2008 August | Investigative Africa

Olympics Fever

Aug 12 2008 | Posted in Featured Stories | Read More »

The Zim Political Settlement- A Giant's Robes Upon a Dwarfish Thief

Put a giant’s robes upon a dwarfish thief, and you have a depiction of the Zimbabwe political settlement. Tsvangirai said from the beginning (and he has said this for many years) that he would not recognise the Mugabe government as legitimate. Considering the blatant electoral fraud that has kept Mugabe in power for so many [...]

Aug 11 2008 | Posted in BLOGS,POLITICS | Read More »

The Zim Political Settlement- A Giant’s Robes Upon a Dwarfish Thief

Put a giant’s robes upon a dwarfish thief, and you have a depiction of the Zimbabwe political settlement. Tsvangirai said from the beginning (and he has said this for many years) that he would not recognise the Mugabe government as legitimate. Considering the blatant electoral fraud that has kept Mugabe in power for so many [...]

Aug 10 2008 | Posted in Featured Stories | Read More »

Landmines: A Lifetime Menace

However, Mt Darwin, which was being cleared by private de-mining concern, Koch Mine Safe, still has uncleared areas. Koch destroyed more than 162,416 antipersonnel mines in Mukumbura, but its contract excluded gorges and all mines more than 20 centimeters deep.

Aug 9 2008 | Posted in FEATURED STORIES & BLOGS,NEWS | Read More »

Landmines: A Lifetime Menace

By Tawanda Kanhema- 26 February 2006 LANDMINES continue to pose grave threats to people living in the Rushinga district of Mt Darwin, where some villagers settled in areas infested with anti-personnel mines are illegally collecting landmines exposed by soil erosion and laying them around their fields in an effort to protect crops from marauding wild [...]

Aug 8 2008 | Posted in Featured Stories | Read More »

Smith: A legendary muckraker

By Tawanda Kanhema NAMIBIAN newspaper editors have downed their pens in honour of Hannes ‘Smittie’ Smith, co-founder and lifetime editor of the Windhoek Observer who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 75. Posthumous credits and outpourings of grief heaped on Smith show that his greatest passion was to record, photograph and chronicle every [...]

Aug 8 2008 | Posted in NEWS | Read More »

Smith: A legendary muckraker

By Tawanda Kanhema NAMIBIAN newspaper editors have downed their pens in honour of Hannes ‘Smittie’ Smith, co-founder and lifetime editor of the Windhoek Observer who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 75. Posthumous credits and outpourings of grief heaped on Smith show that his greatest passion was to record, photograph and chronicle every [...]

Aug 7 2008 | Posted in Featured Stories | Read More »

Zim police accused of planting flour-bomb

The Herald today confirmed what many had suspected from day one…. that the bombing of Harare Central Police Station is wet-work by police. Soon, we might now what the motive was, but it clearly has nothing to do with the talks. There are thousands of dockets in those offices showing the role of police in [...]

Aug 6 2008 | Posted in BLOGS | Read More »

SWAPO and The Press

THE RULING SWAPO party is growing allergic to newspaper coverage of its affairs. The Namibian last week exposed tensions in the party that have been brewing for some years now. Despite efforst by party stalwarts to paper over the cracks, whispers of discontent among the voluble SWAPO Youth League grew to deafening bickering after Informante

Aug 6 2008 | Posted in BLOGS | Read More »

Zim police accused of planting flour-bomb

The Herald today confirmed what many had suspected from day one…. that the bombing of Harare Central Police Station is wet-work by police. Soon, we might now what the motive was, but it clearly has nothing to do with the talks. There are thousands of dockets in those offices showing the role of police in [...]

Aug 6 2008 | Posted in Featured Stories | Read More »