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From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
7-17-5
 
One British Suicide Bomber was a S.African
14-Jul-2005: London - The Mohammad Sidique Khan about whom Farida Patel read in newspapers on Friday was not the same son-in-law who stole into her heart after marrying her daughter. The 30-year-old suicide ...
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Now Mbeki Lies about Quiet Diplomacy over Zim
14-Jul-2005: President Thabo Mbeki"s office was unmoved on Wednesday by assertions that he is to abandon what has been labelled as his approach of quiet diplomacy toward Zimbabwe. "We have never classified...
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S.African Foreign Minister's latest ridiculous remarks on Zim
14-Jul-2005: Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday defended South Africa"s policy of quiet diplomacy on Zimbabwe, saying louder lobbying of President Robert Mugabe has not yielded resu...
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Black Trade Unionist: Why Zimbabwe needs a catastrophe
14-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - The situation in her country needed to reach catastrophic proportions before the world took notice, said a member of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on Thursday. Th...
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S.Africa: Govt evicts 700 Blacks in Central Johannesburg
14-Jul-2005: Emotions ran high at a the scene of a mass eviction in Bree Street, Johannesburg, on Thursday as night fell over hundreds of newly homeless families. Isolated scuffles broke out between those e...
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Bush running scared: I've Made Opportunities for Blacks
14-Jul-2005: President Bush argued Thursday that he has built a government that expands opportunities for black Americans as he tried to win more Republican votes from one of the most reliably Democratic group...
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S.Africa: Coverup: ANC misled nation on Oilgate
14-Jul-2005: The Mail & Guardian reports in its latest edition, available on Friday, that the African National Congress has misled the nation on the Oilgate scandal. Documents in the possession of the M&G m...
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Kenya: Armed Raiders kill 76, displace 6,000
14-Jul-2005: At least 6,000 people have been displaced following brutal attacks by armed raiders that started on Tuesday on villages in the northern Kenyan district of Marsabit, relief workers said. The dea...
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The S.African Link to the London Bomb Blasts
14-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - Two vehicles believed to be linked to Thursday"s bombings in London were found in a Luton car park and at a home belonging to a South African woman living in Leeds" Dewsbury area fo...
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Has Mbeki played Tsvangirai for a fool?
14-Jul-2005: President Thabo Mbeki had decided that quiet diplomacy toward Zimbabwe had failed and was ready to opt for a new strategy to help end the political crisis engulfing the neighbouring country, Zimba...
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Johannesburg Hardest Hit By National Strike
14-Jul-2005: JOHANNESBURG appears to have been hit hardest by yesterday"s municipal strike, with some of the city"s departments reporting less than half their normal staffing levels, as thousands of workers na...
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S.Africa: Orgy of note leads to rape charges
14-Jul-2005: The son of a Cape High Court judge has appeared in the Wynberg sexual offences court in connection with multiple rape and indecent assault charges arising from what his attorney said had been an org...
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Russia Pours Cold Water On SA's Chances UN Security Council seat
14-Jul-2005: FOREIGN Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, met her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow yesterday amid signs that SA"s bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations (UN) Security C...
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S.African Islamic council blames Blair for attacks
14-Jul-2005: KwaZulu-Natal Islamic organisation has condemned the London bombings, but laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
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S.African Council of Churches: In God's name, stop Zim evictions
14-Jul-2005: The Zimbabwean government"s demolition of houses and policy of forced removals must be stopped, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) said on Wednesday. "In God"s name, stop Operation Mu...
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Scores injured as trains crash in Soweto
14-Jul-2005: Soweto"s Merafe station resembled a battlefield on Tuesday night as paramedics and emergency service workers attended to scores of injured commuters lying on the platform. Community members rus...
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S.Africa: 40 Injured, 10 women Shot at Peaceful AIDS protest
14-Jul-2005: When Mziwethu Faku and Nomphumelo Khweza and other TAC comrades from Queenstown and the Chris Hani District organized their peaceful protest to ensure that people with HIV/AIDS receive antiretrovi...
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Disaster: If you are on our mailing lists or tried to contact us...
13-Jul-2005: My apologies to everyone but last night I had something of a database disaster, and lost certain information and updates which had occurred in the last month. So, if you subscribed, or unsubscrib...
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Kenya: Mother gouged out children's eyes, cuts off tongues, strangled them
12-Jul-2005: Nairobi - A Kenyan woman who admitted to gouging out the eyes and slicing off the tongues of two of her three children before strangling them to death has told police that her only regret was being ...
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S.Africa: 1 in 3 kids under 10 having sex - 17% spread AIDs deliberately
12-Jul-2005: One out of every three children is having sex at the age of 10, and 17 out of 100 will deliberately spread the virus if they know they are HIV-positive. These are the findings of a comprehensive ...
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Zim facing 'humanitarian crisis', says SA archbishop
12-Jul-2005: South Africa"s Anglican archbishop of Cape Town believes Zimbabwe is facing a "humanitarian crisis" following the government"s campaign of shack demolitions that has left at least 300 000 people h...
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S.Africa: Another Mega-Strike
12-Jul-2005: Wynberg council worker Jacobus Weyt is on strike because he has worked for the City of Cape Town for 30 years and earns just R3 000. Weyt was one of about 5 000 members of South African Municip...
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New Aids figures a 'disaster' for S.Africa
12-Jul-2005: More than 6,2-million South Africans were infected by HIV or Aids by last year, an increase of 700 000 from 2003, a new health ministry report said. Though women in their mid- to late-20s were...
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S. Africa: Alarming New Aids Figures: Who is lying?
12-Jul-2005: Alarming new HIV/AIDS figures released by the South African Department of Health are likely to cause confusion over the accuracy of earlier official statistics, actuaries have said. In its "HIV...
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S.Africa: German tourist raped
12-Jul-2005: A 25-year-old Hout Bay resident was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the rape of a German tourist near Cape Town"s Sandy Bay, police said. The man was arrested at 1.30am after police foll...
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Japan racism is deep and profound
12-Jul-2005: An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem. Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racis...
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S.Africa: Soup Kitchen set up for pets
12-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - A "soup kitchen" is to be set up for animals starving in Stilfontein because of the retrenchment of thousands of miners in the area, the NSPCA said on Tuesday. "The concept of s...
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Thirty Civilians burnt alive in the DRC
12-Jul-2005: More than 30 civilians were burned alive when an armed gang herded them into their huts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and set them on fire, the United Nations mission in the DRC sa...
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Mugabe rejects talks with the MDC for Umpteenth time
12-Jul-2005: Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is rejecting pressure from fellow African leaders to re-start talks with the opposition on political reforms, the state-run Herald said on Tuesday. ...
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S.Africa: Trio on the run after rape of School girl
12-Jul-2005: Two men stood watching as a friend raped a 10-year-old girl in the veld in Ermelo over the weekend, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Abie Khoabane said the girl"s parents had sent her to a shop to...
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African Crisis Data disaster! Lost 547 News articles!!
12-Jul-2005: ...
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Mugabe's Police are now smashing the Rich
12-Jul-2005: Harare - The Zimbabwe government yesterday widened its destruction of homes and backyard cottages to Harare,s affluent suburbs, barely three days after bidding farewell to a United Nations envoy w...
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S.Africa Deports 1,000 Zim refugees - 2 die
12-Jul-2005: Two Zimbabweans refugees died in a South African detention centre last week whilst awaiting deportation to Zimbabwe, reporters have revealed. One was a pregnant woman who died of complications aft...
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Prophetic Documentary: Jihad in America (1994) from PBS
12-Jul-2005: Terrorists Among Us - The Jihad in America (2001) Producer, Steven Emerson Rated: NR NTSC format (US and Canada only) Color, NTSC ASIN: B00005TPOO Available at: From http://www.ji...
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S.Africa: White Afrikaans couple bludgeoned to death
12-Jul-2005: Pretoria - A tackie (sneakers) and various household items lay strewn outside a house on a smallholding in Heatherdale, Akasia, north of Pretoria, where Helgard Brink, 46, and his wife Salomie, 49...
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Zim: Is the MDC falling apart? Forming an Aggressive Party against Mugabe..
12-Jul-2005: ZIMBABWE"s main opposition political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has been hijacked by corrupt opportunists driven mainly by personal greed, senior party official and former MP...
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Zim Grinding to a Halt As Fuel Runs Dry
12-Jul-2005: THE fuel crisis, which has crippled almost every sector of the economy, reached such critical levels last week that even essential security and health services had reportedly run out of the commod...
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S.Africa: No property bubble yet (Really?)
12-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - Indications are that the South African residential property market is not generally experiencing bubble conditions yet. According to Absa senior economist Jacques du Toit, however...
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S.African Church Leaders shocked by Mugabe 'transit camp'
12-Jul-2005: South African church leaders were "shocked" on Monday by conditions at a holding camp housing people displaced by Zimbabwe"s controversial government clean up operation, said Matthew Esau, the spo...
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Russia to invest in Nigerian oil
12-Jul-2005: President Olusegun Oba-sanjo"s drive for direct foreign investment in the country has received a major boost with the recent indication of interest by the worldís second largest oil company, Russ...
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Laura Bush touches down in Cape Town
12-Jul-2005: Cape Town - American First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Cape Town on Monday at the start of a three-nation Africa tour focused on education, Aids and the role of women, an embassy spokesperson said. ...
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Nigeria And Communist China Sign Crude Oil Sale Pact
12-Jul-2005: The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and China"s Petro-China International (London), along with its Nigerian partner, Equinox Energy Limited at the weekend of 8 July, signed a long t...
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Greedy Nelson Mandela charged $1,500 per autograph
12-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - The Nelson Mandela who allegedly wanted to ask up to R10,000 for an autographed photograph and would have sold signed copies of his autobiography to a company "was contradictory to...
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S.Africa: Human legs were sticking out of rubbish bin
12-Jul-2005: A man and a woman were arrested in the Johannesburg area in connection with a murder case in which the victim was set in concrete, East Rand police said on Monday. Superintendent Andy Pieke said ...
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Al Qaeda gets its bombs in Serbia
12-Jul-2005: DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda gets its bombs in Serbia Belgrade is where al Qaeda goes shopping for the explosives and arms for its terror attacks, according DEBKAfile,s exclusive intelligence...
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S.Africa: White Afrikaans couple bludgeoned to death
12-Jul-2005: Pretoria - A tackie (sneakers) and various household items lay strewn outside a house on a smallholding in Heatherdale, Akasia, north of Pretoria, where Helgard Brink, 46, and his wife Salomie, 49...
Click here to read the rest.
Zim: Is the MDC falling apart? Forming an Aggressive Party against Mugabe..
12-Jul-2005: ZIMBABWE"s main opposition political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has been hijacked by corrupt opportunists driven mainly by personal greed, senior party official and former MP...
Click here to read the rest.
Zim Grinding to a Halt As Fuel Runs Dry
12-Jul-2005: THE fuel crisis, which has crippled almost every sector of the economy, reached such critical levels last week that even essential security and health services had reportedly run out of the commod...
Click here to read the rest.
S.Africa: No property bubble yet (Really?)
12-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - Indications are that the South African residential property market is not generally experiencing bubble conditions yet. According to Absa senior economist Jacques du Toit, however...
Click here to read the rest.
S.African Church Leaders shocked by Mugabe 'transit camp'
12-Jul-2005: South African church leaders were "shocked" on Monday by conditions at a holding camp housing people displaced by Zimbabwe"s controversial government clean up operation, said Matthew Esau, the spo...
Click here to read the rest.
Russia to invest in Nigerian oil
12-Jul-2005: President Olusegun Oba-sanjo"s drive for direct foreign investment in the country has received a major boost with the recent indication of interest by the worldís second largest oil company, Russ...
Click here to read the rest.
Laura Bush touches down in Cape Town
12-Jul-2005: Cape Town - American First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Cape Town on Monday at the start of a three-nation Africa tour focused on education, Aids and the role of women, an embassy spokesperson said. ...
Click here to read the rest.
Nigeria And Communist China Sign Crude Oil Sale Pact
12-Jul-2005: The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and China"s Petro-China International (London), along with its Nigerian partner, Equinox Energy Limited at the weekend of 8 July, signed a long t...
Click here to read the rest.
Greedy Nelson Mandela charged $1,500 per autograph
12-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - The Nelson Mandela who allegedly wanted to ask up to R10,000 for an autographed photograph and would have sold signed copies of his autobiography to a company "was contradictory to...
Click here to read the rest.
S.Africa: Human legs were sticking out of rubbish bin
12-Jul-2005: A man and a woman were arrested in the Johannesburg area in connection with a murder case in which the victim was set in concrete, East Rand police said on Monday. Superintendent Andy Pieke said ...
Click here to read the rest.
Al Qaeda gets its bombs in Serbia
12-Jul-2005: DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda gets its bombs in Serbia Belgrade is where al Qaeda goes shopping for the explosives and arms for its terror attacks, according DEBKAfile,s exclusive intelligence...
Click here to read the rest.
Prophetic Documentary: Jihad in America (1996)
10-Jul-2005: ...
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