Zimbabwean police have arrested 12 opposition supporters in the eastern border town of Mutare on public-violence charges, a state-run daily reported on Friday. The <i>Herald</i> quoted police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka as saying the activists were arrested following a tip-off from members of the public.
The first wind farm in South Africa, which produces electricity from wind power, was switched on by Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica in Darling in the Western Cape on Friday, the Central Energy Fund said. The R75-million project is the first ”green energy” initiative in the country to produce electricity from wind power on a commercial basis.
Award-winning gospel star Vuyo Mokoena has died, his record company, Big Fish Music, confirmed on Friday. According to Big Fish Music, Mokoena died at 5.30am on Friday. Mokoena was admitted to hospital after experiencing blinding headaches. Tests subsequently revealed that he had developed a brain tumour.
The overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize were announced on May 18.
Somali pirates have released a Jordanian-flagged cargo ship hijacked last week off the lawless coast of the Horn of Africa nation, a shipping agent said on Friday. The Victoria, owned by a United Arab Emirates company, was carrying 4 200 tonnes of sugar in humanitarian aid sent from Denmark to the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Mozambican authorities have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the Limpopo River valley near Kruger National Park after one of the floodgates on a dam on the river broke. The breakage, which occurred despite recent repairs on the dam, comes as it fills to unseasonally high levels.
The machete generation The machine gun and machete generation has arrived. The age of terror and idiocy is upon us. These marauding gangs embrace and glorify violence as a solution to our social ills. They feed on propaganda and exploit people’s fears. I first saw them in Kenya’s Rift Valley. They come under different guises […]
Mozambique said on Friday it had beefed up security at South Africa’s embassy in Maputo to prevent any retaliation over the xenophobic violence that has engulfed Johannesburg townships. ”We are taking measures to prevent retaliatory action by furious Mozambicans,” police spokesperson Arnaldo Chefo said.
Postcolonial novels dominate the judges’ selection of some of the most revered novels of the past 40 years, writes Charlotte Higgins.
Uncontrollable and unpredictable fuel and capital costs were key principals in the proposed 53% electricity tariff increase, Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga said on Friday. ”The volatility that we see we cannot absorb as a company,” Maroga said at the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s public hearings in Pretoria.