The moratorium on any non-football events at the Athlone Stadium ahead of the Fifa 2010 World Cup is likely to see the City taken to court by the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association this week.
Harry Mubita was tired of his wretched condition in prison. He had been in Lusaka Central Prison for more than a year, and still there was no sign that his theft case would be heard.
The "humanitarian nature" of the mass movement of Zimbabweans to neighbouring Southern African countries has blurred the distinction between what is a "refugee" and an "economic migrant", because such people fit neither category perfectly and fall between the cracks, a new report says.
ZIMBABWEAN human rights violators could lose the right to travel to SA if an appeal due to be brought in the North Gauteng High Court today succeeds in forcing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to arrest known perpetrators who set foot in the country.
An experience which Belita Simpokolwe went through in December last year remains deeply etched in her memory. "Sometimes I fail to concentrate in class when these things come back to my mind," laments 13-year-old Simpokolwe, a grade six pupil at Kawale Primary School, in the northern Malawi district of Chitipa.
Former Zanu-PF national chairman Cde John Landa Nkomo was yesterday afternoon sworn in as Zimbabwe's Second Vice President at a ceremony held at State House.
The neutrality of the South African mediators in the ongoing Zimbabwe crisis talks was questioned this week, after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party issued a solidarity message with ZANU PF at the end of the 5-yearly congress in Harare.
Elsewhere in the pages of this newspaper, we publish a letter from Survival International (SI), an organisation that is viewed askance by the powers that be.
The new Cape Town Stadium has been opened on time - 32 months after the first sod was turned.
THE palpable sense of excitement among Luanshya residents following the imminent re-opening of the mine is understandable.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda blocked the payment of US$6.7 million to Lusaka lawyer, Rodger Chongwe because the amount was too excessive and was going to set a bad precedent, his special assistant for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere has said.
FOUR Members of Parliament (MPs) and a Catholic Priest in the Eastern Province have strongly condemned people promoting tribalism at the expense of national development.
Many people see some sort of dichotomy between development and a low carbon society.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday made clear Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel's central role in economic policy, but stressed that the government had already agreed what those policies would be.
THE rift between the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) widened yesterday.
FOR more than a decade already, news about the impending death of the tripartite alliance has been grossly exaggerated. The communists and trade unionists continue to suffer from battered spouse syndrome - they are in complete and self-destructive denial about being battered by their ANC bedfellows.
Years after the Rwandan government sent indictments of nine Genocide fugitives living in Mozambique, the country's Minister of Justice, Levi Benvinda, has said that her government has vowed to offer support and collaboration in tracking down the suspects and bring them to justice.
Globetrotting Robert Mugabe is said to have 'commandeered' an Air Zimbabwe plane on Monday evening to fly him to the United Nations climate summit, which is underway in Denmark. It is reported that he went with a 59 member delegation, on top of an advance team that is already at the summit in Copenhagen .
Pascal Gwezere, the MDC transport manager jailed on trumped-up charges of weapons theft, appeared in court on Monday for a remand hearing, but his case was postponed to next week Monday by a Harare magistrate.
Members of the Zulu royal family are meeting with local authorities in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province to discuss making male circumcision services available at public hospitals in a bid to reduce HIV infections.
Mochudi Centre Chiefs dragged their be MOBILE championship aspirations back on track with a convincing 4-1 thumping of bottom placed, BMC on Sunday. Chiefs had seen their title chase take a dent following two consecutive draws, but roared back into contention with the win over BMC.
Mochudi Centre Chiefs seem to have lost interest in goalkeeper, Barolong 'Toldo' Lemmenyane.
The Press Council of Botswana held its annual meeting last week to elect new members of the board of trustees. Mmegi editor, Gideon Nkala is the new chairman of the board with Gazette editor, Aubrey Lute as his deputy.
Gaborone West South Member of Parliament (MP), Botsalo Ntuane, took over half an hour on Friday, urging fellow MPs to make sure Parliament gets its independence and status as an equal partner with the Executive and Judiciary.
Justice, Defence and Security Minister, Ramadeluka Seretse, has accused the media of being overzealous in the quest to report on cases under investigation.
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