A holiday in Jo’burg? Sure, there’s no better way to escape the beach-bound crowds, reports Justin Pearce.
Cazombo sprawls along both sides of the single street that runs from the airstrip, past an echoing school and hospital building, to the oldest part of town where tile-roofed…
Thursday was No Car Day in Jo’burg, an initiative by the Metro Council that was greeted with incredulity by the car-owning classes.Writing this on Tuesday, I don’t know whether…
"I am not separated from my husband — we were separated only by the police." Matilda* (59) has spent the past month in a village amid the dry bush of Matabeleland North. She is…
As police officer Simangaliso Patrick Simelane went on trial this week over the alleged torture last year of four Landless People’s Movement activists, questions remained about…
The continuing flow of arms from neighbouring countries into the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo threatens the fragile peace in that region, Amnesty International…
Like Bill Clinton and the Starr Commission during the Monica Lewinsky affair, this week’s dispute between AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) turned on what…
When Domingos Silva left the Angolan army, he returned to his home village and enrolled for classes. At the age of 36, he says, ‘I decided to take the opportunity to learn to…
As the death toll from the Marburg epidemic in Angola passed 200, it emerged that cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever had been present in the country since October last year.…
Mozambique’s highest constitutional body this week rejected on technical grounds an opposition request to reconsider the results of the December general election, which the…
"It is dark. We have taken five days to get here from Johannesburg, and our arrival in Cuito Cuanavale is going to be delayed by another day. The plan is to drive to the site of…
"We need Renamo to see what they will bring," says Asahel Bin Dando Ossene who, along with most other people on Mozambique Island, survives by fishing. "For 20 years we had…
When former Unita soldier Pedro da Silva disembarked from an army truck at Kituma, he thought it was going to be an overnight stop. That was in January and he is still there.
Trying to get at the separatist rebels in Cabinda, the Angolan army has been using rape and torture against the residents of the area. For the past six months the Angolan Armed…
Three months ago Calala was just a forest. Now it is home to 4 500 people living in solidly constructed huts. Calala is one of the 34 quartering centres set up around the country…
<B>CINEMA: </B>Shallow Graves
