by Mogomotsi Mogodiri (Mogodiri is a media and political commentator) The moment Nomvula Mokonyane declared her intention to compete with Paul Mashatile for the chairpersonship of the ANC in Gauteng, the stage was set for a colossal battle. With the elective conference now behind us the new leadership has the momentous task of healing wounds and ...
by George Devenish (Devenish is a former professor of public law and a DA councillor with the Ethekweni Municipality. He writes in his personal capacity)After immense suffering and tragedy, the Anglo-Boer War ended with the Treaty of Vereeniging. On 31 May 1902, the guns of war became silent on the koppies and veld of South ...
The twin brother of a Zimbabwean who died of hunger on the streets of Cape Town has come out in praise of the Department of Home Affairs, whose indifference to the plight of refugees was probably responsible for his brother’s death. The death of Adonis Musati, 23, near the former home affairs asylum seekers’ centre ...
As South African health authorities scramble to meet Fifa’s World Cup medical requirements, locals with chronic conditions and those needing specialist care will lose out. Fifa’s guidelines for designated hospitals around the country – which include keeping wards half empty – will result in long-term patients removed from their beds and shifted to facilities elsewhere. Routine ...
There was no “breach of corporate governance” in the appointment of Phil Molefe as head of SABC News, the broadcaster’s chairperson Dr Ben Ngubane said on Saturday. “I have noted all the issues raised in the public domain around the process of this appointment,” he said in a statement. “I believe that all processes were ...
ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has re-affirmed the league’s support for President Jacob Zuma to serve two terms. Speaking at the Kwazulu-Natal youth league elective conference yesterday, Malema accused what he called “disgruntled forces” of spreading lies about the youth league’s leadership plan to abandon their support for Zuma. He says this is part ...
It’s not easy to wear a Congress of the People (Cope) T-shirt these days, the party’s deputy president, Mbhazima Shilowa, has said. He was speaking in Cape Town at the party’s first Western Cape congress, as lawyers prepared to battle a high court bid by the party’s Mosiuoa Lekota faction to halt the meeting. Shilowa ...
Congress of the People president Mosiuoa Lekota yesterday came out with guns blazing at opponents in the party, saying that a “cavalier disregard for expenditure” was the reason for “a great rift” within the party’s leadership. Lekota was responding to the threat of suspension by COPE’s general secretary Charlotte Lobe, who on Thursday described Lekota ...
Dozens of countries pledged Saturday to help Somalia’s fragile government boost its military, wrest back power from Islamist insurgents and combat the piracy plaguing the Horn of Africa nation’s waters. Expressing “full support” for President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and his transitional federal government, they said the “reestablishment, training, equipping, payment and retention of Somali security ...
Dozens of countries pledged Saturday to help Somalia’s fragile government boost its military, wrest back power from Islamist insurgents and combat the piracy plaguing the Horn of Africa nation’s waters. Expressing “full support” for President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and his transitional federal government, they said the “reestablishment, training, equipping, payment and retention of Somali security ...
UN officials will attend the inauguration of Sudan’s President Omar al-Beshir next week even though he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes. “Attending will be the Secretary-General’s (Ban Ki-Moon) Special Representatives in Sudan, Haïle Menkerios and Ibrahim Gambari (head of the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur),” said UN ...
Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak met with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Sunday in Cairo, amid an escalating crisis over control of the waters of the river Nile. Mr Odinga, who arrived in Cairo late on Saturday, discussed with Mubarak “cooperation between Nile basin countries, especially in the fields of agriculture and irrigation.” The meeting was attended by ...
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe thanked the workmen who built the stadiums which will host next month’s World Cup during a visit on Saturday to sites that will host fans and games in Limpopo. “From the men and women who built our stadiums to the architects, the electricians, our construction workers, and everyone else involved in ...
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday presided over the opening of Soccer City, the new 94 700-seat stadium that will host the opening and final matches of the World Cup. The stadium’s first professional match drew a crowd of 76 000 – all the seats that were made available for the game – for the final ...
President Jacob Zuma assured angry Balfour residents on Saturday that the government had not forgotten about them. He addressed a crowd at Mpumalanga’s Siyathemba Stadium and stressed that government was working tirelessly to resolve service delivery problems in the area. “We must not be agitated. We must leave the matter to government,” he said. Zuma ...
An entire tv channel online, basically a webtv, is about to be launched tomorrow 25 May, Africa Day worldwide. This is the project of TV5, the channel that will launch TV5+Afrique a web tv dedicated to Africa. You can watch it here http://www.tv5mondeplusafrique.com/ in French and on YouTube Wikio Wikio ...
Interview to Fatima Karadja during the international conference "Mediterraneo porta d'oriente" held in Palermo (Italy) last 14 May 2010. Fatima Zohra Karadja is vice-president for North Africa of the African Union council for economy, society and culture. ...
President Jacob Zuma will perform the opening rites at Soccer City when about 75 000 people attend the Nedbank Cup Final between Wits University and AmaZulu on Saturday. What has elevated the occasion to being historic is the fact that it will be the first game to be played at Soccer City since it was ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday urged South Africans to “be good” for the duration of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. “In this time, we need good South Africans. Let them just for four weeks be good. Just for four weeks,” he said at a women’s prayer meeting at Zamdela Stadium in Sasolburg. “When you are ...
In this page all the photo made by Africanews to the conference and the jewels show in Rome the 20 of May 2010. The event was organised by IES, Italo Ethiopian Society. Elvira Pellizzari, Italo Ethiopian Society (IES) Victor E. Okeadu, member of Rome city council for the African comunities Ethiopian models Pellizzari sisters of Italo Ethiopian ...
The South African government has declined to comment on the Malawi High Court’s decision. Saul Kgomotso Molobi, spokesman for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, said South Africa would respect the sovereignty of Malawi. Source: www.themecury.co.za Wikio Wikio ...
President Jacob Zuma will be the main speaker during the launch of the Imvuselelo Campaign in a national ANC rally at KaMhlushwa Stadium in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga, on Sunday. The rally, under the theme “Building and Consolidating the Unity of the Movement towards 2012”, starts at 9am. ANC National Executive Committee members, leaders of the alliance, ...
In this report Somali freelance journalist, Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, writes about the meeting of young somali people to commemorate the heroics of the SYL. … Hundreds of Somali refugees have gathered at Meridian hotel in Nairobi on Saturday to remember the heroics of 13 Somalis, who were midwives to the independence of Somalia. The event has converged youths ...
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, will tour Africa next week from the 29 to the 31 of May. He will visit Malawi and other African countries. In an exclusive e-mail interview from New York, Anne Siddall from the Office of the Spokesman of the UN Secretary General, told PANA on Tuesday that Ban ...
President Jacob Zuma has joined thousands of mourners in expressing his condolences to the family of Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, who passed away on Friday. Dr Van Zyl Slabbert died at the age of 70 after spending some time at a Johannesburg Hospital. President Zuma said Van Zyl Slabbert’s visionary leadership lives on in ...
Started on Sunday 16th, an army of cultural spectators is warming up the Lombardy province of Lodi and the objective is simple, taking the war of integration to a cultural front. Bid to last for two months, the intercultural event is been jointly organise by three libraries, eight associations and a church parish in Lodi. ...
South African police do not know of any terrorism threats to the World Cup, police commissioner General Bheki Cele said on Thursday. “There is no threat that we have discovered. We are ready to protect our visitors,” he said. Cele was addressing journalists at King Shaka International Airport during an event to display police capabilities ...
Most black South Africans are still waiting in vain for the better life they have been promised, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday. “The structures of domination and exclusion continue to find expression in our democratic dispensation,” he told the National Union Mineworkers’ central committee meeting in Boksburg, according to a copy of ...
Cosatu deplores a decision by the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) to leave rates unchanged, it said on Thursday. “The MPC has yet again today missed an opportunity to give a boost to economic growth and strike a blow for job creation,” Congress of SA Trade Unions spokesman Patrick Craven said after SARB Governor Gill Marcus’ ...
Leaders in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) yesterday took aim at their class opponents in the tripartite alliance, decrying the economic ideas of “right-wing” elements in the African National Congress (ANC), the ANC Youth League’s approach to the nationalisation of mines, growing inequalities in SA, and those who “reaped the benefits” of ...
