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• Madagascar’s President Sacks Consensus Prime Minister

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Madagascar’s consensus Prime Minister, Eugene Mangalaza has been dismissed following his return from Maputo (Mozambique) where he had participated along with leaders of the three political movements and other heads of institutions of the transition in peace talks convened by the Southern African Development ...
  1 week ago

• Police make arrest after priest’s murder: CEN 12.15.09

  
  Conger — Authority: 475
  Police have made an arrest in the murder of the Rev Clive Newman, a lecturer at the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s theological college in Grahamstown, who was found bludgeoned to death in his rooms in college on Nov 10. On Dec 1 the Director of Public Prosecutions announced that an unnamed man had been ...
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• Kalk Bay Books’ Cornucopia of Xmas Book Recommendations

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 483
  Kalk Bay Books - your seaside haven for all things literary - brings you their recommended book list for the Xmas season - a list that contains a heart-gladdening 41 works of SA Lit. (There seems to be one oversight: where’s Kalk Bay favourite Finuala Dowling ’s Notes from the Dementia Ward ?) BOOK SA ...
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• Nick Wood looks at South African SF

  
  Ivor W. Hartmann — Authority: 103
  Nick Wood , author of " The Stone Chameleon ", takes a comprehensive look at South Africas Speculative Fiction in ongoing series called SF in Sth Africa . Though mostly focused on South Africa, he does mention a few writers from other African countries, including yours truly in part 10. His articles are well worth a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Journalists lament official hijack of ZUJ

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  President Robert Mugabe with official spokesman George Charamba By Our Correspondent HARARE – Journalists in Zimbabwe have lamented the state of press freedom in the country, while decrying what they regard as an attempt by the authorities to hijack the biggest organization of journalists in the country. A ...
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• Plea for ‘Kennedy 13′: CEN 12.04.09 p 6.

  
  Conger — Authority: 475
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Bishop of Natal has issued a plea for the immediate release of the “Kennedy 13”, claiming the men are political prisoners jailed for “speaking the truth to the power” of the ANC government in KwaZulu-Natal. On Nov 16, Bishop Rubin Phillip and 40 other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philip Pullman’s Xmas Present to Africa: A Northern Lights Novel that Fights AIDS

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 483
  Alert! UK fantasy auteur célèbre Philip Pullman has joined the Oak Tree Fine Press stable with a limited edition of a new volume in his “Northern Lights” series, called À Outrance . The proceeds from sales of the book - as from all Oak Tree Fine Press publications - “ go to organisations assisting ...
  2 weeks ago

• India to set up institutions in Africa, offer scholarships to 300 African students

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Groum AbateAddis Ababa, Dec 7 (IANS) India intends to set up educational institutions and communication facilities in Africa and increase the number of scholarships for African students to study in India.“We intend to establish 19 different institutions in Africa including education and communication ...
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• Timba deplores meddling in state media

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  Deputy Min. of Media, Information and Publicity Jameson Timba By Our Correspondent HARARE – Deputy Minister of Media, Information and Publicity Jameson Timba has launched a veiled attack on his minister Webster Shamu and permanent secretary George Charamba for  interference in the editorial content of the state ...
  3 weeks ago

• Police investigate priest’s murder: CEN 11.20.09 p 6.

  
  Conger — Authority: 475
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper. Police in South Africa are investigating the murder of a lecturer at the College of the Transfiguration, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s residential theological college. On Nov 10 the body of the Rev Clive Newman was discovered in his rooms in college ...
  3 weeks ago

• Battle for ZUJ posts hots up

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  By Our Correspondent HARARE – Battle lines are drawn between a group of “reform minded” Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) members and the outgoing ZUJ executive ahead of a congress by the journalists’ union in Bulawayo starting Thursday. Groups vying for control of the union have accused the outgoing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Conflict Minerals: A Cover For US Allies and Western Mining Interests?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  Conflict Minerals: A Cover For US Allies and Western Mining Interests? by Kambale Musavuli and Bodia Macharia / November 28th, 2009 As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of Black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western ...
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• Utility urged to drop new coal-fired plants: CEN 11.20.09 p 5.

  
  Conger — Authority: 475
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper . The Archbishop of Cape Town has urged the nation’s electric utility, Eskom, to rethink its plans for building new coal-fired electricity generating plants, saying South Africa should do its part in helping reduce global warming. In a statement released on Nov 6 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Zimbabwe Hosts Meeting of South African Development Community Parliamentary Forum

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Lawmakers from Southern Africa are meeting in Zimbabwe’s resort town of Victoria Falls for the 26th Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum amid calls to transform the forum into a regional legislature. Delegates to the week-long conference are considering a ...
  4 weeks ago

• In midst of poaching crisis, illegal rhino horn tops gold

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 143
  Rhino poaching has hit a fifteen-year high, and the rising price for black-market rhino horn is likely the reason why. For the first time in a decade rhino horn is worth more than gold: a kilo of rhino horn is worth approximately 60,000 US dollars while gold is a little over 40,600 US dollars.
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• James Mitchell Reviews The Toxic Mix by Graeme Bloch

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 434
  Verdict: carrot If good education is the key to a healthy, functioning society, South Africa isn’t doing that well. If we don’t get education right, we won’t be able to get anything right, warns this education specialist at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. No need here to repeat Bloch’s figures on ...
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• Can jatropha growers deliver?

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 497
  Violeta Sithole, with her son on her back, prepares her field to plant beans. Photo by Chris Hufstader/Oxfam America. When the lights went out at 9pm last Wednesday with a loud click, I was just finishing up in the shower and was a little late getting out in time to find my flashlight. I was in a comfortable ...
  4 weeks ago

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