Zim: EU split over Mugabe sanctions
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Denmark and Germany supported softening the sanctions regime By Basildon Peta in BrusselsDivisions have rocked the European Union about whether to renew targeted measures against Robert Mugabe (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Man held for murder of Reverend's wife
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the brutal murder of a Bothasig woman.Nonkosi Makananda, 54, was stabbed several times and died at her Bothasig home on Friday.Superintendent (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Orphanage fire kills 15
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Fifteen people including at least eight children were burnt to death at an orphanage outside Newcastle on Tuesday, the KwaZulu-Natal department of social development said.Another nine children were ta (By News Poster)... | Zim: Judge tells SA to pay for Mugabe sins
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: "I see no reason why the South African government cannot apply the necessary pressure" By Karen BreytenbachThe South African government has been hauled over the coals by a Pretoria High Court (By News Poster)... |
Zim: Civil servants strike forces postponement of Bennett trial
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Negotiations between government and union leaders ended in deadlock on Friday By Tichaona SibandaHigh Court workers on Monday joined the civil servants strike that started last week on Friday (By News Poster)... | South Africa: 'Rude family attacked by cops'
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Megan BaadjiesA Young Flats man says cops ruined the most important night of his life.Charl Diedericks was about to accept his key during his 21st birthday celebration on Saturday when he claims po (By News Poster)... |
Police Nab Armed Robbery Suspects
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: The police have arrested three Batswana men aged between 26 and 52 years for robbing Botswana Post of over P356, 000 cash along Kgagodi/Maunatlala road on Tuesday.The Botswana Post vehicle was transpo (By News Poster)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-02-2010)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Howzit
You may recall that I was a little irked at the US$100 bail for a murder suspect - a senior police officer who had shot a man dead in Bulawayo a few years back - and I am in a position this (By The BeardedMan)... |
What Are the Presidents Mumbling About?
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Rampholo MolefheThe Botswana Guardian of Friday 29 January report that former President, Festus Mogae, was at one time confronted by Louis Nchindo, the former managing director of Debswana, who wan (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: The Offer From Al-Qaeda
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Lagos - We were shocked and alarmed that an al Qaeda group has offered to train and arm Nigerian muslim groups to fight perceived enemies in the country. We are, however, comforted by the swift assura (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Zuma calls off Gugs visit at last minute (Page 1 of 2)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Carien Du plessis and Gaye DavisPolitical BureauA planned walkabout by President Jacob Zuma in Gugulethu was abruptly cancelled on Monday, but the ANC denied the reason was because of threatened pr (By News Poster)... | Sudan: Hague Court Attacks Prosecution Evidence as 'Weak,' 'Unreliable'
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: The International Criminal Court has described evidence against a Darfur rebel leader accused of an attack on African Union peacekeepers variously as "weak", "scant" and "unreliable."A Pre-Trial Chamb (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Odinga Seeks More Powers
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Francis MureithiNairobi - FRUSTRATED by President Kibaki's laid-back style in dealing with corrupt ministers, Prime Minister Raila Odinga now intends to amass more powers to deal with culprits hims (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Business Group Takes Climate Plunge
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - BUSINESS Unity SA (Busa) had undertaken to establish a high-level think-tank to contribute to continuing climate change negotiations, the organisation said yesterday. (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Mozambican Shot
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Harare - A notorious Mozambican criminal who twice escaped from lawful custody in Zimbabwe was last week shot and seriously injured in Gaza Province.Richard Kumba (35) a convicted robber who still ha (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Botswana Rangers to Face the Law
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Harare - Harare is committed to maintaining cordial diplomatic relations with Gaborone but the three armed Batswana game rangers recently arrested in the Kazungula area on allegations of illegally ent (By News Poster)... |
Top Cops Fined in Theft Trial
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesTHE theft trial of the suspended Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police's Special Branch, Commissioner Nelomba Lotti Uusiku, and a former high-ranking colleague, retired Commissione (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Angloplat to Cut Debt in R12,5bn Share Sale
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - ANGLO Platinum (Angloplat) - the world's largest miner of the precious metal - yesterday announced plans to launch SA's biggest rights issue to date to cut its mounting lo (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Crime And Poverty 'Not Correlated'
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - VIOLENT crime is not necessarily linked to high poverty rates, according to a new report from the South African Institute of Race Relations.SA has one of the world's (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: 60 MDC-T Members Arrested
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Thupeyo MuleyaHarare - Nearly 60 MDC-T members were arrested on Saturday after a district meeting degenerated into fistfights as internecine strife continues to dog the party.Riot police were calle (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: South African Talks Team Arrives in Harare
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Violet GondaThe inter-party negotiations between the political partners in government over the implementation of outstanding issues re-started on Monday evening, after being adjourned on January 21 (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Two SA Companies Align to Develop Country's Gold Deposits
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Harare - SOUTH Africa-based privately owned mining house Clarity Capital has formed an alliance with a subsidiary of the JSE-listed Aveng group, E+PC Engineering & Projects, to develop certain mineral (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Putting Land Reform to Rest
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Fidelis MunyoroHarare - About three years ago the full bench of Zimbabwe's Supreme Court confirmed the legality of the Land Reform Programme as implemented under the supreme law of the country.Howe (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Criminal elements blamed for looting
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Criminals, and not legitimate protesters, were responsible for the looting and torching of property during the protests in Balfour, a man identifying himself as a community leader said on Tuesday."We (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Jail Yengeni officer, urge cops (Page 1 of 2)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Michelle JonesWhile a correctional services officer has recommended correctional supervision for the former Goodwood police station commissioner, two senior police officers feel he should be jailed (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Further hitch in Selebi graft trial (Page 1 of 2)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Alex EliseevThe judge in whose hands Jackie Selebi's fate rests was adamant last week he wanted no delays in clearing the final hurdle to the resumption of the former police chief's trial on corrup (By News Poster)... |
Namibia: Police Mum About Escaped Murderer
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Adam HartmanTHE Police were not willing to reveal any information yesterday about the escape of one of the suspects arrested for the murder of the Kruger farming couple in March 2009.Police spokesp (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Victim fears airport staff helped with theft
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: The owners of OR Tambo International Airport are investigating the theft of a woman's bag as she checked in, and a later theft from her bank account using her stolen bank cards, a company spokesman sa (By News Poster)... |
Rumour or Fact: Will FNB - First National Bank - bring us PayPal in April? I mentioned this before anyone else...
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: [A friend sent me this newsletter in which the topic was whether Paypal was going to be brought to South Africa. They claim this started spreading around on Twitter in December 2009. I mentioned this (By Jan)... | Uganda: Minister Pleads to Kabaka Over Land
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Francis KagoloKampala - Part of the Kigo Prison complex, which the Kabaka wants the Government to relocate Part of the Kigo Prison complex, which the Kabaka wants the Government to relocate.KIGO Pr (By News Poster)... |
Sierra Leone: The Death Penalty - Where Christian Abolitionists Have Got It All Wrong
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Idrissa Salam ContehFreetown - I have been first inspired to write on this topic for three reasons: Firstly, I have realized that most Christians do not understand the Bible. Secondly I have been d (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Judge tells SA to pay for Mugabe sins (Page 1 of 2)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Karen BreytenbachThe South African government has been hauled over the coals by a Pretoria High Court judge for not protecting its citizens from Robert Mugabe's land expropriations.The government w (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: PICS:Knives more popular than guns - Cele
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Gallery: Police destroy 10 000 gunsBy Nompumelelo MagwazaKnives have overtaken guns as the favoured weapon of criminals since police stepped up operations to recover stolen and illegal firearms. This (By News Poster)... | South Africa: 'Ancestors told me to eat flesh'
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Shaun Smillie and African Eye News ServiceA cooked human head, a liver and a basket full of entrails were what police officers found when they searched the North West home of a man who claimed to h (By News Poster)... |
Africa: More of the same on Zim coalition anniversary (Page 1 of 3)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: When any section of the Zimbabwe civil service goes on strike, the usual retort from the long-suffering public is: "How do you tell the difference?"A year after the heady inauguration of the country's (By News Poster)... | South Africa: PICS: Children spearhead violent protest (Page 1 of 3)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: Gallery: Balfour service delivery protest Children set municipal offices alight, destroyed foreign-owned shops and tore down infrastructure as Siyathemba township in Balfour, Mpumalanga, was left bur (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Plett woman says cop raped her
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Luvuyo MjekulaA Plettenberg Bay guest house owner has accused a Kynsna policeman of raping her while his colleague allegedly held her down.The 32-year-old woman told the police she had gone to a Ky (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Winnie calms cops versus cops demo (Page 1 of 2)
Tuesday 09-Feb-2010: By Nontobeko MtshaliWinnie Madikizela-Mandela can still command a crowd.All it took to calm tensions and violence between protesting police reservists and police officers at Beyers Naude Square in cen (By News Poster)... |
A Look At Budget Expectations ...
Monday 08-Feb-2010: By Rampholo MolefheThe immediate task of the February budget will be to point the nation in the direction of the economic activities that will assist recovery from the global recession of the past few (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Nigeria's Fuel of Pains
Monday 08-Feb-2010: By Luke OkoroLagos - Dr. Rilwanu Lukman is the minister of petroleum resources. He had occupied the same position 20 and three years ago, in 1987, under the regime of the ,military president, General (By News Poster)... |