South Africa: Backers of Media Bill Had 'Hands in the Till'
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - SOME of the greatest proponents of the controversial Protection of Information Bill had been caught with their "hands in the till", Govin Reddy, a Stellenbosch Univ (By News Poster)... | Africa: 'Theft of Genetic Resources'
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Hilaire AvrilParis - The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issu (By News Poster)... |
Namibia: A Chronically Insecure NUNW Must Change its Tone and Body Language
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Alfredo Tjiurimo HengariLIKE many things in our country, the labour movement is chronically insecure. It is insecure because it does not have an independent identity. It is insecure because Union l (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: Govt to Cut Prices After Mass Arrests of Rioters
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Mozambique will reverse an increase in the price of bread and other essentials that sparked the violent riots that left 13 dead and more than 400 injured last week. Police have arrested 286 people for (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Utility Poised to Buy Renewable Energy
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM could start buying power from renewable energy sources as early as next month even though the Independent Systems and Market Operator has yet to be established, a (By News Poster)... | South Africa: 'No Reason' to Subject Banks to Stress Tests
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - TWO of SA's top four banks do not believe local lenders should be subjected to stress tests carried out on some international lenders, which have been dismissed in Europ (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Further Bank Regulations 'Necessary'
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - BANKING experts yesterday agreed that further regulation is necessary in the wake of the upheaval caused by the financial crisis, but cautioned against a one-size-fits-a (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Wits Gold Closer to its Shallow Mine Target
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - WITS Gold has struck two deals with Harmony Gold worth a total of R336m to enlarge an exploration project in the Free State which will further its ambitions of building (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Warning of Land Hurdle to Eskom's Expansion
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Wyndham Hartley and Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - Eskom is struggling to secure land for its expanding transmission system and this could put its long-term build programme and the entire electricity (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Winemaker Takes Land Bank to Constitutional Court
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Hopewell Radebe and Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - WINEMAKER Nicolas Krone and his company, Twee Jonge Gezellen, are taking a dispute with the Land Bank to the Constitutional Court to challenge the pr (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Reserve Bank Uses Long-Term Swaps in Building Reserves
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE Reserve Bank used a newly employed tool to step up its accumulation of gold and foreign exchange reserves last month, boosting net reserves 1,2%, official data showed y (By News Poster)... | S.Africa: SEIZE THE MINES!!!! IMPORTANT: Nelson Mandela's REAL LEGACY - Julius Malema is TRUE TO IT!
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: [Here is another news report that points out that Julius Malema is TRUE TO NELSON MANDELA'S LEGACY and that he will fight for the nationalisation of the mines.
For the record: Malema talks out his (By Jan)... |
S.Africa: Julius Malema fires awesome broadside into President Zuma - TELLING THE TRUTH!!!! - Malema is RIGHT!!!!
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: [This is flipping AWESOME!! One of my friends found this one and I have to comment on it.
President Zuma is going... going... GONE! If Zuma fights Malema then Zuma is shooting down what the ANC st (By Jan)... | US: [14 Pics] Great American FREE SPEECH... He's back...... Casa D'Ice strikes again!
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010:  [Jennifer sent this one. Its awesome. I was counting the number of letters this guy uses. With that board he has approximately as much space as a normal cell phone SMS (Text message): 160 characters.
(By Jan)... |
Military History: Strange facts about West Point - The Greatest Thinkers were Military Men...
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: [Some time back I posted an article wherein I wrote about “The End of History”.
Judy, whose husband is a retired US Army Colonel (who also fought in Vietnam) sent me some comments below. My own co (By Jan)... | Nigeria: SIM Card Registration - As the Uncertainty Continues
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: The order by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to telecom operators in the country to begin the registration of all new SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards, did not come to many as a surp (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Nomadic Communities Struggle to Access PMTCT
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Samburu - Nomadic Kenyan women who test positive for HIV but live in remote areas far from the nearest health facility are missing out on the opportunity to prevent their children from becoming infect (By News Poster)... | Goat Heads And Palm Wine Highlight SADC Integration
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Delegates to the 30th Jubilee Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government were served a cuisine of goat heads and exotic palm wine all produced by local Namibians. This was n (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: On the Border of Real Transformation
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Thupeyo MuleyaHarare - Soon after independence, the Government undertook to develop all areas that were previously viewed as remote by successive settler regimes.Very few people would remember when (By News Poster)... | Learning From South Africa's Strike
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Leonard GentleThe public sector strike has been suspended. But whether the unions accept the state's latest offer or not, this strike may well be (and these things we are almost always fated to s (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: National HIV Testing Campaign Stalls
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Manzini - South Africa, home to the world's largest HIV treatment programme, is trying to pull off the most extensive global HIV testing campaign but the ambitious initiative is facing some daunting r (By News Poster)... | South Africa: National HIV Testing Campaign Disappoints
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: Manzini - South Africa, home to the world's largest HIV treatment programme, is trying to pull off the most extensive global HIV testing campaign but the ambitious initiative is facing some daunting r (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: New Technology Power for the Masses
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Des LathamJohannesburg - As Mozambique, Iran and China have shown, mobile phone text messaging is showing an ability for the poor to mobilize quicklyThirteen people died in protests last week in Mo (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Unity Government Endorsed Decision to Deport Locals From South Africa
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe inclusive government reportedly endorsed a decision by the South African government to end a special dispensation that allowed thousands of Zimbabweans, to enter that country wi (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Freaky Black Logic: Blacks tell me why they vote for failed One Party States...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: I had 2 conversations with 2 different black people that showed me more black logic in action.
On the face of it, Blacks will ALWAYS claim that blacks and whites are EQUAL. Blacks will never deviat (By Jan)... | S.Africa: Black kids among Afrikaans kids - Black man tells me he will educate his children outside SA
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: One black man I know was a teacher earlier in his life. He was even educated in Swaziland and later Zimbabwe. He decided that he wanted to give his kids a great education.
So guess what he did. He (By Jan)... |
Anglo American reaffirms commitment to South Africa in meeting with President Jacob Zuma
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [Some months back, one of our readers, Chantal sent us this news item but did not send the original link.
What I will say is this:
I now have a better understanding of how these Liberals work an (By Jan)... | S.Africa: COPE's New Plan - Reader: Why do Blacks flee ANC rule but vote ANC?
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [This is a note from one of our readers, Old Female - from February. I will write my own comments about the blacks and the ANC. The black logic is NOT what you expect it to be.
A Black man once to (By Jan)... |
S.Africa: A Reader's note: Cassandre Van Rooyen Murder
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [A Reader sent us this. I am not sure what case it refers to. Jan]
The killers of Cassandra was found guilty on the following charges; Accused #1 KEN MAREE - Accessory after the fact; Accused #2 (1 (By Jan)... | S.Africa: Reader: People die because of the horrific state of our roads...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [To our reader: Thanks for your comments. I took have seen first-hand how hideous the tar roads have become once you get away from the major cities. A friend and I ducked and dived - for about 2 1/2 h (By Jan)... |
S.Africa: [Afrikaans] Things are going to get Interesting - Dit gaan nog vrolik raak
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [Flip Buys runs the powerful Afrikaner "free market" Trade Union Solidarity. I once met him briefly some years ago when a friend of mine introduced me to some people in Solidarity.
If someone can (By Jan)... | Kenya: Bank of India Seeks Go-Ahead to Buy Local Firm
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Michael OmondiBank of India has made applications to regulators to be allowed to incorporate as an independent Kenyan bank to pave way for a buyout of a local rival as it races to increase its foot (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: We Can End the War in Somalia
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Maj. Ba-Hoku BarigyeKampala - Going through the internet-based media daily, and especially since the 11/7 tragedy in Kampala, one gets a sense of despair on the long Somali conflict. The feelings a (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Engaging the State
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Mark CutifaniJohannesburg - IN RECENT months, the issue of business engagement in public debate has itself become a matter of public debate. As a relative newcomer to SA, and as a member of both Bu (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: China May Absorb Grain Surplus - Agriculture Ministry
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government yesterday brought hope to grain farmers who are struggling to find alternative markets to dispose of surplus maize following a bumper crop that drove pr (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: UK Firm Hails Economic Prospects
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - London-based Amstel Securities NV says Zimbabwe's economy is "the final frontier market in Africa" and very attractive.Zimbabwe with the potential to grow its GDP to US$12 bil (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Rand May Force Bank's Hand on Rate Cut
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE rand rallied to its strongest level against the dollar in more than two-and-a-half years yesterday, backing arguments in favour of an interest rate cut at the Reserve B (By News Poster)... | S.Africa: Hot off the Press: Some Recces - Special Forces... want to spill the beans...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: I have just heard that some Recces and Commandos have been given Government permission to publish a periodical...
I don't know the full details... but I am going to find out more, and see what I c (By Jan)... |
S.Africa: Running late... my stunning discussion with a former hard news journalist...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: I am running late today with postings, but will post in the next 2 hours.
I ran into someone who was a former hard news journalist... and what I was told was stunning.
The journalist told me wh (By Jan)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (07-09-2010)
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: Howzit
Postings could be disrupted over the next 48 hours as we are supposed to have the decorators in. I say 'supposed' as they were meant to do the job two weeks ago and no one pitched up the ent (By The BeardedMan)... |