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Zimbabwe?s bishops take off the gloves
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…
Zim?s rule of law ?alive and well?
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…
Yengeni ?summonsed to explain assets?
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…
?Let?s make a deal?
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,…
SA?s rich should ?ease poverty burden?
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…
ANC ?behaving like thugs?, says Max
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…
ANC declares war on ?racist? Max
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…
Death bus driver ?pressed accelerator?
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…
SA?s Khoisan demand their rights
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…
Global warming? Not on Bush?s planet
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…
Govt ?clueless’ on unemployment levels
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…
I do not like pink eggs and ham ?
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 ?on the rise?
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”.…
Sudan?s oil fields become killing fields
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…
Farmer vows to fight state ?land grab?
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…