New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
President Jacob Zuma has taken over as the regional mediator in Zimbabwe’s political crisis. His predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, was mistrusted by Zimbabwe’s prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
President Jacob Zuma has taken over as the regional mediator in Zimbabwe’s political crisis. His predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, was mistrusted by Zimbabwe’s prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai.
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Report by Sudan Radio Service , November 23, 2009: (Khartoum) - The Government of National Unity says that the AU’s Peace and Security Council will not to discuss the AU panel report on Darfur during its visit to Sudan. Last month, the AUPSC held a meeting in Abuja to launch the AU panel report, which recommends the formation of hybrid courts in Darfur in a bid to achieve justice and reconciliation...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota has chastised the Young Communist League for its genocide calls against former president Thabo Mbeki.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Young Communist League plans to lobby the SACP to support its call to charge former president Thabo Mbeki over his HIV and Aids policies.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
ANC Youth League chief Julius Malema has rallied in defence of former president Thabo Mbeki after a scathing verbal attack by the national secretary of the Young Communist League.
Ethiopia Watch (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
From BBC News 20:14 GMT, Sunday, 15 November 2009: 'Africa must think big to thrive' Mo Ibrahim was speaking at a two-day forum in Dar es Salaam Many African states are too small to continue to exist independently, Sudan-born magnate Mo Ibrahim has told a conference in Tanzania. Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki says the African continent must remain informed of the pros and cons of strategic partnerships with developed nations.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
South Africa's death rate doubled over the last decade due to the spread of AIDS, the health minister said on Tuesday, blaming the crisis on government policies under former president Thabo Mbeki. "In 11 years -- from 1997 to 2008 -- the rate of death has doubled in South Africa. That is obviously something that cannot but worry a person," Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told reporters...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Former president Thabo Mbeki has conveyed his condolences to the family of ex-intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils whose wife, Eleanor, died.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Former president Thabo Mbeki has conveyed his condolences to the family of ex-intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils whose wife, Eleanor, died.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Malema a little Idi Amin - DA , who welcomes investigation of Malema speed ticket claims. It was most welcoming this afternoon to hear Deputy Minister of Transport Jeremy Cronin's assurances that Julius Malema's alleged attempts to sidestep a speeding ticket is being investigated. It is essential that this matter is investigated thoroughly, and that if any wrongdoing transpired that the law is allowed...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kader Asmal, ANC stalwart and former Minister of Education, said last week that “outrageous and pro vocative and destructive remarks by a deputy minister and MK veterans” suggested that the ANC’s “moral compass” had “lost its sense of direc tion”. He’s wrong. For over 30 years, the ANC has never had a moral direction to lose. Fikile Mbalula, Deputy Minister...
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From Alex de Waal's blog Making Sense of Darfur Reflections on the AU PSC Summit By Alex de Waal, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 The slogan ‘African solutions to African problems’ has become hackneyed and discredited. One reason why it is not taken seriously is that there has been little African analysis of African problems, because African institutions have borrowed their definitions and...
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