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Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.org
01-27-08

From 1994-Present over 2,300 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & Gruesome
SA/US: Generous offer from an Ex South African living in the USA
26-Jan-2008: Please , married man of means wants to help SA whites with a place to live. Christian man and wife will help. Please respond . Ex South African living in USA. Keith G. To our Readers at AC: ...
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The 700+ NAZI Scientists who sent American Technology into over-drive... (&
26-Jan-2008: I was watching a documentary about the final days of World War II which I had taped on the history channel. In the 20th episode they spoke about the top NAZI scientists that were taken to America. The...
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USA: Californian Farmers Want to Sell Water - It could happen in S.Africa t
26-Jan-2008: FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - With water becoming increasingly precious in California, a rising number of farmers figure they can make more money by selling their water than by actually growing something....
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Noam Chomsky Supporting Hamas Terrorists As Gazan 'Democrats'
26-Jan-2008: Now this makes me sick to see someone as vily anti-American as Noam Chomsky sticking up to a bunch of Hamas terrorists who are openly in Gaza. Chomsky certainly doesn't give a rat's ass about ...
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Gaddafi's Son Saif al-Islam Purportedly Behind Northern Iraq Attack
26-Jan-2008: Now certainly, this does not surprise someone like me of how Gaddafi's eldest son-Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi who is also purported to ...
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Kenya: Wondering where the tourists are
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by Bernard: Appeared in Today's Ottawa Citizen Wondering where the tourists are Kenyaís game parks stand quiet and its economy bleeds as visitors avoid what once was Africaís safest d...
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Zimbabwe sets March date for poll
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by Pierre: Zimbabwe is to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 29 March, the government has announced. President Robert Mugabe has been confirmed as his party's candidate. ...
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SA: 2 youths arrested for 'high treason''-- shot at Marble Hall police stat
26-Jan-2008: Two Limpopo youths were arrested under charges of 'high treason' on Saturday following a shooting at Marble Hall police station in Limpopo, police said on Saturday. Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba ...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (26-01-2008)
26-Jan-2008: Howzit Alert readers will be aware of a new African blog service, called bundublog Click here to read the rest.
S Africa: SKielik victim ( Nel)
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by Phyllis: If I have ever heard a lot of bÖÖ. then this must be it. Sandra wake up. What are you doing when the Blacks murder innocent Whites? Is this not racism? What are you? Are y...
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UK Telegraph: US slides into dangerous 1930s 'liquidity trap'
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Davos. US slides into dangerous 1930s 'liquidity trap' By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Davos Last Updated: 12:29am GMT 25/01/2008 The United States is sliding towards a dan...
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London Daily Telegraph: Robert Mugabe calls Zimbabwe elections
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Robert Mugabe calls Zimbabwe elections By Sebastien Berger, Southern Africa Correspondent, and Byron Dziva in Harare Last Updated: 2:19am GMT 26/01/2008 South Africa's attem...
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S Africa: Calling a spade a spade
26-Jan-2008: Salute! Adrian From: Adrian Louw To: letters@mg.co.za Date: 26/01/08 03:06:52 Subject: The Letters Page Editor - Agliotti-Nassif-Mokoena. Dear Editor, the M...
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The falling dominoes of the whole infrastructure, led by cable theft.
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Please consider the implications, then you decide whether a call for people to watch cable thieves intently, especially when they are stealing the cables from critical junctions...
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SA: heavy turnout for Skielik funeral for three shooting victims
26-Jan-2008: The funeral of three of the four victims shot dead last week at the Skielik squatter camp near Swartruggens in North West province is underway. From early Saturday-morning, hundreds of mourners have s...
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Mozambique Channel: First Cyclone of the Season
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by Bernie: Oh dear, here comes the first cyclone of the season down the Mozambique Channel. If this crosses into Mozambique and Zimbabwe which are already flooded, it will be a disaster. ...
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Kenya's Rift Valley explodes in 'Stone Age' violence
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Kenya's Rift Valley explodes in 'Stone Age' violence as gangs kill with bows and arrows By DAVID WILLIAMS Last updated at 00:18am on 26th January 2008 With rival tribes...
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AU: Perth killers smile over drawn out death
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by John: Two lesbians who kissed over the body of a girl they killed to prove their love, smiled on Friday as a Perth court heard it took the teenage victim half an hour to die. The pa...
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Zim: Mugabe 'fails to meet promise'
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by jo shmoe: Iar liar pants on fire! Harare - The realisation of promises by the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe of a record crop yield during this summer's farming s...
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S Africa: Are we at War?
26-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Are we at War? By Mike Smith Cape Town - 25 January 2008 Some of us already know the answer to that question. What is happening in South Africa is not ordinary crime. ...
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SA: nuclear industry 'takes off in 2008''
25-Jan-2008: The year 2008 is 'set to be a significant year for the South African nuclear industry,' according to an industry spindoctor, quoted in the SA publication Engineering News on January 25 2008. This y...
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SA: Pics: Pietersburg shops attacked by huge armed gang during blackout Fri
25-Jan-2008: Picture: This employee of Ladanna Superette in Pietersburg, left, needed calming down by an ambulance assistant after he and his colleagues were attacked during an electricity black-out by at least f...
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'Farmer seeks wife ' show a top TV-hit
25-Jan-2008: The Hague - Unusually for Dutch TV. there is no sex, no scandal, no sniping and no foul language whatsoever -- giving a new Dutch reality show high ratings TV bosses can only dream o: a quarter of th...
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Bono Meeting With Pentagon Chief, Robert Gates
25-Jan-2008: Now this is just plan stupid, why should America be wasting its money to "help" obvious foreign governments that would likely waste money? This isn't a question likely not going to be answered by ...
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Nigeria: yummy - desert shrimps!
25-Jan-2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/africa_desert_shrimps/img/1.jpg Just deep-fry them in vegetable oil: residents in Borno State in Nigeria are biting back at the desert lo...
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Putin, Chosen Successor Medvedev Could Rule Russia Until 2033
25-Jan-2008: Hmm, it certainly seems like Vladimir Putin and his chosen successor-Dmitry Medvedev sound a whole lot like Hugo Chavez who attempted to do a similar thing when he was ruling Vene...
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Vide: CNN reports S.Africa power-cuts 'spark World Cup fears'...
25-Jan-2008: watch video: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/25/safrica.power/index.html A "national electrical emergency" has been declared in South Africa. The unprecedented unplanned power outages...
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Gold sets new record as South African miners halt operations due to Electri
25-Jan-2008: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures soared to a new record high on Friday following reports that several major miners in South Africa, the world's second-largest gold producer, halted their min...
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SOROS (shudder) At Davos: End of the Dollar as Reserve Currency
25-Jan-2008: Picked up from a fellow agent at Rumormillnews: Posted By: hobie Date: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 11:55 p.m. Hi, Folks - The Wise Men of Davos have been talking about "the ...
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S.Africa: 22,000 jobs in danger in the Western Cape due to power outages
25-Jan-2008: On SABC TV3 news last night I heard a story about how farms in the Western Cape were threatened by the power outages. It seemed as if they were mostly wine farms. The power outages were affecting vari...
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SA: ''..Titanic sank with the lights on...'
25-Jan-2008: Whatís the difference between the Titanic and South Africa? The Titanic sank with the lights on. ' http://www.africancrisis.org/images/Cartoon_South_Africa_the_Titanic_Icebergs.jpg That was a jo...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (25-01-2008)
25-Jan-2008: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- There are a lot of stories on the internet today, and, as usual, i...
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SA orders mines closed: world gold, platinum markets hit all-time high
25-Jan-2008: Singapore, Reuters - Gold and platinum prices have hit all-time highs on Friday after the South African mines were ordered closed due to the country's deepening electricity crisis. South Africa's t...
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SAA man apologises for blunder
25-Jan-2008: A South African Airways senior manager has apologised to his staff after sending out an email saying "non-white" individuals had to be given preference for overtime and extra training. Zak Liyaqat-...
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S.Africa: Power crisis deepens
25-Jan-2008: Cape Town - Southern Africa's electricity crisis intensified on Tuesday with Zimbabwe and Zambia hit by massive new blackouts while hundreds of tourists were stranded on Table Mountain. As regiona...
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S.Africa: Electricity Power Blackouts: The Govt was warned about power
25-Jan-2008: By: Cobus Coetzee, Cobus Claassen, Liezel de Lange and Amanda Tongha , Beeld Johannesburg - Eskom advised municipalities in the 1980s and early 1990s to close down their own power stations. Bu...
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S.Africa: Power Blackouts now affect our Water supply
25-Jan-2008: Bloemfontein - Water restrictions could be next in line for Free State businesses and residents if scheduled power cuts increase, Bloemfontein businessmen heard on Thursday. Chief executive of Blo...
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SA: Durban: The Hijackers have had their Christmas rest - Motorists be WARN
25-Jan-2008: Have hijackers, fresh from their Christmas holidays, returned to Durban and surrounding areas? That is the question being asked with at least seven hijackings in less than a week, the latest on Thu...
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South Africa runs out of Generators
25-Jan-2008: Johannesburg - Homeowners and businesses are being forced to generate their own electricity as blackouts strike everywhere, but suppliers are running out of generators and many do not expect new stock...
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S.Africa: Yipeee - Good Gum Drops - Pupil stabs alleged robber to death
25-Jan-2008: A robber, one of five who invaded Masibambisane High School in Delft on Wednesday, was stabbed to death by a pupil who fought back after he was stabbed and had his cellphone taken. Several pupils...
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S.Africa: Blackouts affect water supply
25-Jan-2008: Bloemfontein - Water restrictions could be next in line for Free State businesses and residents if scheduled power cuts increase, Bloemfontein businessmen heard on Thursday. Chief executive of Blo...
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Zambia: Power Outages Cost Mines $4 million
25-Jan-2008: LUANSHYA Copper Mines (LCM) and Chambeshi Metals Plc chief executive officer, Derreck Webbstock, has said that the two mines have jointly made a US$4 million loss equivalent to four days' worth of...
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Kenya: Banks Fear Rising Bad Loan Charges From Political Unrest
25-Jan-2008: Kenya's banking sector is evaluating the extent of losses incurred in recent political shocks in order to decide on suitable response measures. Pressure has been building for the financial sect...
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Southern Africa: Over 120,000 Displaced By Flooding - UN
25-Jan-2008: The number of people displaced by recent flooding in southern Africa has nearly doubled in less than a week from 70,000 to more than 120,000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanita...
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The Zillionth Worthless Peace deal for the DRC: Congo-Kinshasa
25-Jan-2008: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed the agreement reached today between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and armed groups in the country's war-torn east as an "importa...
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Zimbabwe: Mass MDC Protests: Opposition Activists Teargassed, Beaten
25-Jan-2008: Scores of Zimbabwean opposition supporters were teargassed and beaten up by police during a protest march in the capital, Harare, after a local magistrate overruled a police order banning the march on...
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Zimbabwe: Mbeki Plans Another Trip to visit Mugabe
25-Jan-2008: SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki plans another visit to Harare in a bid to revive talks that collapsed last week when President Robert Mugabe rejected opposition demands for a new constitution...
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SA: Electricity outages: Eskom braces for a flood of legal battles
25-Jan-2008: Eskom is preparing for a flood of claims for damages as a result of the blackouts that have hit the country. The electricity utility, which has been struggling to meet the South African economy...
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SA: Crime: Man's penis cut off, placed on stomach
25-Jan-2008: Two Eastern Cape men charged with killing and decapitating a man were refused bail by the Grahamstown Regional Court on Thursday. The court heard that the man's penis was also cut off and placed on...
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sa: Cracked window keeps plane on the ground
25-Jan-2008: A South African Airways (SAA) flight bound for Harare had to turn back to OR Tambo International Airport on Thursday after a crack was noticed on a cockpit window. The SAA head of group corporate a...
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SA: Zuma: West slowing Zim efforts
25-Jan-2008: Davos - Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that US and European interference was hindering efforts to reconcile Zimbabwe's opposition with President Robert Mugabe's government. "The US and Europeans tell...
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UK: Chimp trounces best human in memory competition
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: I'm the chimpion! Ape trounces the best of the human world in memory competition...
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Zimbabwe: Insatiable Sex Drive
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by Bernie: No wonder there is a population and AIDS explosion in Africa. The Herald (Harare) NEWS 24 January 2008 Posted to the web 24 January 2008 Harare A MARRIED Sham...
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British Minister anti apartheid activist Peter Hain Ex-Saffa? resigns amid
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: This horrible man has finally been toppled. Hope he goes to jail....
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International: Possilble Newspaper job for a Boere, who writes English or o
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: http://www.laspecula.com/index.php top right hand corner of front page. Looking for editors every country, every language to contact us write to: laspecula@hotmail.com...
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France: French Trader loses $7 billion dollars
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: A lone rogue trader was on Thursday night being blamed for the biggest fraud in investment banking history after SociÈtÈ GÈnÈrale, one of the pillars of French finance, revealed ...
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Zimbabwe second to last poorest country on Earth.
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by Lars Pluss: According the 2008 CIA World Fact book (released on 1/17/08), Zimbabwe has slipped to second to last poorest country on Earth just ahead of the DRC. Itís GDP per capita sta...
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SA electricity crisis: ' it's apartheid's fault'...
24-Jan-2008: During the apartheid-era in the 1980s and early 1990s, the parastatal utility ESKOM actually subsidised municipalities to get them to close down their own power-generating plants, which were seen as b...
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SA: cracked cockpit window forces plane's return to Johannesburg airport
24-Jan-2008: Aviation FILE PICTURE: Cracked cockpit windows are usually caused by strikes of birds, hail stones or other flying debris; they can also be caused by poor maintenance. http://www.elchineroconcepts.co...
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SA: safety of power grid much more important than affirmative action, rule
24-Jan-2008: In a ground-breaking ruling which could have an impact on the affirmative-action hiring rules at Pretoria municipality, A Pretoria High Court Judge has criticised the Pretoria municipality 'for puttin...
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Bush Administration Supports Nepalis Government, Maoists To 'Work Together'
24-Jan-2008: Now this makes me quite angry of the Bush Administration demanding that the Nepalis Government and the Maoist Nepalis Communist Party should "work together" even when these same A...
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Communist China Donates 500,000 Dollars In U.S. Currency To 'New' Somali Go
24-Jan-2008: Now here's something of no major surprise, it seems that Communist China is certainly hoping to recruit leaders of the "new" Somali government. Interestingly enough, the "new" Somali governmen...
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[Pic] Life in South Africa never ceases to amaze...
24-Jan-2008: Here is an article from The Star newspaper in Johannesburg on 15th January 2008. See the area that is highlighted in green. (Photo) ...
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[4 Pics] SA: Rain! Rain! Hartebeespoort dam recently...
24-Jan-2008: This year has given us the best rains we've seen in many years. One neighbour of mine who measures the rain daily says we've received over 500mm of rain in Johannesburg this year. The last few days ha...
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[Pic] [Humor] New South African stove...
24-Jan-2008: One of our regulars has been at it again. This joke about the stove has been doing the rounds, but our graphic artist decided to add a few things to it. He renamed it the "Afrimatic!" Img=New_Sou...
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[Humor] What Zimbabweans call Johannesburg...
24-Jan-2008: I don't know how many people know this, but there are so many Zimbabweans in South Africa and also moving between Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Zimbabweans refer to Johannesburg as "Harare South" (th...
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Philip Agee, CIA Operative Turned KGB/DGI Stooge Dies In Communist Cuba
24-Jan-2008: Although this report of the death of Philip Agee, former CIA operative turned KGB/DGI propaganda stooge has died in Communist Cuba about two weeks ago, Agee is still "beloved" by the Lef...
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Three New Predictions about South Africa's future... for you to vote on inc
24-Jan-2008: I've been running around doing other things and I only spotted three new predictions which were logged by AfricanCrisis readers. To view the predictions, go down the menu to "Prediction Analysis" a...
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SA : Water shortages ahead for KZN
24-Jan-2008: Municipal engineers have temporarily abandoned attempts to repair one of Durban's largest water pipes, warning consumers to expect water shortages in the next few weeks. The critical feeder pipelin...
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SA Schools are a gangster's paradise
24-Jan-2008: Knives, hand-made guns, machetes and screwdrivers are just a few of the weapons some Cape Flats principals have confiscated from pupils involved in gang rivalry that has spilt over from the streets in...
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SA: Teacher held up in classroom
24-Jan-2008: Durban - A Durban teacher was held at gunpoint in a packed classroom and robbed of R20, police said on Thursday. Captain Khephu Ndlovu said the incident took place at the Makhumbuza High School in...
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AFRICA: Farm pumps 'kill farmers' libido'
24-Jan-2008: Blantyre - Malawi is to probe claims that Indian-made manual irrigation pumps used by the country's poor farmers kill their sexual desire at night, says a senior government official. "We are going...
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SA: Eskom bosses paid huge bonuses
24-Jan-2008: Cape Town - Top management at Eskom have been paid tens of millions of rands in bonuses, despite the power cuts and problems that have plagued the electricity supplier, says the Democratic Alliance. ...
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SA: Armed robber hit sleeping cops
24-Jan-2008: Pretoria - An off-duty police captain attending a course in Pretoria was shot dead by a robber in the early hours of Wednesday morning, police said. Captain PM Mona, whose first name was not yet a...
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'SA: He used his whiteness'
24-Jan-2008: Swartruggens - About 600 people gathered in the Skielik informal settlement outside Swartruggens on Thursday to pay tribute to and to mourn the deaths of four residents. The four, including two ch...
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Help! Solar Panels, Inverters, Windmills & Batteries... other ways of gener
24-Jan-2008: An Afrikaans co-worker of mine was telling me he got a solar panel for under R400 and by hooking it up to an inverter and car battery he was able to get 300 watts out of it (the amount of power you us...
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[Afrikaans] SA: Eskom - Electricity - Solidarity says the electrical proble
24-Jan-2008: Hallo Marcel In kort is die probleem veroorsaak deurdat SA sedert die 1990ís geen noemenswaardige uitbreidings aan sy kragkapasiteit aangebring het nie. Weens sanksies en ekonomiese resessie wa...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (24-01-2008)
24-Jan-2008: Howzit I am very thankful that events in Harare yesterday, whilst worrying, did not de...
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A S.African Race War - Professor Keegan's analysis & Night of the Long Kniv
24-Jan-2008: In our past discussions about a possible race war between whites and blacks in this country there has been much discussion about the scenario originally conceived of by Adriaan Snyman who wrote all th...
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More important than 9/11 - the Super-Crash: George Soros: The worst market
24-Jan-2008: The current financial crisis was precipitated by a bubble in the US housing market. In some ways it resembles other crises that have occurred since the end of the second world war at intervals ran...
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Gold regains lustre on higher oil - hits $893 again
24-Jan-2008: SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold extended gains on Thursday on firmer oil and bargain hunting after this week's drop to a three-week low, but trading was muted as investors watched movements in the dollar a...
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SA: Power Outages: Internal Company memo regarding power use on new buildin
24-Jan-2008: XYZ on electricity concerns at its XXX building XYZ has moved to allay concerns of alleged electricity wastage at its XXX building, currently under construction north-west of Johannesbur...
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[Humor] S.African Racist joke
24-Jan-2008: Q: How do you split an atom? A: Give it to a black and tell him not to break it....
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Power outages: Eskom opens South Africa's biggest fitness centre...
24-Jan-2008: In the 9 story office block where I work we have 6 lifts (elevators). And we have many lazy people (of which I am not one!) who get in a lift to go up only one floor!!! With all these power outages...
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Rhodesia: Ode to Prime Minister Ian Smith (by an anonymous black man in Can
24-Jan-2008: "I didn't go to a first class school in Rhodesia, yet Rhodesia gave me a first class education. I had no right then, to vote in Rhodesia, yet Zim gave me the right to vote for a devil. I was...
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S.Africa: [Afrikaans] PRAAG: Vindication for (White) Racists
24-Jan-2008: PRAAG, the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group has interesting debates. This is one of them email praag@yahoogroups.com Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:22 AM Subject: 22 Responses to "Vindication for...
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[Humor] A Plane is losing altitude... and passengers must be thrown out...
24-Jan-2008: An airplane is flying over the United States at night. The pilot says: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the plane is losing altitude and all the baggage must be thrown out." A little later, the pilot say...
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German police warn - More immigrants... after EU extended border-free zone
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by Fox: More immigrants are heading to Britain after EU extended border-free zone eastwards, German police warn UK Daily Mail Tuesday January 22, 2008 German police fear thousands...
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SA: From SAS blog: fruits-of-sloth-stupidity-incompetence.html
24-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: I know everything is supposed to be a communist plot, but methinks you give the Gremlins far too much credit.. South Africa today is not a result of some clever communist plot. I...
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SA: Murdered Graaff Reinett police-superintendent Erika Heunis had 'premoni
24-Jan-2008: Riette Olivier of Die Burger Afrikaans newspaper writes from Graaff Reinet near Cape Town that murdered SA Police Academy instructor, senior-superintendent Erika Heunis, had some kind of premonition t...
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SA: Corruption: Police Protect Druglords - Remember: Do Police protect orga
24-Jan-2008: There is a "rising tide" of corruption in the SA Police Service, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille alleged on Friday. "Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula and the leadership of...
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SA: Businesses are badly affected by Eskom Electricity Blackouts...
24-Jan-2008: Hi Jan You asked about damage caused by the electricity blackouts. Today's Sunday Times carries an apology about late delivery because of the blackouts. The Star was unable to produce som...
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S Africa: Responses to Peter Moss's article on News 24
24-Jan-2008: Thanks to Emilio who is another active member of the SAFirearmsForum group. "The Chronicles of Emilio" Wed, January 23, 2008 6:53 am SAFirearmForum@yahoogroups.com Moss's piece on News24 ...
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SA: Bogus policemen hijack driver
24-Jan-2008: A 40-year-old man was shot in the leg and then robbed of his green BMW by three men pretending to be police officers, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday. Spokesperson Superintendent Abie Khoabane ...
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Bhutanese Communist Party Suspected In Series Of Bombings In Bhutan
24-Jan-2008: Now Bhutan isn't the sort of place to have terrorism but it seems that the rise of the newly established Bhutanese Communist Party and its armed front groups have been responsible for being inv...
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SA: 'Heist-gang 20' walk free
24-Jan-2008: East London - About 20 men suspected of being part of a national cash heist gang have walked free after Mdantsane Regional Court in the Eastern Cape struck the case from the roll, the SABC reported on...
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Afghan Boy Sentenced To Death For Dowloading Paper Against Islam
24-Jan-2008: Now this must be one of the dumbest reasons to give out the death penalty to a boy who just happen to dowload a paper criticizing the dominant religion-Islam. This what happens when you allow the "ne...
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SA: Check if fine is legit - NPA
24-Jan-2008: Johannesburg - Metro police must have permission to use speed cameras on specific roads in Johannesburg, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Wednesday. Applications to set up camera traps o...
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SA: Rates hike 'will be mistake'
24-Jan-2008: Johannesburg - Peter Brooke, head of macro strategy investments at Old Mutual Investment Group (OMIGSA), says that it would be a policy error if the central bank hiked interest rates at the end of the...
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S Africa: Pulling the trigger
24-Jan-2008: The following piece is by Peter Moss, and it appeared on News24. He is a faithful supporter of your right to legal firearm ownership. Peter has helped me out EVERY time I ever asked for information or...
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SA: Afrikaner police superintendent Erika Heunis, beaten to death, Graaff
24-Jan-2008: Police senior superintendent Erika Heunis, who was found beaten to death in Graaff Reinet in the western Cape: http://www.dieburger.com/Photos/DieBurgerOos/Photos/2008-01-24/News/DSC05585--297x250.jp...
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SA: student-nurses forced to live in incredibly filthy, unhygienic conditio
23-Jan-2008: Antoinette Pienaar, journalist at Beeld newspaper, reports from Johannesburg that exhausted student-nurses who often work long hours of unpaid overtime, are forced to live in the most filthy conditio...
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China/SA: Phil, people want to contact you re: ''Can supply generators at a
23-Jan-2008: Let's try this and see if Phil responds. Hi Jo-an Could you supply the contact information for Phil so that his offer can be investigated? Thanks Ric...
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Canada pulls out of next year's UN conference on racism in Durban, S.Africa
23-Jan-2008: OTTAWA -- Canada will not take part in the South African-sponsored UN conference on racism next year 'because the event is likely to descend into "regrettable anti-Semitism", a top official said on We...
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New Britain's Australia Day celebration.
23-Jan-2008: New Britain will celebrate Australia Day on Saturday 26th January. Assemble at 2pm at the statue of Admiral Arthur Phillip in Watling Street (just behind St.Paul's Cathedral) where a wreath will be la...
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South Africa No Longer World's Biggest Gold Producer.
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Bruce: South Africa loses gold title Herald News Services Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Precious Metals - South Africa surrendered its crown as the world's biggest go...
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SA: Twenty-man gang with huge weapons arsenal walks free from East-Cape cou
23-Jan-2008: EASTERN CAPE, South Africa. The Mdantsane regional court here has released a cheerful twenty-member armed gang from police custody after striking their case off the court roll -- due to the failure by...
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SA/Nigeria: Letter from a young black man who agrees with Dr. Watson
23-Jan-2008: I'm not sure if this was posted on AC or not. If so, it is worth reading again. JoAn Submitted by Mr: This is a letter written by a young black man in South Africa to a well know newspaper. I...
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S Africa: Eskomís bloated gravy train!!!!
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Tony: JOHANNESBURG - As the furore around South African parastatal Eskom continues to explode, all kinds of inconvenient evidence is starting to rise to the top, just as certain brow...
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How long will it be before South Africa produces its own home-grown Robert
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by cd: How long will it be before South Africa produces its own home-grown Robert Mugabe? Only so long as the Almighty spares Nelson Mandela, since it is his miraculous influence that has...
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S Africa: Brutal murder shocks town
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by EngDoc: This is very ugly. RETURN THE DEATH PENALTY http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2256811,00.html...
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SA ethnic cleansing: old Voortrekker gravesite destroyed by ANC regime in M
23-Jan-2008: More historic Voortrekker gravestones were torn out unceremoniously this week - this time to make way for a road-interchange to accommodate the expected tourism-traffic increase during the World Cup ...
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SA: Very Large Crude Carrier approx price Cape Town to Vanuatu/Aus/Nz
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Some more thoughts on how to help the Boere escape their current tyrrany. I was wondering if you wanted to consider a sub-heading something like: Ideas, ways, means & tips to ...
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SA: One step towards lobbying for No Abode Passports or Non Resident Passp
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: Kingdom of Bhutan: I wonder if anyone wants to ask the PM if he would consider non resident passports for a fee and some technicality, or no Abode passports for a fee for whit...
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Robert Mugabe, opinion from New South Wales
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop: THE CHIEF IS THE CHIEF from The Australian newspaper, April 6th "Your leader (2/4) says Robert Mugabe is 'misguided'. "He isn't misguided. He's African. Because he's A...
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Death of New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop: First Man to the TOP OF MT EVEREST HAS DIED Sir Edmund Hillary: ...the heavens blaze forth the death of princes... "When beggars die there are no comets seen; The he...
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World: Better Farming
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop: What is biodynamic agriculture? Biodynamic agriculture is an advanced form of organic agriculture with an emphasis on food quality and soil health; and as such, uses n...
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Canada: Social Credit ???
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Jeff Dunlop: Dear Jan Previously you have asked WHAT IS SOCIAL CREDIT ?? Here is a quick answer To Choose Willingly in the Context of a Free Association: Social Credit is...
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S.Afrika only has 3-million taxpayers propping up 48-million+ residents...
23-Jan-2008: Small wonder that the SA economy is beginning to implode: the SA Revenue Service reports that the country only has some 3-million taxpayers. Yet South Africa has at least 48-million legal residents...
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ZA: XDR-TB kills 250 patients, 8 medical staff at one KZN hospital
23-Jan-2008: Extensively-Drug-Resistant TB has already killed eight medical staff and 250 patients in just one SA hospital over the past three years. And, warns Dr Tony Moll, the principal medical officer at th...
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[Pic] [Humor] An Announcement from Eskom...
23-Jan-2008: The humour is flowing thick and fast with these incessant power cuts and load shedding. Its irritating everyone for sure! (Photo) ...
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[Pic] [Humor] Eskom's new CD...
23-Jan-2008: Some more humour regarding our national power chaos. Eskom (our national Electricity supplier) has a new CD... The Afrikaans reads: "2008 Grootste Treffers" (2008's Greatest Hits)... Img=Humor_Esco...
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[Pic] SA: Never forget what the ANC did. They want to do this to us...
23-Jan-2008: The attendant writing read:- Never forget the savagery of the murderous black south African savages. No matter where you live or come from and no matter what your beliefs are killing another pers...
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[5 Cartoons] Madam & Eve: Eskom blackouts & the White House
23-Jan-2008: Here are some really cool Eskom cartoons from Madam & Eve. Eskom is South Africa's national electricity provider. Telkom is our national telephone service provider. Enjoy! Img=Cartoon_Madam_and_Eve_...
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[Humor] [Pic] It is no wonder we are having Electricity power outages...
23-Jan-2008: An AfricanCrisis reader sent me this. These motor vehicles are marked "Eskom distributor". Some people are having fun doing nothing... Eskom is the electricity provider for South Africa. Ahem! Now you...
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[Pic] USA: Katie Couris asks an American Sniper a question...
23-Jan-2008: A reader sent me this. I love it. Nice response! (Photo) ...
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[Cartoon] South Africa the Titanic...
23-Jan-2008: A regular AfricanCrisis reader created this very cute one and sent it to me. I like his icebergs around the Titanic! Down we go! Life boats? But... will they work? Does anything work? Img=Car...
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[Map] Amazing Map that puts Africa in perspective
23-Jan-2008: This amazing map shows you just how big Africa really is. Africa is almost a planet all by itself. (Photo) ...
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SA: chopper fighting blaze near Simon's Town naval base:
23-Jan-2008: A chopper was photographed fighting a blaze at or near Simon's Town naval base today: http://galleries.media24.com/News24/5487/IMG_1472.jpg http://galleries.media24.com/News24/5487/IMG_1515.jpg ...
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[Humor] Another Eskom electricity Load Shedding joke: On Death row...
23-Jan-2008: Gatiep and Karools are sitting on death row. Gatiep says to the Warder, does this take long and is it painful? Warder sayís "no they just strap you in and flick the switch and its over". Karoo...
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SA: The ''Mini-power surges'' that damage your computer...
23-Jan-2008: He wrote:- Weíve been experiencing these small power outages for a few seconds or so, I guess itís better than full-on load shedding! Itís happened twice today already. Iíve been experiencing...
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SA: The Electricity Crisis - Is it a capacity problem or a SKILLS problem?
23-Jan-2008: An Indian guy I know was telling me that he doubts that the current Eskom problems are due to electricity generating capacity problems. He said he had 3 friends who had worked quite high up in Eskom. ...
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20080122 Mrs Connie Janneke, 61, stranged at Cullinan dairy farm
23-Jan-2008: A 61-year-old old employee of the Du Plooy Dairy farm at a Cullinan smallholding was found strangled to death in her room on January 22 2008. Police spokesman Johannes Jafta at the Cullinan-police...
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Departing SAA plane hit on Cape Town runway by truck
23-Jan-2008: Cape Town - A truck drove into an SAA aircraft which was all set to take off at Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday morning. No-one was injured in the accident at about 08:30, airport med...
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Namibia still gets electricity from Eskom - who is lying here?
23-Jan-2008: By: Christy van der Merwe Published: 23 Jan 08 - 11:40 Namibian power company Nampower has urged its big customers to cut electricity consumption by up to 20%, as imports from neighbouring South Af...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (23-01-2008)
23-Jan-2008: Howzit Well, the good news is that last night I had the RAM on this machine increased - and now it is flying along. Pity the same cannot be said of my internet con...
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SA power cuts: milk production down dramatically due to stressed-out cows
23-Jan-2008: Sowetan journalist Kamogelo Seekoei writes today that Koos Coetzee, chief economist at the Milk Producerís Organisation (MPO) warns of massive milk-production reductions. He says the present ESKOM ...
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[Humor] New Eskom Joke... Finally, Racial Unity in South Africa...
23-Jan-2008: Before '94 the government shouted "white power" After '94 The new government shouted "black power" Finally we can stand together and shout "NO POWER"...
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[Afrikaans] Message from Dr Lets Pretorius re: Kobus Pretorius
23-Jan-2008: Geliefde Vriende, Volksgenote en observeerders, Kobus Pretorius, een van die aangeklaagdes in die sg. Boeremagsaak, doen more (Maandag 21 Januarie) om 10h00 aansoek om borg in die Hooggeregshof...
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SA: Eskom Load shedding in the Johannesburg CBD now...
23-Jan-2008: At about 12:30 this morning the power in our portion of the Johannesburg CBD, next to the Carlton Centre, went out. Our computers at work are running off auxilliary power and we have no lights!...
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S.Africa's New Psychological problem: Blackout Rage leads to new mental pro
23-Jan-2008: Outraged, stranded commuters set fire to three trains in Pretoria at the weekend. The term blackout rage is being bandied about, and a Pretoria psychologist says that's not at all surprising. ...
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S.Africa: Fire ravages Cape informal settlement
23-Jan-2008: About 150 Khayelitsha residents in the Western Cape were left homeless when a fire ravaged through their informal settlement, the SABC reported on Sunday. The fire broke out on Saturday eve...
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S.Africa: Socialist Crime: Woman claims fictitious children's grant
23-Jan-2008: Eastern Cape police have arrested a 34-year-old woman on a charge of fraud in King William's Town, the SABC reported on Sunday. Police spokesperson, Thozama Solani said the woman had been r...
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Tired of eating burnt toast? Get a new Glass toaster...
23-Jan-2008: Thanks to the world's first transparent toaster, burnt toast could soon be a thing of the past. The new concept glass toaster, which lets you see your bread as it browns, is from product develo...
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S.Africa: Crime: 16 yeard old rapes 4-year-old
23-Jan-2008: A 16-year-old teenager was arrested in Hankey for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl, Uitenhage police said on Sunday. Spokesperson superintendent Priscilla Naidu said the girl's mother noti...
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S.Africa: Danish tourist disappears - 3 held after tourist goes missing
23-Jan-2008: Three people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a Danish tourist, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Andre Traut said two women w...
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S.Africa: AIDS: 1.98 million Tainted condoms will be buried in KZN
23-Jan-2008: By Sinegugu Ndlovu Four months after the scam that led the health department to recall 20 million suspected faulty condoms, the first batch of the defective prophylactics will be buried at a Ma...
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SA: Flying to London will cost you less
23-Jan-2008: By Dominique Herman A new South African no-frills airline called Redair has been given the rights to operate five weekly round-trip flights from Cape Town or Durban to...
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S.Africa: Food price problems: Bread price sparks protest
23-Jan-2008: The Congress of SA Trade Unions in the Western Cape is to stage a protest against the price of bread outside Parliament later on Sunday. Cosatu provincial general secretary Tony Ehrenreich told...
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S.Africa: 10,000 Workers to go on indefinite strike to protest Cape restruc
23-Jan-2008: Up to 10 000 Cape Town workers intend going on an indefinite strike on Monday to voice their dissatisfaction with the city's restructuring programme. The SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu)...
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S.Africa: Crime: Mom watches 19 yeard old daughter get raped
23-Jan-2008: A 19-year-old woman was raped by a robber while her mother was forced to look on, Mpumalanaga police said on Sunday. Spokesperson Superintendent Abie Khoabane said the...
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New Solidarity Website wants your input regarding Eskom
23-Jan-2008: Solidarity has created a website where businesses as well as ordinary South Africans can log their Eskom related stories, the union said on Sunday. Spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said the website ...
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SA: The Far Left forces in the ANC kick President Mbeki's ass into line in
23-Jan-2008: By Moshoeshoe Monare President Thabo Mbeki has conceded that his government should account to the African National Congress following fierce criticism from within the party. Mbeki at...
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Netherlands: Looking for your help in trying to right the wrongs
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Martin A: Hi there! This is just a quck message that I am sending to inform you of some news. I am now living in The Hague and thought that seeing most whites are getting a raw deal ...
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SA: Crime: Cops searching for assassin of Police Captain
23-Jan-2008: One man is still at large who is wanted in connection with a wife's assassination of her husband, Mpumulanga police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson Captain Leonard Hlathi said police were o...
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USA: When a MLK speech puts former president Bill Clinton to sleep...
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Lars Pluss: I thought I'd submit this clip. It's hilarious to see him dozing off through the scream of a Baptist preacher....
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S Africa: Giant Vierkleur as mind distraction?
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Fox: Hi folks, I know it is a bit late to write about... but I really do not know should I be shocked or amused about this USELESS Afrikaner actionism? It is truly not easy in Ñn...
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S Africa: Surgery Interruption During Load Shedding.
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J James: Michael Bevan was on an operating table as surgeons performed a delicate procedure on the artery supplying blood to his brain, when, without warning, the lights went out. ...
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Monrovia: Cannibal African Gen. Butt Naked.
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J James: Holy shit. There is no way that someone could make this kind of stuff up. Only in Africa. Pastor: We ate children's hearts Monrovia - An evangelical pastor described the...
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S Africa: Arnot Power Station
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Harm T: I know a engineer who worked at Arnot Power Station near Middelburg Mpumalanga.He said that the station manager went on pension 3 years ago and the new powerstation manager was...
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S Africa: Mpumalanga needs 9 000 doctors
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by Jo Shmoe: Why do they screach for doctors after chasing out the qualified docs? (idiots) Sydney Masinga Nelspruit - Private doctors in Mpumalanga have agreed to help out at ...
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S Africa: Farm expropriated
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James Polokwane - Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana has given the go-ahead for a Limpopo farm to be expropriated after it was liquidated and the liquidators refuse...
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USA: Skeletons of 8 White men found in Florida
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: The myth of the White serial killer was busted in LA recently when a black man was arrested for a very long killing career. There are also plenty of others. Not sure about th...
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USA: 4 Arrested In Killings Of 2 Kids, 2 Women
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: Can't believe they put their photos up. INDIANAPOLIS -- Four people have been arrested in connection with Monday night's shooting deaths of two children and two women, In...
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Germany: Teachers urge closure of school terrorised by migrant pupils
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: Suddenly, teachers at Berlin's Ruetli school decided enough was enough. They would no longer tolerate being spat at, insulted and attacked by pupils, some of whom spoke hardl...
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S Africa: Re: Johannesburg blog spot
23-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: I would like to see what your readers have to say about this. http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/...
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New Book: 2006: The White Man's Burden - the failure of Western AID to Afri
23-Jan-2008: Here is a free booklet which is an abstract summary of a recently published book. The summary is small, it is 144Kb in size. You can open it to view it or save it to your PC. This book is written ...
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Zim: Important: Mugabe arrested main opposition leader at 4am in Harare tod
23-Jan-2008: I received this message:- President Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested at his home in Harare at 4 am this morning. Police and water canons have been deployed all over Harare obviously with instr...
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SA: Fraudster eyes churches in cash scam
23-Jan-2008: A man posing as an employee of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) has been attempting to defraud churches by requesting their banking details, claiming to want to deposit funds, the council ...
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SA: Top investigator finds himself in handcuffs
23-Jan-2008: A top Scorpions investigator was arrested on charges relating to drunken driving, Talk Radio 702 reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the man, who was previously based at the Scorpions' he...
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SA: Jail death: 7 to be suspended
23-Jan-2008: Pietermaritzburg - Seven officials based at the New Prison here are to be suspended "with immediate effect" after allegations of their involvement in the death of a 28-year-old inmate at the prison la...
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ANGOLA: Thieves break into Savimbi tomb
23-Jan-2008: Luanda - A gang of grave robbers has broken into the tomb of the late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and stolen his epitaph, a spokesperson for his Unita party said on Tuesday. The bronze plaq...
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AFRICA: Hungry refugees eat chimps
23-Jan-2008: Nairobi - Hungry refugees in Tanzania are eating chimpanzees and other endangered species in order to supplement their meagre diet, an international conservation group said on Tuesday. Traffic sai...
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SA: Robbers wanted cell, not car
23-Jan-2008: Witbank - A man is in a critical condition in Cosmos Hospital after robbers shot him three times. His family want his identity kept secret as they fear the robbers might return. The man was wo...
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'SA: You can sue Eskom'
23-Jan-2008: Cape Town - A legal expert has said that South Africans can successfully claim damages from Eskom for losses as a result of the wave of power failures. Johan Theron of lawyers Jan S de Villiers, s...
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SA grain production will drop dramatically due to massive electricity cuts
22-Jan-2008: WOLMARANSSTAD, South Africa. The OTKV company, which produces agricultural chalk for farmers in the North West and Free State provinces, warns that the severe electricity cuts are causing massive disr...
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S.Africans losing confidence in Presidency, Parliament...
22-Jan-2008: South Africans are losing confidence in their leaders and institutions such as parliament, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on January 22 2008 in a report. "There is an alarm...
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Kenya - Tribal opposition files human rights charges at The Hague court
22-Jan-2008: With Kenya's death toll from tribal clashes now passing the 1,000-mark, the country's opposition Orange Democratic Movement party, has filed formal charges of human rights abuses with the Internation...
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USA: Tuesday the Terrible (thoughts on US economic situation)
22-Jan-2008: From my ArkTwo list: From: "Bruce Beach" Date: Mon, January 21, 2008 9:26 am Monday being a US Holiday - (Martin Luther King Day) the time table therefore targets te...
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SA: Constable shoots captain after criticism at Lenasia Police Station
22-Jan-2008: LENASIA, South Africa. An unnamed 34-year-old police constable is expected to appear in the Vereeniging magistrate's court on Wednesday on a charge of murdering his police station captain, police sai...
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Pakistan, Communist China to Jointly Develop JF-17 Thunder Model Jet Fighte
22-Jan-2008: Now this is quite disturbing of the closeness of the air forces of Pakistan and also Communist China in which the two nations are prepared to jointly develop the JF-17 Thunder fighter je...
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Malaysia Seizes Christian Books; Impose Apartheid-Like State On Non-Muslims
22-Jan-2008: Hmm, I wonder where's the outrage of this hypocrisy with the "international community"? To condemn Israel as an "apartheid" where non-Jews get to vote and worship their own religion freely versus a n...
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SA: Eskom power-cut stories turn new site into top-hit
22-Jan-2008: Contribute your own stories on: http://www.newgate.co.za/eskomstories/stories.htm...
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SA: Oprah Winfrey's 'Angel of Soweto'' -- a convicted criminal
22-Jan-2008: Today's Sowetan newspaper frontpage features Mama Jackey, Oprah Winfrey's much-louded "Angel of Soweto ' and now a convicted criminal. Mama Jackey Maarohanye, 49, director of the Ithuteng Educational ...
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SA: 900 tourists stranded for hours on Table Mountain due to electricity fa
22-Jan-2008: Cape Town - About 900 people were stranded at the top of Table Mountain on Monday night after yet another of the country's many "rolling blackouts" by the country's parastatal electricity-supplier ESK...
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SA: Electrifying birthday party
22-Jan-2008: The electric security gate at the house of Mrs Antoinette Swart, seated in front, wouldn't open due to ESKOM's electricity failures yesterday. However, all her friends had arrived to celebrate her 70...
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SA: German tourist arrested at Johannesburg airport for smoking on flight f
22-Jan-2008: Beeld newspaper reports that this unnamed German tourist was allegedly arrested upon his arrival at Johannesburg Airport in Janaury 21 2008 for smoking on the plane. Co-passenger Charl van Rooyen o...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (22-01-2008(
22-Jan-2008: Howzit If ever you were unsure of Mugabe's ability to cheat the people, today there are two very good reasons to think again - although I am of the belief that the...
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SA: I get a final demand for electricity a/c...
22-Jan-2008: I often pay my monthly water & lights a/c a few days late. The Johannesburg municipality never complained before. They reflect it as 30 days in the a/c and by the next month the payment is received an...
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SA: Want to own your own Bank? Soon you will be able to: FNB Franchise proj
22-Jan-2008: Here are a few titbits about it:- The FNB Franchise Project Could you be the next Branch Owner? The FNB Franchise Project The FNB Franchise Project has been mandated to develop...
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Blacks are just destroying Africa... Perhaps they will learn when it is all
22-Jan-2008: Dear Peter, Thank you for your email. All this Eskom business and Zuma's behaviour - does any of it really surprise you anymore? Africa is Africa and will always be. All the positive devel...
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Amazing stuff: Energy from Magnets?
22-Jan-2008: A reader critiqued me on my Generator page. I followed a link he gave and came upon this. It has me interested. I assume the actual power coming from this is too small to be useful. Nevertheless, here...
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SA: Gunshots ring out near Govt Minister's residence
22-Jan-2008: Police say they are investigating a shooting at the Bishopscourt home of Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya on Sunday. No one was injured, national police spokesperson Vish Naidoo sa...
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SA: Judiciary will not respond to manipulation
22-Jan-2008: By Fiona Forde For the second time in as many weeks, George Bizos, the distinguished advocate, has found himself speaking out in defence of the country's judiciary...
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SA: Murder hunt prompts R100 000 reward
22-Jan-2008: By Weekend Argus Reporter Golden Arrow has offered a R100 000 reward for information leading to the arrest of three men involved in an armed robbery on a bus in which a man was killed on Friday...
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SA: Weird ANC Politics: Giving Mbeki a new No.2 discussed
22-Jan-2008: It has not been decided whether ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe will become South Africa's deputy president, the party's secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on S...
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Mountain searched after Angolan plane crash
22-Jan-2008: Authorities on Sunday searched a mountain in southern Angola where a chartered light aircraft crashed, killing all 12 people aboard, Angop news agency reported. Investigators were at the site o...
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SA: Food price hell: DA calls for bread price probe
22-Jan-2008: A ministerial task team to look into bread price increases should be established, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. "The traumatic effect of the recent bread price increase on the poor in...
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S.Africa: Mbeki who created the Electricity problem, now demands answers fr
22-Jan-2008: Eskom has stopped supplying electricity to neighbouring countries amid the dire shortage in South Africa, it said on Sunday. The power company only sold electricity when it had a surplus, s...
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SA: Electricity Chaos: Everyone pays when Eskom pulls the plug
22-Jan-2008: By Mary Corrigall With every industry is dependent on electricity to remain operational, the frequent blackouts across the country are hitting workers hard. Not...
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Electricity Hints: Ask a Zimbabwean for tips on power cuts (& the Nigerians
22-Jan-2008: Peta Thornycroft, our Zimbabwe correspondent, reports from Johannesburg on how to deal with power cuts. What an incredible fuss you South Africans make about a few...
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SA: Good rains give farmers hope of a bumper crop
22-Jan-2008: Heavy rains throughout parts of the country and the wet weather outlook for the remainder of the summer have given South African farmers hope for a bumper crop. "Last year was terrible for farm...
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[3 Pics] S.Africa: Crime Scene photos of Man murdered for his Cell Phone
22-Jan-2008: A regular AfricanCrisis reader lives in the area where this crime took place. He took some photos of the blood spattered car of this poor man who was murdered for his cell phone. We post crimes an...
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SA: Eskom stops exporting power
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by jo shmoe: Finally!!! Johannesburg - Eskom has stopped supplying electricity to neighbouring countries amid the dire shortage in South Africa, it said on Sunday. The power compan...
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USA: Oprah Picks Race, Starts Big Fuss With Women
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by J James: Stupid, liberal White women in America are mad that Oprah picked race over feminism. I guess they didn't get a clue when Oprah's school opened... Article: Women turn on ...
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USA: Hacking Power Companies.
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by White R B: Quote: Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.Sp...
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S Africa: Blogger Catches KwaZulu-Natal Crime.
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by White R B: Africa-- A KwaZulu-Natal man was arrested by police on Sunday night after the 50-year-old allegedly stabbed his young son thinking the boy was an animal, police said on Mond...
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USA: Great vids of blacks in America
21-Jan-2008: Great site and great video. The first vid is in Detroit, a city that is about 85% negro, negro mayor, police chief, etc. A total craphole. Those that have traveled Africa's cities would feel deja vu g...
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France. More Muslim Mayhem
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: Originally Posted by Wasington Times "...15-year-old Mouhsin and 16-year-old Lakamy were killed in Villiers-le-Bel, an immigrant suburb of Paris. The boys, joyriding on a st...
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American chess legend has died in exile
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by List: CNN) -- Chess master Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history, has died, a spokesman for the World Chess Federation confirmed to CNN Friday. He was 64. Fis...
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USA: Discovery Channel investigates the attack on the Pentagon
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by Clive: Discovery and National Geographic Channel are two of the best channels I love to watch. Mainly because they indulge in thorough investigation to get to the bottom of every incid...
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China/SA: SA living in China can supply generators at reasonable prices
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by Phil: Hi SA I'm a South African living in China and hearing about these power outages is shocking I can supply generators at a very reasonable price for those in need .If anyone is...
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USA: Germany and Australia
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: Atlanta, Georgia has an extreme drought with the city saying it only has enough water for a couple of months. They required curtailment of a lot of water usage. Even the city...
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S Africa: Off-duty traffic cop strangle white boy at gas station
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by Frans: I saw this video clip on Beeld newspaper website. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Video/0,,3-2082_2254484,00.html Read the full text in Afrikaans at http://www.news24.com/Beeld/...
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Africa: The HG Wells morlock (PC descrip.) or Moor Look disease has surfa
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by anon: The HG Wells moorlook or morlock disease has surfaced I speculate, note its in the high sunshine zones of California, Texas and Florida, two of which also contain large African ...
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USA: What 'Liberated' Negroes Are Like Here In 'Da Kwa' (USA)
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by: J James: http://www.detroitiscrap.com/archives/591 Everyone that reads this site should have a look at what happens when you give the negro everything, including the city of Detroi...
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UK: Forthcoming London Swinton Circle meeting.
21-Jan-2008: Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :- Date : Thursday 24th January 2008 Time : 19.00 hrs Venue: Committee Room 17 of the House of Commons (please check at Cen...
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UK: Springbok Cyber Newsletter - January 2008 - editorial.
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by the Springbok Club: Unlike many commentators we were not surprised in the least by the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC (and thereby probably the next President of the "new"...
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USA: Barack Hussein Obama
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by Clive: Probable U. S. Presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann D...
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S Africa: Zuma's Attack on Media and Warning to Farmers...
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by Errol: Zuma's ANC Today newsletter for January 18 has a salvo against the media. Note also this unveiled threat againt private landownership in South Africa... "Strong interventions...
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USA: How blacks behave in Detroit, MI.
21-Jan-2008: Submitted by J. James: Let me know if they are in same in Africa. I wager that they are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tb-ImEIZm4&NR=1...
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USA: What Mexicans Do In America
21-Jan-2008: Joseph, I will post this and the link. The people can choose, okay? I don't know if you will want to put this up or not. It is the truth, though, of what goes on all over America with the current ...
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The Darker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice - But Does Anyone Really Believ
21-Jan-2008: Diversity is a strength, we are told. The greatest strength even. And affirmative action is the way to achieve this panacea. But does anyone really believe in affirmative action for the sake of di...
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Israel civilians bombarded with 200 Hamas rockets within just days
21-Jan-2008: Israel struggles to defend its civilian population from deadly Hamas rocket attacks ó 200 in the past few days alone, averaging nearly one per hour.... http://www.kintera.org/AccountTempFiles/account...
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SA restaurant devises ''Power Hour Menu'' -- fun SAPA pictures
21-Jan-2008: A South African restaurant has devised a menu which does require electricity for its preparation. In a tongue-in-cheek response to the country's massive electricity shortages, the Mugg & Bean res...
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Southern Hemisphere: Volcano discovered in Antarctica
21-Jan-2008: The journal "Nature Geoscience," published a report by Hugh F. J. Corr and David G. Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey, identifying a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice s...
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SA: ''That's how Satan operates, my son...''
21-Jan-2008: Nelspruit Magistrate's Court. Zionist-church members, all friends of two men accused of throwing a lavish township party with huge supplies of stolen meat and whisky they had allegedly looted from a l...
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SA: Afrikaners expect ethnic-cleansing campaign - soon
21-Jan-2008: PRETORIA, South Africa. The ongoing debate about the country's Afrikaner minority's security problems on the site of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group (PRAAG) is increasingly concentrated on the growing ...
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SA: ''Murdered Danish millionaire-tourist was a wonderful man'
21-Jan-2008: January 21 2008 - Two Ugandan sisters and their brother have been arrested in SA for the abduction and possibly also the murder of a wealthy Danish-Canadian tourist in Gordon's Bay, in what police hav...
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S.Africa: The Rand's future over the next few years - R15 to $1 by 2018?
21-Jan-2008: Short-term currency movements are unpredictable. We never seek to predict where the exchange rate will be in 12 months ñ we will be wrong - but would like to highlight the basic factors that are a...
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SA: Gutsy crime-fighter assassinated before she could testify at corrupt co
21-Jan-2008: 'Sowetan' daily newspaper journalist Russel Morena reports on 21 January 2008 that Mrs Lindiwe Mthembu, a Johannesburg woman who was one of three key witnesses in the corruption trial of two Booysens ...
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Economic Analysis: S.Africa's real growth - Where to now? More Socialism to
21-Jan-2008: Can it actually be possible to grow even slower and redistribute even more? And if so, would that be desirable? Sometimes it can seem that different factions inhabit parallel universes contain...
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SA: mystery shooting at popular cabinet minister 's Bishopscourt home
21-Jan-2008: Social Affairs Minister Zola Skweyiya: mystery shooting at his home: http://www.dieburger.com/Photos/DieBurgerWes/Photos/2007-11-02/News/Parlement17_nuus_wk--297x250.jpg January 21, 2008, 11:15 ...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (21-01-2008)
21-Jan-2008: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Today I remember my good friend Gollum who passed away a year ago. I mis...
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Namibia reaps benefits of electricity deal with Zimbabwe
21-Jan-2008: Windhoek - Namibia has begun receiving electricity from western Zimbabwe after a cash injection to refurbish a worn-out power station, officials said. "We are now receiving 40 megawatts (MW) fr...
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S.Africa: Electricity Chaos - now we'll get Electricity rationing
21-Jan-2008: By Jillian Green and Anna Cox South Africans could soon be faced with electricity quotas. Speaking to The Star on Sunday, Jacob Maroga, Eskom's chief executive, re...
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SA: Selebi's corrupt racist moves: Nel arrest to be investigated - report
21-Jan-2008: The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) will investigate the arrest of the National Prosecuting Authority advocate Gerrie Nel, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on S...
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SA: Cyril Ramaphosa: Tiptoeing his way to political power
21-Jan-2008: By Fiona Forde Since his appetite for politics was whetted more than 40 years ago, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has added a string of titles to his name. After grat...
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New Organisation: PASSOP: Refugees' local hero battles for their rights
21-Jan-2008: By Bronwynne Jooste When he started the only organisation dealing with the crushing concerns of thousands of African refugees in South Africa, Braam Hanekom admits...
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SA: Cops bust suspects for Somali murders
21-Jan-2008: Seven men have been arrested in a breakthrough in the murder case of two Somali nationals, East London police said on Sunday. Spokesperson Captain Stephen Marais said the two Somali men were fo...
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African Electricity Chaos: Eskom pulls plug on Southern Africa
21-Jan-2008: Eskom has been forced to slash power supplies to neighbouring countries in a desperate bid to meet local demand, Business Report said on Sunday. The beleaguered ut...
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SA: Crime: Man shot & killed for not handing over his wedding ring
21-Jan-2008: By Zara Nicholson and Mzwanele Mkalipi A man was shot dead on a Golden Arrow bus after refusing to surrender his wedding ring to robbers. On Saturday devastated...
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SA: Cold-blooded gunmen target security complex - shoot 2 people
21-Jan-2008: By Botho Molosankwe Boom gates, high walls and security guards couldn't prevent the cold-blooded shootings of two people in places they considered safe. A Sando...
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S.Africa: Gangs groom pre-school kids for life of crime
21-Jan-2008: By Yugendree Naidoo Gangsters are grooming pre-school children for a life of crime, say community workers, but activists hope a new law will boost the prosecution...
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Zimbabwe needs fair polls now, says MDC chief
21-Jan-2008: By Fanuel Jongwe Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader threatened on Sunday to boycott upcoming polls unless veteran President Robert Mugabe bowed to demands for ...
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S.Africa: Electricity Chaos: Top Level Crisis meetings to end Eskom chaos
21-Jan-2008: By Edwin Naidu, Justin Brown, Eleanor Momberg, Mary Corrigall, Keith Ross and Jeremy Gordin The rolling blackouts that have plagued South Africa - caused by Eskom's ne...
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S.Africa: Zuma's Power grows: Zuma can challenge Mbeki, if he wants to
21-Jan-2008: By Patrick Laurence Jacob Zuma, the newly elected ANC president, while still pledging allegiance to reconciliation within the ANC after the acrimonious clashes at the national conference in Pol...
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ZIMBABWE WRITER WARNS COUNTRY ON LAST LAP BEFORE ''TOTAL COLLAPSE
21-Jan-2008: ZIMBABWE WRITER WARNS COUNTRY ON LAST LAP BEFORE "TOTAL COLLAPSE" Text of report by South Africa-based Zim Online, Johannesburg, in English 18 Jan 08 Harare - Zimbabwe is hurtling...
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USA: David Icke's views on Obama, Ron Paul & Hillary Clinton - Obama was no
21-Jan-2008: Change, Change, Change... To More Of The Same By David Icke 1-15-08 Hello all ... I said many years ago that there would come a time when the conspiracy would break the surface where al...
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Zimbabwe soldier beheads son
21-Jan-2008: Harare - A soldier has been arrested in the Zimbabwean town of Chitungwiza for beheading his five-year-old son, clubbing his mother-in-law to death and attempting to kill his stepdaughter, reports sai...
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SA: Designer's dad killed for cell
21-Jan-2008: Cape Town - A man's early-morning walk with his dog ended tragically in Parklands on Sunday when robbers stole his cellphone and stabbed him with a knife. He died of the wound. Police say Eric Gov...
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SA: Woman kills would-be rapist
21-Jan-2008: Pretoria - A woman has stabbed and killed a man who cut her clothing off her with a knife and nearly raped her. Chantelle Olivier, 20, of Stormvoel Street, Lindopark, was overpowered and nearly ra...
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Why Do People Clammer To Chomsky?
21-Jan-2008: It just boggles my mind to see people be drawn to such a vile man like Noam Chomsky: Chomsky draws a crowd WALTHAM - Take away the movie screen backdrop, cupholders and popcorn and Noa...
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Iran Prepared to Cause Trouble South Of the Border?
21-Jan-2008: Hmm, seems like the Iranian government is hoping to exploit Mexico's pro-Open Border policies along with other sort of implementing subversive schemes such as getting an Iranian operative a dri...
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USA: Oprah accused of Racism for supporting Obama over Hillary Clinton
20-Jan-2008: Women turn on ëtraitorí Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama Oprah fans leave a barrage of negative messages on her official website in response to the talk show host's support of Obama AM...
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USA: Wall Street Braces for More Volatility
20-Jan-2008: NEW YORK (AP) - With Wall Street falling precipitously almost by the day, investors are asking what it will take to revive it. Market experts are increasingly coming to the same answer: Time. There...
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USA: Last Week's DOW Jones Stock Market hell
20-Jan-2008: Seeking Tools to Calm a Market By JULIE CRESWELL Dow 6,000 or Dow 14,000? It depends on whom you ask. A week of gut-wrenching losses in the stock market ended on Friday with the Dow Jone...
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[Video] [Humor] S.African Power Blackouts: Eskom is full of Crap - Eskom is
20-Jan-2008: Here is a video a friend sent me. This sounds a lot like Leon Schuster singing about the power outages. Its pretty cool! Nice one! Enjoy! The video is only 1.8Mb in size. Click here to view it or r...
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SA: Danish tourist Preven Povlsen, 71, missing in Gordon's Bay: 3 arrested
20-Jan-2008: Johannesburg - Three people have been arrested in connection with the mysterious disappearance of 71-year-old Danish tourist Preven Povlsen, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson...
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SA pilot, Billiton diamond-mine executives die in Angola chopper crash
20-Jan-2008: Johannesburg - Mining giant BHP Billiton on Sunday suspended its operations in Angola following a HELICOPTER crash in the west African country that also killed 4 of its leading executives. "It is ...
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SA parliament 'protest' over soaring bread prices
20-Jan-2008: The Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU) -- which is one of SA's three co-ruling political groups -- is actually staging a protest against its own government over the soaring bread price. Cosatu i...
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Blacks burned 7 trains at 4 stations: Psychologist: Blacks are like Two Yea
20-Jan-2008: He wrote:- Burning trains I think the latest train burning is more serious than you mentioned - a news report this morning mentioned 7 trains at 4 stations. You have very nicely summar...
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SA black parliamentarian accused of racial incitement, hate-speech against
20-Jan-2008: Civil rights organisation AfriForum has laid a formal charge against a parliamentarian of the ruling African National Congress and all the other organisers of a poster-demonstration held outside the S...
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''Zimbabwe Today'' by Robb WJ Ellis (20-01-2008)
20-Jan-2008: Howzit Overnight I have received a few emails concerned that this page may pack up. Not if I can help it, but I have to be a realist... Which means I will not go d...
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SA insanity: ''Witchdoctors get full professional health status' ...
20-Jan-2008: A Johannesburg witchdoctor's advertisement, photographed by Jan Lamprecht: http://www.africancrisis.org/images/South_Africa_Traditional_Medicine_Witchcraft_Muti_Dr_Penis_Male_Female_sexual_problems_3...
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SA: Limpopo abortionists advertise on parking meters, lamp posts...
20-Jan-2008: Illegal abortonists' earn large sums from the country's dreadfully high rape-statistics, even advertising their dangerous, vile trade on Pietersburg parking meters. Debbie Liebenberg of the Limpopo Ob...
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SA: Corruption: Top Cop Jack Selebi's still in charge - disgusting!
20-Jan-2008: By Janet Smith Jackie Selebi is still in charge. He may indeed be on extended leave, in stormy political weather as the NPA negotiates that he make his first appearanc...
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SA: Cape Town: 5 years later, gay escort industry busy
20-Jan-2008: By Helen Bamford Even by South African standards, the Sizzlers massacre on January 20, 2003 was shocking. Nine men were slaughtered in one night. The...
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SA: Crime slips inside gated complexes
20-Jan-2008: The main reason people move into supposedly secure residential estates or complexes is to escape crime. But the latest crime statistics indicate that house robberies with ag...
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