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- Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:00:10 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Anything but a Routine Win, Says Zambian Coach - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Bata -
Zambia might have eased their way to what looked a routine win over Sudan in their African Nations Cup quarter-final on Saturday but the winners are insisting it was anything but. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:19:53 +0000: Swaziland: Police Shoot Woman Protester - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Swazi Media]
A woman protester was shot at close range by Swazi police as she was walking from them. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:17:47 +0000: Swaziland: Prince Blamed for Loan Delay - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Swazi Media]
An ill-timed outburst by King Mswati III's advisor and senior member of the royal household, Prince Mahlaba is what has delayed Swaziland's bid to secure a E2.4 billion bailout from neighbouring South Africa, the Nation Magazine in Swaziland reports. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:01 +0000: South Africa: Youth Leader Who Flew Too High - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[iMaverick]
We've said all along that Julius Malema is clever. We've admired his political cunning, his sense of political theatre and his ability to wake up thousands of previously dormant political souls. But like so many youngsters before him, he flew too high, too fast, too dangerously. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:49:54 +0000: Africa: South Africa Backs Vetoed UN Syria Resolution - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[BuaNews]
Pretoria -
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep regret after Security Council members were unable to agree on a resolution backing an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Syria. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:18:35 +0000: Zambia: Banda Angry Over Son's Arrest Warrant - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Citizen]
Lusaka -
Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda has reacted angrily to the arrest warrant issued against his son. - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:17:55 +0000: Namibia: The African Union - in Search of a Democratic Leadership and Political Compass - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Namibian]
THE 18th African Union (AU) summit held on 29-30 January in Addis Ababa had all the elements of failure even before it had started. In light of these elements, the outcomes were pretty predictable. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:07:04 +0000: Africa: Zambia Through to Semifinals At African Cup - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[GFA]
Zambia was the first team through to the African Cup of Nations semifinals after a clinical 3-0 win over struggling 10-man Sudan on Saturday. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:53 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Copper Bullets Humble 10-Man Sudan to Reach Last Four - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[CAF]
The Chipolopolos of Zambia sealed a historic place at the last four of the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Sudan 3-0 in their quarter final clash on Saturday in Bata. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:23:10 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Chipolopolo Stride Into Afcon Semi-Finals - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Bata -
Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:47:27 +0000: South Africa: Ruling Party Youth Leaders to Appeal Suspensions - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[SAPA]
Johannesburg -
Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:38:23 +0000: Zambia: Critiquing the Critique On China in Zambia - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Fahamu]
In December, Pambazuka News carried an article that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Here, Human Rights Watch responds to that critique. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:28:34 +0000: Zimbabwe: Civil Society's African Union Bid Flops - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Financial Gazette]
ZIMBABWE'S vocal civil society which shadowed the just-ended African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, returned empty handed from its mission early this week. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:26:06 +0000: Zimbabwe: Gono Warns of Economic Slowdown - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Financial Gazette]
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, has warned that the country's economic recovery may slow down on the back of knock-on effects from the Eurozone debt crisis and the continuing economic turmoil in the United States. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:25:18 +0000: Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Stall Vote on New Constitution - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Financial Gazette]
Harare -
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:06:36 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Renard - 'It's the Most Important Game of My Career' - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[CAF]
Zambia coach Herve Renard says a semi final berth will mark "the most important game of my career" and is looking forward to that. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:37:13 +0000: Angola: CNN Accepts Ads From Corrupt Regime - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Fahamu]
The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his protégés plunder the country. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:03:39 +0000: Africa: Quarter-Finals Begin - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[Nation]
After eight days of action-packed football, we are now left eight teams as the quarter-finals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations beckon. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:22 +0000: Mozambique: UN Agency Begins Food Distribution to Flood Victims - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[UN News]
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people are in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two tropical storms. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:55 +0000: Zimbabwe: Typhoid Outbreak Hits Harare - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[RNW Africa]
Zimbabwe -
Since last October, when the disease broke out, some 1,500 people in Zimbabwe's capital Harare have fallen victim to typhoid. The authorities blame restaurants and food vendors; the citizens blame the authorities. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:43 +0000: Zimbabwe: Improved Aids Levy Collections Fill Part of Funding Gap - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[PlusNews]
Harare -
With global funding for on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:29:09 +0000: South Africa: Implats Fires 13,000 Workers - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[SAPA]
Johannesburg -
Impala Platinum has fired 13,000 miners who went on an illegal strike at its Rustenburg operation, the company said on Thursday. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:29:04 +0000: South Africa: Dalai Lama Application Dismissed With Costs - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[SAPA]
Johannesburg -
An application on whether it was constitutional for the government not to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama last year, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:29:03 +0000: South Africa: Lesbian Murder Sentence a Message for Africa - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[SAPA]
Cape Town -
Human rights activists have welcomed the sentencing of four men who were found guilty of stabbing and stoning a 19-year-old lesbian to death in 2006. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:20:27 +0000: South Africa: Fighting Poverty - the NDP, ANC and a Political Big Beast - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[African Arguments]
Over the years, the South African government has released a plethora of strategies and initiatives in its post-apartheid policy reforms. Many of these recommendations and programmes have evidenced middling success, and even outright failure. The latest such proposal is the National Development Plan, issued by the National Planning Commission of South Africa, an advisory body in the Office of the Presidency with a 5 year mandate. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:11:16 +0000: Namibia: Livestock Owners Embrace New Methods - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[State Department]
Washington -
New land management and marketing techniques taking hold in Namibia with U.S. help mean a stronger economic future for Namibian livestock owners -- and a better life for their families and communities. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:12:57 +0000: Namibia: Govt to Take a Stand On Reparations - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[New Era]
Windhoek -
Prime Minister Nahas Angula says the Namibian government will at its own time and pace pronounce itself on the issue of reparations that the affected communities of Namas and Ovaherero, the descendants of the victims of the German war of extermination of 1904-1908, are demanding. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:14 +0000: Zambia/Sudan: Chipolopolo Seek to Banish Ghosts of Past - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[allAfrica.com]
Zambia are seeking to banish the ghosts of the last 16 years by reaching the African Nations Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1996. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:57:55 +0000: Malawi: Consumers Have a Right to Fuel and Forex Black Market - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[IPS]
Lilongwe -
The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market. - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:39:01 +0000: Zimbabwe: Media Commission Wants Foreign Papers Banned - AllAfrica News: Southern Africa
[The Herald]
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission wants The Sunday Times of South Africa and other foreign based publications barred from being sold in Zimbabwe until they comply with the law.