New Govt/Military Landgrab orgy of Wildlife-rich farms 26-Aug-2005: SENIOR ZANU PF politicians and army officers have grabbed prime wildlife-rich farms along the route of the Zambezi Water Project in Matabeleland, as they strategically position themselves to benef... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Anger over Gravy Train salary increases 26-Aug-2005: Trade unions say they are poised to "go to war" with Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo over shocking "gravy train" salary increases for her top managers. Her "All Black" team of executive direc... Click here to read the rest. |
| Three futile attempts to overthrow Mugabe. Now 4th attempt... 26-Aug-2005: AFTER three futile attempts to dislodge the ruling party from power, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has resolved to go back to the people to brainstorm for ideas to... Click here to read the rest. |
| All Aboard the Gravy Train: Ministerial Salary increases 26-Aug-2005: Salary increases for the deputy president, ministers and deputy ministers were approved by President Thabo Mbeki, according to a government gazette published on Wednesday. The salary increases... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Funny: Detailed Beer train causes riot 26-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - All derailed wagons and locomotives had been cleared from the site of a derailed liquor train in Waterval-Boven, Mpumalanga, Spoornet said on Friday. "Clearing-up operations were ha... Click here to read the rest. |
| Black African Leaders are reluctant to ruffle Mugabe's feathers 26-Aug-2005: THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit ended in Gaborone, Botswana at the weekend without even a fleeting glance at the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe, raising questions abo... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Pres. Mbeki's now earns R1.1 million pa 26-Aug-2005: President Thabo Mbeki will earn a salary of R93 099 a month after the National Assembly approved a 5,75 percent increase for the country's first citizen on Thursday. The total remuneration pack... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zimbabwe: Blacks: We even want them to kill us 26-Aug-2005: Grubby-faced children play on a patch of ground beside a towering plastic water container marked "UNICEF", one of the few humanitarian organisations helping hundreds of displaced families at Hopel... Click here to read the rest. |
| What the Media ignores: Mbeki's Ominous Zimbabwe statement 26-Aug-2005: The newspaper headline ìLand Shockî encapsulated in essence the cumulative hot air, socialistic demands and racist resentment which characterized the land reform summit held over five days at taxp... Click here to read the rest. |
| HomeComing Revolution goes downhill - like the rest of S.Africa! 26-Aug-2005: Colin wrote:- I recall the sponsors of HCR were First National BankÖ.. my brother used to work there many years ago. My brother was in investments and saw the *crunch* coming for us lot back... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Official Opposition: Pro-Mugabe arguments are hollow 26-Aug-2005: Friday, August 12, 2005 12:04 PM Subject: LEON: ARGUMENTS FOR SUPPORTING MUGABE ARE HOLLOW A weekly letter from the Leader of the Opposition Release: Immediate - 12 August 2005 Many a truth... Click here to read the rest. |
| Afrikaans Namibian News & Action Group 26-Aug-2005: I thought some people would be interested in an Afrikaans group of folks in Namibia called: Monitor. They send out a regular Afrikaans newsletter. They now have their own website: www.monitor.iway.... Click here to read the rest. |
| Mugabe takes another step towards tyranny 25-Aug-2005: A slate of amendments that critics warn will seriously reduce constitutional protections and freedoms in Zimbabwe cleared a first vote in Parliament on Wednesday. After a stormy debate, lawmakers v... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Not a property bubble yet? 25-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - Indicators and a number of other supporting factors suggest that the South African residential property market is not as yet experiencing general bubble conditions, according to ban... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: COSATU to backtrack on Zuma? 25-Aug-2005: Cosatu leaders are to acknowledge to the African National Congress that they have lost control and given in to members' "emotions, beliefs, mood, anger and perception" in demanding that Jacob Zuma... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Socialist Health care failure: R1.2 billion owed 25-Aug-2005: About R1,2-billion of public hospital fees are still outstanding from the 2004/05 financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. "An astonishing 68% of fees billed for the 2004/05 fi... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Armed Robber just walks out of prison 25-Aug-2005: Police have launched a search for a 26-year-old man who escaped out of an unlocked holding cell at the Pinetown regional court on Wednesday. Sibusiso Mazibuko, charged with armed robbery, has b... Click here to read the rest. |
| Africa: AIDS can cut income growth by 1/3rd 25-Aug-2005: THE World Bank has estimated that the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS may reduce the growth of national income by up to one third by 2020 in countries with adult prevalence rates of 10 per cent. ... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim-Pan Africanist: Why Buy Back Stolen Land? 25-Aug-2005: A PAN-Africanist Sabelo Sibanda from Zimbabwe has called on Namibia to seriously reconsider its orderly land reform with determined vigour and an "honest" approach. Sibanda, who recently addres... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Cape Town faces mountains of filth 25-Aug-2005: Cape Town The jewel in South Africa's tourism crown, Cape Town, faces a filthy future as the city's six major landfill sites are expected to reach their capacity in the next five years. "We have a... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Even White workers falling for Communism 25-Aug-2005: WHILE media coverage of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) central committee meeting last week focused on its demand that charges be dropped against former deputy president Jacob... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa's Poor to tackle the ANC - Oh yeah? 25-Aug-2005: South Africa's poor to tackle ANC By Nick Miles BBC News, Cape Town More than 70 religious and civic groups in South Africa have formed a coalition to challenge the ANC government's economic... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: New Free Speech website 25-Aug-2005: (A friend of mine sent me an email about this new website where S.Africans can express their UNEDITED VIEWS! The website is: www.peoplesview.net Jan) ... Click here to read the rest. |
| For S.Africans: Fax to Email service 25-Aug-2005: Receive ALL your faxes in PRIVACY to your Email, store them electronically. Save on paper, Save on Toner and Free up your existing fax line. Receiving faxes is at NO cost, NO subscription f... Click here to read the rest. |
| [Humor] Another Mugabe dies joke... 25-Aug-2005: Mugabe dies and goes to heaven. When he gets there, St. Peter tells him that he is not on the list and he does not belong in heaven. Mugabe must go to hell. So Mugabe goes to hell where Sata... Click here to read the rest. |
| 5 Irrefutable Facts about Land Reform in SA 25-Aug-2005: By Dr. Izak labuschagne On 12 August 2005 an open challenge on the Internet containing extremely serious allegations regarding the governments land reform policy was made to South Africaís Presiden... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim News: Govt to tax Blankets & Aid 25-Aug-2005: * More ZANU PF Chefs Added To EU Sanctions List * The European Union (EU) has added 6 more names of Mugabe's cronies to its sanctions list that now comprises a total of 126 individuals. 3 top poli... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zambia: 500 on derailed trail 24-Aug-2005: Lusaka - Zambia's railway authority on Wednesday said it was still waiting for confirmation of the number of people injured in a near-fatal passenger train accident on Tuesday. Several coaches on ... Click here to read the rest. |
| Amazing: Blacks sell their Free Govt houses & move into shacks!!! 24-Aug-2005: The number of backyard dwellers in Westlake Village is rapidly increasing as beneficiaries of the RDP housing scheme are selling up to outsiders and moving to shacks in neighbours' yards. Now t... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Child Rape Tragedy reduces Govt Minister to Fake Tears 24-Aug-2005: Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour wept while answering questions related to the rape of a three-year-old Cape Town child, allegedly by one of the criminals set free under the remissio... Click here to read the rest. |
| Namibia Grants New Oil Exploration Licences 24-Aug-2005: THE Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday issued petroleum exploration licences to three leading companies in a move that is set to witness a heightened search for in Namibia. Speaking at the... Click here to read the rest. |
| What is God's role in Modern Science? 24-Aug-2005: (I too believe that Darwinism just cannot be logically justified. My personal favourite quote about Darwinism and evolution is actually very old, and many people may not know about this. Few peopl... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: ANC wants apology from paper for 'absurd' article 24-Aug-2005: The African National Congress has rejected a Johannesburg daily newspaper report on Tuesday that President Thabo Mbeki and ex-deputy president Jacob Zuma had met "face to face" at an ANC national... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Zimbabwe loan not finalised yet 24-Aug-2005: Pretoria - South Africa's central bank has not yet finalised a loan deal to help its struggling northern neighbour Zimbabwe, although talks are continuing, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said... Click here to read the rest. |
| Blog: Darkest days yet to come for the dark continent... 24-Aug-2005: Darkest days yet to come for the dark continent... Well, well, well... I guess it was only a matter of time. People like Jan Lampbrecht, Deirdre Fields, Jani Allen, Adriana Stuijt, Dan Roodt a... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: First Apartheid Farm in Black hands - 9 years later 24-Aug-2005: Nearly a decade after the Elandskloof farm near Citrusdal became the first land in South Africa to be redistributed after the end of apartheid, the government wants its administration taken out of... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Grave Robber shoots Black Lovers 24-Aug-2005: Delmas - A 19-year-old is in a serious condition in the Witbank Hospital after being shot three times by a robber in a cemetery in Botleng, Delmas, police said on Wednesday. Mpumalanga police... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: 262 Schools may have their water cut off 24-Aug-2005: Toilets that do not flush and taps that have no water. A health disaster in the making. And the worst is that it could well become a reality as more than 200 schools in the greater eThekwini regio... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: ANC Feud: Mbeki faces down Zuma Allies 24-Aug-2005: THE crisis of unity in the African National Congress (ANC) deepened yesterday when President Thabo Mbeki came down hard on key backers of ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma during a meeting of the pa... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Reserve Bank: Interest rates will not always remain low 24-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni on Wednesday urged borrowers to settle their debt while interest rates were low. He said he was not overly concerned about high levels of househ... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: More Tourists Last Year -- But With Tighter Budgets 24-Aug-2005: WHILE the number of tourists to SA from major foreign markets increased last year, they spent less per head and overall revenue from tourism declined, government's 2004 annual tourism report said.... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: British Citizen beaten to death outside his home 24-Aug-2005: Durban - A British citizen who was beaten to death in his home at Cowies Hill outside Durban, was on Wednesday identified as Timothy Charles Jenks. Inspector Thulani Mkhize said security guards fo... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Did someone set fire to Shaik's house? 24-Aug-2005: Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik and his wife Zuleikha fought a fire that broke out in their Durban beachfront penthouse early on Wednesday morning before fleeing the building. The Shaik coupl... Click here to read the rest. |
| Is there a possibility that Mugabe will take the IMF's advice? 24-Aug-2005: AS IT began emergency consultations in Harare yesterday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) fact-finding mission urged the Zimbabwe government to take urgent measures to save the country's econ... Click here to read the rest. |
| USA: Christians for Terrorism - Hey, why not kill Mugabe? 24-Aug-2005: Robertson Is Pilloried for Assassination Call By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Pat Robertson, the conservative Christian broadcaster, has attracted attention over the years for lambasting everything from f... Click here to read the rest. |
| Evolutionists have been making monkeys of us all 24-Aug-2005: The Rumor Mill News Reading Room http://www.rumormillnews.com Date: Monday, 22 August 2005 Evolutionists have been making monkeys of us all By Jani Allan janiallan911@hotmail.com Sun... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim News: Pro-Mugabe Bishop faces charges 24-Aug-2005: * Pro-Mugabe Bishop Faces Charges In Court * An Anglican bishop who is a strong supporter of autocratic President Robert Mugabe has been brought before an ecclesiastical court investigating ch... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Black Empowerment could tear us apart 23-Aug-2005: The ongoing celebration of "empowerment" and the acquisition of quick and easy wealth may have serious implications for the government, a paper issued by the Helen Suzman Foundation said on Monday... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: We never fought to make a few black people wealthy 23-Aug-2005: South Africa's transition to democracy over the past decade has proved a disaster for the country's poor, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich sai... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Black couple beaten, stabbed & burned to death for Witchcraft 23-Aug-2005: An elderly couple, known as Mnyeni and his common-law wife Nomathamsanqa and believed to be in their 80s, were battered, stabbed and burned to death in Umlazi at the weekend after being suspected... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Soweto Father arrested for raping baby repeatedly 23-Aug-2005: Soweto - A 30-year-old father was arrested in Doornkop on suspicion of raping his eight-month-old daughter, Soweto police said on Tuesday. Sergeant Richard Munyai said the baby girl's mother thoug... Click here to read the rest. |
| COSATU & Communist Party - 1 million signatures to reinstate Zuma 23-Aug-2005: The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party are planning a "million signature campaign" to convince President Thabo Mbeki to drop corruption charges against hi... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: White Guesthouse fined R1,000 for Racist language 23-Aug-2005: The owner of a Morningside, Durban, guest house, who twice called an employee a "k****r", has been ordered by Durban's equality court to unconditionally apologise to the woman and pay her R1 000 i... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Robber shot dead was former employee 23-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - A robber was shot dead by the owner of a Muldersdrift smallholding on Monday night, West Rand police said. The 48-year-old owner of the plot and his wife later identified him as... Click here to read the rest. |
| Dishonest Broker Mbeki struggles with Ivory Coast peace deal 23-Aug-2005: President Thabo Mbeki met CÙte d'Ivoire rebels on Saturday in the latest bid to keep a fragile peace process on track in the west African country ahead of an October general election. Mbeki is... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim Stock Exchange fails as S.African loan gathers dust 23-Aug-2005: As a draft agreement between South Africa and Zimbabwe on a R6 billion rescue package gathers dust on President Robert Mugabe's desk, Zimbabwe's stock exchange failed to trade for the third trading da... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: He saved a life: then thugs killed him & his dogs 23-Aug-2005: Barely 16 hours after he saved the life of his four-year-old neighbour, who was suffering a fever convulsion, Joseph Williams's own life was brutally taken away. Williams, a 39-year-old Montana... Click here to read the rest. |
| Japanese & S.African Tourists attacked in Kenya 23-Aug-2005: Narok - Two Japanese tourists were wounded and three others were robbed along with two South Africans when armed bandits hijacked a pair of safari vans in Kenya's famed, wildlife-rich Maasai Mara game... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Apartheid is the reason Black Farmers Land is degrading 23-Aug-2005: SA is still paying a high price for land degradation caused by the apartheid regime's homeland and agricultural policies, the environmental affairs department said last week. The loss to agricu... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Mortuary van leaves scene of hostage-taking 23-Aug-2005: An ambulance followed by a mortuary van left the scene of a hostage drama in Ga-Rankuwa on Tuesday with what is believed to be the body of a woman. Police Inspector Anton Breedt declined to comment... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim News:Importing 120,000 tonnes of maize monthly 23-Aug-2005: * Dumped In Zimbabwe's Poor Villages * For Thomas and his wife, Charity, it was not a happy homecoming. In fact, it was not really a homecoming at all. The Zimbabean goverment had decided that the you... Click here to read the rest. |
| DA News: The Latest Crime, Police & Prison stats 23-Aug-2005: QUOTE OF THE WEEK ìCosatuís call for Jacob Zuma to be reinstated as Deputy President and for his corruption trial to be stopped amounts to an assault on the Constitutionóthe very Constitution t... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim News: "Unfeeling" by Ian Holding 23-Aug-2005: I have just watched a very good interview on Sky News. The Zimbabwean Ian Holding is the author of "Unfeeling" (review here). The title refers to the ability of Zimbabweans not to display their emotio... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.African Defense Force falling apart at the seams... 22-Aug-2005: Pretoria - As a result of staff problems and an annual financial deficit of R5bn, the defence force is, as far as military readiness is concerned, unable to fulfil its constitutional and African r... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Is the Govt inventing new lies to destroy the Farmers? 22-Aug-2005: ... Click here to read the rest. |
| BBC: Secret Film about Zimbabwe Squalor 22-Aug-2005: Amnesty International has released a secretly-shot film from Zimbabwe, showing what it says is the squalid aftermath of Harare's slum clearances. The clearances have left about 700,000 people with... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim starts crunch talks with the IMF 22-Aug-2005: Zimbabwean officials on Monday began a week of crunch talks with a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is weighing whether to expel the Southern African country from its ranks... Click here to read the rest. |
| Communism in Namibia: The Land Tax 22-Aug-2005: GOVERNMENT has warned landowners that they will not be able to sell their land without a tax clearance certificate. Over 500 land owners still need to provide their details to Government or fac... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Corruption: Official Opposition goes after ANC-front company 22-Aug-2005: Cape Town - The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said it was considering taking legal action against the state oil and gas company, PetroSA. DA energy spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.African Airway Pilots postpone their strike 22-Aug-2005: Pilots at South African Airways have postponed their attempt to go on strike after talks with management took a positive turn, the South African Airways Pilots' Association (Saapa) said on Monday. ... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: ANC split: Zuma faces new charges 22-Aug-2005: Scorpions will try to prove axed deputy president lied to Parliament and fiddled his tax returns An affidavit submitted to the Pretoria High Court by Scorpions investigator Johan du Plooy said... Click here to read the rest. |
| 5 million Blacks flee from African hell to S.Africa 22-Aug-2005: They are trends that show little sign of abating: the influx of refugees and economic migrants to South Africa, and the extent to which these persons become the target of xenophobia. "We are an... Click here to read the rest. |
| S.Africa: Robbers shoot their way out of shopping mall 22-Aug-2005: Johannesburg - Two men dressed in black robbed the Sandton City Schwartz jewellery store of "quite a bit of stock", a store manager said. "They were dressed all in black, wearing black gloves,... Click here to read the rest. |
| BBC: Secret Film reveals Zimbabwe Horrors 22-Aug-2005: * Secret Film Reveals Zim Horrors * Watch the secret footage by Amnesty International: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4169386.stm * The Zimbabwean government cleared out camps for those it m... Click here to read the rest. |
| Blacks blame Whites for Mugabe's house smashing 22-Aug-2005: From: The BeardedMan:- This email (obviously now well edited) landed in my Inbox yesterday. Whilst I have read very closely about the problems facing families still resident in Zimbabwe, this on... Click here to read the rest. |
| Zim News: Economy in dire trouble 22-Aug-2005: * Lions Kill Japanese Embassy Worker In Zimbabwe * A Japanese embassy worker died after she was attacked by a pride of lions at a park near Zimbabwe's capital Harare, state media reported on Sunday. T... Click here to read the rest. |
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