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With about two weeks to go before key elections in Zimbabwe, some rights groups and the police say the campaign thus far has been largely spared of the political violence that marred the 2000 and 2002 polls. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change, however, maintains that a campaign of intimidation continues unabated.
Police on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar have arrested 18 people in connection with weekend political violence that left more than two dozen people injured, officials said on Tuesday. According to witnesses, about 100 police officers overnight on Monday raided homes of people suspected of involvement in Sunday’s rioting.
Antananarivo | Wednesday AT least two people have been killed in the Madagascan port city of Toamasina in clashes between supporters of rival politicians who both claim they are president, a Western source said on Wednesday. The source, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said the deaths occurred on Tuesday. Opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana, […]
Politically motivated violence appears to be decreasing in Zimbabwe, according to the latest report by a local human rights group.
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/ 12 October 2000
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Thurssday ZIMBABWE’S blanket amnesty for politically motivated crimes committed before this year’s parliamentary elections is a green light for political violence in the run-up to presidential elections, analysts say. President Robert Mugabe’s order, issued last week, does not cover serious crimes such as murder and rape, but critics are already warning […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM THE Human Rights Committee on Thursday told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that between 1960 and 1989, at least 1 750 children died in political violence in SA, and another 517 were killed between 1990 and April 1994. Addressing special commission hearings on child and youth victims in Johannesburg, the committee added that […]
In this episode, veteran journalist Paddy Harper and political journalist Lizeka Tandwa chat to Mawethu Mosery and Vasu Gounden about riots and the elections
The gender-based violence pandemic in South Africa is fuelled by outdated patriarchal attitudes and frequently by binge drinking
The ANC, DA and EFF have spoken out against the escalating violence and apparent deterioration of race relations across SA’s universities.
The politics here should be the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex politics of ending the scourge of hate crimes.