Bushmen take state to court over land 2005-01-15 14:33:09
Hundreds of Botswanan bushmen will continue their fight to return to their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in a high court case against the government.Full Story...
Zimbabwe arrests top politicians for 'spying' 2005-01-15 17:14:55
A Zimbabwean ruling party lawmaker has been accused of selling state secrets to security authorities in South Africa for thousands of rands.Full Story...
Africans are ready for peace, says Mbeki 2005-01-15 17:11:40
President Thabo Mbeki, writing in his weekly letter on the African National Congress website, said Africans were determined to discharge their obligations as the architects of a better future.Full Story...
Britain's Brown arrives in Mozambique 2005-01-14 19:04:37
British Finance Minister Gordon Brown has jetted into Mozambique, promising more debt relief to poor African countries only hours after signing a debt relief pact with Tanzania.Full Story...
Locust invasion takes centre stage in Dakar 2005-01-14 19:15:35
Agriculture ministers from across Africa have gathered in Dakar to discuss new ways of dealing with the locusts that have invaded the northern and western parts of the continent.Full Story...
Moyo hits out after party snub 2005-01-14 19:23:41
Zimbabwe's controversial information minister, Jonathan Moyo, has rebuked his own party after being barred from contesting primary elections.Full Story...
Zim MP was spying for SA, court hears 2005-01-14 12:52:55
The Zimbabwean High Court has heard that a member of parliament from the ruling Zanu-PF party allegedly spied for a South African agent, who paid him R60 000 a month.Full Story...
Zim farmers expect lowest tobacco crop 2005-01-14 09:40:20
There is disappointment that Zimbabwe's richest crop, tobacco, which appeared set for a small recovery, will be the smallest.Full Story...
Nujoma flick halted as taxpayers lose R5m 2005-01-14 10:35:24
Questions have been raised about the production of a film on the life of Namibia's first president, San Nujoma: the movie has already cost taxpayers close to R5-million...Full Story...
Construction begins on Swazi Aids centre 2005-01-14 09:47:55
Swazi Prime Minister Themba Dlamini has welcomed the start of construction of the first paediatric HIV and Aids centre.Full Story...
Second Tsvangirai treason trial postponed 2005-01-13 17:20:08
A Zimbabwean court has postponed the second treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, pending a state appeal against his acquittal on an earlier charge of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe.Full Story...
Moyo will not feature in Harare elections 2005-01-13 14:57:29
Zimbabwe's controversial information minister, Jonathan Moyo, has been "officially barred" from contesting the March legislative elections as a candidate of the ruling party, according to newspaper reports in Harare.Full Story...
Zim court reduces Mann's coup sentence 2005-01-13 10:50:02
Zimbabwe's High Court has shortened the jail term of the convicted mastermind behind a plot to stage a coup in Equatorial Guinea.Full Story...
Zim's newest paper threatened with closure 2005-01-13 10:36:48
Zimbabwe's newest newspaper, the Weekly Times, was threatened with closure after it hit the streets with "a lot of political stories" - much to the chagrin of Tafataona Mahoso, the chairperson of the Media and Information Commission.Full Story...
Mass exodus leaves thousands without jobs 2005-01-12 20:08:48
The foreign owners of six major textile factories in Lesotho have fled the country and closed down their businesses, leaving thousands of locals without work at the start of the new year.Full Story...
Mugabe moves to quell internal squabbling 2005-01-11 16:58:21
Political analysts believe that wrangling within President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party may work to the advantage of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.Full Story...
AU talks finish in record time 2005-01-11 18:41:35
The African Union's Peace and Security Council has wrapped up its inaugural meeting with a series of resolutions regarding the continent's main flashpoints.Full Story...
Zanu-PF row cuts Mugabe's holiday short 2005-01-11 08:48:29
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has cut short his scheduled month-long holiday in Asia to return to Harare to try to sort out the chaos in his ruling party.Full Story...
Hungry Zimbabweans scrape the barrel 2005-01-11 10:03:18
The prices of staple foods in Zimbabwe have become so high that residents in rural areas are being forced to eat much less, according to an American food monitoring agency.Full Story...
AU hopes to revive peace efforts 2005-01-10 19:40:14
The African Union has gathered for a two-day meeting to discuss the continent's three biggest problems: the strife in Ivory Coast, the ongoing violence in the Congo and the humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur region.Full Story...
Malawi hopes to treble Aids drug rollout 2005-01-10 12:22:25
Malawi hopes to more than treble the number of Aids patients on free drugs in the country by July this year after receiving a significant grant from a global fund.Full Story...
Lack of pathologists delay Zim murder trials 2005-01-10 12:19:55
Zimbabwe's mortuaries are in dire need of forensic pathologists, as the country's last practitioner resigned, leading to a steady climb of accumulated corpses.Full Story...
Zimbabwe's most powerful woman or a pawn? 2005-01-09 15:41:04
When Zimbabwean Deputy President Joyce Mujuru styles herself as "a very strong, courageous and determined woman", this is no self-help talk. After all, how many would dare abandon family life and school to join a liberation war and raise children in the bush while eluding enemy bullets?Full Story...
Diamond price hike a bonus for Botswana 2005-01-09 15:28:50
Reports from South Africa that, to counter a weaker dollar, De Beers' Diamond Trading Company plans to raise the prices of rough diamonds by three percent will be a cash bonus for major supplier Botswana.Full Story...
Malawi scraps spy agency after plot claim 2005-01-08 14:15:43
Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika has ordered the immediate scrapping of the National Intelligence Bureau amid allegations that some intelligence officers were involved in a foiled assassination plot against him.Full Story...
Mutharika lets alleged plotters off the hook 2005-01-07 09:07:03
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has officially pardoned three politicians from the ruling party who had allegedly plotted to have him assassinated.Full Story...
Malawi probes alleged assassination plot 2005-01-06 17:36:46
The arrest of three politicians, who turned up at a meeting with President Bingu wa Mutharika carrying guns, has prompted the country's attorney-general to launch an investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate the president.Full Story...
'We want a new constitution!' 2005-01-06 15:12:30
The people of Zambia have gathered to form one voice, demanding that a new constitution be adopted before the presidential election due for next year.Full Story...
Zanu-PF ruling 'unfair to me and to women' 2005-01-06 17:36:55
Zimbabwe's information minister, Jonathan Moyo, has slammed a Zanu-PF decision to exclude him from primary elections in his home district of Tsholotsho.Full Story...
Politicians 'wanted to kill' Mutharika 2005-01-06 16:47:24
Malawi's attorney-general says police have information that certain politicians planned "to assassinate" President Bingu wa Mutharika.Full Story...
Women protest over 'imposed candidates' 2005-01-06 10:26:23
The top elections official for Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF party has been detained by angry female supporters in the latest sign of turmoil within the ruling elite.Full Story...
Tempers flare at Zanu-PF protest 2005-01-05 11:36:34
The divisions in Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party appear to have widened after members briefly blocked the entrance to the party's headquarters in Harare.Full Story...
Harare's airwaves 'not open for opposition' 2005-01-05 14:19:08
Two Zimbabwean opposition parties have threatened to boycott the general elections if the country's broadcasting corporation stops them from advertising on radio and television.Full Story...
Popular headmaster plunges to his death 2005-01-05 07:27:56
Respected and well-liked Johannesburg school headmaster Michael John Drake fell 40 metres to his death at Victoria Falls when he stepped forward in an effort to catch his glasses.Full Story...
Scales of justice tip in Zambian men's favour 2005-01-05 10:34:24
The battle for gender equality is rife in Zambia, especially in a court of law where men are given lenient sentences, while women are sometimes sentenced to death.Full Story...
Mozambique election body rejects rerun plea 2005-01-04 19:06:23
Mozambique's electoral commission has rejected demands for a rerun of last month's elections by the opposition Renamo party but the former guerrilla group said it would appeal to the constitutional court.Full Story...
Lesotho set for local elections in 2005 2005-01-04 15:04:08
Lesotho are planning on holding their first ever local government elections on April 30 next year, however officials have warned that a concrete date will only be announced in February.Full Story...
SA man plunges to his death at Victoria Falls 2005-01-04 12:04:25
A tourist from Johannesburg, trying to recover spectacles he dropped, has fallen 40m down a rock face at the Victoria Falls.Full Story...
Malawians arrested for taking guns to meeting 2005-01-04 18:38:14
Three top officials in Malawi's ruling party have been arrested and charged after they turned up at a meeting with President Bingu wa Mutharika carrying guns.Full Story...
Kaunda refuses to pay lawyers' fees 2005-01-04 12:03:46
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president has refused to pay over R3,4-million in legal fees from his lawyers who defended him in several cases, denying that he had contracted them.Full Story...
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