A leading advocacy group has this week announced it has enough evidence to warrant the prosecution of Robert Mugabe and members of his ZANU PF party for crimes against humanity.
The percentage of HIV-positive mothers who pass the virus to their newborn babies in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province has dropped by nearly two-thirds since dual antiretroviral (ARV) therapy was introduced for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
A senior leader in President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF has unexpectedly resigned sparking fears of a fresh battle to succeed the ageing leader during the ongoing party congress.
Newspaper proprietor Trevor Ncube will launch his new Zimbabwean daily newspaper, NewsDay, on the web six months before the print edition hits the streets.
ZANU-PF Manicaland Provincial chairman Cde Basil Nyabadza yesterday resigned from his post as the Fifth National People's Congress started with debate on factionalism dominating the Politburo meeting.
South Africa's research and development (R&D) spending dropped in proportion to its GDP in 2007-08 for the first time in more than a decade, casting doubt on whether the country will reach its goal of spending one per cent of its GDP by 2008-09.
"When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter. I cried out but I could not even stand up at this time...they raped my daughter (while) I was there and I couldn't do anything to stop them. My daughter was five years old..."
President Jacob Zuma's announcement last week that he will take a public HIV test will go a long way in boosting a massive HIV testing campaign that will start early next year. This will encourage all South Africans to know their status.
Members and supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party committed widespread, systematic rape in 2008 to terrorize the political opposition, said AIDS-Free World in “Electing to Rape: Sexual Terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe,” a report released today. These crimes against humanity have received little public attention and the government has made no effort to hold the ...
South Africa's roughly 800 000 tertiary education students are the most wired yet.
ZAMBIA has been cited at various fora as among the countries whose governments have made headway in the fight against corruption.
TOMORROW, Zanu-PF's Fifth National People's Congress begins in earnest at the HICC, a Congress equalled only by the inaugural congress of the united Zanu-PF held after the signing of the Unity Accord that brought Zanu-PF and PF-Zapu together on December 22, 1987.
WHEN it comes to Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele's comments this week on the recent spate of accidents at SA Airlink, we can agree on only one point: if the evidence presented to him in the next few days shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with the operation and safety of the airline, then it should be immediately grounded. However, we cannot agree with his handling of the situation.
SA's apparently bold offer to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as part of the global agreement that is under negotiation at the Copenhagen climate change talks has turned out to be rather less impressive than it seemed at first glance.
GROWTH in the economy could be reduced by as much as 1,5 percentage points over the next three years if power utility Eskom got the go-ahead for its revised tariff hikes, SA's largest business group warned yesterday.
DEPUTY President Kgalema Motlanthe yesterday invited civil society bodies to join the government as "equal partners" in the fight against poverty, while he vowed an end to the "turf wars" that have hindered SA's progress on the problem.
IN AN apparent bid to gain more of a foothold in the government, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said yesterday it would take joint responsibility for ruling SA, and did not see itself as an opposition to the African National Congress (ANC).
UGANDA Revenue Authority (URA) FC have been handed a daunting task against Zambian champions Zanaco FC in the CAF Champions League preliminary fixtures starting February next year.
The background and consequences of the recent violent destruction of the Kennedy Road organisation of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) movement of shack dwellers by a combination of gangs recruited for the purpose, police action and local and regional ANC structures needs to be analysed at some depth.
Negotiations to resolve outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement are still far from over, amid reports the three principals will next week announce what has been agreed to so far.
Botswana's government has poured cold water on claims from ZANU PF that it is hosting so-called 'pirate radio' stations from its territory. Presidential spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsey issued a statement noting 'the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media' but said Botswana did not 'harbour any such radio stations.'
ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.
Water Resources Minister Sam Sipepa Nkomo has defended the government takeover of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project. He accused politicians in the region of exploiting the project towards election time, only to disappear from the scene soon after. Last week Nkomo announced the government takeover arguing it was meant to 'remove the many bottlenecks the project encountered over the years' and ...
President Jacob Zuma has appealed to all South Africans to work together to prevent the abuse of women and children.
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has warned that law enforcers will target pedestrian jaywalking; drinking and walking; moving violations such as unsafe overtaking and the use of cell phones while driving during the festive season.
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