By Sarah | April 26, 2012
ANC, 24 April 2012
Having considered the grounds of appeal and the Heads of Argument, the NDCA rules as follows:-
APPEAL OF FLOYD SHIVAMBU
227. The appeal is dismissed.
228. The Respondent`s argument that the sanction of the Appellant be increased to a suspension of 5 years was considered by the NDCA and rejected.
229. The sanction imposed by the NDC that the Appellant`s ANC membership be suspended for a period of 3 years is confirmed.
230. This sanction is applicable to the Appellant`s membership of the ANC Youth League. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 24, 2012
Guardian, 23 April 2012
Five countries in southern Africa have joined forces to launch a research centre that will work on combating climate change in the region. South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia signed a declaration on Wednesday to base the initiative in the Namibian capital Windhoek.
The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (Sasscal) is intended to support cross-border research and land management. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 19, 2012
BBC, 19 April 2012
Mswati III of Swaziland is accustomed to marking his birthday with a no-expense-spared celebration, literally one fit for a king.
But with his country’s economy in free fall, this year there is no budget for a lavish do on Thursday 19 April as he turns 44.
Home Affairs Minister Prince Gcokoma has called on ordinary Swazis to donate cows to be slaughtered for a mass feast where there will be traditional music and dancing. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 19, 2012
The Guardian, 19 April 2012
A South African miner who claims he contracted tuberculosis as a result of digging gold on behalf of Anglo American will use the FTSE 100 company’s annual meeting on Thursday to demand compensation.
Daniel Seabata Thakamakau, 66, will represent more than 1,200 former miners who are suing Anglo American for allegedly failing to provide protection from dangerous levels of dust created by deep-level gold mining between the 1960s and 1990s. Read the rest of this entry »
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By admin | April 18, 2012
Mail & Guardian, 18 April 2012
Zimbabwe’s president said on Wednesday that political violence must be “buried in the past” to move the nation toward free and unhindered elections.
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By Mark | April 12, 2012
David Smith, Guardian
The tiny nation plays on its status as the only absolute monarchy in Africa – but citizens demand democracy as well as tradition.
Culture and tradition are big selling points for Swaziland. Tourists looking for “the real Africa” are encouraged to see the big five wild animals on safari, visit villages or witness the annual Umhlanga (reed dance), in which more than 20,000 bare-breasted young maidens hope to catch the eye of the king, should he wish to add to his present tally of 13 wives. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 7, 2012
The Guardian, 7 April 2012
Prominent women’s rights campaigner Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi‘s president on Saturday, becoming southern Africa‘s first female head of state and raising hopes for a fresh start in the small, poor nation after the death of her predecessor.
Banda, a 61-year-old policeman’s daughter who has won international recognition for championing the education of underprivileged girls, had served as vice president under Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on Thursday following a heart attack.
She succeeds him under the terms of the constitution. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 7, 2012
TUC, 7 April 2012
Ahead of a day of action by Swazi democrats and trade unionists on 12 April, the TUC has joined international trade union protests at the deregistration of the newly merged Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), which held its founding conference only a month ago. General Secretary Brendan Barber has protested to the Swazi High Commissioner in London, as well as to the Commonwealth Secretary General, reiterating the Commonwealth Trade Union Group’s demand that Swaziland be suspended from the Commonwealth for human and trade union rights abuses. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | April 5, 2012
AFP
Swaziland has closed down its only labour union, which had threatened to lead a protest against Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III, federation leader Mduduzi Gina said Thursday.
“Yes, we have been de-registered,” the secretary general of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) told AFP. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 3, 2012
Chatham House, 3 April 2012
by Nicholas Shaxson, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme
When stunned Angolans picked up their copies of Jornal de Angola in February 2002 to see the bullet-riddled body of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, many immediately knew that the long years of war were over.
The conflict, which first erupted upon independence from Portugal in 1975, was about many things. It was a war of UNITA’s oppressed rural peasants against oil-rich, predominantly coastal and urban élites. It was a struggle between different ethnic and geographical groups; and it was a proxy war pitting the United States and Apartheid-era South Africa against the Soviet Union, Cuba and its allies. It was even a war of minerals, with oil underpinning the army of the ruling MPLA, while diamonds fed UNITA. Most fundamentally, though, it was a war of ambition by Jonas Savimbi, whose dream was to rule Angola, no matter what the human cost. Read the rest of this entry »
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