British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he wanted to see further progress on human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe before the European Union lifts sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his allies. The Prime Minister defended sanctions on Zimbabwe after holding talks with South African President Jacob Zuma. The South African President who has [...]
When you have the President of a nation engaging in sexual promiscuity at a disgraceful level unaccepted in modern society, you have no choice but to question his sanity and ponder whether South Africans have made a regrettable mistake by voting in numbers to elect this mad man of insatiable sexual appetite as Head of [...]
It has come to light that South Africa is not ready to host the 2010 World Cup just over three months before the tournament kicks off according to FIFA, football’s world governing body. FIFA’s secretary general, Jerome Valke, told a news conference on Tuesday that the main venue in Johannesburg, Soccer City, was yet to [...]
Sheryl Cwele, the wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister, Siyabonga Cwele, has been arrested on drug-dealing charges. She has been charged with hiring the services of a woman to collect drugs in Turkey and arranging with another woman to smuggle cocaine from Brazil. She was arraigned in court charged with conspiring to bring cocaine into [...]
A decision by the Zulu King in South Africa to re-introduce circumcision after it has been banned over 200 years ago has become a cause for concern for many health professionals in the country as thousands of teenage boys prepare for the traditional manhood rituals irrespective of the record number of deaths that has followed [...]
The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has decided to formalize his marriage to his third wife in a traditional ceremony on Monday. And its not just that, he plans to take a fourth bride again later this year. Giving a whole new meaning to the word polygamy – maybe presidential polygamy. Over 2,000 [...]
A 3 year old boy has allegedly been killed by a police officer in South Africa. The boy was in a car driven by men who the police assumed were members of a criminal gang. The boy whose name was given as Atlegang Aphane, was carrying a metal pipe that the police mistook for a [...]
There is total confusion in the financial world of Zimbabwe as the two key figures in the running of the country’s finances, clash on how to spend the recently approved donor money allocated to the country. The Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono who is a strong ally of President Mugabe has accused the Finance Minister [...]
In a rather blind move to reject the west’s stance on Zimbabwe with sanctions, the South African Development Community SADC has called for an end to the sanctions imposed by the western countries on Zimbabwe’s government. In a move that has been described as misguided, the regional organisation shamelessly called for the international community to [...]
What is wrong with Robert Gabriel Mugabe? Why doesn’t he understand that he is a very small man amongst big men? It is a fact that Mugabe is educated. Then why doesn’t he see the writing on the wall? Zimbabwe will not get the help it desperately needs if he doesn’t abide by the peace [...]
South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, is in Zimbabwe for talks with the country’s leaders. This is his first visit to the country since he became President of South Africa. Mr Zuma met with President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai and had talks with both leaders on ending the stalemate in the Unity Government. There are [...]
