South Africa: Public hospitals under scrutiny
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday that a group of senior government officials would be created to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals."The team will look at each and (By News Poster)... | Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Steve ManteawMontreal - Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining ind (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Continent Can Achieve Food Security Through Improved Agriculture
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Prof. Richard MkandawireAfrican farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell (By News Poster)... | South Africa: SACP sees red over Malema
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The SA Communist Party on Friday defended its general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, after ANC Youth League president Julius Malema lambasted the former's stance on nationalising the mines."We find it very (By News Poster)... |
Somalia: Piracy Off Coast Not Only Criminal, But Very Successful, Security Council Hears
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Farmers Responsible for Attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa And Bronwynne JoosteFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenoph (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 22 arrested for xenophobic attacks
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The police in the Western Cape said on Friday that 22 people had been arrested on Thursday night at De Doorns in connection with attacks on foreigners earlier in the week.Superintendent Desmond van de (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Xenophobic Attacks Draw Condemnation From UN Agency
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South A (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Student's rape and murder trial set for May
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Former Stellenbosch student Jacobus Eksteen, accused of raping and killing fellow-student Erin Van Rensburg, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year.Eksteen made his final appearance in the (By News Poster)... | Eat Your Capital Or Go Back to Work
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - As much as the current debate concerns inflation or deflation, a similar debate is slowly emerging around interest rates.As you know, in the USA interest rates are effect (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Mercenaries complicate peace bid
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Mark JohnDakar - Sightings of mercenaries at work for Guinea's junta are a potential blow to international efforts to stave off new violence in the West African country and press its military leade (By News Poster)... | Kenya: How President and PM Will Share Power
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - Power in Kenya will be divided between a president and a prime minister under the new constitution. The draft, unlike the current law, is clear on the authority of the Pres (By News Poster)... |
Rwanda: Fate of FDLR Chiefs to Be Known in Three Months
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By James Karuhanga and AgenciesKigali - The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months.According to information gathered from the G (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Ssemujju Nganda - Land Bill Riding On Back of CBS Closure
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaOn Sunday, November 15, I went to Katwe to address Makindye West MP Hajji Hussein Kyanjo's consultative rally.The other guests included Justice Forum President, Muhammad Maya (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Why Oil Revenues Will Harm Us
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Andrew M. MwendaKampala - On October 16, 2009, Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this tim (By News Poster)... | Improvement of Food Security Welcomed
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Windhoek - Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa said Namibia is encouraged that the World Food Summit that was held in Rome this week considered the improvement of food security g (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Petroleum Bill Critical to Banking Reform - Sanusi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to continue with the reforms in the petroleum sector irrespective of the p (By News Poster)... | South Africa: 'He brought her naked to me'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jade Witten Court ReporterThe grandfather of two-year-old Randoline Fortune, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by a neighbour, has testified to the bruises on her naked body in the last moments (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 'We were all against apartheid'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Fiona FordeDaniel Ammann had been knocking on Marc Rich's door for more than seven years, but the notorious billionaire fugitive financier refused to budge. "I used to write. Then send faxes and e (By News Poster)... | Africa: Egyptians clash with police
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Cairo - Protesters hurled stones and firebombs at police near the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Friday, wounding 11 officers as anger mounted over attacks on Egyptians after the countries' World Cup qu (By News Poster)... |
World: Transsexual in political scandal 'murdered'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Antonella Cinelli Rome - A Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician - the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome (By News Poster)... | South Africa: 'Considerable blow to drug market'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyIn a "considerable blow to the drug market", the Hawks have bust a suspected drug outlet and seized more than R2-million worth of illegal substances.And, in two months, police have retr (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Baghdad Four - wives attack SSS
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Emotions ran high as the wives of the four South African men known as the Baghdad Four blasted their husbands' former employers and accused them of lying and abandoning them and their partners.The sca (By News Poster)... | World: Gunman kills four in island rampage
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A gunman went on the rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding six, including five Korean tourists.The police said an Asian gunman had killed (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Robbers target Joburg houses
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Robbers targeted two houses in Northcliff, Johannesburg in incidents police suspect are related, a spokesman said on Friday.The two houses were robbed between 6pm and 8pm on Thursday, Superintendent R (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Farmers responsible for attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa and Bronwynne JoosteStaff ReportersFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Zim land deal - farmers threaten Davies
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Peta Thornycroft Independent Foreign ServiceMore than 200 South African farmers whose land was seized in Zimbabwe are threatening legal action against the South African government for apparently ex (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Cops probe guesthouse murder
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The case of seven people who allegedly killed two Mpumalanga guesthouse owners in October was postponed in the Sabie Magistrate's Court on Friday, police said.Cindy Sambo, 33, Dorah Sono, 36, Nicolas (By News Poster)... |
Proud to be white by Michael Richards...a.k.a. "Kramer"
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Admittedly, this may be considered to be a bit "crude" to some, but it also makes a very good point.
(I did not write this, in case anybody was wondering...Kramer did!)
I have been wondering abo (By Gairk)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-11-2009)
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated...
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PACHEDU (Roy Bennett)
Racist taunts from Chinamasa
Made Roy Bennett cross the line
Minor scuffle led to trauma
Jail was worse than (By The BeardedMan)... |
Tanzania: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jessie BoylanDar Es Salaam - The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charco (By News Poster)... | Africa: Crime wave overshadows amnesty deal
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Austin EkeindePort Harcourt, Nigeria - A crime wave in Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt blamed on former militants has shut the university and forced residents to flee, raising questions ab (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Corruption - Waziri Canvasses Death Penalty
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Samuel Aruwan and Lilian AgihKaduna/Abuja - Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has stated that only the Chinese style of capital punishment for corrupt (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Baha'i Faith is On Trial in Iran
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Devapriyo DasLast October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.Convicted of a string of offences, including "spreading corruption on earth", "espionage for Israel" and "in (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Zim farmers a boost for Nigeria
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Hannington OsodoShonga, Nigeria - When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water a (By News Poster)... | World: Problems await on Obama's return
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Washington- After an Asia tour lacking the fanfare of past trips, US President Barack Obama returned home to a gloomy set of problems that refuse to go away: Afghanistan, soaring unemployment, trundli (By News Poster)... |
Southern Africa: SADC Aids Fiesta Set for Malawi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - The second edition of Sadc Artists Aids Festival is scheduled for Lilongwe in Malawi starting on November 30 until December 6, 2009.The festival is a regional initiati (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Mengo Loses Battle On Land Bill
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Edris KiggunduAs debate on the controversial Land Amendment Bill 2007 takes centre stage in Parliament, Buganda Kingdom is resigned to the fact that its protracted opposition to this Bill will not (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Make Farm Leases Bankable
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Harare - THE 99-year leases for farms allocated under the Land Reform Programme have been attacked for being non-transferable by sale, voluntary or forced, and thus rendered useless as collateral for (By News Poster)... | Kenya: Piracy Attacks on Grain Vessels Hit Flour Production
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Githua Kihara and Gitonga MareteA wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.Fears over shortage of the commodity follows rising attacks by the hijackers who (By News Poster)... |