President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday named a new team to monitor Zimbabwe’s troubled unity Government accord, ending former President Thabo Mbeki’s mediation role, his office said. “As part of the evaluation process, the facilitation team will be visiting Zimbabwe at a date to be announced,” a spokesman said Source: (Sapa online, 20091126) ...

President Jacob Zuma stunned opposition parties and legal commentators when he named the Justice Department’s former Director-General Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions. This means that Mr Simelane will now succeed Adv Vusi Pikoli – the man he helped push out – as the Head of the National Prosecuting Authority. Opposition parties on ...

We publish here some photos of the Greenpoint stadium in Cape Town. ...

According to Reuters news agency, two freelance journalists kidnapped in Somalia in August 2008 were freed on Wednesday. They are now in a hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The journalists are: Amanda Lindhout, Canadian reporter and Nigel Brennan, Australian photojournalist. “We have now brought both foreign journalists to the Sahafi hotel. We have been ...

Islamist hardliners in Somalia have ordered that WFP immediately stop importing relief ration in Somalia on Wednesday. Press statement from Al-Shabaab group who Washington says the group is al Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn of Africa nation accused the aid agency of devastating local agriculture. Al-shabaab rebel group control most of southern Somalia while the Western-backed government ...