City Plane Crash Victims Named
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - THE names of the three people who were killed when a plane crashed after take-off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on Sunday were released by the Namibian Police yesterday.The p (By News Poster)... | 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)... |
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)... |
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)... | 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)... |
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)... |
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)... |
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)... |
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: 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)... |
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)... | 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)... |
South Africa: Govt Will Not Tolerate Attacks on Foreign Nationals - Gigaba
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has reiterated that government will not tolerate any form of violent attack on people from other countries.He said South Af (By News Poster)... | Africa: Children killed by old Mozambican bomb
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A Mozambican newspaper reported on Friday that three children had been killed and two seriously injured in northern Mozambique after accidentally exploding a mortar bomb left over from the country's w (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Cops seize 50 000 pirated DVDs
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Six people were arrested after about 50 000 pirated DVDs were found in a warehouse in Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg, police said on Friday.The find was made during a police raid on a house on Thursd (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Bloody end to trail of terror
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Gallery: Botched robbery in Pretoria By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterA six-hour Pretoria robbery rampage in which several homeowners were attacked and two security guards seriously injured was brought (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Gales, storms leave 7 dead
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Gallery: KwaZulu-Natal battered by heavy rains By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Kamini PadayacheeSeven people died in strong winds and heavy rain that lashed KwaZulu-Natal yesterday. Roads and rivers were fl (By News Poster)... | Africa: Tsvangirai and Gaddafi set for talks
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Field is temporary home for De Doorns folk
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The De Doorns xenophobia victims would remain camped out on a sports field in the town for the weekend, the South African Human Rights Commission's Western Cape manager said on Thursday.Talks were con (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Teenager jailed for raping siblings
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tania BroughtonAn Umzinto teenager who raped his brother and two sisters because he was angry that his father had been jailed - also for raping the two girls - has been sent to prison for 10 years. (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Zuma shocked by settlement grime
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Thursday described the conditions at the Madelakufa informal settlement in Tembisa as "very bad"."The situation here is very bad. As we've seen, the place is dirty," Zuma said (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Alleged robber killed during shooting
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A suspected robber was shot dead and another was wounded in a shootout with police in Centurion, Pretoria police said on Thursday.Inspector Aveline Hardaker said police received a complaint of a house (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By John Allen and Adiel IsmailCape Town - Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country (By News Poster)... | South Africa: The Shameless Rian Malan
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: One of South Africa's foremost AIDS activists Nathan Geffen points out the many errors in Rian Malan's denialist writings.In 2001, Rian Malan wrote an article in Rolling Stone questioning the accuracy (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Consequences of Less Funding for Aids - Living With Aids # 413
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Khopotso BodibeThanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries (By News Poster)... | One Killed as Chopper Goes Down
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tileni Mongudhi and Werner MengesA HELICOPTER training flight ended in a deadly crash between Windhoek and Okahandja yesterday afternoon.In the second fatal aircraft accident in the Windhoek area i (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Tutu lashes out at some in the ANC
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Quinton MtyalaDecrying the public discourse as abysmal and putrid, Nobel Peace laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lashed out at some within the ANC."It's nostril-pinching stuff," said Tu (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Weapons Theft Stokes Fears of Instability
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Harare - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instabil (By News Poster)... |