somalias modernday pirates are using their lucrative trade to fund fighters on both sides of the countrys escalating conflict according to a maritime expert in kenya. four ships were seized by gunmen in 48 hours last week from the gulf of aden or along somalias southern coastline making it the busiest ever period for the pirates who make the region one of the worlds most dangerous for shipping. wh...
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one rarely thinks that enie meenie minie mo is a game to be played when looking at the global food crisis let alone when staring into the eyes of malnurished children.a therefore when youre faced with immense amounts of people in need but you can only help a few who do you choose to help the scale of povertyais global whileathe dilemma however is becoming more localaand even more personal as illus...
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well almost. they stopped just short of selling robben island which is quite sweet of them dont you think such nice guys. selling off our natural heritage to the highest bidder but now it turns out that this deal is about as authentic as some shady unscrupulous parisian trying to sell off the eiffel tower to some gullible wealthy american tourist. transnet sold the victoria alfred waterfront in c...
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the inkatha freedom party ifp is not only largely irrelevant in south african political life it is an anachronism. borne of the apartheid era mangosuthu buthelezis movement which always was as much as anything a tribute to the glories of mangosuthu buthelezi represented an ethnically driven party committed to zulu nationalism that did not come close to garnering the support of a majority of the co...
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islamist insurgents in somalia say they have taken control of the southern port of kismayo amid fighting that has left dozens of people dead. a spokesman for alshabab mukhtar robow told the bbc his militia had wrested the city from a local clan militia during a third day of clashes. a un official said about 100 people had been killed and up to 25000 displaced. there has also been fierce fighting i...
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zambias president levy mwanawasa died on tuesday almost two months after suffering a stoke. mwanawasa was a new kind of leader who stood up to the likes of robert mugabe. he will be buried on his birthday. mwanawasa was preparing to challenge mugabe at the african union meeting in cairo this past summer when he suffered his stoke on the eve of the summit. regionally mwanawasas death is seen a...
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in a recent article in the mail guardian michael georgy makes the case that the deadlock in zimbabwe represents yet another failure for thabo mbeki another sign of his waning credibility and fading influence at home and abroad. the case seems pretty strong. yet something about this argument does not strike me as being quite right or quite fair. certainly mbeki deserves plenty of blame for letting...
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it appears that the curious case of cape judge john hlophe might reach its resolution soon one way or the other. hlophe has been accused of trying to influence judges on the constitutional court to rule favorably for jacob zuma in one of the stages of the anc presidents corruption case. hlophe has applied to the witwatersrand local division asking that the court have the constitutional courts acti...
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i kinda like al jazeera english. so much so that i download it on itunessubscription is freeto follow its news reports the dominant us cable providers have been shy to carry it though looking at its online viewer statistics it certainly has a large potential tv audience stateside. i am a big fan of inside story and the media analysis program listening post. and i like the way they make africa in...
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a seemingly ubiquitous crime in south africa in recent months has been the bombing and looting of atm machines especially but not exclusively in urban areas particularly in gauteng. the professionalization of this crime and its recent profusion caused the democratic alliance to call for a probe of atm bombings last month. perhaps the das politically motivated lets not kid ourselves demands have y...
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from the mail and guardian in south africa. im so dirty. comments opinions and suggestions are always welcome at lecraic. click here to visit the comments section of this article. if for some reason you are experiencing a problem leaving a comment you can talk to lecraic instead and provide feedback that way.......
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comedian bernie mac dies as a result of pneumonia. saturday war erupts between russia and georgiawhy and why has the coverage been so lame the news this morning was dominated by the murder of an american relative of an olympic coach in beijing the images of the impressive opening ceremony the rather flip and non poor background offered about the many nations taking part nbc couldnt wait to cut to...
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if you are a blogger or wordpress fan i hope you planning on attending wordcamp sa on the 23 august 2008 also if you register before monday 11th you will receive a free wordcamp sa tshirt go and register here httpwww.wordcamp.co.zawplogin.phpactionregister there are going to be some really awesome speakers as well as full media coverage from zoopy.com and the mail guardian. the event is being he...
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jacob zuma would like to have the corruption charges against him thrown out. barring that he hopes that a policy of delay will buy him time to find a way out of his crisis. he knows that in some circles among his allies and among those who have not taken sides there is a hope that there is some way out of this mess that will not destabilize the anc further and thus destabilize south african polit...
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mdc mutambara faction deputy secretary general priscilla misihairabwimushonga is the source of the media mole story that was published by the newzimbabwe.com website that alleged that mdc womens assembly chair theresa makonemdcharare north. was dismissed from the talks metro has established. fanning the flames priscilla misihairabwimushongamduduzi mathuthunewzimbabwe.com editor and theresa makon...
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lucky fonz iii krijgt een jubelende recensie in de zuid afrikaanse mail guardian. fonz gaf blijkbaar een adembenemend optreden in een zaal met slechts 15 mensen. grappig......
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lucky fonz iii krijgt een jubelende recensie in de zuid afrikaanse mail guardian. fonz gaf blijkbaar een adembenemend optreden in een zaal met slechts 15 mensen. grappig......
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us aids bombshell shocks health sector mail guardian online the smart news source not nearly as bad in african countries to be sure but much worse than thought. it suprises me as someone working with this disease how people knowing the dangers and having full knowledge as to how to protect themselves and with the ability to get and use the protection can still have multiple sex partners and n...
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jacob zuma desperately wants to avoid the corruption charges that he faces. the talk whenai was in south africa was that the charges would be thrown out less on the merits than out of a sense of expediency. at the same time zuma needs the charges either to go away or to be weakened to the point where he can reasonably argue that he faces a political witch hunt. conviction on charges that have sent...
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zimbabwe opposition leader morgan tsvangirai said on thursday he was fairly satisfied with talks with president robert mugabes party to end a political crisis and said a monday august 4 deadline was not inflexible. tsvangirai said talks would resume as planned on sunday with mugabes zanupf party. powersharing negotiations began last week under international pressure after mugabes unopposed reelect...
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spread of hivaids slows mail guardian online the smart news source living in the epicentre of this pandemic t is good to see some even if it is small good news in this regard. as a personworking with this on daily level i can only agree that we are seeing changes in the way people view their lives and the relation to this crisis. ah......
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when he wakes up on sunday morning gary mckinnon will be 72 hours from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60year prison sentence thanks to his obsession with aliens. mckinnon 42 from enfield in north london is accused by american prosecutors of illegally accessing topsecret computer systems in what they claimed in one legal document was the biggest military computer hack of all time. th...
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following the revelation that robert mugabes leading surrogate is hiding inside botswana working as a lecturer at one of the collegessome citizens have called for him to be deported from botswana. the botswana standard reported on sunday that caeser zvayi who was until recently the editor of the government propaganda mouthpiece the herald is in gaborone. metro has established that he is lecturin...
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