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ZIMBABWE?S Roman Catholic bishops have lashed out at President Robert Mugabe’s government, and denounced the 15-month campaign of violence led by liberation war veterans loyal to…
THE Zimbabwe government has described as “uncorroborated” a report by an international panel of high-ranking lawyers who said that democracy and the rule of law in the country…
TONY Yengeni, chief whip of the ANC in Parliament, was apparently six weeks ago ordered by the investigation teams into alleged irregularities in the R43bn arms deal to present…
THE SA government and pharmaceutical companies have reached agreement over the issue of pricing of Aids drugs, the Swiss Interpharma association was reported as saying in Basle,…
PAN Africanist Congress President Dr Stanley Mogoba says a poverty eradication tax is critical for all South Africans to be comfortable, calling poverty a time bomb which “might…
PUBLIC threats directed at a journalist is the behaviour expected of thugs in Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, and not of a spokesman of the African National Congress, says the…
THE African National Congress has accused prominent journalist Max du Preez of being a racist for saying that President Thabo Mbeki is a womaniser, accused him of ”irresponsible…
THE driver of a bus which crashed in eastern South Africa in September 1999, killing 27 British tourists and a South African tour guide, pressed the accelerator instead of the…
SLAUGHTERED by colonists, ruthlessly oppressed by South Africa’s apartheid regime and marginalised under the country’s young democracy, South Africa’s indigenous people, once…
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have reacted with fury and dismay to a White House decision not to back the Kyoto Protocol on global warming – a deal previously agreed by the Clinton…
SOUTH Africa’s largest trade union body, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has pooh-poohed official statistics which suggest that the unemployment rate stands…
NAMIBIA?S President Sam Nujoma has called on police to arrest, deport and imprison gays and lesbians, saying homosexual behaviour was not permitted despite the country’s liberal…
HUMAN rights abuses, especially racism and xenophobia, are on the increase worldwide, says UN human rights chief Mary Robinson, who attacks Europe for becoming a “fortress”.…
THE British-based charity Christian Aid has launched damning allegations of atrocities by Sudanese government forces and sponsored militias, who they say are mounting a…
THE Mpumalanga farmer who has become the first person in the country to have his land seized for redistribution has vowed to exhaust all legal avenues in fighting the…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has slammed major tobacco companies for continuing to market cigarettes to the world’s youth. Speaking at an All Africa meeting on tobacco…
A SOUTH African-born Presbyterian missionary who accused the Zimbabwean government of involvement in the killings of two white parishioners has left the country after authorities…
MOZAMBIQUE?S disastrous floods are an alarm call on climate change, the environment group Greenpeace said this week as it urged European countries to take the lead in ratifying…
ZIMBABWE?S official daily newspaper says British gay activist Peter Tatchell, who was beaten by security guards while trying to ”arrest” President Robert Mugabe in Belgium, was…
NAMIBIA, an ally of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is to follow the lead of Uganda and Rwanda and begin withdrawing its troops from the country, says a foreign ministry…
