Viral Photos of Johannesburg Correctional Centre ‘Strip-Show’ Drive Facebook Users Up the Pole
Photographs which surfaced on Facebook of a seemingly raucous “family day” at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre, showing scantily-clad women dancing with prisoners, have been confirmed as authentic. The Department of Correctional Services held an urgent media conference on Monday after the photographs surfaced over the weekend. The pictures were posted on a Facebook group called […]
Congolese Threaten to Disrupt Zuma, Kabila Meeting in Pretoria
Members of the Congolese community in South Africa are threatening to disrupt a state visit by President Joseph Kabila because, they say, he is no longer legally in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kabila is set to meet with President Jacob Zuma at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria on Sunday […]
South Africa’s Mining Minister Chased From Mining Meeting
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane had to be whisked away from an angry crowd closing in on him at a community meeting in Mpumalanga on Friday. “You cannot come to another man’s yard and do as you please,” shouted one man at Zwane as the meeting degenerated into people shouting and booing at the minister. […]
Mthwakazi party appeals to South Africa over Gukurahundi
THE secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has started lobbying South Africa President Jacob Zuma’s government to push for the Gukurahundi atrocities to be included on Sadc’s agenda for the victims to get justice. MRP foreign affairs secretary Ackim Gasela Mhlanga said they chose South Africa because it had the muscle to cause the regional bloc […]
‘South Africa, Namibia Following Mugabe’s Footsteps’
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has said that leaders of South Africa and Namibia are following President Robert Mugabe’s footsteps in distributing land to black people in their countries. Grace said this while consoling the family of a revolutionary musician Dickson “Chinx” Chingaira in Harare on Tuesday. She also said that the white community around […]
Middle East & Africa to increase wind capacity 40 GW by 2026
An estimated 40 gigawatts (GW) of new wind power capacity is expected to be added in the Middle East and Africa by 2026, according to new analysis from MAKE Consulting. Leading renewable energy industry analysts MAKE Consulting’s new report, 2017 Middle East and Africa Wind Power Outlook, states that the wind energy sector is set […]
While Zuma May Want to Be Like Mugabe, South Africa Is Not Zimbabwe
When reaching for ways and examples to understand what is happening in our politics, it is common to hear the more alarmist among us (and in British newspapers) suggest that President Jacob Zuma and his cronies are beginning to act in a way similar to Robert Mugabe and his ZanuPF. For some people, the only […]
South Africa Must Let Zimbabweans Decide On Robert Mugabe, Says Thabo Mbeki
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has told fellow citizens to stay clear of criticising President Robert Mugabe, adding that it is the Zimbabweans who should have a say on whether their leader should remain or leave. Mbeki, who was speaking during a discussion with young people involved in his foundation in Johannesburg on Saturday, […]
South Africa Has Failed Its Young People. What Can Be Done About It
It is more than 40 years since young people, first in Soweto, and then around the country, rose up against the apartheid regime. Initially their protest was against the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. But it quickly spread into a general uprising against apartheid. Four decades later and more than […]
Joburg Taxi Strike Called Off
The Department of Transport says the taxi strike in Midrand has been called off following an agreement between the South African National Taxi Association (Santaco) and SA Taxi Finance Holdings on Thursday. Spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said they had reached the agreement on Thursday afternoon. “Santaco will brief its members on the agreement today [Thursday] and […]
