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Tuesday was the Day of the African Child. It has been commemorated since 1991 when the Organisation of African Unity, now African Union, proclaimed it to honour the children who were massacred on June 16, 1976 by the apartheid regime of South Africa as they participated in a march demanding better education. More than just […]
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Genevieve Quintal Johannesburg — A spokesperson for the US State Department stumbled over an explanation regarding the country’s statement about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s visit to South Africa to attend the African Union summit. In a transcript of the briefing on the department’s website, press office director Jeff Rathke
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WE commend the South African government for refusing to be used by the International Criminal Court to cause the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir while attending an African Union summit on its soil. President Al-Bashir flew back to Khartoum on Monday morning from the Waterkloof Airforce
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Rev Sarah Nyathi Daniel 5: 12a “For as much as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts,
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Mehari Taddele Maru A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit. This provision catapulted South Africa into the heat of the international news media’s spotlight.
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The issue of The African Union providing the bulk of the funding for its programmes as opposed to depending on Western donors once again came to the fore this week at the 25th Session of the union’s assembly which ended yesterday at Sandton International Convention Centre in South Africa.
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Calestous Juma and Francis Mangeni The creation in June 2015 of a free trade area from Cape Town to Cairo is possibly the most significant event in Africa since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963. It is a grand move to merge existing regional organisation into a single African Economic Community.
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A South African judge yesterday granted what many in Africa view as a mischievous order for the government in that country to prevent Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir from leaving South Africa until it hears an application calling for his arrest. President al-Bashir is in South Africa attending the African
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Prince Collins Liberia’s Ebola outbreak has been over for a while, so what has happened to all those burial teams, contact tracers, Ebola Treatment Unit health workers, community mobilisers, ambulance drivers? What are they doing now? The answer is not a lot. The majority of the estimated 20,000 or so workers and
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For some Zimbabweans, their eighth parliament started off in 2013 with an ideal make-up, the pro-people party dominating and other parties only making up the numbers.
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Vaidah Mashangwa Gender Theoretically, women can acquire more political power than men because female voters outnumber male voters and in most instances women also work as volunteers in political campaigns. While this is the case, most women feel that politics is a male activity and that women should not find themselves
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Edwin Mutuka Today, all roads lead to Bulawayo’s Large City Hall car park where commemorations to mark World Blood Donor Day are being held. Bulawayo Metropolitan Province has been mandated to host the national event this year. Last year, celebrations were conducted in Mashonaland West Province.
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WE hail the setting up of a Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) this week by three African regional trade blocs as it will facilitate economic growth and development on the continent. The new trading bloc will also lay the groundwork for the launch of the continental FTA in 2017. The Common Market for
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Savo Heleta South Africa is readying itself for US-style engagement in war zones and post-conflict environments. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) plans to engage in peace-making and stabilisation in Africa using the American and Nato approach known as “winning hearts and minds,” with country’s soldiers roaming around the continent with a gun in […]
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