Ofentse - Instablogs
Oct 9 2009
GLENN Agliotti, a convicted drug dealer who is also accused of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble, yesterday supported claims that former police commissioner Jackie Selebi made against former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka...
Sep 5 2009
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live in woeful conditions, the aid agency Oxfam says. It says overcrowded and badly managed refugee camps in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are “barely fit for...
Aug 29 2009
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has urged Zimbabwe’s political rivals to work together if they are to see foreign aid restored. He said the power-sharing government must fully implement its agreement to “create confidence”.
Aug 8 2009
Attempts by President Robert Mugabe’s old guard to derail Zimbabwe’s democratic progress are mere “sulks from a dying breed”, according to the Finance Minister, Tendai Biti. Mr Biti, who is also the secretary-general of the...
Jul 21 2009
New research has challenged the long-standing belief that HIV and AIDS in Africa primarily affect heterosexuals. A study published on the website of the British medical journal Lancet found that men who have sex with other men are up to 10 times more...
Jun 3 2009
Al-Qaida-linked militants killed two teachers and eight police escorts as they brought copies of tests back from an examination center near the Algerian capital, a local official and Algerian media said Wednesday. The militants triggered a roadside...
Dec 16 2008
A new political party expected to pose the first serious opposition to the ruling African National Congress is formally launching in South Africa.The Congress of the People, or Cope, is made up largely of defectors from the ANC, which has been in power...
Oct 21 2008
Slavery exists even today; i know that that sounds like an inflammatory statement but it is true. It is just not talked about in any kind of real, life changing way. I read a book recently which opens up a whole new way of looking at the world. It is...
Oct 12 2008
I think I am probably going to die any minute now. An inflamed, deceived mob of about 50 desperate men are crowding round the car, some trying to turn it over, others beating at it with large rocks, all yelling insults and curses.
Oct 11 2008
North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded Saturday by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist.