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: 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: 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)... |
"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)... | 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)... | 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)... |
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)... |
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)... | Africa: Lawyers accuse Harare police of court stunt
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Lawyers for senior MDC official Roy Bennett on Thursday accused Zimbabwe's police of parading in court weapons not related to his terrorism trial in a bid to whip up publ (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)... | Rhodesia - A Poem
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Jacarandas, blue tinged trees,
Laughing children, all say please.
Smiling nannies loud and chatting,
Queens Club cricket, Rhodies batting.
Braais and picnics, Maleme Dam,
Tanganda tea and Colcom (By Gairk)... |
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)... | 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)... |
Zimbabwe: Land Policy Framework Vital
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Allen ChorumaHarare - The land issue is the very cornerstone of our political, socio-economic system in Zimbabwe. The primary objective of the liberation struggle was to address the historical imba (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Don't Politicise Food Aid - WFP
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - THE World Food Programme has warned agents distributing its food in Zimbabwe to desist from interfering in the country's politics, ordering them to carry out their operations t (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Zimbabweans 'not chess pawns'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Breede Municipality mayor Charles Ntsomi wants displaced Zimbabweans to be reintegrated into the volatile De Doorns community within the next week.But an organisation fighting for refugee rights says (By News Poster)... | Of Ghost Voters
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Zimbabwe: No Rest for Fortune
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wellington Zimbowa and Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - DEAD men tell no tales, but not so for Fortune Muparutsa whose family wants him to "tell" them how he died.Some of the artiste's family members (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Shifting Blame Won't Help
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - HERE we go again. Just weeks after the last Western Cape refugee camp was closed and the few remaining victims of last year's xenophobic attacks were either repatriated or reintegrated (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Locals Jeer, Swear at Zimbabweans
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Natasha PrinceLocal farmworkers in De Doorns jeered and shouted obscenities this morning as they drove past a rugby field that has become the temporary home of nearly 2 500 Zimbabweans chased from (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Lawyer chases Selebi witness for second case
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A lawyer briefly interrupted former police chief Jackie Selebi's corruption trial on Thursday when he said he wanted to serve papers on a witness.State officials in the High Court in Johannesburg resp (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Zim withdraws troops from diamond fields
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported on Thursda (By News Poster)... | S.Africa: Exporting White Farmer – from the Frying pan into the fire
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre – the country’s population is 48 million and rising, while a small coterie of 37 000 farmers provides food not only for this number (By JanOlifant)... |
Air Zimbabwe flight crashes into bush pig
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A statement from the Transport Ministry said last week that one of Air Zimbabwe's Chinese-made MA60 60-seaters had sustained damage to its nose, wingtip and propeller after hitting the animal.
Howe (By JanOlifant)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-11-2009)
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Howzit
Among the list of obstacles that face the unity government, there is the appointment of the Attorney-General (who spent most of this week in court prosecuting Roy Bennett - and who was havin (By The BeardedMan)... |
Zimbabwe: Army, Police Leave Chiadzwa
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Sydney KawadzaChiadzwa - Government has started withdrawing State security agents deployed to secure the Chiadzwa diamond fields as part of measures to comply with the Kimberley Process Certificati (By News Poster)... | Opinion: The Negative Effects of Foreign Aid
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By James ShikwatiHarare - I COME from Africa, a resource-rich continent which is depicted as poor by conventional development statistics -- so as to justify foreign aid. Aid has driven Africans to los (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: President Hails FAO
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - President Mugabe has thanked the Food and Agriculture Organisation for assisting Zimbabwe boost household food security through a US$70 million input facility targeting smallho (By News Poster)... | South Africa: De Doorns refugees need our help - Red Cross
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The Red Cross has launched a R2-million appeal for emergency support for xenophobia refugees at De Doorns in the Western Cape."The South African Red Cross Society calls on South Africans to stand toge (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Harare bank reform bill passed
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic cri (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Germany Protests Attack of Priest by Soldiers
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex BellThe German government has sent a written protest to Zimbabwe over the attack on a German priest by soldiers over the weekend.Father Wolfgang Thamm, who is a priest in Banket, was on a merc (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Inyathi Residents Rally Behind Invaded Farm Owner
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex Bell and Lionel SaungwemeResidents of Inyathi have rallied behind a local farmer whose land has been forcibly seized by a Bulawayo High Court Judge, signing a petition for the farm to be left (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Deadline for Resolving Govt Disunity Looms
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe's feuding political parties look set to miss a monthend deadline set by the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) to conclude outstanding issues of their p (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Uses Food Summit to Lash Out at 'Shopping' Sanctions
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex BellRobert Mugabe once again used an international meeting of high profile delegates to lash out at the West for the targeted 'shopping' sanctions still in place on his regime.Speaking at the (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Cabinet Condemns Attacks on Zimbabweans
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Pretoria - Cabinet has expressed its deep concern about the spate of attacks on foreign nationals at De Doorns in the Boland.Hundreds of foreigners were forced to flee their homes in informal settleme (By News Poster)... |