South Africa: Police push quieter Joburg CBD
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Central Johannesburg is notorious for robberies, pickpockets and violent crime, and on Friday the police added another to their list of headaches - noise."It's too loud," yells Superintendent Cedric O (By News Poster)... | Science: 'This cancer disease is worse than malaria'
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Katrina MansonDar Es Salaam - So crammed is Tanzania's only cancer treatment centre that Rukia Kondogoza, wrapped in bright kanga cloth, has to share her bed with another patient.A farmer from the (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Alleged killers were promised cash - police
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: A 40-year-old woman and seven other people will appear in the Middelburg Magistrate's Court on Friday for the murder of her husband, Mpumalanga police said.Captain Leonard Hlathi said Adelaide Hlongwa (By News Poster)... | Tanzania: Nine-Year-Old Girl Killed In Cold Blood
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Edward SelasiniArusha - A nine year old female pupil of Ndoombo primary school in Arumeru district, Happiness Ombeni has been killed by two youths also of the same village after repeatedly raping h (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Man accused of killing his children
Sunday 01-Nov-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's state media say a man allegedly killed three of his children with an ax and wounded two others in what police describe as Zimbabwe's most brutal crime in recent years.The (By News Poster)... | South Africa: How Halloween splits the faithful
Saturday 31-Oct-2009: For many people Halloween is a harmless opportunity to dress up and have fun, but for some it has far more serious import.Some fundamentalist Christian groups condemn the event, which takes place on S (By Jan)... |
Media, Politics And Elections
Thursday 29-Oct-2009: By DR Rukee TjingaeteSOMETIMES when we remain inside the box, any small hole in that box becomes the only windowpane that helps to shape the social reality that we perceive to exist outside the box. A (By Jan)... | Uganda: Judge Rejects DNA Test Over Ritual Murder
Wednesday 14-Oct-2009: By Hillary Nsambu and Ali MambuleMasaka - THE High Court in Masaka has rejected a forensic report by a government analyst in a notorious ritual murder case, arguing that the Police forms requesting fo (By Jan)... |
Uganda: Torture Tops Rights Abuses
Tuesday 13-Oct-2009: By Josephine MaserukaKampala - Torture tops the list of human rights abuses registered by the Uganda Human Rights Commission in 2008.According to the annual report, released yesterday, torture account (By Jan)... | South Africa: 'Let me take revenge for my son'
Wednesday 07-Oct-2009: The father of a man who was decapitated and had his genitals slashed off for muti wants the government to allow him to do the same to his son's killers.Wireless Banda, 79, was speaking exclusively to (By Jan)... |
Zambia: Donor Funds' Withdrawal Hurts Mpulungu HIV/Aids Patients
Friday 02-Oct-2009: IN May 2009, a number of donors froze their foreign aid to Zambia's Health ministry following allegations of corruption. Barely four months down the line, the impact of the donor funds' suspension is (By Jan)... | Zimbabwe: Foetus Vanishes From Dead Woman's Womb
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - IN a suspected case of witchcraft, a foetus was found missing from the womb of a 22-year-old Mutorashanga woman who died under mysterious circumstances while seven months pre (By Jan)... |
Tanzania: Albinos Call for Public Hanging of Murderers
Thursday 24-Sep-2009: The Tanzania Albino Society (TAS) has called for the public execution of three people who were yesterday sentenced to death for murdering an albino.Masumbuko Madata, 32, Emmanuel Masangwa, 28, and Cha (By Jan)... | South Africa: Stabbing - common form of murder
Tuesday 22-Sep-2009: Just over half of the 18 000 people murdered in South Africa in 2008/09 were stabbed to death, according to the police crime statistics released on Tuesday.And just over half of the murders were due t (By Jan)... |
Uganda: Kawuma's HIV Drive Saves Thousands
Tuesday 22-Sep-2009: Kampala - THIS year, to commemorate the World AIDS Day, December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDs, will award individuals who have played a remarkable rol (By Jan)... | Kenya: Human Body Parts Don't Create Wealth
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Nairobi - This week's kidnapping and eventual murder of a six-year-old Sudanese boy, Emmanuel Agwar Adar, in Nairobi was gory as it can be. But they rubbed it on cutting off his tongue.Emmanuel's murd (By Jan)... |
Africa: Man 'severely wounded their private parts '
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Blantyre - A Malawi court Friday jailed a 79-year-old man to eight years with hard labour for witchcraft and assault of four children who refused to be taught sorcery, including one of whom died from (By Jan)... | South Africa: Headless corpse shocks police
Monday 07-Sep-2009: The headless body of a man was found dumped next to a road in Blinkpan, Mpumalanga police said on Monday."The body was found next to the Blinkpan road. The head and both hands were nowhere to be found (By Jan)... |
Zimbabwe: Confessions of a Witching Syndicate . . .
Monday 07-Sep-2009: By Felex ShareHarare - A Chiweshe woman has confessed to dabbling in witchcraft and named 11 other members of her bewitching syndicate six men and five women after being caught leaving the bedroom nak (By Jan)... | South Africa: Devil 'didn't make him do it'
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: By Kanina FossMorne Harmse, 19, was not under the influence of the devil when he took a ninja sword to school and slashed the throat of a fellow pupil.Yesterday, an occult specialist and former head o (By Jan)... |
South Africa: Sword killer 'tried' witchcraft - expert
Wednesday 02-Sep-2009: Sword killer Morne Harmse may not have been a practising satanist, but he was dabbling in the occult. This was according to satanism expert Dr Kobus Jonker, who testified this morning in the pre-sente (By Jan)... | Tanzania: Old Women Bear Brunt of Witchcraft Murders
Friday 28-Aug-2009: By Paulina David And Jane Kajoki MwanzaOver 90 per cent of elderly persons killed in witchcraft-related incidents in Mwanza Region were women, the Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Mr Abbas Kandoro, said (By Jan)... |
Nigeria: Lagos And Self Sufficiency in Fish Production
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Stella OduemeLagos - Fish is an essential food component and one of the cheapest sources of protein. Due to its low cholesterol level, it is medically acceptable to both the young and old. Unfortun (By Jan)... | Nigeria: Mum Gave Me Cocaine, Says Lady Who Killed Her Mother
Thursday 27-Aug-2009: By Bola OjuolaLagos - The 26 year old lady, Adebukola Adefisayo, who was arrested by the police in Lagos on Monday for the murder of her 62 year-old mother whom she accused of wrecking their family wi (By Jan)... |
South Africa: Gang's reign of crime foiled
Wednesday 26-Aug-2009: By Botho MolosankwePolice in Primrose, Germiston, believe they foiled a mall robbery or cash-in-transit heist with the arrest of a man and the confiscation of three fire-arms, including an AK-47. The (By Jan)... | South Africa: Parents in dock after kids killed
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeTwo Pretoria parents will remain behind bars after appearing in separate courts on Monday for allegedly killing their own daughters.Elizabeth Thabethe, 49, who is accused of killing (By Jan)... |
South Africa: Teen sliced from chest to pelvis
Friday 14-Aug-2009: A Pretoria mother was arrested hours after allegedly disembowelling her 12-year-old daughter in a muti-related murder. The 49-year-old Loate resident, who is a sangoma, was arrested yesterday after sh (By Jan)... | Gambia: Halifa Sallah's Letter to President Jammeh On the Six Journalists
Thursday 13-Aug-2009: 11th. August, 2009President of The Republic of The GambiaState HouseBanjul.Mr. President,It is now 3am in the morning. Sleep has surrendered to high level mental alert. Morning has enveloped my mind b (By Jan)... |
Uganda: Thieves Getting Smarter - Kale Kayihura
Monday 10-Aug-2009: Kampala - IN a continuation of last week's interview with the Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, Els De Temmerman and Cyprian Musoke ask him about ritual murders, the 2011 general e (By Jan)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-08-2009)
Monday 10-Aug-2009: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated.
-o00o-
"President Robert Mugabe has offered opposition supremo and Matabeleland leader, Dumiso Dabengwa the vice-presidency left vacant by death of (By The BeardedMan)... |
South Africa: A brutal reality for many
Saturday 08-Aug-2009: It's grotesque to try to pick the worst place in the world to be a woman today, there are so many hells. In the slums of Port-au-Prince, there is so much organised gang rape that half of all women and (By Jan)... | Magistrate Calls for Awareness to Reduce Witchcraft Crime
Saturday 08-Aug-2009: Luanda - The presiding judge of the Luanda Provincial Court, Augusto Escrivão, spoke out of the need for a commission to sensitise the society against the killing of people accused with witchcr (By Jan)... |
Liberia: Remembering Tajudeem And Pondering The Challenge Of Reconciliation
Thursday 06-Aug-2009: Comrades and FriendsToday, we in Liberia, join thousands of pan-Africanists around the world who celebrate and have been celebrating the life and work of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem. Taju, as his friend (By Jan)... | Kenya: Health Alarm as Citizens Troop to Bogus Herbalists
Monday 03-Aug-2009: By Daniel WesangulaNairobi - Thousands of sick and desperate Kenyans are losing money every day in deadly scams operated by self-styled herbal clinicians.In the get-rich-quick schemes, the unscrupulou (By Jan)... |
Science: The secret life of plants revealed
Monday 03-Aug-2009: By Shaun SmillieIt has helped to solve at least one municipal dispute and to identify new species - and now scientists say it is legit.Botanists around the world have agreed on a standard plant DNA ba (By Jan)... | Uganda: Migration, Ignorance Escalate Disease in Karamoja Region
Monday 03-Aug-2009: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - NINENTEEN-year-old Rose Nakoya lies on the floor of her hut covered with a dirty, ragged blanket. A resident of Nangorikipi village in Moroto district, Karamoja, Nakoya (By Jan)... |
Papal Envoy Calls for an End to Witchcraft
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The outgoing papal representative in Angola and Sao Tome & Principe, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, has called for an end to witchcraft accusations against children.During a mass marking the 124th annivers (By Jan)... | South Africa: Headless woman linked to sex ring
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach and Graeme HoskenPolice have made a major breakthrough in their investigation into the gruesome murder of a woman whose headless body was found in a smouldering suitcase in the (By Jan)... |
Explaining Globalism: Beautiful Hoaxes and Gorgeous Lies: Women just can't resist LOVE beautiful lies...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [I often get emails from women with all sorts of extremely beautiful or heart-rending stories that could make you just want to break down and cry. I've seen thousands of these emails by now and below (By Jan)... | Africa: Five convicted over albino killings
Thursday 23-Jul-2009: Bujumbura - Burundi has condemned one person to life in prison and four others to jail sentences for murdering albinos and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft, a court said on Thursday.The (By Jan)... |