Khulumani, an NGO litigating in the USA against companies that did business in South African prior to the ANC’s takeover, has issued the following statement: Nearly ten years after Khulumani first lodged its lawsuit against alleged apartheid-era corporate collaborators with the security forces of the apartheid regime, a US court has ratified a settlement between
Read more: Bankrupt General Motors to pay ‘apartheid victims’ US$ 1,5 billion
By Mike Glover DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa House approved two gun-rights measures Wednesday night that sparked Democrats to stage a walkout earlier in the day, stalling action for six hours. One bill would allow people to use deadly force to protect themselves and the other called for writing gun rights protections into
Read more: Republicans, Democrats clash over gun rights in Iowa
Several train carriages were on fire in Soweto and Braamfontein on Wednesday night, Johannesburg emergency services said. “Around 9pm we got a call that three moving train carriages caught fire at the New Canada railway station in Soweto,” spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said. Nobody was injured. Around the same time emergency services received calls about several
A motion to shut down Afrikaner survivalist group Kommandokorps’s “hate camp” was adopted by the Mpumalanga provincial legislature, the province said on Wednesday. The Democratic Alliance’s motion was adopted on Tuesday, provincial spokesman Lebona Mosia said. “We support it [the motion] and agree that this thing must be shut down,” he said. DA provincial leader
Read more: South Africa’s DA wants Franz Jooste’s ‘hate camp’ closed
By Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long. New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas – from 125 million to 165 million years ago, said Diying
Read more: Dinosaurs had fleas too – giant ones, fossils show
Mitt Romney’s narrow but campaign-saving primary victory in Michigan lost some of its luster when the final outcome showed that his top rival, Rick Santorum, still won half of the state’s delegates, muddying the race ahead of 10 key state contests next Tuesday. A win in Michigan was crucial for Romney, who was born there
For more than two hundred years the Afrikaans language has been attacked and marginalised in South Africa, either by the British colonial authorities or by the ANC regime. During the days of National Party rule, English was allowed to retain its role as sole public language and Afrikaans was subjected to censorship. PRAAG (the Pro-Afrikaans
Read more: PRAAG calls for civil disobedience after passing of language bill
Evidence of widespread maladministration has been found at Dipaleseng municipality in Balfour, Mpumalanga, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Wednesday. She said her findings, released at a news briefing in Balfour on Wednesday, showed administrative deficiencies in various departments. “The budget and treasury office of the municipality is deficient and its failure to fully comply
Read more: Widespread maladministration at Balfour municipality
by Gillian Gotora AP – Zimbabwe’s black empowerment minister said Wednesday he will proceed with a takeover of the country’s biggest platinum mine if the South African owners don’t comply with orders to hand over more stakes in the company to blacks. Minister Saviour Kasukuwere said there is “no compromise” over the eventual handover of
Read more: Zim’s ‘black empowerment minister’ to take platinum mine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Michigan and powered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most turbulent Republican presidential race in a generation. “We didn’t win by a lot, but we won by enough,” Romney told
Read more: Romney sweeps to double Republican primary victory
Two Afrikaner NGO’s, PRAAG and the Boereleed Research Institute have filed a request under the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000 with the South African Police Service for murder statistics broken down by population group. According to Dr. Dan Roodt, director of PRAAG (Pro-Afrikaans Action Group), “there is widespread concern among members of
Read more: Afrikaner NGO’s file information request on whites murdered since 1994
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group protesting violence by blacks against whites in South Africa. The clash erupted in the afternoon as California Highway Patrol and
Read more: Pro-South African and ‘Occupy’ protestors clash in Californian capital
by Marie Sanz, AFP The UN Human Rights Council’s annual session opens Monday determined to put more pressure on Syria’s hardline regime after publication of a list of officials suspected of crimes against humanity. “We want Syrian authorities to give up being in denial,” said one diplomat. The Human Rights Council must “continue to put
Government is forging a strategy to further the study of South Africa’s palaeontological and archaeological past, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi announced on Thursday. Briefing media at Parliament in Cape Town following Cabinet’s fortnightly meeting the day before, he said the strategy was intended to provide a “holistic framework for the development of the palaeosciences”. The
Read more: South African govt. wants to study ‘distant past’
