ANC president says ruling party plans to transfer 30% of farmland by 2014.

JOHANNESBURG (Sapa) - ANC president Jacob Zuma passionately addressed thousands of workers at a May Day celebration in the North West on Thursday saying that rural development was key to fighting poverty.

“Many of them work long hours for poverty wages. Read more »

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe’s government dismissed the United Nations’ first session on Zimbabwe’s election crisis as “sinister, racist and colonial” on Wednesday and said it would have no impact on the country.

At the U.N. Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Western powers pressed for a U.N. mission or envoy to visit Zimbabwe, where the results of a disputed presidential election four weeks ago have still not been released.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says its leader Morgan Tsvangiari won the March 29 vote outright. The MDC accuses Mugabe of delaying results to rig victory and says a prolonged crisis will lead to widespread bloodshed.   MORE>>>

We want the Americans to know to what kind of a country they sent us back to.”Wentzel Herbst said: “I’ve had to go through another hijacking and, this time, my children were with me.”

Herbst had been in the car with his brother-in-law, Jimmy Watson, when Watson was killed during a hijacking just more than a week ago.

Wentzel, his wife, Carol, and their children, Deiran, six, and Tegan, three - who were born in the United States - were visiting the Watsons in Delmas. Read more »

Militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe targeted whites Monday, forcing about a dozen ranchers and farmers off their land as Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler fanned racial tensions amid fears he will turn to violence to hold on to power.

Mugabe’s opponents pressed a lawsuit seeking to compel the publication of results of the March 29 presidential election that they say Morgan Tsvangirai won.

The opposition leader urged the international community to persuade Mugabe to step down.

“Major powers here, such as South Africa, the U.S. and Britain, must act to remove the white-knuckle grip of Mugabe’s suicidal reign and oblige him and his minions to retire,” Tsvangirai wrote in Monday’s edition of Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Read more »

For a few brief moments, Zimbabweans suffering under the authoritarian rule of Robert Mugabe allowed themselves a rare burst of optimism after their longtime president suffered what appeared to be a devastating electoral loss.

But ruling party stalwarts and security chiefs — worried about their own fates in a post-Mugabe era — quickly dug in their heels, and Mugabe now appears poised to do everything he can to extend his 28-year rule.

“There’s a political hardening by the political elite of the ruling party,” said Eldred Masunungure, a political analyst at the University of Zimbabwe. “They’re in a panic mode.” Read more »

President Robert Mugabe accused the West of driving Zimbabwe towards misery as a result of sanctions as the contest to rule the ailing former British colony entered the final stretch.

In his most outspoken attack to date on the former colonial power and the United States, Mugabe said they were responsible for the chronic problems which are now afflicting the health service in a country where even bandages and painkillers are scarce and where from where most doctors have emigrated.

As one of his two challengers said the country needed a period of healing and reconciliation, Mugabe insisted it “will never die”. Read more »

South Africa - A video of University of the Free State (UFS) employees on their knees eating food which had been urinated upon was condemned “in the strongest possible terms” by the university on Tuesday.

The video, made by male students at the Reitz Residence, surfaced on Tuesday morning and adds to an already tense racial situation at UFS after student riots over the university’s hostel integration policy.

The video allegedly depicts a mock integration of five elderly African staff members. Read more »

South Africa’s leading human rights agency is investigating why white journalists were barred from a briefing with Jacob Zuma, the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), media reported on Monday. A number of white reporters were asked to leave or refused entry at an event on Friday sponsored by the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ). Black, Indian and other non-white journalists were allowed into the briefing, where Zuma was the guest speaker.

South Africa’s Talk Radio 702 said it had formally complained to the South African Human Rights Commission after one of its reporters was told to leave the event in a Johannesburg suburb. The commission is expected to make an announcement later on Monday, the Citizen newspaper reported. Source>>>

Sheldon Cohen was sitting in his car outside a Johannesburg sports stadium last week waiting for his son Noah to finish soccer practice.

Sheldon, 47, was talking to his father, Jack, on his cellphone when three young men ran past and shot him in the neck. Jack, realizing something terrible had happened, sped to the stadium.

The killers, who had moments before tried unsuccessfully to snatch a cellular phone from a woman parked nearby who was also waiting for her son, had seen Sheldon on the phone and thought he was calling the police. So they killed him. Jack arrived shortly after to see his son’s body slumped in his car, with grandson Noah standing watch. Read more »

Jacob Zuma has been made President of the ANC.  Read the linked article to discover what South Africa has in store for itself, as it continues the trend towards white-genocide, where whites are routinely murdered, with their farm-land then given (or sold, in some cases) to blacks–often, the very same blacks who kill the whites.  Article here>>>

Only one way to take care of these critters, remove the head/destroy the brain and BURN YOUR DEAD!!!

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Forty nine highly infectious tuberculosis patients cut through wire fencing and broke out of a hospital isolation unit, apparently because they wanted to spend Christmas with their families.

The mass escape highlights the problems faced by South Africa as it struggles to cope with an epidemic of virtually incurable TB that feeds off the AIDS virus and kills most of its victims. South Africa has an estimated 5.4 million people living with the AIDS virus.

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LUSAKA, Zambia - A southern African radio correspondent has been receiving a flood of text messages and cell phone calls — some from offended listeners and readers.

All because Kennedy Gondwe chose to get circumcised to protect himself from AIDS, and took the British Broadcasting Corp.’s radio and Web audience through the procedure with him Friday.

A study published in the Lancet medical journal in February concluded that the findings of three major trials — in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda — show that circumcision can significantly reduce men’s chances of contracting the virus that causes AIDS. U.N. health agencies followed up with an endorsement, but stressed that the procedure offers only partial protection and that abstinence, condom use, having few partners and delaying the first sexual experience are all among the steps that need to be encouraged. Read more »

The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans wish that they could get back the white racist government that oppressed them in the 1970’s.

“If we had the chance to go back to white rule, we’d do it,” said Solomon Dube, a peasant whose child was crying with hunger when I arrived in his village. “Life was easier then, and at least you could get food and a job.”

Mr. Dube acknowledged that the white regime of Ian Smith was awful. But now he worries that his 3-year-old son will die of starvation, and he would rather put up with any indignity than witness that. Read more »

South Africa is a grim model of the future of America, for current events in America are chillingly similar to the events that destroyed
South Africa and reduced it to a third world nightmare. Americans are increasingly unwilling to stand up to the tactics of violence, mob
riots, and intimidations by accusations of racism, and reverse discrimination through Affirmative Action policies in the workplace
and America’s schools.
White flight from South Africa is increasing in intensity and the population of whites in South Africa was 5,200,000 in 1995. The
current estimates put the white population of South Africa at 3,500,000 and decreasing daily. The causes of the white flight are
rampant black on white rape, murder and robberies and anti-white ANC government affirmative action policies. Read more »

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africa is recalling millions of locally manufactured condoms after tens of thousands failed an air burst test, dealing a further blow to the country’s campaign to prevent the spread of AIDS.

The Health Ministry said Tuesday the recall involves condoms distributed free by the government.

It follows a scandal in which the South African company Zalatex was found to have bribed an official of the South African Bureau of Standards to approve defective condoms. After the scandal broke in August, the government ordered 20 million condoms to be recalled or held at the factory. Only 12 million have been recovered. Read more »

I feel the frustration that you guys are experiencing, but trust me, it’s nothing compared to what is still to come. America is in a situation where the white people outnumber the blacks, and already you have problems, with words such as racists, bigots, nazi etc. Here in south Africa where the white man once ruled supreme, and we were a civilized nation, we had the first world heart transplant and we invented the earth leakage relay, which is now compulsory in many countries around the world, we had anti-warfare helicopters that the world wanted, we had good education standards, we had law and order.
Now, fourteen years into “DEMOCRACY” that’s the term that is used for us whites giving up our country to the blacks. Us whites make up 10% of the population and we are now not welcome in our country of birth. Let me tell you some of the heinous crimes that are committed by “our black brothers” most of these crimes are perpetrated upon the white folk. They rape children as young as six months old to cure them from aids. They gang raped a 70 year old woman. They tie you up, force you to eat rat poison, rape you afterwards and then put a bullet in your head. They rape our young beautiful white girls in front of their boyfriends, some that are still virgins, and then they joke and tell the girl, you are no longer a virgin. They hijack our motor-vehicles, break into our houses, which always end up in us whites being murdered. Read more »

Look to South Africa for our multicuturhell future.

Pretoria police on Wednesday arrested a third youth for the rape and murder of a Lynnwood woman at her home.

Police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko said Cathy Odendaal - in her forties - was tortured, raped and shot dead at her house at 5pm on Tuesday. Read more »

Well surprise, surprise! Black farmers are degenerates who can’t farm.

Zimbabwe’s bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed following the seizure of white-owned farms.

The agricultural ministry announcement that the wheat harvest is only about a third of what is required, and that imports are held up by lack of hard currency, came as a deadline passed today for the last white farmers to leave their land or face prosecution for trespass. Read more »

Roodepoort, South Africa - In the Johannesburg suburb of Roodepoort, just north of the sprawling township of Soweto, Loftie Eton manages a small child-welfare agency that has steadily become the front lines in South Africa’s troubled war on AIDS.

Here, children orphaned by AIDS find homes. Here, foster parents maneuver through the intricate process of getting legal custody of children and access to the trickle of government grants to help them keep these children clothed, fed, and in school.

The caseload at the Roodepoort Child Welfare Society has grown in the past 10 years from perhaps 60 to 80 children per year to well over 1,000. Social workers each have between 110 and as many as 400 cases to sort through, virtually all of them children who have lost parents to AIDS. The vast majority will be handed over to aunts or grandmothers, but some children simply have no relatives willing or able to take them in. Read more »

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The supervisor of a major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa voiced “huge disappointment” Saturday after testing was halted in the wake of poor results from sister trials in Australia and the United States.

US pharmaceutical giant Merck announced on Friday that it had halted the trials of its V520 vaccine after a study found it to be ineffective.

“It is a huge disappointment because this vaccine has shown promise all the way through, but it’s only when you get in on these big trials that you start to see how the vaccine behaves,” South Africa trials supervisor Glenda Gray told AFP. Read more »

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - WESTERN dignitaries attending festivities to mark a decade of South Africa’s democracy on April 27, 2004, were struck mute by the deafening applause that greeted Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe.

“I cannot figure out why he is being applauded when he has destroyed his country,” protested Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister and president of the Western think tank, the International Crisis Group.

Mr. Mugabe remains both an enigma and a magnet, attracting Africans and repelling the West. He is at the center of a seven-year-old game of brinkmanship between Africa and the West, fostered by diametrically opposed responses to Zimbabwe’s seizure of land owned by some 4,500 white farmers in 2000. Since then, the two sides have looked each other in the eye to see who would blink first. Read more »

Johannesburg, South Africa - In the boardroom of South Africa’s legendary black newspaper, the Sowetan, there hangs on the wall the following injunction: “What have you done with your freedom, South Africa? Don’t let it go to waste. Cherish it.”

Shantytowns have not been replaced with affordable housing. Water and electricity and other basic requirements of the infrastructure to support democracy are still lacking for many. Official agencies are sometimes bastions of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption. In Johannesburg, it can take more than four months to get your car license renewed. Some citizens say they circumvent the system by “buying” their renewals – slipping a bribe to a licensing officer.

South Africa has just outpaced India as the country with the highest incidence of AIDS in the world, and critics say the government has been tardy in grappling with the problem. Read more »

At least two women have come forward to tell horrific stories of how they were repeatedly raped after being abducted and tied to beds.
Both say Nigerian immigrants injected them with a paralysing drug, kidnapped them and locked them in rooms with other girls.
“There were nine girls of all races with me in the room and some were as young as 8-years-old. About six men took turns to come into the room, inject us with heroin and rape us. Read more »

A total of 1,328 Zimbabwean businessmen and women have been arrested and fined for breaking official price controls in the past two weeks, police say. The government ordered that the prices of many goods be cut in half, in order to tackle the world’s highest rate of inflation - more than 3,700%.

But businesses say the new prices are below cost, so some firms have closed. Read more »

With events like this happening every few days in South Africa, this is our future in multi-culti America. 

Pretoria, South Africa - “They told us: ‘We’re still going to kill all you white dogs.’,” said an elderly couple who were throttled, bound and robbed in their Pretoria North flat.

Fanie Coetzee, 76, and his wife, Bekkie, 73, were getting ready for coffee about 06:45 on Friday when two intruders who had broken into the complex attacked them. Read more »

Johannesburg - Four awaiting-trial prisoners escaped from police holding cells in Brits at 02:00 on Sunday, said North West police.

“They are wanted for crimes including rape, murder and armed robbery,” said Captain Elsabe Augoustides. They are aged between 23 and 39. Read more »

That’s an insult to the Titanic! 

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa urged southern Africa to take a new approach to Zimbabwe, which he likened to a “sinking Titanic” as millions flee economic and political turmoil. Read more »

Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe whose policies have resulted in the mass killing of white farmers, is now being blamed for political violence.  The international community allows the ethnic cleansing of whites in Zimbabwe to continue without any concern but when a black politican gets arrested and beaten that makes international news.

LONDON (AFP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is responsible for the beatings of opposition leaders because he has made it clear it is a “deliberate act of policy,” Britain charged Saturday. Read more »

*Looks like the honeymoon is over for Oprah Winfrey’s state-of-the-art school for girls in South Africa, as some parents and students are now complaining that the rules are way too strict, reports a South African news Web site.

      First on the list of gripes is the visitation policy, which had originally allowed parents to see their kids once every two weeks, but will soon be changed to once a month.  Angela Conradie, whose daughter Michelle is at the school, says she’d like to visit her daughter more frequently.

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WINDHOEK (AFP) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe issued a stout defence in Namibia Tuesday of his controversial land reform programme, claiming it had been a success even if it had made more enemies than friends.

The 83-year-old Mugabe’s decision to expropriate land from white farmers at the turn of the decade in what was once the bread basket of southern Africa has been widely seen as the origin of the economic crisis in Zimbabwe which now labours under inflation at around 1,600 percent. Read more »

 INFLATION in Zimbabwe has reached such proportions that it destroyed the value of a new national currency before a single one of its banknotes had been spent. The largest note, $Z1000 ($A5), buys just one tomato.

The world’s highest inflation rate, which rose to a record 1594 per cent on Monday, rendered the new money worthless before it could be distributed. Mounds of banknotes - all paid for in scarce hard currency - are lying unused in warehouses.

The regime of the President, Robert Mugabe, ordered the new money in 2004. At that time, inflation was a relatively modest 400 per cent and Mr Mugabe was anxious to avoid the impression of economic chaos.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zimbabwe’s national security minister has told the country’s last remaining white farmers that they will be jailed if they refuse to abide by a deadline that passed over the weekend for them to leave their farms, according to a newspaper report on Monday.

The official Chronicle newspaper quoted the minister Didymus Mutasa as saying police would be “unleashed” to deal with white farmers who ignored the eviction notice.

“Those farmers who do not comply with the orders to vacate the land will be dealt with severely,” said the minister, known to be close to President Robert Mugabe. The deadline was on Saturday. Read more »

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - January 6, 2007 - Oprah Winfrey took an HIV test Saturday and encouraged students at her new school and their loved ones to follow suit, in a bid to inspire more openness about the disease that is devastating South Africa’s youth.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Oprah Winfrey opened a school Tuesday for disadvantaged girls, fulfilling a promise she made to former President Nelson Mandela six years ago and giving more than 150 students a chance for a better future. 

“I wanted to give this opportunity to girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty could dim that light,” Winfrey said at a news conference. Read more »

In South Africa, nothing says “Home Sweet Home” like 10-foot walls, electric fencing, burglar bars, and at least one panic button wired directly to an armed-response team, licensed to shoot, if not kill. It’s not the sort of thing you put in a tourist brochure. But South Africa, statistically speaking, is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live.

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