January 12, 2009
South Africa: Top Court Sparks Upset Over Zuma, Mbeki
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has opened the way for prosecutors to reinstitute corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, the man selected by the ruling African National… Read more »
January 06, 2009
Zimbabwe: Rights Group Names And Shames Judges, Lawyers
Human rights lawyers in Harare have issued a blow-by-blow account detailing how the actions - and inaction - of named Zimbabwean judges, magistrates and state lawyers have… Read more »
January 02, 2009
South Africa: Flags Lowered For Anti-Apartheid Legislator
South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe has announced that the national flag will be flown at half-mast on Sunday to celebrate the life of Helen Suzman, an old opponent of the… Read more »
December 24, 2008
Zimbabwe: Tutu 'Ashamed' of South Africa Over Mugabe
Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a blistering attack on the South African government on Wednesday for failing to use its influence in the United Nations Security Council to oust… Read more »
December 22, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Blocking Deal, Say Britain, U.S.
Major Western powers have given up on President Robert Mugabe ever agreeing to share power in Zimbabwe. Read more »
December 13, 2008
Zimbabwe: U.S. Pushes UN For Tougher Action
The United States has given notice that it intends pressing the United Nations Security Council to take stronger action against the government of President Robert Mugabe of… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Britain, U.S. Caused Cholera, Says Govt
A Zimbabwean cabinet minister has accused Britain, helped by the United States, of masterminding the country's cholera outbreak in a "biological chemical war, a genocidal… Read more »
December 12, 2008
South Africa: New Party Inflicts Defeat on Ruling ANC
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has suffered a defeat in the courts in its bid to prevent a breakaway party from appropriating the statement of principles which… Read more »
December 09, 2008
Zimbabwe: State Moving to 'Failed' Status, Says Annan
Zimbabwe was moving rapidly to join countries such as Somalia to become a "full-blown failed state," former United Nations chief Kofi Annan said in the Netherlands on Tuesday. Read more »
Zimbabwe: Europe Extends Sanctions on Mugabe Elite
Europe has expanded travel and financial sanctions against members of what the British foreign ministry calls President Robert Mugabe's "closest political circle." Read more »
December 08, 2008
Zimbabwe: Annan Says Mugabe Has Failed
Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has urged Southern African leaders to play a more active role in bringing about a transition to an inclusive government in… Read more »
December 06, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Must Go, Says West
As governance in Zimbabwe continues to crumble and the United Nations reports nearly 14,000 suspected cholera cases, Western powers have stepped up their rhetoric against President… Read more »
December 04, 2008
South Africa: Tutu, De Klerk Call for Arms Deal Probe
South African Nobel Peace laureates Desmond Tutu and F. W. de Klerk have called on President Kgalema Motlanthe to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the country’s… Read more »
November 27, 2008
South Africa: New Party Reads Signs of the Times
South African political leaders who have broken away from the African National Congress (ANC) in the ruling party's biggest split in half a century are to form a new party –… Read more »
November 26, 2008
Zimbabwe: Go! Tsvangirai Tells Mbeki
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has publicly repudiated the mediation of South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, in the country's crisis, while Botswana has… Read more »
November 22, 2008
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Bans Annan, Machel, Jimmy Carter
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has barred the former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the former United States President, Jimmy Carter, and the advocate for the… Read more »
November 14, 2008
Africa: How South Africa Should Handle G20 Summit
South Africa is the only country from Africa represented at Saturday's summit of the heads of state of the G20 grouping of countries, called to discuss the global financial crisis… Read more »
November 10, 2008
Zimbabwe: Regional Leaders Decide Against Tsvangirai
Southern Africa's leaders have told Zimbabwe's two main parties to form a unity government and to share control of the ministry which supervises the country's police force, but… Read more »
South Africa: Miriam Makeba Sang the Music of Her Roots
Singer, song writer, political activist and actress Miriam Zenzi Makeba, or "Mama Africa" as she was popularly known, was born in Johannesburg on March 4 1932. Read more »
South Africa: Miriam Makeba Sings to the Last
Miriam Makeba, the South African singing star whose career took off in the 1950s and who famously appeared at the United Nations to condemn apartheid, has died suddenly after a… Read more »
November 09, 2008
Zimbabwe: Summit Tells Leaders to 'Show Maturity'
South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe opened an extraordinary summit of southern African leaders on Sunday with a call to Zimbabwean leaders to "show political maturity" by… Read more »
November 06, 2008
Zimbabwe: South Africa Takes Hard Line Over Talks
The South African government will be taking a hard line with Zimbabwean political parties at a summit meeting this weekend over their failure to agree on a power-sharing cabinet,… Read more »
November 04, 2008
Zimbabwe: Botswana's Khama Calls For New Election
President Ian Khama of Botswana has called for Zimbabwe's contested presidential election to be re-run under international supervision. Read more »
November 02, 2008
Zambia: Banda Regains Presidency In Election
Zambia's Vice-President, Rupiah Banda, has edged out the main opposition challenger, Michael Sata, to win the presidential election, Zambia's electoral commission announced Sunday. Read more »
October 31, 2008
Zambia: Opposition Takes Early Election Lead
Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata has taken an early lead in the country's presidential election, according to preliminary results released by the Zambian electoral commission… Read more »