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“A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time”

February 26, 2014March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergassassination, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Portia Karegeya, Rwanda, Rwanda National Congress, South Africa, Theogene Rudasingwa

Interview with Portia Karegeya on the death of her father Patrick Karegeya By: Jennifer Fierberg In the wake of extreme tragedy is one rarely able to articulate their emotions let alone answer questions about the loss that has torn through their family. Patrick Karegeya, former head spy chief for President Paul Kagame and founding member of the Rwandan opposition group… Read More

Desmond Tutu castigates Uganda’s anti-gay bill as evil

February 23, 2014 Global AuthorBishop Desmond Tutu, Museveni, South Africa, Uganda

The former Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize winning Desmond Tutu has compared Uganda’s new anti-gay law to Nazi and Apartheid discrimination. Archbishop Tutu said that the was “very disheartened” that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is intending to sign a bill into law that could see gay people facing lifetime prison sentence. . Read More

South African opposition vow to impeach President Zuma

February 19, 2014 Global AuthorANC, Election, South Africa, Zuma

South Africa's opposition have criticised President Zuma's "good news" state of the nation address this week with some using the ongoing debate to call for his impeachment. Zuma delivered the eagerly awaited address last week and opposition parties have been given the opportunity to raise issues that they feel were lacking from the speech. with the election looming, some... Read More

Fidel Castro: Mandela Is Dead, So Why Hide The Truth About Apartheid?

February 8, 2014 Global AuthorCuba, Fidel Castrol, Mandela, South Africa, USA, USSR

Maybe the empire thought that we would not honor our word when, during days of uncertainty in the past century, we affirmed that even if the USSR were to disappear Cuba would continue struggling. World War II broke out on September 1, 1939 when Nazi-fascist troops invaded Poland and struck like a lightning over the heroic people of the USSR,... Read More

South Africa’s Hugh Masekela Jives the Baobab Babes

February 6, 2014 Global AuthorHugh masekela, Music, South Africa

Hugh Masekela has teamed up with a bevy of young Scandinavian girls, the Baobab Singers, to produce an album of African folk songs that will be released next year. The Danish group has been charming local township dwellers over the past few weeks by breaking into traditional folk songs in Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa and Tswana on street corners, wowing pedestrians... Read More

Rwanda: The Three Mistakes of Paul Kagame

February 6, 2014 Global AuthorKagame, Karegeya, politics, Rwanda, South Africa

On January 1, 2014, the media reported the murder in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, a Rwandan once close to Paul Kagame (Rwanda’s President) and former Head of Foreign Intelligence Services of his country before being an outcast for becoming a fierce political opponent of a regime he had helped to establish in Rwanda. With the maturity and... Read More

Winnie left wanting in Nelson “Madiba” Mandela’s will

February 6, 2014 Global AuthorDikgang Moseneke, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Will, Winnie Mandela

JOHANNESBURG – Former President Nelson Mandela has not left any money or assets to his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Mandela’s final will and testament was released publicly today. In it Mandela detailed endowments to his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Executors of his estate, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Eastern Cape Judge President Themba Sangoni and Advocate George Bizos SC,... Read More

Africa: DHL’s deliveries just got stranger

February 2, 2014 Global AuthorDHL, Shipping, South Africa, Sumesh Rahavendra

JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, January 30, 2014/ -- DHL Express (http://www.dhl.com) recently released its annual list of quirky, strange and speedy delivery requests for 2013 which ranged from delivering nine gorillas across two continents, to transporting the Webb Ellis trophy and a specific heart internal defibrillator. In addition to these global shipments, a few more interesting packages which were delivered closer to home have come... Read More

Memorial service held for Patrick Karegeya the former Rwandan spy chief

January 19, 2014 Global AuthorMozambique, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

The family of a former Rwandan intelligence chief found dead in a Johannesburg hotel held a memorial service for the ex-spymaster turned critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Patrick Karegeya's family and colleagues in an opposition coalition accuse Kagame of ordering his assassination. A week ago, Rwanda's foreign minister said her government had no sympathy for the slain former spy... Read More

U.S. rebukes Rwandan leader amid scrutiny over opponent’s murder

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorJen PSaki, Kagame, Karegeya, Obama, Rwanda, South Africa, US State Department

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame arrives for the extraordinary session of the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the case of African Relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, October 12, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERI (Reuters) – The United States says it is deeply worried about threats made by Rwandan President Paul… Read More

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