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Weekly Southern
African Report

From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
07-10-05

Prophetic Documentary: Jihad in America (1996)
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Zim: Attacks on Farmers Jeopardise Plans to Lure White Farmers
09-Jul-2005: GOVERNMENT'S quest to get white commercial farmers back on the land could hit a brick wall after their representative body this week took a swipe at government for failing to restore law and order...
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Some White Zimbabwean Farmers find refuge in Nigeria
09-Jul-2005: Shonga - A group of white farmers whose land was seized by the government in Zimbabwe sowed their first crops on new land leased to them thousands of miles to the north in Nigeria. Governor Bu...
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Zambia: Chinese Firms Invest $170 million in Mining
09-Jul-2005: Chinese firms have invested nearly US $170 million in Zambia's mining sector, Chinese embassy commercial counsellor Zhang Shudong has said. Zhang told Chinese press agency Xinhua that there are...
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S.Africa: Shocker: Black Taxis sabotage Railway to get business
09-Jul-2005: Cape Town taximen have been deliberately sabotaging the city's rail services in order to gain customers, the commission of inquiry into violence in the Western Cape minibus taxi industry heard on...
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Bizarre: Indian Stalins and Gorbachevs meet in Moscow
09-Jul-2005: Indian people named after famous Soviet Union-era Russians are to meet up in a village called Moscow. They first met up a few months ago when Lenin shook hands with Krushchev, Stalin hugged Gorbach...
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Southern Africa: Suspicious: Why so many supposed droughts?
09-Jul-2005: Despite an estimated 4.5 million Zimbabweans needing food aid this year, the government insists there is no need to launch an official appeal for international assistance. "No state of disaster...
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Zim: Govt disinformation about building 5,000 new houses?
09-Jul-2005: ZIMBABWE has started construction of 5000 houses for some of the people rendered homeless by Operation Murambatsvina, a Zimbabwean government spokesman said yesterday. The construction of these...
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Former Mossad Chief: Rules of conflict for World War III
09-Jul-2005: The multiple, simultaneous explosions that took place yesterday on the London transportation system were the work of perpetrators who had an operational capacity of considerable scope. They have c...
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Libyan Leader Qadhafi: Capitalist Companies are behind AIDS
09-Jul-2005: MEMRI: Libyan Leader Qadhafi on AIDS Virus & Renowned Egyptian Geologist Belittles NASA Experiments Today's clips include Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi on Al-Jazeera TV on July 4 discuss...
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[Humor] Some Good Local S.African humour
09-Jul-2005: When the Swazi king passes away, his entire estate goes to his youngest widow, but she can't touch it 'til she's 11. Did you hear that they have raised the minimum drinking age in South Africa...
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S.Africa: Ritual Circumcision Likely Contributing to HIV Spread
07-Jul-2005: South African medical experts are concerned that the repeated use of unsterilised blades in the ritual circumcision of adolescent boys might be spreading HIV. The practice, which is performed w...
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Surprise? Putin lashes out against Mugabe
07-Jul-2005: RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin this week lashed out at President Robert Mugabe ahead of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit as it became clear that Zimbabwe's band of friends is dwindling. The re...
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S.Africa: Patient beats another to death with crutches despite Police
07-Jul-2005: Horrified patients, nurses and police officers wrestled with a hospital patient as he beat another patient to death with a crutch at a Greytown hospital. The victim of the attack, an elderly man, d...
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Is World Anger Mounting Over Mugabe Clean-Up?
07-Jul-2005: EVER since the Zimbabwe government chose to take the country on the inexorable path to oblivion - first with the violent seizure of white-owned farms and then with a series of bloody elections - i...
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Uganda: HIV Could Wipe Out Fishing Communities
07-Jul-2005: AT the time when Uganda is making great feats against AIDS, fishermen are not part of the good news. Charlotte Howard, an epidemiologist with Uganda AIDS Commission, said HIV prevalence among fishe...
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Zim: Destroy your home or the bulldozers will...
07-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - The Zimbabwean government has continued with its programme of demolishing illegal homes, despite urgent calls by aid workers to halt the operation. In Epworth, an old settlement of...
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Refugee exodus from Zimbabwe due to clean-up
07-Jul-2005: Harare - Zimbabweans fleeing President Robert Mugabe’s urban clean-up campaign have begun flocking into neighbouring countries to seek refuge there often as illegal immigrants, the Zimbabwe Exiles...
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Mugabe's Revenge: Man who quit faces losing farm
07-Jul-2005: A top Zanu PF official who has quit Zimbabwe's ruling party to protest against demolitions that have left hundreds of thousands homeless, has begun experiencing the bitter taste of President Rober...
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[Humor] Why S.Africa won't have natural disasters...
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[Humor] Mugabe joke
07-Jul-2005: An Israeli doctor says: "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks." A British doctor says: "...
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Paris: Blacks & Arabs Attack Jewish Pizza Parlor
07-Jul-2005: (IsraelNN.com) Local Arabs and blacks threw bottles at patrons of a Paris Kosher pizza shop after they had been caught stealing a cell phone from a restaurant table. A client chased after the thieves ...
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S.Africa: White Man murdered, woman gang raped for hours
06-Jul-2005: Yesterday, after the conviction and sentencing of the three men who had brutalised her and murdered her boyfriend, Michelle Milligan, 21, sighed with relief and felt she still had a chance to pick...
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Science: Circumcision reduces AIDS by 70% (?)
06-Jul-2005: French and South African AIDS researchers have called an early halt to a study of adult male circumcision to reduce HIV infection after initial results reportedly showed that men who had the proce...
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S.Africa: Mbeki's home to receive R14,2million facelift
06-Jul-2005: A R14,2-million "interim maintenance" project is in the planning stage for President Thabo Mbeki's official Tshwane home of Mahlamba Ndlovu on the Bryntirion Estate, according to Minister of Publi...
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Top Mugabe Intelligence Officer quits over evictions
06-Jul-2005: Harare - A former senior intelligence officer has quit Zimbabwe's ruling party over the demolitions campaign that has left hundreds of thousands homeless, saying the governing clique was "punishin...
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Zim: Chinese Consortium Buys Into Chrome Mining Sector
06-Jul-2005: With ferrochrome prices on the rise a Chinese consortium is set to construct a multi-billion-dollar high-carbon ferrochrome smelting plant in Selous, about 80km west of Harare, to become one of th...
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G8 debt relief 'won't save Africa itself'
06-Jul-2005: The expected decision by Group of Eight (G8) leaders to erase some of the debt Africans owe world lenders will free money to build schools and hospitals -- but its impact may not be as dramatic as...
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G8: Call On Zimbabwe to End Mass Evictions
06-Jul-2005: G8 and African leaders meeting today to discuss ways of fighting poverty in Africa should urge Zimbabwe's government to end its campaign of forced evictions, which has destroyed the homes and liveliho...
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Shocker: UN: Drug Crime web running wild in S.Africa
06-Jul-2005: The Western Cape is increasingly being used as a conduit for certain illicit drugs destined for markets around the world, according to a new United Nations report. Africa, and in particular Sou...
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Zim: The News in brief by TheBeardedMan...
06-Jul-2005: Absolom Mashamba's deportation from the UK to Harare will carry on after it was put on hold briefly for a review, BBC News reports. A Home Office spokeswoman says she cannot comment on any individu...
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Johannesburg's failing infrastructure: Massive flood by burst pipes
06-Jul-2005: Johannesburg - Water supply has been restored to all affected areas in the south and west of Johannesburg following the flooding caused by a pipe burst in Meredale on Tuesday. "Water supplies...
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BBC: Mbeki's Brother: Africa was better off in Colonial times
05-Jul-2005: The average African is worse off now than during the colonial era, the brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has said. Moeletsi Mbeki accused African elites of stealing money and kee...
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S.Africa: Man found shot dead in police car
05-Jul-2005: Rescuers called to the scene of a head-on crash between a police vehicle and a newspaper delivery bakkie were horrified to find the body of a dead man with a bullet wound in his chest in the polic...
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Mbeki attacks those who say: Zuma for President
05-Jul-2005: President Thabo Mbeki has publicly berated those African National Congress members who have started a "Jacob Zuma for president" campaign. Mbeki has also emphatically stated his opposition to a...
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That liar Mugabe denies uprooting thousands
05-Jul-2005: Sirte, Libya - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe denied on Tuesday that his crackdown on illegal shantytowns had made hundreds of thousands of people homeless. "There is no demolition campaign...
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Mandela the Ungrateful Old Pig
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The Real Reason the Western World supports Black Govts
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Dr Labuschagne: Why the world does nothing about Mugabe
05-Jul-2005: A few reasons why the world does nothing re Mugabe and RSA situations. 1. The Humanitarian aid and aid agency fund managers are poised to use the funds collected for Africa in another orgy of...
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Zim: Police smash more homes amid screaming children
05-Jul-2005: Armed paramilitary police swept through a Harare township, pulling down more than 100 prefabricated wooden cabins -- including one in which screaming children had taken refuge, witnesses and oppos...
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S.Africa: Muslim Businessman dies in a hail of bullets
05-Jul-2005: Saleem Mia was the right-hand man at the Mariam's Kitchen take-away outlet in St George's Mall in the city centre. Every morning he opened the shop, and closed it at night. But on Monday Mia, 2...
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Zimbabwe: 5 White Farmers evicted per week - still
05-Jul-2005: HARARE - White commercial farmers who are still on their land remain under siege from government supporters despite claims that Zimbabwe's chaotic land reforms are over, the Commercial Farmers Uni...
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[Humor] Jamaican Joke
05-Jul-2005: A Jamaican fireman came home from work one day and said to his wife: "Y'know sumpin, we have a wonderful new system at de fire station." Bell 1 rings - we put on our jackets. Bell 2 rings - we sl...
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Gaddafi calls for borderless Africa
04-Jul-2005: SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi underlined his maverick reputation Monday by telling African leaders their people's woes would be solved by creating a borderless continent w...
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Overwhelming Support for Zuma Forces the Mbeki to Make Concessions
04-Jul-2005: UNEXPECTED and overwhelming support for sacked former deputy president Jacob Zuma has given President Thabo Mbeki and the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) some pause for thought. ...
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Zuma Rebellion Rocks ANC: Who is worse: Zuma or Mbeki?
04-Jul-2005: President Thabo Mbeki's fortunes have plunged to a record low in a humiliating week that saw the ANC rank and file throw their support firmly behind the man he axed as deputy president. A drama...
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S.Africa: Policeman rapes 15-year-old as Punishment
04-Jul-2005: Piet Retief - A policeman accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, who has since spent most of her time crying in bed and seldom bathes, has been fired. The senior detective from an Mpumalanga police...
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S.Africa: Zulu King plans to test Male Virginity
04-Jul-2005: Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini has called on business to help him start virginity testing for males in an attempt to fight the scourge of HIV and Aids. In 1984, the king successfully rev...
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S.Africa: Did another Affirmative Action Airforce Pilot crash?
04-Jul-2005: Pretoria - An SA Air Force (SAAF) Impala Mk2 fighter trainer has crashed, with the pilot ejecting safely, a spokesperson said on Monday. The SAAF's captain Ronald Maseko's said the aircraft wa...
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Health Dept Official: Traditional Healers should be charged with Homicide
04-Jul-2005: An Eastern Cape health department official has accused what he says are "so-called" traditional surgeons of having no respect for human life, after another would-be initiate died from a botched ci...
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Documentary Shocker: The Mbeki Conspiracy against Zuma
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S.Africa: Circumcision Season - another Black boy dies
04-Jul-2005: The number of fatalities during this year's winter circumcision season in the Eastern Cape has risen to nine after the death of a youth at Libode in the Transkei, the Eastern Cape health departmen...
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Mbeki Could Tackle Zuma Head-On in 2007 Anc Poll
04-Jul-2005: PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki says he will consider staying on as African National Congress (ANC) leader after 2007, potentially pitting himself against Jacob Zuma in the race for the party's presidency. ...
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New Zealand will block Zimbabwe banker's visit
04-Jul-2005: Wellington - New Zealand will refuse entry visas to Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's central bank, and members of his staff, who were reportedly planning to visit the country, Prime Minister He...
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Mugabe's regime waging a campaign of genocide, activist warns
04-Jul-2005: Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina was a well- planned campaign designed by President Robert Mugabe's "genocidal regime" to kill the last of his opponents. Human rights activist and author Judith...
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Squalor and despair in Mugabe hellhole
04-Jul-2005: Ten toilets for 5000 people in resettlement camp for Zimbabweans whose livelihoods were destroyed in Operation Drive Out Rubbish Sunday Times Foreign Desk A glum and tired George Chawanda stands...
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Company Memo: Protect yourself against Hijacking
04-Jul-2005: Every year as the days get shorter and many of our staff travel to and from their offices in semi or total darkness, I become very concerned for your safety. The incidence of smash and grabs an...
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S.Africa: Boy (14) killed by hijackers in car chase
04-Jul-2005: Police are hunting for two hijackers who killed a teenager during a car chase last week. Supt Joshua Gwala said that Dylan Date, 18, was driving his mother, Jacqui, and sister, Robin, home when the...
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Mugabe: Groundswell of Anger - Plants spies among People
04-Jul-2005: HARARE - The Zimbabwe government, wary about swelling anger against its controversial urban clean-up campaign, has planted secret service agents among thousands of homeless families dumped at a fa...
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