Governance

Remember the names Garrick Hopkins, Carl Hopkins, McKenzie Cochran, Darrin Manning, and Charda Gregory. They are the latest victims of the unofficial but very real lynch law that has ruled America for centuries.

It is a point of historical controversy whether or not when told that French peasants did not have bread to eat, Marie Antoinette uttered the phrase “Let them eat cake,” an even more inaccessible and scarce food for poor people.

Monday, February 10, 2014

In Mozambique’s latest municipal elections the governing party FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) appears to have obliterated any opposition when it managed to win 49 out of 53 contested municipalities.

With the passing of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013, the impact of his life and political work was recognized by not just the people of South Africa and the African continent but oppressed and struggling peoples throughout the world.

In 2009, Alicia (name changed), a 34-year-old mother of three and originally from Cape Town, was visiting a friend in Mpumalanga when she realised she was pregnant. Unaware of where to go, she saw an abortion advert in the classified section of the paper and phoned the provider.

Vivian Kayitesi, the head of investment promotion at Rwanda Development Board (RDB) noted: ‘The major area of Chinese investment in Rwanda are in construction and real estate, hotels and ICT’.

MOSES MAGADZA: You have been one of the longest serving officers at Budding Writers of Zimbabwe (BWAZ). What would you put down as its major achievements?

It is on record that Anglo American and other mining monopolies have stolen trillions of dollars of wealth from Southern Africa (and continue to do so). Here are the funds not only for adequate water for all, but decent housing, jobs for all, not only for SA but for the entire Southern Africa.

“Believe it,” said the current Prevaricator-in-Chief, in the conclusion to his annual litany lies.