South Africa's poor resist home attacks
Source: Red Pepper
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-10 10:44:13 -0700 | political-news
Amid Britain's decision to cut aid for South Africa by 2015, Caroline Elliot hears from poor shack dwellers who vow to resist the destruction of their homes. While critics opposed plans to end £19 million assistance to the biggest economy...
Nigeria: Jay Z to Perform in Lagos, Other African Cities
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-10 06:10:16 -0700 | political-news
Hip-hop legend Jay Z Popular hip hop singer, Jay Z, announced his world tour on Thursday, which includes stops in seven Africa cities, including Lagos. According to Billboard, the tour kicks off on September 9 in Poland and will see...
Africa needs change: WEF
Source: NewKerala
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-10 12:06:17 -0700 | political-news
In a lively discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa about the role of business and civil society in governance, leaders challenged African state and non-state actors to use newfound transparency initiatives to change, rather than accept, bad...
College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
Source: National Public Radio
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-10 01:23:45 -0700 | political-news
At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about South Africa's racist Apartheid regime got their schools to drop...
Kenya: Supreme Court Says It Has Juridction to Hear Moi's Case
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 22:33:45 -0700 | political-news
THE Supreme Court yesterday said it has powers to hear an application by retired president Daniel Moi in which he is challenging orders that required him to surrender 100 acres of Kabarak University back to a rancher. Two judges of...
Kenya: MPs Plot to Change Uhuru's Budget
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 20:45:44 -0700 | political-news
The lawmakers are today expected to move a motion to give the 47 counties an additional Sh32.4 billion. The changes to the budget will be made when the House is finalizing business on the Division of Revenue Bill, 2013 whose...
Kenya: Cabinet Nominees to Be Vetted
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 20:45:45 -0700 | political-news
Cord had asked all its MPs to pull out of the committees after it was unable to reach a compromise on the membership of the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investment Committee. Cord has been insisting that it should...
Marikana: "They destroyed homes, not structures"
Source: Scoop
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 19:33:12 -0700 | political-news
They destroyed homes, not structures We, as the residents of Marikana, will picket outside Parliament today to show the government that the shacks they destroyed were not unfinished or empty structures, they were our homes that we lived in, that...
SA Prisons Reflect Racist Policies of ANC Government
Posted by: Africadesk
Pretoria :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-13 00:02:45 -0700 | political-news
South Africa’s commissioner of correctional services, Tom Moyane, is being challenged in court by a handful of mainly coloured employees about his racial-hiring directive denying most qualified coloureds and whites access to the 7,299 jobs in the Western Cape prison...
Ex-ANC member's home sold to pay tax
Source: BBC
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 11:43:17 -0700 | political-news
Ex-ANC member Julius Malema's house sold to pay taxes Mr Malema was expelled from the ANC in 2012 after he was convicted of hate speech A mansion belonging to former African National Congress Youth League leader, Julius Malema, has been...
Africa: Innovation Prize for Africa Winner
Source: All Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 09:38:53 -0700 | political-news
With global population expected to grow to 9 billion by 2050 and more than 900 million people living in hunger, the demand for nutritious food is rapidly increasing. Acknowledging this need and the impact of hunger in Africa, the Innovation...
Africa: Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Alan Winde Explores Western Cape's ...
Source: All Africa
Durban :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 08:36:52 -0700 | political-news
Today, Western Cape Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Alan Winde, is heading to Durban to lead the Western Cape delegation at one of Africa's biggest travel exhibitions, the annual Tourism Indaba. This year's Indaba is focused on heritage...
MyBroadband: Race question was the only way
Source: Mail and Guardian
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 08:31:05 -0700 | political-news
Tweeters responded in anger after a 2OceansVibe story was circulated reporting that MyBroadband was asking users to "select the white name" from a list of suggestions when registering on the site's forum, which allows you to comment on its articles. ...
Hawking boycott sparks controversy in Israel
Source: CNN
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 08:29:44 -0700 | political-news
Hawking, who's a professor at Britain's Cambridge University, had initially accepted an invitation to the high-profile Israeli Presidential Conference, taking place in Jerusalem in June. His change of heart this week appears to be the result of pressure from Palestinian...
Nigeria: Jonathan Decries High Number of Nigerians in South Africa Jails
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 04:59:25 -0700 | political-news
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the large number of Nigerians serving jail terms in South Africa as a bad image for Nigeria. Nigerians were residing in South Africa, while over 400 were serving various jail terms in different prisons there....
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