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Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
05-03-08
From 1994-Present over 2,300 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 & GruesomeGreat Stuff: Zimbabwe: The MDC will form a Government - and irritating bloo
03-May-2008: I started my day in a foul mood due to personal issues. But anger for me is also a catalyst. It drives me to think of solutions. I was thus in incredibly deep thought today. My day was made when I ...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Militia attack a White owned Farm & displace 60 Black Fa
03-May-2008: Zanu PF MP ordered attack on Nyamandlovu farm, displacing 60 families The Zimbabwean Friday, 02 May 2008 06:00 We have received confirmation that the group of over 200 ZANU-PF thugs that de...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Militia attack a White owned Farm & displace 60 Black Fa
03-May-2008: Zanu PF MP ordered attack on Nyamandlovu farm, displacing 60 families The Zimbabwean Friday, 02 May 2008 06:00 We have received confirmation that the group of over 200 ZANU-PF thugs that de...
Click here to read the rest.South Africa: Song for peace
03-May-2008: Submitted by P: February 09, 2007 Cape Argus Singer and performer AndrÈ Schwartz has written a song entitled Gentle Protest to express his disgust at spiraling crime in South Africa. Schwa...
Click here to read the rest.Justice seems tipped for Waterkloof Four
03-May-2008: Andrew Babeile felt like it was "a newborn day" when he signed with his parole officer for the last time. "That was how I felt, but at the very same time, there is something I will miss," he says, the...
Click here to read the rest.Zim opposition to discuss run-off dilemma
03-May-2008: By Cris Chinaka Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition party is to hold a high-level meeting on Saturday to discuss whether its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, should take par...
Click here to read the rest.'He's got his life sentence, we've got ours'
03-May-2008: By Ella Smook "He's got his life sentence, we've got ours." So said Dusty Wheeler, mother of murdered Jessica Wheeler, after Knysna DJ Heinrich van Rooyen, 25, was con...
Click here to read the rest.'Load shedding did more harm than good'
03-May-2008: By Thabiso Thakali In the wake of Eskom's decision to suspend load shedding indefinitely, experts have questioned whether the practice may have not been counter-productive in the first place. ...
Click here to read the rest.We love our randy lord, says Cape township
03-May-2008: By Raymond Joseph Residents of the poverty-stricken township of Masiphumelele know self-made multi-millionaire Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay as a man with a social conscience who has made a huge di...
Click here to read the rest.Men beat visitors in farmer's absence
03-May-2008: Two men, aged between 55 and 60, were allegedly assaulted by two men at a farm on the old Koster road near Swartruggens, North-West police said on Saturday. Captain Adele Myburgh said the incid...
Click here to read the rest.Prof dies, daughter hurt in aircraft crash
03-May-2008: A UCT professor died and his daughter was seriously injured when their two-seater aircraft crashed into an electricity pole after apparent engine problems on Friday morning. George Lindsey, 57,...
Click here to read the rest.NPA irate as speedsters snap up plate spray
03-May-2008: By Fiona Gounden Drivers across the country who have been using an invisible spray to prevent cameras from snapping them in the act of breaking the speed limit have been warned that their numbe...
Click here to read the rest.Crime fight can't wait for government - Zille
03-May-2008: South Africans cannot wait for government to rescue them from crime, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. "It is up to us to take our communities back. This is going to take...
Click here to read the rest.Cops chase down suspects' getaway car
03-May-2008: Four men were arrested after they allegedly robbed a supermarket in Protea and shot one of its employees, Gauteng police said on Saturday. Inspector Kay Makhubele said the supermarket was robbe...
Click here to read the rest.South African Paki racially abused in the UK
03-May-2008: Submitted by Francois: This is an old article that I have only just been able to find. It was written on the 3rd May last year. Here's the link. Seems to me that most non-white South Africans have ...
Click here to read the rest.USA: A key adviser of John McCain : we are going back to 19th century
03-May-2008: Submitted by List: Robert Kagan who is writing sen.McCain speeches about foreign policy sees a return to 19th century politics in the World. According to this recent interview in Newsweek McCain i...
Click here to read the rest.Mozambique Police 'kill at will'
02-May-2008: From Adrian L, a member of SAFF: BBC NEWS Mozambique police 'kill at will' Police in Mozambique have been accused of killing and torturing people with near total impunity. The human rig...
Click here to read the rest.US: New disease
02-May-2008: Hi Adele, Can you send us the URL to the article and the link to Dr Mercola's website? Thanks, JoAn Hi Jan Just found this article, apparently it is caused through eating Genetically Modified fo...
Click here to read the rest.Zim's loss is West Africa's gain
02-May-2008: I worked in SA for four months back in '96; then visited again in 2000. An ex-pat now living in Vancouver introduced me to your site some months back and I now check it regularly. You are doing grea...
Click here to read the rest.[Video] Mexico: Film footage of strange flying humans?
02-May-2008: This is too bizarre for words. I'm going to post the link to the story, but on the story is a link to a video. Watch that video and tell me what you think. It is too weird for words. Does anyone under...
Click here to read the rest.White Farmers in Nigeria could have a huge impact
02-May-2008: Submitted by Joel: Kenny Oyewo, who works as a farm manager, thinks the lessons being learned in Shonga should be exported across Nigeria. "If there were at least 20 white Zimbabwean farmers in ...
Click here to read the rest.Africa needs 'green revolution'
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa. "A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a d...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Harare diary: Lean times for meat eaters
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: Esther (not her real name), 28, a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is writing a regular diary on the challenges of leading a normal life...
Click here to read the rest.Water victory for SA township
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: The South African High Court has ruled that it is illegal to forcibly install prepaid water meters. The decision comes after township residents took Johannesburg'...
Click here to read the rest.UK/DRC: Africa plans biggest dam project
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: A plan to build the largest and most powerful hydroelectric dam in the world is being discussed in London. Financiers and African politicians will look at how to ...
Click here to read the rest.UK: Labour suffers big council loss
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: Labour is on course to suffer its worst performance in at least 40 years in the local elections in England and Wales. BBC research suggests the party has fallen i...
Click here to read the rest.[Afrikaans] A tough Christian Organisation that supports Zimbabwe - The Chr
02-May-2008: Many Thanks Colin! JoAn Submitted by Colin: Desperate cry for help from Zimbabwe Hello again friends, At this time we all know whats happening in Zimbabwe and who the cause of it is. This ...
Click here to read the rest.UK: A BBC report: Racism alive in South Africa
02-May-2008: Submitted by white down under: The BBC's Mohammed Allie in Cape Town looks at whether racism is still thriving in South Africa, 14 years after the end of apartheid, as President Thabo Mbeki sugge...
Click here to read the rest.[Video] USA: Awesome Pastor Manning on the problems of Negroes - Black Amer
02-May-2008: Here is that amazing Christian Pastor Manning from America. What an amazing guy. And of course, the Leftist Blacks in America will villify him for speaking the obvious truth. We should all work to sup...
Click here to read the rest.ATM bomb suspect dies in crash
02-May-2008: A suspected Pretoria ATM bomber has been killed during an early morning high-speed chase with police. Police exchanged gunfire with at least eight gunmen over nearly 20km on Thursday. It...
Click here to read the rest.What's next for Zim?
02-May-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election but faces a run-off vote after failing to win an outright majority, the electoral body...
Click here to read the rest.Food crisis is May Day war cry
02-May-2008: Police clashed with union activists in Istanbul on Thursday as workers around the world roared their May Day battle cry, focusing on soaring food prices. Clashes erupted as hundreds of police o...
Click here to read the rest.Run-off: will the MDC participate?
02-May-2008: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election but faces a run-off vote after failing to win an outright m...
Click here to read the rest.Is SA in a disaster zone?
02-May-2008: South Africa could be facing a disaster as food and petrol price increases rock the economy - unless urgent measures are taken, experts have warned. Professor Carel van Aardt, of Unisa, said: "...
Click here to read the rest.Beating beetroot: Aids plan boosts treatment
02-May-2008: Winterton - The waiting room at the anti-retroviral clinic in rural Kwazulu-Natal is bustling, as patients clutch their files patiently awaiting their life-saving medication. Smiling shyly, a 5...
Click here to read the rest.Zuma attacks 'old ANC ally'
02-May-2008: ANC president Jacob Zuma has warned Zanu-PF that old liberation ties would not stop his party from speaking out against the violence and atrocities in Zimbabwe. Zuma was addressing thousands o...
Click here to read the rest.Alliance urged to acknowledge health crisis
02-May-2008: By Wendy Jasson da Costa & Sharika Regchand ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has called on the tripartite alliance to pool its resources and turn around the country's health system. ...
Click here to read the rest.MDC questions tally
02-May-2008: By ANGUS SHAW Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition is questioning the Electoral Commission's tally of presidential results that give its candidate the lead, but not enough votes to avoid a run-off, ...
Click here to read the rest.Fight-back farmer kills midnight attacker
02-May-2008: By Sharika Regchand A 54-year-old Richmond farmer, despite stab wounds in his back, shot both his attackers and killed one of them in his bedroom on Wednesday night. Grant Warren,speaki...
Click here to read the rest.'We have problems'
02-May-2008: Robben Island managers concede that they don't have adequate resources to deal with all the environmental problems on the island, including the severely degraded state of the natural veld. B...
Click here to read the rest.Sigh of relief over end to blackouts
02-May-2008: By Ntokozo Mfusi Business owners and residents have collectively heaved a sigh of relief since Eskom's announcement on Wednesday that there would be no more scheduled power cuts until further n...
Click here to read the rest.'First martyr died to save family'
02-May-2008: Tapiwa Mubwanda's identity document shows the kind of open, intelligent face that South Africans have come to appreciate in Zimbabweans who fled across the Limpopo in recent years. But a photo ...
Click here to read the rest.'Keep 'half-apartheid' DA from winning'
02-May-2008: The ANC will not lose the Western Cape to DA leader Helen Zille and her "half-apartheid party", the party's treasurer general, Mathews Phosa, has claimed. Phosa was speaking in the Company's Ga...
Click here to read the rest.Zim activists arrested
02-May-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe police have arrested 10 opposition activists in the capital Harare and the farming town of Bindura on charges of public violence, kidnapping and attempted murder, a spokesman said o...
Click here to read the rest.Zim heads for run-off
02-May-2008: By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition leader defeated President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election but faces a run-off vote after he failed to win an outright majority, t...
Click here to read the rest.Black day for Gold Fields
02-May-2008: By Poloko Tau and Lebogang Seale Nine miners have crashed to their death at Gold Fields' South Deep mine near Westonaria, west of Joburg, as the country commemorated Workers' Day. The m...
Click here to read the rest.Probe into how Zulu left court
02-May-2008: The management at the Durban magistrate's court building is probing how businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu gained access to a restricted area when leaving the court building after appearing there on a dru...
Click here to read the rest.Two 'robbers' killed
02-May-2008: Two robbers were shot dead by their intended victims in a house in Lenasia South on Friday morning, said Johannesburg police. Inspector Mpho Kgasoane said the men struck at about 3am, confronte...
Click here to read the rest.Metro cop found in pool of blood
02-May-2008: "My baby, my special baby is no more - she's gone." These were Nelly Moloi's harrowing words after discovering that her youngest child, a Joburg metro police officer, had been shot in the head ...
Click here to read the rest.Police kill man who stabbed baby
02-May-2008: By Thandi Skade In an enraged fit sparked by fears of his girlfriend's infidelity, Andries Nkosi grabbed his 18-month-old daughter and stabbed her behind the ear. Nkosi was shot twice by...
Click here to read the rest.ANC allies slam Pahad
02-May-2008: Minister in the presidency Essop Pahad was heavily criticised by the ANC's allies on Thursday for allegedly making the SABC board his "personal pet project". Cosatu, the Young Communist League ...
Click here to read the rest.Chewy mashed potatoes...
02-May-2008: Salon-de-Provence, France - Forget frozen fish-fingers and chewy mashed potatoes. A French school has become the country's first to hire a professional chef to cook up fresh, cheap food from local pro...
Click here to read the rest.'Mugabe must call off his dogs'
02-May-2008: Harare/Washington - The United States on Friday sharpened its criticism of President Robert Mugabe's regime, five weeks after the disputed presidential elections. US State Department spokesper...
Click here to read the rest.Open your eyes...
02-May-2008: We all know that prices of just about everything are going up at a truly frightening rate, but does this mean that stores are justified in re-pricing goods already on shelf? The assumption, of ...
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02-May-2008: By Poloko Tau Police have rescued eight women who were lured into forced prostitution through a "R4 000 a week job" newspaper advert. The women, six from Gauteng and two from the Free S...
Click here to read the rest.Piracy arrests on the increase
02-May-2008: By Barry Bateman The Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT) has praised the authorities for cracking down on the illicit trade of pirated goods. SAFACT chief execu...
Click here to read the rest.[Video] YouTube: USA: Black Pastor: Racism is NOT the problem - Discusses S
02-May-2008: You will not believe what you are about to see. Folks, I can't tell you how much it delights me to see a Black American who speaks so clearly, honestly and directly. A few weeks ago, a Jewish Amer...
Click here to read the rest.Bad for YOU? The Microsoft Monopoly meddling with the Internet - Hostile Ta
02-May-2008: Report: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may go hostile Friday Friday May 2, 7:34 am ET By Jessica Mintz, AP Technology Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc....
Click here to read the rest.SA: Oil Price: Petrol climbs to the R10 mark
02-May-2008: With an expected increase of 20 to 25 cents a litre next Wednesday, the petrol price is well on the way to hitting the R10 mark in two to three months, economists warn. ...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Crime: Cops find 21 stolen cars in Western Cape
02-May-2008: Twenty-one stolen cars were impounded in various places in the Western Cape over the long weekend and 11 people arrested, police said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana said det...
Click here to read the rest.''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (02-05-2008)
02-May-2008: Howzit"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the ba...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Crime: Own Goal as Hijackers kill one of their own
02-May-2008: A Soweto man was killed by his accomplices in a botched car hijacking, Johannesburg police said on Wednesday. "Three armed men were trying to steal a Telkom repair vehicle and kidnap the dr...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: President Mbeki's favourite Racist activity the Conference on Rac
02-May-2008: South Africa will not host a planned conference on racism next year, which was to be the sequel to the controversial conference held in Durban in 2001. The UN Watc...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: BEE - Black Economic Empowerment Airline collapses - another one
02-May-2008: By Brownyn Gerretsen, Karyn Maughan, Louise Flanagan & Lebogang Seale Nationwide Airlines has lurched from crisis to crisis since an engine fell off one of its planes ...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Boy wounded in Joburg shootout between Police & Hijackers
02-May-2008: A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded during an exchange of gunfire between police and hijackers in Alexandra on Tuesday, Johannesburg police said. Spokesperson Inspector Moses Maphakela said ...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Durban: Public Violence & Stone throwing - Crowd turns to mob as cops r
02-May-2008: Seven people have been arrested for public violence in Durban's Umlazi suburb after throwing stones at policeman, police said on Tuesday. Superintendent Daniela Veldhuizen said at least 300 ang...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Robben Island animals starve
02-May-2008: Robben Island's natural environment is in crisis, with animals including bontebok, springbok, fallow deer and rabbits starving to death because of a lack of vegetation on this World Heritage Site...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Vote of no confidence in SABC (The Mouth of the ANC) board
02-May-2008: By Deon de Lange The battle for control of the SABC took a stunning turn on Wednesday when MPs passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the corporation's entir...
Click here to read the rest.The National Constitutional Assembly urges Zimbabweans to form defense Brig
02-May-2008: The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) is saying something important that, Zimbabweans must defend themselves against attacks from Mugabe's ZANU PF Militias. (http://www.ncazimbabwe.org/index.phpo...
Click here to read the rest.MDC MUST NOT AGREE TO A GOVERNMENT OF UNITY WITH ZANU PF GOVERNMENT OF ROBE
02-May-2008: MDC MUST NOT AGREE TO A GOVERNMENT OF UNITY WITH ZANU PF GOVERNMENT OF ROBERT MUGABE The good news is that Robert Mugabe is no longer president of Zimbabwe. He was rejected by the people on 29 Mar...
Click here to read the rest.ZIMBABWE: GUNS SAVE LIVES, CITIZENS NEED TO BE ARMED
02-May-2008: ZIMBABWE: GUNS SAVE LIVES, CITIZENS NEED TO BE ARMED It is always a humanistic and pagan concept of peace that citizens should not be armed to protect their wives, children and property from crimin...
Click here to read the rest.YouTube Video: Ed Rendell (Hillary Clinton Supporter) Praising Louis Farrak
02-May-2008: ...hmm, why is Hillary Clinton taking the advantage of Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright and his association with Louis Farrakhan when one of her firm supporters...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Election Rigging: Mugabe arrests 100+ Election officials for the
01-May-2008: Zimbabwe Police Arrest Teachers Who Worked as Election Officials By Peta Thornycroft Harare 30 April 2008 The group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, says it is concerned about the arrest...
Click here to read the rest.U.S. Kills A Major Somali Al-Qaeda Operative
01-May-2008: Now it certainly seems that al-Qaeda is having a quagmire moment in Somalia, to which case comes the death of al-Qaeda operative Moalim Aden Hashi Ayro whom was involved with the ...
Click here to read the rest.Let's Riot: Only Involving African-American Versus Police Officer Shootings
01-May-2008: Jan, I think you may wish to take a look at what's going on in New York City over the case of Sean Bell's tragic death by the hands of New York Police Department. But Bell would ...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: The Latest Mugabe trick which fooled the Media including Tsvangir
01-May-2008: I want to refer people to an article I wrote over 5 years ago about Mugabe's trickery to show you that the old bastard plays people for idiots all the time with his tricks. I swear, if I did not ...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Beating the inflation monster - for conservative investors
01-May-2008: There is arguably only one investment product that guarantees to increase your wealth: an inflation-linked bond. Other investments, such as shares, property, cash and bonds offer no guarantee tha...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Investing for a Food Price Disaster
01-May-2008: Food companies not necessarily the best bet, experts say. Julius Cobbett 14 Apr 2008 18:36 If you're looking to protect yourself against soaring food inflation, then food companies are not nec...
Click here to read the rest.'There is going to be a run-off'
01-May-2008: By ANGUS SHAW Harare - President Robert Mugabe's government has its own presidential election results showing a run-off will be necessary, a Cabinet minister said on Thursday. Deputy In...
Click here to read the rest.Zuma's May Day address
01-May-2008: African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma passionately addressed thousands of workers at a May Day celebration in the North West on Thursday saying that rural development was key to fightin...
Click here to read the rest.Zille in key 'spy' role, says Rasool
01-May-2008: By Lindsay Dentlinger Premier Ebrahim Rasool alleges that Mayor Helen Zille may have had a bigger role than she has asserted in the city's dealings with the private in...
Click here to read the rest.Price 'anguish' ahead
01-May-2008: By ARTHI SANPATH, RIVONIA NAIDU and SAPA As the price of rice, bread and petrol increases in the next few weeks, economists have warned South Africans to brace themselves as the country heads f...
Click here to read the rest.Britain denies trying to embarrass SA
01-May-2008: The British government has denied that it deliberately brings the Zimbabwe issue onto the United Nations Security Council agenda while South Africa is president of the council. It has been sug...
Click here to read the rest.Two murders, four rapes and two hijackings
01-May-2008: Two murders, four rapes and two hijackings took place in Mpumalanga province, police said on Thursday. Superintendent Malcolm Mokomene said on Wednesday a 66-year-old woman was found strangled ...
Click here to read the rest.'Why did they have to murder her?'
01-May-2008: By Lebogang Seale The family of former Banyana Banyana player Eudy Simelane has been shocked by her "gruesome, barbaric and senseless" murder. Her half-naked bo...
Click here to read the rest.'Food safety net' to buffer poor from prices
01-May-2008: The government plans to create a "food safety net" to buffer the poor against skyrocketing prices Cabinet on Wednesday announced a series of interventions in both the ...
Click here to read the rest.Money 'vanishes' in ATM glitch
01-May-2008: If you are a Standard Bank customer and have made transactions through a Priora ATM in the past three days, check your bank statements and ensure you accounts are in order. ...
Click here to read the rest.Scurry to ease plight of Island animals
01-May-2008: A flurry of activity that includes an offer of 100 free bales of feed by a concerned West Coast farmer is under way to relieve the plight of wild animals starving on Robben Island. On Wednesday...
Click here to read the rest.Zim election heads for 'verification'
01-May-2008: by Susan Njanji Harare - Zimbabwe's electoral commission was to present candidates with initial results from a March 29 poll on Thursday, in a move that could force President Robert Mugabe into...
Click here to read the rest.'Electricity crisis a disaster in waiting'
01-May-2008: The current electricity crisis and the proposed huge jump in tariffs is a manifestation of a disaster in waiting, African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general and SA Communist Party (SACP) chairp...
Click here to read the rest.Ex-Nat minister dies
01-May-2008: By Anna Louw Jac Rabie, a former National Party cabinet minister and Reiger Park community leader, has died in hospital, 17 months after his wife was viciously assault...
Click here to read the rest.De Villiers: Everything is about the Boks
01-May-2008: By Ashfak Mohamed Peter de Villiers has had an eventful time since being appointed Springbok coach. There was a dispute over his contract, he appointed John Smit as captain very early in his te...
Click here to read the rest.One arrested after ATM bombing
01-May-2008: One man was arrested after an ATM bombing in Zwide early on Thursday morning, said Eastern Cape police. Police spokesperson Inspector Dumile Gwavu said Kwazakele police were patrolling Koyana r...
Click here to read the rest.Body found at farmer's house
01-May-2008: A man's body was discovered at a farm in Richmond after a 55-year-old farmer and his wife were attacked by intruders, police said on Thursday. Spokesperson Superintendent Henry Budhram said pol...
Click here to read the rest.Workers worse off than a year ago: Cosatu
01-May-2008: Trade unions should ensure that this year's wage demands fully compensate workers for the drop in their real standard of living in the past year, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has said in i...
Click here to read the rest.Tsvangirai wins but it's not over yet
01-May-2008: Harare - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe's presidential election, winning 47 percent of the vote against the president's 43 percent, senior government sources said o...
Click here to read the rest.Tsvangirai to return
01-May-2008: By Nelson Banya Harare - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said he would return to Zimbabwe after the verification of results from the March 29 election, in which he says he beat Presiden...
Click here to read the rest.Officer tells of shooting intruder
01-May-2008: By Kamini Padayachee Alerted by her dog and noises in her garden, a Durban police officer confronted and shot an armed robber who was breaking into her Umbilo home ear...
Click here to read the rest.It's over at last, but there are few winners
01-May-2008: It's over, but there were no winners in the crippling 27-day public service strike as both government and labour had to compromise to put an end to the wage impasse. ...
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01-May-2008: Harare - Two schoolteachers have been beaten to death in the latest wave of violence after Zimbabwe's general elections, the head of the country's main trade union federation said on Thursday. ...
Click here to read the rest.'Police bungled case of missing woman'
01-May-2008: It's been nearly three years since Hannah Visser, then 59, walked out of her Strand home and vanished. Now Visser's daughter and husband claim that police have lost th...
Click here to read the rest.About AfricanCrisis Errors & Volume Statistics: Ideas on Future changes to
01-May-2008: Just some notes folks:- 1. I managed to resolve a silly database error that was plaguing us for some days. It is now stable. 2. As part of my ongoing attempts to properly debug this site I will sh...
Click here to read the rest.[Afrikaans] A tough Christian Organisation that supports Zimbabwe - The Chr
01-May-2008: Zimbabwe NOOD KREET UIT ZIMBABWE = 30 APRIL 2008 Dagse vriende, Teen hierdie tyd weet ons almal wat hier in Zim aangaan en wie die oorsaak is. Hierdie is nie n sensasie of beskukdigngsbri...
Click here to read the rest.''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (01-05-2008)
01-May-2008: Howzit"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities....
Click here to read the rest.Zuma tour fails to woe investors
01-May-2008: London - South Africa's ruling party leader Jacob Zuma has toured Europe to promote himself as a safe pair of hands, but some investors say he has failed to win them over and they're still worry about...
Click here to read the rest.Food price plan tabled
01-May-2008: A plan to reduce the impact of rising food prices on the poor was tabled during an ordinary meeting of Cabinet in Pretoria on Wednesday. The proposed short, medium and long-term interventions w...
Click here to read the rest.Emir Of Qatar Heads To Communist Cuba; Funder Of Al Jazeera
01-May-2008: Now isn't this of no major surprise here, a major funder of the Middle East/Arab outlet known as Al Jazeera, the Emir of Qatar-Hamad bin Khalifa is received a warm welcome from members o...
Click here to read the rest.UK: murder over mobile phone...
01-May-2008: Submitted by Colin: Mobile phone robberies are actually being reported here, now: perhaps it was because these robbers were found guilty of murdering their victim, 63 years old James Smith. Adrian ...
Click here to read the rest.U.S. A. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
01-May-2008: Submitted by Lars Pluss: GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. c...
Click here to read the rest.US troop deaths push monthly toll to 7-month high in Iraq - 4,059 American
30-Apr-2008: BAGHDAD (AP) - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September, the military sai...
Click here to read the rest.EXCLUSIVE: Zim: Why Mugabe's Election rigging failed in 2008 - His real sup
30-Apr-2008: What you are about to read is inside information from Zimbabwe obtained from a source who was there before, during and after the election. Mugabe has already lost a LOT OF CONTROL. It has happened...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Mugabe does not trust his own Soldiers...
30-Apr-2008: I am told that in Zimbabwe the soldiers do not have direct access to their own weapons. Apparently CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) officers are the ones with the access to the armouries and th...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: What the Masses do is far more important than what the Politician
30-Apr-2008: As I analyse the Zimbabwe situation and I discuss it with people, I think everyone is focussing far too much on the politics and the diplomacy. I have said before that the whole purpose of South A...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: How Mugabe's Youth Militia (Green Bombers) carry out their reign
30-Apr-2008: Here is information I have from a first-hand source on how Mugabe's Militia are structured and how they operate. The "Youth Militia" are called up, essentially for what is in reality military servi...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: I'll bet nobody spotted this: More proof of how the MDC's votes w
30-Apr-2008: I must tip my hat to a friend of mine who made this rather brilliant observation today. I heard on SABC TV3 tonight that the ZEC announced that Morgan Tsvangirai won 47% of the votes and Mugabe wo...
Click here to read the rest.The Communist Club: Russia, China & South Africa protect Mugabe at UN Secur
30-Apr-2008: I heard from a friend that in the United Nations Security council, both Russia and Communist China and South Africa (plus a few other African nations), all voted to keep Zimbabwe out of the UN Securit...
Click here to read the rest.End of a credible South Africa
30-Apr-2008: By AZAD ESSA A president releases an iconic freedom fighter and together, sunset clause notwithstanding, they arrange a free and fair election that heralds a rainbow o...
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30-Apr-2008: By Allister Sparks At last we may be witnessing the final chapter of Zimbabwe's drawn-out agony. At the time of writing, the final election results have still to be announced, but it looks as t...
Click here to read the rest.'Zim's army unleashing terror'
30-Apr-2008: By Donna Bryson Johannesburg - A human rights group accused Zimbabwe's regime of unleashing its army and ruling-party militants on dissenters, reserving the worst violence for those seen as tra...
Click here to read the rest.Robben Island in crisis
30-Apr-2008: Robben Island's natural environment is in a state of crisis, with animals like bontebok, springbok, fallow deer and rabbits starving to death because of a lack of vegetation on this important World He...
Click here to read the rest.Zim gloats about UN stalemate
30-Apr-2008: Harare - The Zimbabwe government savoured a rare diplomatic victory on Wednesday after the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on how to respond to the country's post election crisis. ...
Click here to read the rest.Tik-handling babies taken from filthy flat
30-Apr-2008: As they sat in squalor in their parents' Centurion flat, two infants played with bags of some of the world's most addictive and deadly narcotics, oblivious to the danger. ...
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30-Apr-2008: Conservation efforts on Robben Island are at the bottom of management's priority list and some inadequately trained and unqualified staff are exacerbating the problem, inform...
Click here to read the rest.Same script, different cast
30-Apr-2008: By Chris Otton Their prose did much to expose the moral bankruptcy of apartheid to the outside world, but the literary elite of white South Africa has now turned ferociously on the Rainbow Nati...
Click here to read the rest.Zanu-PF, army abusing Zim people?
30-Apr-2008: Zimbabwe's army is supplying militants with weapons to intimidate voters to ensure that Robert Mugabe wins a possible runoff in the presidential election, Human Rights Watch said. In a statemen...
Click here to read the rest.Cops make multiple arrests for car theft
30-Apr-2008: Police arrested 11 people and recovered 21 stolen vehicles across the Western Cape in an operation over the long weekend involving detectives attached to the vehicle unit. Eight of the 11 appe...
Click here to read the rest.Murder accused fingers 'likelier' culprit
30-Apr-2008: By Ella Smook It was an anxious day for the families of murdered Knysna waitresses Victoria Stadler and Jessica Wheeler as final arguments were heard in the trial of ...
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30-Apr-2008: Trade unions have to make sure that this year's wage demands fully compensate workers for the drop in their real standard of living in the past year, the Congress of SA Trade...
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30-Apr-2008: South Africa could be plunged into serious political instability similar to that in Zimbabwe, SA Communist Party Deputy General-Secretary Jeremy Cronin has warned. Del...
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30-Apr-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe police said on Wednesday they were investigating at least 100 cases of electoral fraud from the country's disputed general elections. "So far the Zimbabwe Republic Police has ...
Click here to read the rest.Picton-Turbervill accused charges dropped
30-Apr-2008: Charges of murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances have been withdrawn against one of the men accused of involvement in the killing of a Welsh citizen in front of h...
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30-Apr-2008: The arrest of several journalists at crime scenes lately have soured relations between the media and the police, but steps have now been taken to help promote a better understanding of each other's ne...
Click here to read the rest.Their aim: to beautify
30-Apr-2008: By Kate Kelland London - An army of self-styled Guerrilla Gardeners is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens. To d...
Click here to read the rest.Small relief for McLachlan's family
30-Apr-2008: The past five years have been harrowing for the family of murdered student and waitress, Victoria McLachlan, whose body was found on a remote farm in April 2003 after she had allegedly been gang-raped...
Click here to read the rest.Taxi boss: 40 warrants but no arrest
30-Apr-2008: Cape Town's top taxi boss is a wanted man, with more than 40 warrants for his arrest for unpaid traffic fines totalling more than R30 000. Junaid Peters, 42, chairman ...
Click here to read the rest.Cops grab creche murder suspect
30-Apr-2008: By Matt Radler For Hendi Hefer, the news was a small bit of relief after a devastating week. At 10am on Tuesday a suspect was arrested in the North West town of Vrybur...
Click here to read the rest.Driver warned after inferno kills mother, son
30-Apr-2008: The driver who fled after an accident on the N1 in which a young Pretoria boy and his mother were killed has been released on warning. This was only hours after the allegedly intoxicated 26-yea...
Click here to read the rest.Nabbed while out on bail
30-Apr-2008: A man who was out on bail for allegedly committing fraud has been arrested - for contravening one of his bail conditions and, again, fraud. The man is also under investigation for allegedly def...
Click here to read the rest.Cops interrupt ATM bombers
30-Apr-2008: A gang of armed men bombed three automated teller machines (ATM) in Mooinooi near Rustenburg on Wednesday, North West police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Louis Jacobs said a gang of about ...
Click here to read the rest.State: UN meeting a 'non-event'
30-Apr-2008: Harare - The government of President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday dismissed discussion of Zimbabwe's election crisis at the UN Security Council a day earlier as a non-event and a lesson to the world bod...
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30-Apr-2008: A group of 185 Zimbabwean opposition supporters were released on Tuesday after being rounded up in a police raid on the MDC's Harare headquarters last week, their lawyer said. "All the 185 have...
Click here to read the rest.Prices slip as property boom ends
30-Apr-2008: After years of an unprecedented boom, South Africa's property market has begun to decline as consumers fall victim to high interest rates and soaring inflation. Stand...
Click here to read the rest.Gordimer's attackers remain at large
30-Apr-2008: By Shaun Smillie Police have yet to make an arrest after robbers broke into the home of author Nadine Gordimer, assaulting her and fleeing with cash and jewellery. On Sunday, Johannesbu...
Click here to read the rest.Infants 'did not die from klebsiella'
30-Apr-2008: By Wendy Jasson da Costa and Kerry Cullinan The health department says there is no outbreak of klebsiella at Prince Mshiyeni Hospital in Umlazi. This statement comes after two infants d...
Click here to read the rest.Durban is 'welcoming' to tourists
30-Apr-2008: There were "very positive attitudes" and a "desire to please tourists" in the Durban hospitality industry, no matter what their race or place of origin. "At all the in...
Click here to read the rest.Beuthin wins court orders
30-Apr-2008: By Alex Eliseev Clutching his black lever-arch file, notorious bouncer Gary Beuthin shuffled out of the courtroom victorious. The judge awarded him three cruci...
Click here to read the rest.Who is financing Mugabe?
30-Apr-2008: Barclays Bank has been accused of providing "personal banking services" for up to four members of Robert Mugabe's regime, London's Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. The four members of the...
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30-Apr-2008: By Joe Lauria, Peter Fabricius and Reuters The South African government has raised questions about Britain's motives in twice putting Zimbabwe on the United Nations Security Council agenda whil...
Click here to read the rest.South Africa: Electricity
30-Apr-2008: I've been so busy of late that I have not read eavery post or comment. If this is a repeat, just smile again, please! It came to me via a friend in Johannesburg who's has family in Harare. THANKS Fion...
Click here to read the rest.UK/Zimbabwe: Trident shadowing boat-load of bombs
30-Apr-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop: Chinese arms dispatched to Mugabe rejected by ports ñ so far - Posted: April 27, 2008 LONDON ñ A floating arsenal of weapons and bombs dispatched by China in a rust-sta...
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30-Apr-2008: Submitted by expat: From SABC news 30 April 2008 11:30 And Things Fall Apart (my insert) April 30, 2008, 11:30 Many Nationwide passengers are disgruntled at having to fork out twice over f...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Mugabe is already Secretly on the offsensive, attacking defencele
30-Apr-2008: Statement from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Upsurge in Violence Worrying The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions notes with concern the upsurge in political violence in the aft...
Click here to read the rest.Marvellous Close-up Magic: Cheating the MDC & Tsvangirai out of Victory rig
30-Apr-2008: Here is another analysis of mine. It is happening RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES... AND YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT SEEING IT. The MDC and Morgan Tsvangirai are being cheated out of their election victory RIGHT BEFO...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Jacob Zuma: A Man for all Reasons - still a Yuppie at the fine art of L
30-Apr-2008: A friend of mine was commenting to me about Zuma's "mixed messages" where he tells one group of people one thing. Then depending on whether he is in public or private he tells different things. And so...
Click here to read the rest.National Constitutional Assembly urges Zimbabweans to form defense Brigades
30-Apr-2008: The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) is saying an important thing that, Zimbabweans must defend themselves against attacks from Mugabe's ZANU PF. The period after elections has seen a great wave...
Click here to read the rest.GUN FREE ZONE IS PAGAN CONCEPT OF PEACE
30-Apr-2008: GUN FREE ZONE IS PAGAN CONCEPT OF PEACE When our Pastors and Bishops embraces pagan concept of peace that ought to worry us. Gun free Zone, Peace at all price, are all concepts of Paganism. To...
Click here to read the rest.Zuma, man for all reasons
30-Apr-2008: Jacob Zuma passed through London last week in a whirlwind of interviews, visits and breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings. Everyone wanted to meet the man widely expec...
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30-Apr-2008: By Godfrey Marawanyika Harare - US President George W Bush piled the pressure on Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe to step down on Tuesday, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned of "a serious humanitari...
Click here to read the rest.Copter pilot dies while doing what she loves
30-Apr-2008: Flying was Jane Kekana's passion. But it claimed her life when the helicopter she was flying crashed and burst into flames at Rand Airport. Kekana, 21, and co-pilot Pe...
Click here to read the rest.Low cost airlines take up Nationwide slack
30-Apr-2008: South Africa's low cost airline industry scrambled to take advantage of the collapse of Nationwide on Tuesday, putting on extra flights in the hope of luring the embattled airline's stranded passenger...
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30-Apr-2008: By Celean Jacobson Bethlehem - Hovering above a restless pride of rare white lions in a hot air balloon was the defining moment of Briton Chris Sanger-Davies's first trip to South Africa. ...
Click here to read the rest.You Tube Videos: Jeremiah Wright's 30 Plus Minute Rantings
30-Apr-2008: Now this just simply makes me angry that Jeremiah Wright gets a 30 plus minute rant, on the National Press Corp Conference to which among Wright praises is his close affiliation with ...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe Elections ???
29-Apr-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop Dear Jan ONE MONTH AFTER THE ZIMBABWE ELECTION HOW ABOUT ******* ALL ******* OF THE RESULTS PLEASE ?? Regards Jeff 29th April 2008...
Click here to read the rest.USA: Why governments enact gun contol, especially marxist ones.
29-Apr-2008: Submitted by Brian Deller The follwing is written in response to Barack Obama's recent tirade against small town America where as he claims there is the tradition of gun ownership and religion. I ...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: We can do something about Mugabe.
29-Apr-2008: Submitted by Bernie: Have they got the balls to actually do this, I don't think so. Times OnlineApril 30, 2008 We can do something about Mugabe The International Criminal Court has every rig...
Click here to read the rest.Africa/Zimbabwe: Who are more racist blacks or whites?
29-Apr-2008: Submitted by Bosgogga: Hi to those of you that read this note. I am surprised by the fact that no one has mentioned yet how blatantly racist sub Sahara Africans really are my case in point is Zi...
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29-Apr-2008: Submitted by New Britain: New Britain - the UK's fast-growing and most authentic patriotic party - will be staging a a protest march down Whitehall on Friday 9th May (so-called "Europe Day"), start...
Click here to read the rest.[Humor] A Good utterly racist joke...
29-Apr-2008: A dude from Durban walked into a curio shop in Cape Town whilst on holiday. Looking around at the exotica, he noticed a very life-like, life-size Bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but i...
Click here to read the rest.Zim: When Nobody is looking, the Thieves will be back to cheat the MDC & Ts
29-Apr-2008: A friend of mine was telling me all the good news about Zim and how the SADC is also changing its tune. See: A cooling love affair: Are t...
Click here to read the rest.How many Whites will actually want to return to Zimbabwe? How many Blacks w
29-Apr-2008: Here is a question: How many of you have family or friends or associates who once lived in Zimbabwe who will return if Mugabe goes? How many people do you know who've never lived there before who w...
Click here to read the rest.MDC struggle to free their members
29-Apr-2008: Harare - Lawyers for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change pressed police on Tuesday to respect a court order and release nearly 200 people arrested at the opposition par...
Click here to read the rest.DA: employ more troops on SA borders
29-Apr-2008: South Africa's international land borders are as porous as the proverbial sieve, with tens of thousands of refugees streaming into the country each week, alongside gun smugglers, drug traffickers and ...
Click here to read the rest.Zuma 'turns tide of international opinion'
29-Apr-2008: ANC president Jacob Zuma apparently had a successful tour of Germany, Britain and France last week. "He turned the tide of opinion among investors and politicians," ac...
Click here to read the rest.'Harsher sentencing for rapists'
29-Apr-2008: By Hazel Memani The Supreme Court of Appeal has been slammed for "consistently" failing to uphold life sentences prescribed by the Minimum Sentencing Act for child, gang or multiple rape, or ra...
Click here to read the rest.All eyes on Zim as ZEC wrap-up recount
29-Apr-2008: By Cris Chinaka Harare - Verification of Zimbabwe's disputed presidential election results is due to start on Tuesday, a month after the vote, and the country may learn within a week whether Ro...
Click here to read the rest.Amnesty accuses Moz police of torture
29-Apr-2008: Maputo - Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International released on Tuesday. "Police in Mozambique seem to think ...
Click here to read the rest.MDC presents united front
29-Apr-2008: The end of 28 years of rule by Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF party was all but complete on Sunday night with the reunification of the Movement for Democratic Change's two factions. ...
Click here to read the rest.Eskom's blunders are the real reason
29-Apr-2008: By Louise Flanagan Eskom wants us to pay a lot more for electricity so that it can pay for unbudgeted new power stations, right? Wrong. Eskom needs the money because its managers got their sums...
Click here to read the rest.Cop shot, robbers make off with whisky
29-Apr-2008: A 28-year-old police constable was shot in his left leg and wounded by robbers in Meadowlands near Dobsonville on Tuesday, Gauteng police said. Spokesperson Captain Yolande Bouwer said a group ...
Click here to read the rest.Findings may overshadow Scorpions' bill
29-Apr-2008: By Angela Quintal The controversial bill that would signal the death knell of the Scorpions is expected to be approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday and tabled in Parliament ahead of MPs returnin...
Click here to read the rest.Another public holiday, another armed robbery
29-Apr-2008: By Caryn Dolley Armed robbers have struck the Pinelands Spar for the second time on a public holiday in a month and police are trying to establish whether the same gan...
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29-Apr-2008: Harare - President Robert Mugabe's government accused the opposition on Tuesday of deliberately stirring up tensions after Zimbabwe's disputed elections and warned that it would not allow "anarchy" to...
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29-Apr-2008: The gloves were set to come off this morning in the trial of double murder accused Heinrich van Rooyen, with both the State and the defence adamant that the other side had failed to prove its case. ...
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29-Apr-2008: By Fouzia van der Fort Rising food prices have landed NGOs that feed the homeless and poor into debt and are threatening to curtail the expansion of feeding schemes at poorer schools. Th...
Click here to read the rest.Cash heist gang hits Durban mall
29-Apr-2008: A six-man gang crashed a vehicle into a Durban mall gate on Tuesday, in an attempt to rob security guards, police said. Police spokesperson Inspector Solomon Mbhele said the incident took place...
Click here to read the rest.Winelands protesters march for land
29-Apr-2008: Hundreds of poor people from the Breede River Winelands region took to the streets in Robertson on Monday to demand that the municipality speed up land redistribution. The protesters included ...
Click here to read the rest.'Why did he let my family burn?'
29-Apr-2008: A Pretoria mother and her young son died a fiery death on the N1 while on their way to celebrate her wedding anniversary in Durban. The Martins family's holiday turned...
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29-Apr-2008: By Lindsay Dentlinger All Cape Town Metro Police will be expected to wear name badges while on duty as from Thursday, and are being asked to re-affirm their commitment to the Metro Police code ...
Click here to read the rest.'Robben Island animals are not starving'
29-Apr-2008: Robben Island Museum has rejected a report that wild animals on the 574 hectare island are starving to death because of poor environmental management. The Cape Argus reported on its front page ...
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29-Apr-2008: By Angela Quintal The ANC's peace and security committee will meet at the party's headquarters on Tuesday, ahead of Cabinet's expected approval this week of a controversial bill disbanding the ...
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29-Apr-2008: Knysna - The double murder trial of former nightclub disc jockey Heinrich van Rooyen resumes in the Circuit Court here on Tuesday, for closing arguments by the State and defence advocates. Judg...
Click here to read the rest.Five nabbed for murder of soccer player
29-Apr-2008: Five men have been arrested in connection with the murder and rape of a former Banyana Banyana player, East Rand police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Johannes Ramphora said the half-nake...
Click here to read the rest.Trial of Air Force 'shooter' put on hold
29-Apr-2008: The trial of a man accused of shooting two of his superior Air Force officers last year, leading to the death of one, was postponed in the Pretoria magistrate's court on Tuesday. Samuel Mandla ...
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29-Apr-2008: Just last month a British aristocrat and one of the richest men in the UK was making headlines here over his fight for the right to build homes for 1 200 shack dwellers in Ma...
Click here to read the rest.'I saw them die in front of me'
29-Apr-2008: 'The flames just went wild. I could not help them. They were gone. I wanted to get them out but I could not." Louise Joubert could only watch as her 5-year-old son Die...
Click here to read the rest.Cramped cellar home for 24 years
29-Apr-2008: By Veronika Oleksyn and William J Kole Authorities said a man, Josef Fritzl, has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with h...
Click here to read the rest.Fresh fraud scam plays off old trick
29-Apr-2008: By Matt Radler The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has warned about a new twist on an old scam. Traditionally, the fraud is known as "deposit and refund," in which...
Click here to read the rest.Farmers march in Groblersdal
29-Apr-2008: Mpumalanga farmers and agricultural workers staged a protest against farm murders, racism and crime in Groblersdal on Tuesday, trade union Solidarity said. "We have over 200 farmers taking part...
Click here to read the rest.Appeal to overturn Waterkloof guilty verdict
29-Apr-2008: Friends and family of the so-called Waterkloof Four on Tuesday packed the Pretoria High Court where their legal teams hoped to overturn their twelve-year effective prison sentence for beating a homele...
Click here to read the rest.Durban home owner kills 'burglar'
29-Apr-2008: A Durban resident in Umbilo shot dead a burglar on Tuesday, police said. Inspector Michael Read said the resident was also a police officer at the Durban organised crime unit. He said th...
Click here to read the rest.[Video][Humor] YouTube: Robert Mugabe's Farm with his Cattle...
29-Apr-2008: Another one mocking Mugabe. He's made an ass of himself across the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P34LAt0GBy4&feature=related...
Click here to read the rest.[Video] [Humor] YouTube: Down on old Bob Mugabe's farm...
29-Apr-2008: Here are some YouTube videos:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGjjUp4zJo...
Click here to read the rest.African Agriculture -The Perfect Oxymoron
29-Apr-2008: Dear All, African Agriculture is the perfect oxymoron. (See this cartoon clip just sent along by Robb Ellis: ( http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGjjUp4zJo ) On my 37 month rural (milita...
Click here to read the rest.''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (29-04-2008)
29-Apr-2008: HowzitIt is stories like this that display the blind allegiance that African leaders have for Mugabe. And I am quite surprised that it is Malawi - as they have ha...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: When the MDC supporters tear the Green Bombers limb from limb in
29-Apr-2008: Now folks, nobody has mentioned this: THE SPONTANEOUS REPRISALS AWAITING THOSE WHO DID MUGABE'S BIDDING FOR YEARS! For years and years, Mugabe's scum have tortured, terrorised, beaten and murdered ...
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29-Apr-2008: Now folks, nobody has mentioned this: THE SPONTANEOUS REPRISALS AWAITING THOSE WHO DID MUGABE'S BIDDING FOR YEARS! For years and years, Mugabe's scum have tortured, terrorised, beaten and murdered ...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe's Miniature Civil War escalates: If Mugabe does not step down - RE
29-Apr-2008: Here is the email from Zim:- Lowveld News 28th April 2008 More threats Local ZANU councilors are forcing people on nearby farms to go to meetings where they are accused of being MDC vote...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: The monkey on Jacob Zuma's shoulder - he once backed Genocidal Ma
29-Apr-2008: by James Myburgh The frontrunner for the ANC presidency once backed Mugabe Earlier this week I argued that the past statements and actions of the presidency sit - to use the words of Howar...
Click here to read the rest.The problem of Communism in southern Africa - The White people who invented
29-Apr-2008: Bram Fischer and Geoffrey Coxís journey into the Soviet heart of darkness. On 2nd April this year one of the greatest British journalists of the last century died in England, aged nearly 98: a...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe's Matabele Genocide: Gukurahundi: Racist mass murder in Zimbabwe -
29-Apr-2008: Elinor Sisulu on the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi in Matabeleland. Racist mass-murder of isiNdebele-speakers by the regime of President Robert Mugabe and the Zanu-PF party took place in Zimbabwe...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Some untold stories to tell when this is all over... When Mugabe'
29-Apr-2008: I watch Zimbabwe and the events there. One day, I must tell a story or two about events relating to Zimbabwe that have never seen the light of day. I had some interesting experiences with the Black...
Click here to read the rest.When Mugabe comes to live in Johannesburg, to work at UNISA and his wife Gr
29-Apr-2008: I was talking to a friend of mine saying that I wonder, when Mugabe leaves, if he will say anything? He has a jail sentence awaiting him... so perhaps his good friend Mbeki will quietly get him out to...
Click here to read the rest.Moneyweb: Zimbabwe: Is Mugabe finished? 4 reasons why the Old Tyrant may be
29-Apr-2008: Four reasons why the old tyrant may finally be on the way out. Since 2000 various commentators have, at different points, predicted the imminent demise of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. In that ...
Click here to read the rest.Personal News from Zimbabwe: Cost of Living, the state of Mugabe's collapse
29-Apr-2008: Jan. I've just spoken to Simon Spooner, one of the top MDC activists - he told me a few minutes ago that it is all over bar the shouting. Zanu PF are now the opposition, & Bob (Mugabe) is quietle...
Click here to read the rest.Post Mugabe Zimbabwe: Let's analyse Zimbabwe's economics & politics deeply
29-Apr-2008: Folks, It is very exciting to think that Mugabe is gone or almost gone. It is very exciting to see masses of investment pouring into Zimbabwe and it is very exciting to see masses of South Africans a...
Click here to read the rest.Court slammed for taking a soft line on rape
29-Apr-2008: Zitha Mabuza, Phillip Simongo and Oupa Sithole escaped a life sentence for gang-raping a child - because they were between 18 and 20 at the time of the crime and grew up poor. And the success o...
Click here to read the rest.Cops: all crooks leave clues
29-Apr-2008: By Thandi Skade Regardless of how insignificant an item may seem at the time - a piece of plastic or glass, a cigarette butt or even a torn paper towel - never discard...
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29-Apr-2008: A terrified Pretoria boy pleaded with the police to help him and his invalid grandmother - to no avail. The woman on the other end only accused him of making a prank call. The boy and his grand...
Click here to read the rest.Zim: Mugabeís Madness: A Tyrant Clings to Power
28-Apr-2008: Submitted by Mike D: by Shaun Willcock The purpose of these articles is to provide insightful comment on the contemporary South African and southern African scene from a Christian, ìpolitically-...
Click here to read the rest.USA: Subprime: The Old Market Sages say: The Worst Is Yet to Come - in 2010
28-Apr-2008: Positive sentiment is on the rise on Wall Street as the market moves further away from the March lows and the S&P 500 hits the top end of its 1,270-1,400 trading range. This weekend brought bullish re...
Click here to read the rest.USA: The World's Richest Man, Warren Buffett says recession may be worse th
28-Apr-2008: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the world's richest person, said on Monday the U.S. economy is in a recession that will be more severe than most people expect. Buffett made his comments on...
Click here to read the rest.Iran discusses package of nuclear proposals with Russia
28-Apr-2008: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran and Russia on Monday discussed the outlines of "serious proposals" aimed at assuring the international community that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful, state media rep...
Click here to read the rest.USA: Nevada - Reno - over 150 aftershocks - Scientists warn residents to pr
28-Apr-2008: RENO, Nev. (AP) - Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno on Sunday as a series of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. More than 150 after...
Click here to read the rest.Gas hits $3.60 a gallon, crude nears $120 on supply outages - Nigerian oil
28-Apr-2008: NEW YORK (AP) -- Gas prices hit $3.60 a gallon and oil futures rose to their own new record near $120 a barrel on Monday as labor actions overseas threatened crude supplies. Oil prices later retreated...
Click here to read the rest.USA: America's Black Racist, Al Sharpton threatens to close down a city...
28-Apr-2008: NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in th...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Will Mugabe get weapons secretly? Psycho-Babble: Mugabe's hideous
28-Apr-2008: I am wondering if there is a massive crisis of confidence in Zimbabwe surrounding Mugabe? Have shockwaves gone through all Mugabe's supporters thereby causing defections and also causing him to lose a...
Click here to read the rest.Eersterus 'gang' strikes again
28-Apr-2008: Two Pretoria teenagers have been gunned down and another two critically injured in Eersterus. A gang is believed to be behind a spate of attacks on youths in Eersterus...
Click here to read the rest.Fine print is the usual suspect - again
28-Apr-2008: Cellphones are a brilliant invention in many ways, and many of us can't imagine our lives without them. But they are also prone to causing us a lot of misery, aggravation and financial hardship while ...
Click here to read the rest.Mbeki speaks out against racism
28-Apr-2008: President Thabo Mbeki has called on South Africans "to unite in action" to confront the "savagery of racism" and the challenges of high food and fuel prices. Mbeki str...
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28-Apr-2008: By Nelson Banya Harare - A partial recount in Zimbabwe's disputed presidential poll may be completed on Monday and candidates could start verifying results, electoral officials said, possibly e...
Click here to read the rest.Heartbroken bride goes to safer area
28-Apr-2008: By Karen Breytenbach A teenager is being kept at a "place of safety" after being arrested in connection with the murder of Grace Kalima, a honeymooning lay preacher and photographer from the De...
Click here to read the rest.Plane explodes on take-off
28-Apr-2008: A city father's plan to fly his son to visit his grandparents turned into tragedy when the light aircraft they were in crashed and exploded. Dietrich Joubert, five, an...
Click here to read the rest.Mbeki's babbelas blast
28-Apr-2008: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and Murray Williams President Thabo Mbeki has stirred up controversy with a speech appearing to characterise the Western Cape as a place of drunks a...
Click here to read the rest.Malawi jails prison break-in burglar
28-Apr-2008: Blantyre - A court in Malawi handed down a 13-year jail term to a criminal who broke back into the prison where he already served time to steal guns and other equipment, police said on Monday. ...
Click here to read the rest.Woman raped after robbery at home
28-Apr-2008: A 76-year-old woman was raped in her house in Queenswood on Saturday night after she and her husband were set upon by three intruders. Police spokesperson Inspector Klaas van der Kooi on Sunday...
Click here to read the rest.We will no longer tolerate chaos: ANC
28-Apr-2008: By Sibusiso Mboto The African National Congress has sent the strongest possible signal that it will no longer tolerate chaos in structures under its control by axing u...
Click here to read the rest.Food crisis could increase production: state
28-Apr-2008: Maputo - The Mozambican government believes that the current international food crisis - while posing a short term threat to the country - could be an opportunity for increasing domestic agricultural ...
Click here to read the rest.SA faces new threat, says Zille
28-Apr-2008: South Africa faced a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said at the weekend. She was addressing a large crowd at the KwaZulu-Natal F...
Click here to read the rest.Local is not lekker, say 2010 promoters
28-Apr-2008: Not much is being done to get South Africans behind the 2010 World Cup, let alone supporting the national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, two provincial standing committees have heard. Instead, the...
Click here to read the rest.Guards wounded during robbery
28-Apr-2008: Two security guards were wounded in a foiled robbery at a shopping centre at the corner of Hendrick Potgieter and Nick Diedricks Avenues in Roodepoort on Monday. ER24 Spokesperson Riana Beech s...
Click here to read the rest.De Klerk warns against eroding constitution
28-Apr-2008: In a barely disguised swipe at the ruling ANC, former state president FW de Klerk has warned that tampering with the constitution by those in power is "perilous and foolhardy". De Klerk said i...
Click here to read the rest.Mom gets seven years for killing sons
28-Apr-2008: The killing of her two innocent sons was atrocious, a Pretoria High Court judge has told a mother before sentencing her to seven years in jail for the crime. Sharon Pa...
Click here to read the rest.Why Do Oil Prices Keep Rising? (& what is driving Gold?) - The Great Subpri
28-Apr-2008: Inflationistas are crowing over the price of crude hitting $113 a barrel and the March Producer Price Index as well. Indeed the PPI soared last month, primarily on account of energy and food....
Click here to read the rest.Africa: The Truth About The United Nations.
28-Apr-2008: Submitted by Concerned Reader: UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels' The FNI militia is accused of carrying out massacres of villagers in DR Congo The UN has covered up claims that its troops...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: I ask a friend in Harare: Will Mugabe be gone in 6 months time?
28-Apr-2008: I wrote:- Tell me, from your perspective over there, what do you think the chances are of Tsvangirai actually walking in as the new President of Zim and Mugabe stepping down? Do you think world...
Click here to read the rest.In the USA: Only White Racism exists, not Black Racism - or so Obama thinks
28-Apr-2008: Joe wrote:- Finally, after two years, FOX NEWS SUNDAY anchor Chris Wallace today landed an interview with Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama but failed, or deliberately ducked, ask...
Click here to read the rest.''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (28-04-2008)
28-Apr-2008: HowzitS.Africa: Brakes slammed on domestic car industry
28-Apr-2008: By Margie Inggs Toyota's assembly plant in Durban, one of the biggest employers in the city, has not followed Volkswagen and Nissan SA in implementing short time because of its export order...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Bishop Tutu screams out about Tibet but says nothing about mass m
28-Apr-2008: By Blanca Mendez While we celebrate Freedom Day, many in Tibet are living without the freedoms we enjoy. To show solidarity, Ubuntu-Tibet Freedom Day is being held today at St George's Cath...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Crime: Black man may have raped his grandmother before murdering
28-Apr-2008: A 24-year-old man accused of murdering his grandmother was denied bail by the Butterworth magistrate's court on Monday, police said. Masande Mkhwelo might also face an additional charge...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: 43 people injured as Bus careers off embankment
28-Apr-2008: At least 43 people were injured on Saturday when a bus went off an embankment outside Stanger, paramedics said. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the accident took place at 8pm on the R...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Crime: Black Man found with body parts of his dead grandmother in
28-Apr-2008: The case against a man allegedly found with parts of his dead grandmother's body in his luggage was postponed in the Butterworth magistrate's court, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Cape Town property owners must not get too excited about financia
28-Apr-2008: Property owners in central Cape Town should be wary of getting too excited about the financial benefits of the 2010 soccer World Cup. People with accommodation along the Atlantic Seaboard could...
Click here to read the rest.Zim lawyers seek release of activists
28-Apr-2008: Harare - Lawyers for Zimbabwe's opposition turned to the courts on Sunday to seek the release of more than 200 activists detained in a swoop on the headquarters of the Movement for Democratic Change. ...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: President Mbeki sees a White Racist behind every bush... still fi
28-Apr-2008: South Africans could not claim to be truly free when blatant racism still existed in society, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. He was addressing several thousand people at the nationa...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Doctors challenge health MEC
28-Apr-2008: Doctors are up in arms at the suspension of a senior colleague at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital, for throwing a picture of KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni into a dustbin. The doctors bluntly warned...
Click here to read the rest.USA: The Challenge of Multicultural, Multiperspective History
27-Apr-2008: Submitted by Concerned Reader: Samuel Taylor Of all the ways in which a nation defines itself, few are more important than what it teaches its children about itself. In the history classes of i...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Pretoria Woman, 76, raped
27-Apr-2008: Woman, 76, raped 27/04/2008 12:47 Pretoria - A 76-year-old woman was raped in her house in Queenswood, Pretoria, on Saturday night after she and her husband were set upon by three intruders, p...
Click here to read the rest.Is Zim on the brink of civil war?
27-Apr-2008: By Fred Kockott, Chiara Carter and Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwe could soon be in the throes of a civil war. It has emerged that supporters of the Movement for Democratic ...
Click here to read the rest.Zuma's charm offensive
27-Apr-2008: Everyone in London this week wanted to meet the man widely expected to be the next South African president and meetings were heavily over-subscribed with businessmen and poli...
Click here to read the rest.MPs want answers on 'arms-for-Zim scandal'
27-Apr-2008: MPs have squared up to the top brass of the government committee that oversees South Africa's arms transactions and ordered its members to explain their part in the international furore over the Chine...
Click here to read the rest.A cooling love affair
27-Apr-2008: By Martin Rupiya The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has always couched the political crisis in Zimbabwe as a conflict between pan-Africanism on the one side and colonialism, neoc...
Click here to read the rest.State, NGOs battle to help the poor
27-Apr-2008: As government departments prepare to present measures to the cabinet on how to stem the looming food crisis, aid bodies are desperately working on plans to continue feeding the poorest of the poor as ...
Click here to read the rest.Food bank to help the poor
27-Apr-2008: By Yugendree Naidoo A food banking system is planned for South Africa to bring relief to those most at risk of hunger and malnutrition. The US-based Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) init...
Click here to read the rest.Students consider getting guns
27-Apr-2008: Students say they are thinking of bringing firearms to campus for protection after a female student was robbed at gunpoint at the University of Cape Town. All SA campuses are supposed to be gun...
Click here to read the rest.Suffering in the name of medicine
27-Apr-2008: The bear lies on its stomach in a coffin-like metal cage so small that it cannot move. It cannot sit up, turn over or scratch itself, let alone stand. Protruding from its stomach is a catheter that ha...
Click here to read the rest.Zim arms ship reaches Angola
27-Apr-2008: By Tribune Reporter The Chinese ship carrying weapons bound for Zimbabwe that left Durban ahead of two court orders and disappeared from view arrived off the coast of Angola this weekend. ...
Click here to read the rest.Citizens fighting a scourge
27-Apr-2008: 'The first thing I tell the guys when they join up is 'complacency equals death'," says Captain Kyle Thompson, standing on the parade ground of a South African Police training centre. "You can die out...
Click here to read the rest.'We need a new South African'
27-Apr-2008: by Ben Maclennan There was a need for a "new South African" who embodied everything that was morally good, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. He was addressing several thousand people...
Click here to read the rest.'Why were our babies allowed to to die?'
27-Apr-2008: The grieving mothers of nearly 80 babies who died in the Eastern Cape after, the women believe, consuming contaminated water, are furious at being told by their municipality that their children were k...
Click here to read the rest.US backs Tsvangirai
27-Apr-2008: By Henry Ngilazi Lusaka - The United States' top diplomat for Africa said on Sunday any national unity government in Zimbabwe should be headed by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who Washin...
Click here to read the rest.Zim protesters held at Chinese embassy
27-Apr-2008: By Jacques Breytenbach More than 100 Zimbabweans have been arrested for taking part in an illegal protest at the Chinese embassy. Inspector Malose Mashiane said the protesters - who exp...
Click here to read the rest.What opposition?
27-Apr-2008: By Fiona Forde "But Jonathan Moyo is yesterday's man," my editor pointed out as we discussed the plight of Zimbabwe's opposition forces. True, but the fact that the former Zanu-PF loyalist can ...
Click here to read the rest.Will load-shedding backfire?
27-Apr-2008: Electricity experts have warned Eskom that its load-shedding strategy is backfiring, destroying electricity infrastructure and plunging communities into extended periods without power. However,...
Click here to read the rest.Hijack gangs sow panic
27-Apr-2008: An armed hijacker stared into the eyes of his victim and told him: "It's not easy." This was no comfort for Peter Mashonga who became one of Cape Town's latest hijack victims. The three men ord...
Click here to read the rest.Hundreds say no to gender violence
27-Apr-2008: Led by Nwabisa Ngcukana, the young woman assaulted for wearing a mini-skirt at a Johannesburg taxi rank, hundreds of protesters on Saturday marched against gender violence in Khayelitsha. The m...
Click here to read the rest.Sars scraps form after crime wave
27-Apr-2008: Travellers to South Africa no longer have to complete a customs declaration form because of the crime wave that has seen visitors followed and robbed after leaving international airports, especially O...
Click here to read the rest.Farmer makes miracles
27-Apr-2008: To draw more than 60 000 men to a non-sporting, Christian event is not just an achievement, it could be deemed a miracle. From all parts of South Africa and various corners of the globe, they ...
Click here to read the rest.Mbeki in bid to gag Pikoli
27-Apr-2008: The presidency has launched an 11th-hour bid to prevent embarrassing confidential information behind the suspension of Vusi Pikoli, the national prosecuting authority boss, from being made public. ...
Click here to read the rest.Young murderers' bid for freedom
27-Apr-2008: Four young men, convicted last year of murdering a vagrant in a Pretoria East park in December 2001, will again be in court this week - this time to appeal against their conviction and prison sentence...
Click here to read the rest.MEC calls on cops to hold suspects
27-Apr-2008: A North West MEC has urged police not to let two alleged farm killers escape from custody again. Transport, roads and community safety MEC Phenye Vilakazi on Sunday welcomed the arrest of a sec...
Click here to read the rest.Criminal tamed by wild trip
27-Apr-2008: Vusi Jali still has bullets in his body, a relic of his life of violence, but a recent wilderness encounter has seen him turning his back on crime. Jali's transformation could be attributed in ...
Click here to read the rest.Toddler among Zim political victims - MDC
27-Apr-2008: Harare - A five-year-old boy was listed by the main opposition party on Sunday as one of the victims of politically-inspired violence in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's disputed elections. The name...
Click here to read the rest.Shame on our guilt-free land
27-Apr-2008: The subject of my sermon today, my fellow sinners and brethren, is shame. Not as in the oft-ironic "Ag shame" peppering any idle Seffrican conversation. Were that so, I could just repeat "Hey"...
Click here to read the rest.Stalwart Masondo given military send-off
27-Apr-2008: Former Robben Island prisoner Andrew Masondo, a retired soldier, mathematician and traditional healer, was given a military send-off in Soweto at a colourful funeral ceremony on Friday, attended by AN...
Click here to read the rest.Move over, energy and food crises
27-Apr-2008: By Eleanor Momberg The South African fuel industry is facing a crisis that is going to make Eskom's problems look like a picnic, the Fuel Retailers' Association (FRA) says. This is beca...
Click here to read the rest.Robbers leave couple in 'terrible state'
27-Apr-2008: A 76-year-old woman was raped in her house in Queenswood, Pretoria, on Saturday night after she and her husband were set upon by three intruders, police said on Sunday. Inspector Klaas van der ...
Click here to read the rest.Santa Cruz cuts Portsmouth from top five
27-Apr-2008: Portsmouth, England - Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz shattered Portsmouth's bid for a top five finish as his second half goal sealed a 1-0 win at Fratton Park on Sunday. Santa Cruz struck w...
Click here to read the rest.Ill wind blows for SA pirates
27-Apr-2008: Action to reduce piracy has made a serious dent in the multi-million-rand racket of pirated goods, from CDs to DVDs and games. This is according to a report released by the SA Federation Agains...
Click here to read the rest.US urges African leaders to up Zim pressure
27-Apr-2008: Lusaka - A top US official urged African leaders on Sunday to put pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to release the results of the presidential election, insisting the opposition had won. ...
Click here to read the rest.Zille speaks out at rally
27-Apr-2008: South Africa faces a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. She was addressing a large crowd at the KwaZulu-Natal...
Click here to read the rest.UN chief confirms global crisis
27-Apr-2008: Vienna - The United Nations (UN) secretary-general sounded a warning about rocketing food prices, saying it has developed into a "real global crisis". Ban Ki-moon said the UN was very concerned...
Click here to read the rest.'Most won't know if banks overcharge them'
27-Apr-2008: By CLAYTON BARNES Just 18 percent of South Africans check their monthly bank statements for inaccuracies. And financial website Justmoney says this is mainly due to bank statements being...
Click here to read the rest.Santana's 'moral' promise to SA
27-Apr-2008: By Lara de Matos "You are the first South African journalist I've granted an interview to, but I can tell you that once I get to your country I want to work before I g...
Click here to read the rest.Mom gets 7 years in jail for killing sons
27-Apr-2008: "The killing of your two innocent sons was atrocious," a Pretoria High Court judge on Friday told a mother before sentencing her to seven years' imprisonment for the crime. Sharon Paul (38) cri...
Click here to read the rest.Inmates don't want to escape
27-Apr-2008: Life in British prisons is so comfortable, inmates have given up trying to escape, a senior prison officers' representative said. Glyn Travis, assistant general secretary of the Prison Officers...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: My Favourite Morgan Tsvangirai quote...
27-Apr-2008: Morgan Tsvangirai is the President of Zimbabwe even though Mugabe still illegally occupies his position. In a recent speech Tsvangirai said this: "Mugabe has not only destroyed what he inherited...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Electricity Chaos: What a friend in Kempton Park City says & Expl
27-Apr-2008: He wrote:- In 'my part of town', being Birchleigh, we don't have a problem but when I was coming back Thursday night. I was totally gobsmacked to view the entire Kempton CBD looking lik...
Click here to read the rest.The Zimbabwe Civil War (& Genocide II) may have begun: The MDC's first Mili
27-Apr-2008: Is Zim on the brink of civil war? April 27 2008 at 10:59AM By Fred Kockott, Chiara Carter and Peta Thornycroft Zimbabwe could soon be in the throes of a civil war. It has emerged t...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: The many completely RUBBISH reports about Mugabe finding a way ou
27-Apr-2008: A friend told me that Rapport published an article where they now say that Mugabe is trying to find a way out, and is hoping to be "allowed out", etc. It is all this diplomatic, touchy-feely, psycho-b...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Black Hip Hop singer sings of killing Whites with Pangas (Machete
27-Apr-2008: The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has ruled that the song Get Out by hip-hop artist Zubz was an incitement to violence. The ruling followed a complaint in Febru...
Click here to read the rest.''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (27-04-2008)
27-Apr-2008: HowzitOn one of the other forums that I participate on, I was vilified by an individual in Harare for describing myself as an "English born, Rhodesian educated, Z...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Electricity Chaos - Rolling Blackouts may be causing substation e
27-Apr-2008: It appears that a lot of older equipment is literally exploding because of the rolling blackouts. The older substations are not able to handle the extreme power surges of the rolling blackouts. So cer...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Angry Blacks attack ticket offices & pelt late train with stones
27-Apr-2008: Six people were arrested on Friday morning during violent protests by hundreds of commuters at the Daveyton train station in Ekurhuleni. Commuters, angry at the late arrival of trains, reso...
Click here to read the rest.Three provinces carry the South African economy
27-Apr-2008: The Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal account for more than two thirds of the country's gross domestic product, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Friday. It cautioned,...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Completely AMAZING: MDC takes lead in Mugabe's crooked recount -
27-Apr-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition took a lead as results from a partial recount of last month's general elections trickled in, a state daily reported on Saturday. The Herald newspaper sai...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: The Great Election Theft of 2008 - ZEC still mum on presidential
27-Apr-2008: Harare - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said on Saturday it was not sure when the results of a disputed March 29 presidential election would be available. "I can't say exactly when...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Electricity Chaos: Kempton Park City blackout 'prevetable'
27-Apr-2008: The power failures in Kempton Park were because of stresses on the power network resulting from them being switched on and off during load shedding and having no maintenance, said the DA on Thursday. ...
Click here to read the rest.Flying the Criminal Airlines of South Africa: SAA hit by 10 000 bag claims
27-Apr-2008: By Natasha Joseph More than 10 000 South African Airways (SAA) passengers lodge claims for damaged luggage annually and around 6 600 will have their luggage stolen each year, says the company. ...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Those inventive, lying criminal scum: Phantom twin blamed for rap
27-Apr-2008: A Mozambican has claimed that it was his twin brother who attacked a family near the Grasmere toll plaza and raped a teenage girl and her aunt. This is what James Langa told the Pretoria H...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Doctor suspended for throwing a (corrupt) official's photograph i
27-Apr-2008: The DA has called for the immediate reinstatement of Mark Blaylock, chief medical officer of Manguzi Hospital, who was suspended this week after throwing a photograph of KwaZulu-Natal health MEC P...
Click here to read the rest.SA: Crime: Police operation nets 108 in Joburg's CBD
27-Apr-2008: A police operation led to the arrest of 108 people for various offences in the Johannesburg central area, Gauteng police said on Friday. Inspector Xoli Mbele said the operation started at 4pm o...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Official Opposition: Helen Zille says: Are we truly free in South
27-Apr-2008: Molweni - South Africa was not yet truly free, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille told KwaZulu-Natal Freedom Day celebration in Molweni, outside Durban, on Saturday. "Are we truly...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: MDC hails parliamentary victory - again
27-Apr-2008: Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Saturday it had retained a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party after a partial recount...
Click here to read the rest.South Africa: Electricity Chaos: Kempton Park's disaster due to 10+ days wi
27-Apr-2008: A power cut that is expected to last for five days has brought disaster to businesses and greatly inconvenienced families in Kempton Park. The area battled for the second day without elect...
Click here to read the rest.Zimbabwe: Mugabe's revenge: 15 MDC supporters have been killed
27-Apr-2008: Harare - At least 15 opposition supporters have been killed in political violence in Zimbabwe since elections last month, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Saturday. "...
Click here to read the rest.S.Africa: Zille wants to get tougher with the ANC? A Future party to drive
27-Apr-2008: The ANC has asked the Western Cape's public protector to investigate Mayor Helen Zille for statements about the party that "go beyond the cut and thrust of political engagement". In respons...
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