Police were monitoring East Lynne, east of Pretoria, on Friday morning after violent fights between taxi owners the day before, Captain Pinky Tsinyane said. The Mamelodi Long Distance Taxi Association and the PLAZA Taxi Association were allegedly involved in violent fights at the corner of Baviaanspoort and Stormvoel roads on Thursday morning. “During the violence
ANC must take land, Mantashe tells Young Communists
The ANC cannot be a liberation movement if it does not tackle the issue of land reform, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Thursday. “The land question is at the centre of the struggle. If we raise it in the ANC some are irritated. It can’t be a liberation movement that refuses to deal
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ANCYL: Malema won’t go
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will not be removed from his position by anyone but the structures of the league, his deputy Ronald Lamola said on Thursday. “It is only the internal process of the ANCYL that can decide to elect or un-elect leadership of the ANCYL,” Lamola told reporters at Luthuli House in
DA says Pieter Mulder needs ‘history lesson’ on land
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder needs to be reminded about the “real history” of South Africa, the DA said on Thursday. “Instead of denying our history, as Mr Mulder does, we must do everything we can to ensure that people have access to land. We have to put right the wrongs of the past,”
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Critic of Malawian president jailed
An outspoken opponent of Malawi’s president who once served as his attorney general says the administration sent thugs to petrol bomb his law office – and the government critic ended up in jail. Ralph Kasambara was arrested Monday, accused of kidnapping and torturing three men he told reporters confessed to his bodyguards that they had
Thousands gather for al-Shabab-al-Qaida merger
Thousands of Somalis are gathering at a militant-organized demonstration in support of the merger of the Somali militant group al-Shabab with al-Qaida. Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage told those gathered at Monday’s rally that al-Shabab is happy with its unification with al-Qaida, a merger announced last week by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Several hundred people
Love is a dying tradition: work is eliminating families
by Charlene Smith Don’t cry if you’re no-one’s Valentine, love is a dying tradition as marriages and family life disappear according to a rush of new studies released this month. The Brookings Institute in the United States reported on February 3 that, “Fewer Americans are married today than at any point in at least 50
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A look at Maine, where Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are vying for victory
A profile of Maine, site of the Republican caucus on Feb. 11: NUMBERS Population: 1,328,361 AGE Median age: 42.7 Percentage of population 65 and over: 15.9 percent RACE AND ETHNICITY 95.2 percent white, 1.3 percent Hispanic or Latino origin, 1.2 percent black, 1 percent Asian LANGUAGE Language other than English spoken at home: 7.1 percent
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Greek lawmakers pass austerity bill as Athens burns
Greece’s parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill Monday to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens and black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament before lawmakers voted on the
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SA govt wants cities to control trains
The government is considering handing control of passenger train services from the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) to cities, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday. Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin said the government wanted cities to develop programs for a comprehensive transport system, taking into account buses, trains, minibus taxis and other means of transport.
Cele said ‘shoot to kill’, court told
A Sowetan journalist has testified in court that suspended national police commissioner General Bheki Cele used the words “shoot to kill”, the newspaper reported on Monday. Mhlaba Memela testified against Cele, who had denied saying this, in the High Court in Johannesburg on Friday. Cele is suing the Sowetan for defamation after a doctored image
Malema mitigation to start
Arguments in mitigation of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s suspension from the ruling party begin on Monday. ANC spokesman Keith Khoza said proceedings would start on Monday, but could not confirm if they would be held at the party’s headquarters, Luthuli House in Johannesburg. On Sunday, during a closed session of the ANCYL’s lekgotla,
Is DA’s ‘fopswarte’ Mazibuko the new Buthelezi?
‘Unless the DA wishes to court middle-class black voters only, its confident foray into identity politics might backfire’ THE news about Lindiwe Mazibuko’s election as Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentary leader had hardly been announced when inveterate blogger Anton Barnard published his acidic take on it under the title, The DA’s token black. Not only did
South Africa, a bigger version of Zimbabwe
The multicultural dream that the US and Britain foresaw in South Africa is simply not going to happen. In fact, it is not even being realised in their own countries, backed up by huge globalised economies. If things continue like now, South Africa will become a bigger version of Zimbabwe. Most whites will leave, the