The recent initiative by the ANC with regards to HIV/AIDS policy is nothing but the usual political rhetoric deficient of a guided sense of purpose and responsible leadership, because if they were true to their policies and principles, then they would logically advise their leader, Jacob Zuma, to act likewise.
Rwanda’s economic liberalization stands in stark contrast to the lack of political liberalization.
Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame gets 7 more years after flawed elections. Though Kagame can claim credit for impressive economic growth and development under his leadership, the current system of governance seems unlikely to yield long-term peace and stability in Rwanda. Part 1.
Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has written a scathing letter to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange following the publication of 92,000 classified documents with the names of Afghans who collaborated with U.S. and other allied forces in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has vowed to hunt down all locals named in the files as informants, using files posted by Wikileaks as a virtual hit list. Wikileaks has since approached the U.S. government for help screening the files and removing the names of collaborators before publication, something a newspaper would never do.
As journalists grapple with ethical questions surrounding the leaks, the question most people are asking is, Is what Wikileaks is doing journalism or unethical activism and who does it benefit?
SOUTHERN African Development Community Heads of State and Government will carry the region’s elusive dream of financial integration when they convene in Windhoek, Namibia, in two weeks’ time.
Tom Burghardt: When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche by the Mexican military … carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S.,” it elicited a collective yawn from corporate media.
WINDHOEK: INCOMING Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community, President Hifikepunye Pohamba faces the uphill task of tackling political problems afflicting one of Namibia’s closest allies, Zimbabwe, and addressing the prolonged conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
WINDHOEK- Namibia is currently the fourth-largest supplier of uranium oxide (U3O8) after Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia, with about 12 percent of the world’s primary produced uranium. Mining and Energy commissioner Erasmus Shivolo recently noted that Namibia was developing one of Southern Africa’s most dynamic minerals industries, adding that the country was set to become the world’s third largest uranium producer (by 2015). The country’s projected output for 2015 was about 52 million pounds.
WINDHOEK- Angola’s diamond industry is on the mend, as prices of gems begin to rise gradually, following a battering of the mining sector brought about by the global economic downturn.
Following Israel’s criminal raid in international waters on May 31st, the Rachel Corrie MV continues to sail towards the Gaza coastline in defiance of Israeli threats.
