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ANC of Ramaphosa will regret expelling Jacob Zuma
After former president Jacob Zuma was summarily axed from the ANC his younger brother Khanya said the ANC would "regret it", vowing that it would thwart any growth for the once-powerful party....Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 18:06hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa Covid-19 positive after attending FW de Klerk memorial
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was seen in a video that went viral dancing without a mask, is receiving treatment for Covid-19 symptoms after testing positive on Sunday (12 December)....Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Apartheid leader De Klerk to be burnt
The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died last Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statem...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
FW de Klerk dies at 85
FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85.Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation's transition to ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 11:31hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Families of apartheid victims call for FW de Klerk to face law for involvement
With the National Prosecuting Authority having recently committed a new specialist unit to probe apartheid-era atrocities dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, family members of apartheid victims have c...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sending Jacob Zuma to jail was not a wise move'
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has accused the Constitutional Court of using apartheid tactics to imprison former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court.Shivambu also cr...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
PAC wants De Klerk prosecuted for war crimes committed under his watch
The Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) expresses our understanding of the anger, and frustration which followed after the sentencing of the Former President Jacob Zuma. The protest is guaranteed,...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 22:53hrs | 1 | by PAC
None of us should want to be Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
A story that is not often told about the weekend of Nelson Mandela's release from prison is the one about the desperate quest to find his wife the night before he was freed.When then president...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Mondli Makhanya
Will Mnangagwa be an Idi Amin or FW De Klerk
Former Zimbabwean cabinet minister, David Coltart, told a South African radio station, Power 98.7, that Zimbabwe President-designate, Emmerson Mnangagwa's history shows that he was Robert Mugabe's poi...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
The time for compromise and accommodation in South Africa is over
Many years ago we were discussing our future National Anthem in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. On invitation from President Mandela, Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo's proposed renderin...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Carl Niehaus
Claims that transformation has been slow are dangerous, says SA billionaire
Cape Town - Retail tycoon Christo Wiese is fed up with the rich getting the blame for South Africa's problems, ...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema vows to lock up de Klerk
The last apartheid-era president‚ FW de Klerk‚ would be jailed if Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema was the leader of the country."De Klerk must pray that I don't become presi...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 10:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Apartheid monster dies
Clive Derby-Lewis, a South African politician jailed for the 1993 assassination of Communist Party leader Chris Hani, has died at the age of 80.Mr Hani led the military wing of Nelson Mand...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 17:04hrs | 1 | by BBC
Zuma, ANC leaders attacked
Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma was heavily criticised at the funeral of the late Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile on Thursday.High-ranking members of the African National Congress joined mour...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Mugabe wants to quit says Zambia's new president
Zambia's new president, Guy Scott insisted that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe wants to quit.Talking to the Guardian soon after Margaret Thatcher's funeral in 2013, he said of Mugabe: "I ...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zambia returns to white rule
Zambia reverted to white rule on Wednesday when vice president Guy Scott of Scottish descent were elevated to the top job after the demise of President Michael Sata on Tuesday.The Cambridge e...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Messy struggle for Zambian presidency under way
Lusaka - The battle for Zambia's top job was already under way before long-ailing president Michael Sata died on Tuesday, but it looks set to become messier and more intense in his wake.When S...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 17:13hrs | | by AFP
Zambia to have a white President
Zambia's vice-president Guy Scott will become Africa's first white head of state since South Africa's FW de Klerk in 1994 following the death of Zambian President Michael Sata who died in London, wh...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Controversial Dalai Lama denied visa to SA again
Cape Town - For a third time in five years the Dalai Lama has been denied a visa to South Africa, reports said on Thursday.He had been invited to attend the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace La...Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by News24
Mugabe's death will be the next major political event in Africa
Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills say that while the Zanu-PF leader remains in power little is going to change.With the dust slowly settling from the disputed July 2013 Zimbabwe election, attenti...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 16:20hrs | | by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
Mugabe cheered, Zuma jeered at Mandela memorial service
Johannesburg - President Robert Mugabe was cheered at the memorial service to Nelson Mandela. The cameraman focused on Mugabe and the crowd cheered. Mugabe is well regarded on the continent for f...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 12:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma booed at Mandela memorial service
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma was booed at the start of the memorial service to Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium in Soweto on Tuesday, in stark contrast to the rapturous applause received by former...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mandela was never a revolutionary, always a radical
Critics trying to prove or disprove Mandela's sanctity failed to grasp that he was simply a political leader guiding his country through transitionA fitting way to commemorate Nelson Mandela...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Gary Younge I theguardian.com
Hooligan armchair academics determined to bring ANC down
Mozambique's founding president, Samora Moises Machel, was clear about his country and Africa's future - political freedom does not mean free from economic slavery. Machel used the cry-of-resistance, ...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 12:44hrs | 13 | by Udo W Froese
FW de Klerk to have heart surgery
Cape Town - Former president FW de Klerk is to have surgery on Tuesday to have a pacemaker fitted.Die Burger reported that the procedure will be carried out on Tuesday and De Klerk may be dis...Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 04:19hrs | 2 | by news24
SA demands explanation from Zambia over 'backward' comment
South Africa has demanded an explanation from Zambia on remarks its vice-president Guy Scott reportedly made about President Jacob Zuma and others."We shall be summoning the high commissioner...Published: 03 May 2013 at 14:58hrs | | by Sapa
Zambia's white VP says Mugabe wants to quit
President Mugabe has reportedly told Zambian Vice President Guy Scott that he wants to quit saying he has had enough. In an interview with the British Guardian newspaper published yesterday, ...Published: 02 May 2013 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'South Africans are backward'
One of the most colourful men in African politics happens to be white. Guy Scott is the vice-president of Zambia but his race is probably the least exceptional thing about him.On a recent aft...Published: 02 May 2013 at 09:29hrs | | by David Smith I guardian
Mangaung: Critical lessons for ZANU-PF as Zuma issues veil warning to Mugabe and his friends
The much awaited 53rd African National Congress National Elective Conference has come and gone. As an observer at the conference in Mangaung, I was impressed by the way the conference went and how de...Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Mathula Lusinga
SA education in serious trouble
Johannesburg - Education in South Africa is in serious trouble, the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Thursday."Poor education lies at the root of most of South Africa's problems, including unemp...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 03:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandela had been a 'cruel and unfair' political opponent - FW de Klerk
Johannesburg – Former South African president Nelson Mandela is not a "holy man" unlike some people's idea of him and he had been a "cruel and unfair" politic...Published: 11 May 2012 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
FW de Klerk speaks highly of Mandela!
THE former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk has described the country's first black president Nelson Mandela as one of the biggest South African leaders of his generation.De Kl...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 08:33hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe's story of missed opportunities
The default reaction of many Zimbabwean political pundits to the overthrow of despots around the world is to look for and accentuate even the most tenuous of similarities with thei...Published: 01 Mar 2011 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Lashias Ncube
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