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My Friend – The Immortal Steve Biko

October 18, 2016November 21, 2016 Global AuthorANC, JACOB ZUMA, South Africa, Steve Biko, Steve Biko day

AMBASSADOR WELILE NHLAPO Through our life journey, we meet different types of people. Some will touch our lives but later continue on their course and we forget about them. But others won’t just make a mark in our lives but they’ll leave their footprints in our minds and hearts. Steve was that kind of a human being. Even though there’s… Read More

South Africa arrests hundreds over xenophobic violence

April 20, 2015 Global AuthorApartheid, Durban, Johannesburg, South Africa, violence, Xenophobia, Zuma

Police arrest more than 300 for crimes against migrants, after violence kills eight and displaces more than 1,000. South Africa’s government has vowed to crack down on xenophobic violence, after arresting more than 300 people for a range of crimes against migrants. Authorities said on Sunday in Johannesburg that 307 suspects had been arrested for a range of xenophobic-related crimes.… Read More

RWANDA: CASE KAREGEYA, EVIDENCE BEEN FALSIFIED?

March 2, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergJustice, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, South African Hawks, Terrorism

Patrick Karegeya.France24 South African police have arrested one of its members accused of in exchange for bribes, tampering or attempting to tamper with evidence in major criminal cases. Among these issues, there is the Karegeya case, the name of the former head of foreign intelligence in Rwanda murdered in a large Johannesburg hotel on December 31, 2013. For the family of… Read More

South Africa to probe spy cables leak

February 25, 2015 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa, spies

. View photo Rwanda’s former army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa walks into court in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 21, 2012 (AFP Photo/Alexander Joe) Johannesburg (AFP) – South Africa has launched an investigation into the leak of espionage secrets to an international television news channel and a British newspaper, the state security minister said Wednesday. “A full investigation… Read More

South Africa: The State versus identity Document (ID)

February 6, 2015 Global AuthorGender Justice, Sex Change, South Africa, South Africa ID's

Cape Town, 6 February: South African citizens can do almost nothing without an Identity Document (ID). People whose ID particulars do not match their gender identity, gender expression and ultimately who they are, face obstruction, regular ridicule and discrimination. When the power of the state and the public sector control, rather than serve an individual’s most fundamental resource— their body—... Read More

Sonke Gender Justice condemns the outbreak of xenophobic violence in Gauteng

January 27, 2015 Global AuthorGauteng, South Africa, xenophobic violence

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) joins fellow human rights activists around the globe to condemn in the strongest possible terms the violence against non-South African individuals living and working within our borders and calls on our government to take urgent action to both protect all people in South Africa, and to prosecute strongly those perpetrating violence against others. . Read More

Brothers kill brothers, Remembering Patrick Karegeya

January 25, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergKaregeya Foundation, murder, Patrick Karegeya, RNC, Rwanda, Rwanda Intellegence, South Africa, strangulation, Theogene Rudasingwa

By Jennifer Fierberg Just over a year ago, Patrick Karegeya was murdered in an upscale hotel in South Africa. He was found strangled under suspicious circumstances with a trail of clues that leave few questions in discovering the perpetrator of this crime. There was no money taken from the victim, no valuables were missing from the hotel or his home… Read More

SA heads for new DRC war

January 14, 2015 Global AuthorDRC, FDLR, Kagame, Kerry, Obama, Rebels, Rwanda, South Africa, UN, Zuma

South Africa has 1000 troops in the DRC as part of the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade, which is tasked with “neutralising” threats to the region. File photoImage by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS The government yesterday announced that a confrontation with Forces for Democratic Liberation of Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo was “inevitable”. Four thousand FDLR soldiers, many of… Read More

Congo-Kinshasa: Extending the FDLR Disarmament Deadline Will Only Prolong the Agony

January 12, 2015 Global Authorcongo, FDLR, ICGLR, Kabila, Kagame, Kikwete, SADC, South Africa, Tanzania, Zuma

This week all eyes were to be on the joint summit between the South African Development Community (SADC) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes (ICGLR) that was proposed by South African President Jacob Zuma earlier this month, but this event has now been cancelled, apparently at the behest of Angola, which currently holds the presidency of the ICGLR.… Read More

Africa’s Hope at Brisbane G20 Summit

November 14, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica Development, Brisbane, G20 Summit, Nigeria, South Africa

The 2014 annual summit of the group of 20 developed and emerging economies comes up from Nov. 15 to Nov. 16 in the Australian city of Brisbane. As usual the leaders of the G20 countries will be deliberating on issues that will have ramifications for not only their respective economies but also the rest of the world, including those who... Read More

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