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S. Africa votes: London, Canberra, Dubai top voters’ list
South Africa's s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) today announced that about 16 240 voters people in London have registered for next
Wednesday's presidential...
Zimbabwe: MDC minister escapes car accident
Zimbabwe's co-Home Affairs Minister Giles Mutsekwa survived a car
crash outside Harare this afternoon.
He was on his way to Harare from Macheke, police have reported.
It...
Madagascar peace-talks: UN accused of bias
The United Nations envoy to Madagascar Mr. Tiebele Drame has been accused of being biased, partiality and pursuing his own agenda as the ongoing...
Algerian Elections: Opposition cry foul, Islamists threaten
The just concluded Algerian election that witnessed its incumbent president Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika retain office for the third term in a row, has been...
Dangerous reporting from Mugabe’s Zanu pf Zimbabwe
Reporting from political hot spots is not a glamorous job, veteran journalist Peta Thornycroft warns. To be successful, you need a logical and methodical...
Tsvangirai-Mugabe: A house opposite yours? No thanks!
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has declined an offer to move into a government residence and rather chosen to stay put at his famous
Strathaven home,...
Zuma the Zulu politician with “nine lives” celebrated
Jacob Zuma's rural village burst into song and dance when the news that their son has been set cleared of all charges aganist him....
Zanu pf pulls off strategy to destabilise 2 MDC factions …
Controvesial Professor Jonathan Moyo wants a reversal of the election
of the speaker of parliament on August 25 election. The plan is being...
Charges dropped or not, Zuma’s image is still tarnished
South Africa president in waiting Jcob Zuma is a free man. Prosecutors dropped all corruption charges against him ending a long legal battle that...
South Africa: Zuma sets precedence, charges dropped
South African prosecutors Monday dropped corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, handing a major victory to the man who is almost certain to be elected...
South Africa: Tensions mount ahead of Zuma charge
South Africa's ruling ANC has lashed out oat Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for saying its leader Jacob Zuma, the president of the ruling...
Jacob Zuma: “Afrikaners are the only true South Africans”
South Africa's possible next president Jacob Zuma today said among white people, Afrikaners are the only true South Africans. He was addressing a meeting...
Zimbawe: Document leaks Gono and Military information
A click of top brass elements within Zimbabwe’s military and members of the Zanu (PF) old guard are resisting political reforms and inevitable change...
S. Africa embarrassed as peace conference is postponed
Nobel Prize laureates, South Africa and China have been caught in a solidarity triangle that has seen economic ties outweigh humanitarian support leading to...
Tsvangirai back to work after medical check-up
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in Harare tomorrow from Durban, South Africa, where he has been resting and recuperating in the wake of the...
Nobel Laureates to boycott South African conference if Dalai Lama is not granted visa
Opposition parties in South Africa have ganged up to condemn the government's decision not to issue a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai...
Madagascar: Rajoelina redefines “coup d’etat”
Over a 100 soldiers loyal to Madagascar opposition leader, Mr. Rajoelina stormed one of the Madagascar presidential palace smashing down the palace gate with...
Madagascar: Constitutional and unconstitutional forces clash
Under heavy pressure, President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, has agreed to submit to popular vote proposed by the opposition in order to resolve the...
South Africans abroad to vote in pending elections
South Africa's highest court has ruled today that citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in next month's watershed general election.
Reports claim that...
Sworn Tsvangirai enemy and Zanu-pf official dies
One of Zimbabwe's Army Commander Generals who vowed not to salute Prime minister Morgan Tsvangira, Vitalis Zvinavashe has died. He was 66.
Zvinavashe,...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirais’ accident shrouded in suspicion
President Robert Mugabe last night rushed to Avenues Clinic in Harare to console political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as he was recovering...
Former Zambian first lady jailed on 5 counts of theft
A Zambian court has sent former First lady, Regina Chiluba to jail for three-and-a-half years for receiving stolen property. Chief resident magistrate,...
Motlanthe rebukes ANC youth leader for verbal diarrhea
African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema can always be “taken by the ear” and brought into line, South African president Kgalema Motlanthe...
Involving marginalized tribes for a better Nigeria
When political marginalization exists amongst tribes and ethnicities in a country relative progress is difficult to attain. Observers say that Nigeria as a country...
Nelson Mandela: “I will remain ANC”
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has pledged his support for the African National Congres in the coming watershed elections.
On Sunday, scores of African...
Zanu-PF factionalism looms as Mugabe ignores loyalists
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF is set for serious factionalism following President Robert Mugabe’s failed bid to go over his allocation so as to appoint a...
Tsvangirai’s ommission of Biti as minister troubling
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai is racing against time to come up with his final list of preferred officials for...
Tendai Biti: “It is a miracle that we are here”
Zimbabwe Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed constitutional amendment no. 19 Bill in less than two hours, paving way for the formation of a new...
United States won’t be fooled by Robert Mugabe
The United States of America has said the success or failure of a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, hinges solely on the credibility...
EU and US Law makers seek Birtukan Mideksa’s release
Ethiopia's High Court will on Thursday rule in a case in which opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has been charged with treason, following the government's...