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Zimbabwe’s opposition is steeling itself for defeat in this week’s parliamentary elections as new allegations emerge of plans to rig the ballot. Veteran observers such as Pius Ncube, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, believe the opposition has already lost the election.
In an interview with the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson on Sunday, Michael Jackson suggested that he was just the latest in a litany of ”black luminaries” to be unjustly accused, citing the former South African president Nelson Mandela and the former world heavyweight champions Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson.
The African National Congress has described media reports that the murder of Noby Ngomane, Free State premier Beatrice Marshoff’s special adviser, was plotted by ANC comrades, as ”rubbish”. The ANC said on Sunday that the media were ”creating a decoy” in the investigation of Ngomane’s death.
Limpopo police are seeking a court interdict to prevent the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) from staging demonstrations at the Beitbridge South African-Zimbabwean border crossing on Wednesday. Police spokesperson say they fear the march would disturb traffic and road safety in the area.
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It is a question being asked with ever greater urgency in the upper echelons of the Roman Catholic hierarchy: to what extent will Pope John Paul II’s legacy to the church be a clone of himself? The Pope’s suffering has prompted speculation over the direction in which his successor will take the church.
Baron Freytag von Loringhoven is the only survivor among the close advisers of the Führer. For many years a Germany steeped in guilt did not want to hear his story. Now it has taken a French publisher, Perrin, to release Dans le Bunker de Hitler — his unique account of the days leading up to the suicide of the Führer.
Another referee is suspected of involvement in Germany’s match-fixing scandal, the soccer sports court investigating the affair said Saturday. Felix Zwayer, a witness in the case, is accused of holding back information and failing to tell investigators he was sounded out by a fellow referee to help influence a match.
Four people died on Saturday from an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the provincial hospital of Uige in northern Angola, bringing the total nation-wide death toll to 119 in less than six months. Until now the most serious outbreak of the disease was in the DRC where 123 people died between 1998-2000.
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Bulawayo’s outspoken Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube has openly called for a Ukraine-style ”peaceful popular mass uprising” by Zimbabweans to oust President Robert Mugabe, the Sunday Independent newspaper reported. Commenting on Thursday’s poll, Ncube said: ”No way will elections kick him out.