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Things are not looking so good in Kenya right now. I certainely hope that things will settle down this weekend. Beeb stories here and here. On a related note it would seem that PC Kenya has not evac-ed, see here, but according to various blogs (like this one) and a newspaper story that I can [...] Here is an interesting story on Zuma’s two (current) wives. It would appear that he is in the process of paying lobola on what will be the third. He is divorced from Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and another wife Kate committed suicide in 2000. The contents of Kate’s suicide note were recently in the [...] In a 180 I now like Zuma. From the Cape Argus article here. Taking a dig at Mbeki’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” towards Zimbabwe, Zuma said it was tragic that there were world leaders who witnessed repression and pretended that it was not happening or was exaggerated. “When history eventually deals with the dictators, those [...] The Beeb has a good article providing a time line of Zuma’s past legal issues, here. June 2005 Mr Zuma’s close associate Schabir Shaik found guilty of fraud and corruption in connection with a $4.8bn arms deal. Judge Hilary Squires said there was evidence of “a mutually beneficial symbiosis” and that payments by Shaik [...] Things are heating up within the ANC, creating a sort of internal two party system within South Africa’s only viable political party. At the beginning of the ANC election conference Jacob Zuma’s supporters set the tone by heckling the opposition, here. This story has many interesting sides. Will the ANC implode? Does Mbeki deserve to [...] A photo of the diamond “Lesotho Promise.” From the BBC’s week in pictures, here, photo 6. The diamond in the photo is the largest of 26 diamonds cut out of “Lesotho Promise”, which are all together worth $50 million! Full story here. [...] Lisbon, Portugal The much debated EU-Africa Summit has commenced and is being boycotted by Gordon Brown and the heads of state from Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Cyprus. (here) Other EU leaders have chosen to show up and express their “strong” disapproval for Zimbabwe’s human rights record. BBC overview story here. [...] SA Miners are protesting today. Full story here. South Africa’s mining sector accounts for some 16% of the country’s GDP. It would appear that the strike extends to Lesotho as well, Public Eye story here. —— The Berea Plateau has a new HIV/AIDs clinic: here. —— Lesotho will adhere to the “One China” [...] Namibia has ordered two Americans to leave the country for trying to recruit Namibians to work as security guards in Iraq and Afghanistan, the information minister said. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said the Namibian Security Council also ordered their company, Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG), to shut down on the grounds that its operations violated Namibian [...] Apparently making fun of Bobby won’t help things in Zimbabwe. I beg to differ.You, sir, are a maroon. Beeb story here. “If Tanzania said, ‘You are hopeless! A murderer! A violator of basic human rights!’ does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn’t.” – Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. Sounds like a cop out to me. [...] |
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