The condition of children in many African countries leaves much to be
desired. True. But a so-called expert who makes meaningless statements
such as In Africa, there’s a taboo around mourning a baby.” doesn't
inspire my confidence about the accuracy of other social inferences or
assumptions he
We seem to be missing the fine point in this saga. It is that people are
going to find more creative ways to pursue justice. So if you're a
rebel, make sure you kill only the nationals of banana republics that
don't care a hoot what happens to their own citizens. I leave the rest
to your
Ssenyange,
I have a theory about land fraud or dispossession. In places like
Buganda, Bunyoro, and Acholi where the central government (colonial and
postcolonial) has been heavily involved one way or other, predatory and
speculative land transactions (e.g) proliferate.
However, for most
EM,
Does anyone have a copy of the real survey? I'm itching to ask some
probing questions but I don't want to base them on AFP's interpretation
of the report (if they have even read it at all).
Vukoni
Edward Mulindwa wrote:
These two are the best Kiswahili learning resources I've come across online:
http://www.africa.uga.edu/Kiswahili/doe/grammar.html
http://ww.yale.edu/swahili
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U.S. is top weapons supplier to unstable states
November 14, 2006
By Bryan Bender Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - The United States last year provided nearly half of the
weapons sold to militaries in the developing world, as major arms sales
to the most unstable regions - many already engaged in
If only our president could trash those antiquated books he likes
quoting from and read 21st century scientific stuff he'd talk a lot more
sensibly. Years ago, while shilling for BAT, he infamously told
anti-tobacco activists to shut up because you could smoke and avoid
cancer as long as you
MK,
Is this from New Vision or Rupiny? If the latter, do you have the Luo
version?
Thanks.
Vukoni
Matek Opoko wrote:
I shocked by the statement of LC 3 of Okwang
Is he eating? Zadok Odongo
Sir- I was overwhelmed by shock and anger after reading the local
tabloid, Rupiny of 20.9.2006 on
At the center of Western civilization, which is based on the ideology of
white supremacy, there is a deep-seated insecurity. This insecurity
feeds on two visceral fears:
1. that the victims of white supremacy will one day be strong enough to
take their revenge
2. the sense that their way of
I knew this had to be Sagara! It's hilarious.
Peter-Rhaina Gwokto wrote:
This is awefully fully...! never laughed so hard in a while..
*Alur are not mad*
November 10, 2006
I read with muted shock last week that a minister had insinuated that
we Alur are mad people. Can you imagine, a mere
Please circulate: There may well be people in your circles who qualify.
-Original Message-
From: Jackie Granat
Sent: Wednesday, 08 November, 2006 2:44 PM
To: Vukoni LupaLasaga
Subject: FW: ILRInfo: Two African language positions (tenure-track)
Vukoni,
Perhaps you know some people who
TRC in South Africa was a cruel joke. And the ANC is too happy to go
along with the willing-seller willing buyer formula of land
redistribution that totally failed in Zimbabwe.
Isn't it sad that the chief beneficiaries of liberation in South
Africa are the same whites who profited from
Click here http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061113/younge to return to
the browser-optimized version of this page.
This article can be found on the web at
*http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061113/younge*
*Beneath the Radar*
The Bottled Water Lie
By Michael Blanding, AlterNet
Posted on October 26, 2006, Printed on October 27, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/43480/
When Antonia Mahoney moved to Boston from her native Puerto Rico 35
years ago, the first thing she noticed was how
North Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea the worst violators of press freedom
France, the United States and Japan slip further Mauritania and Haiti
gain much ground
New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth
annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index,
MK,
Give the devil his due. The man is making sense, although he is saying
inelegantly what Kwame Nkrumah and his generation of African statesmen
put forth so eloquently.
V
Matek Opoko wrote:
/The man is obsessed with this notion of the ARMY thing. He
excels best in field of
Immigrants and the Whiter-Shade-of-Pale Bonus
*
By Richard Morin
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; A02
When it comes to immigrants, apparently you can't be too tall or too white.
Vanderbilt University economist Joni Hersch found that legal immigrants
to the United States who had darker complexions
Ssemakula,
Are there perhaps some Ugandans in Australia who could test the software
for us?
Thanks.
Vukoni
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Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
By Philip Emeagwali
(Speech delivered at the University of Alberta, Canada,
September 23, 2006)
I once believed that capital was another word for money, the
accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought,
wealth is determined by the money or
Documents: CIA warned of plane bomb plot
By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer/ 13 minutes ago/
An anti-Castro militant now in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before
the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning
such an attack, according to a newly released
/Why Cuba Matters/
Post-Castro Cuba
By SAUL LANDAU
Reporters and friends keep asking: so what'll happen when Castro dies?
A big funeral in Havana, I reply with certainty.
One other sure thing: anti-Castro exiles in south Florida will throw a
mammoth party. On July 31, Fidel revealed he
Ndugu Mitayo,
Interesting stuff. I applaud your assertion that there is No need to
abandon our African spirituality! We are the worse for embracing
totalitarian religions that set brother against brother, etc, leading to
the absurdity of an all-powerful deity requiring that feeble men fight
. These are all sources of our distrust.
Please don't exile me from the list. I must represent the TZ view from time to time.
Msia
Date: Sep 23, 2006 2:16 am
To: The First Virtual Network for friends of Uganda
From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
Subj: Re: [Ugnet] Fwd: Tanzanian President Visits Los
Aha, another conspiracy revealed!
EM, I do not know if Mr. Martin Rwaheru who dropped this bombshell is a
list member. If he isn't, please help forward this e-mail to him:
1: After the military coup in 1971, Uganda was treated to another
extraordinary disclosure, that Dr. Obote and the Langi
EM,
Not so fast. We still need you here on earth.
Vukoni
Edward Mulindwa wrote:
Gook
For some reason I thought I would have been surprised until when this
Juba peace talks took place. As it is I do not think I know who is who
among my friends. May be it is time I ask my maker to call me.
Hi Listers,
I've reread the posting alleging a Basiita clan conspiracy that Kizza
Besigye is/was supposedly involved in. So, more questions aned comments:
1. Why on earth would a clan conspiracy involve those who are not part
of that clan?
2. Does a serious clan conspiracy really deserve the
MK,
You seem to remember only those parts of our history that speak to your
sense of loss. If it wasn't for Nyerere and TPDF, Obote and UPC would
have found it much harder if at all to return to power in 1980. It was
an open secret then who the annointed presidential candidate was. If you
With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie
- Original Message - From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
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Sent: Wednesday
*September 20, 2006*
/Address to the United Nations/
Rise Up Against the Empire
By HUGO CHAVEZ
Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of
you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to
those who have not read this book, to read it.
Noam
Ndugu Mitayo,
I strongly disagree. Like an opportunistic disease, Zionists are taking
advantage of a pre-existing condition. In any case, to put it simply, it
is crazy and totally bankrupt to think as you do that a murderous state
has the right to butcher its own citizens in the tens of
I speak some Arabic. So it was obvious to me from the get go that Amin
was a victim of paranoia and his accent. He is lucky he didn't end up in
Guantanamo.
Semei Zake wrote:
Yesterday, September 13, 2006 the charges against Amin were dropped.
But Amin swears he is not going to be
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A shepherd is herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly
a brand-new BMW advances out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a
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The shared pain of New Orleans
During the dying days of the month of August we followed with concern
the news that yet another hurricane was
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* Exiles from a city and from a nation *
*Cornel West
Sunday September 11, 2005
The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/*
It takes something
EM,
You don't get it. If it is true that Gook left UPC to join FDC, he must
have seen something in FDC that UPC doesn't have. Whether FDC is NRM or
not doesn't change the fact that he left or why. And I don't have to
have any hand or opinion in the matter or to buy into anything (as Owor
to be offended? Just curious !!!
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie
- Original Message - From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
[EMAIL PROTECTED
/The Silence of Elie Wiesel/
How to be a /Good/ Victim
By M. SHAHID ALAM
(www.counterpunch.org)
Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic
principle to kill natives; there was, he said, mercy in a massacre.
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996)
This is so sad. My condolences to the family and all who knew Dr. kazigo.
musamize wrote:
*Newsday Coverage*
*Long Island*
Son planned father's murder
Email this story
Mr. Sharangabo,
You had better read Richard Carver's article again, m-o-r-e s-l-o-w-l-y
this time. It doesn't support your thesis at all. For radios and
machetes to become tools of genocide, they need the coercive power of
the state or of a constituency with the motives, the will, and the
Hold the obituaries and speculations. I just got off the phone talking
with the members of a well-connected southern Sudanese family. Garang is
alive. The helicopter landed safely, although in an unscheduled location.
vukoni
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This is a true
Mulindwas
avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie
- Original Message - From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ugandanet@kym.net
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Re: [Mwananchi] Sudan's Vice President John
Garang maybedead
Hold the obituaries
*More Trees Can Mean Less Water, Says Report*
*SciDev.Net* (London)
NEWS
July 29, 2005
Posted to the web July 29, 2005
By Sonja Van Renssen
Water management programmes across the developing world are based on the
mistaken belief that trees increase the available water in an area, says
a
.
Musamize
Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga wrote: Quite by accident, I
discovered the following link:
http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/CBOLD_Lexicons/Ganda.Snoxall1967/Non-distributed_files/Luganda%20Parsed.
Does anybody know where I could get a clearer version of the Luganda
glossary on that page?
Thanks
Mr. Musamize,
Thanks for your very generous referencing.
vukoni
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James Ssemakula ?a U.P.C stalwart, who labored to discourage the Uganda
American community in California from attending the NRM event.
Sseruganda Ssemakula, I must have missed the news of your crossing over
to the party of ideas.
From:
To: Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
Quite by accident, I discovered the following link:
http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/CBOLD_Lexicons/Ganda.Snoxall1967/Non-distributed_files/Luganda%20Parsed.
Does anybody know where I could get a clearer version of the Luganda
glossary on that page?
Thanks.
v
.
Forward to Liberation,
Djasi
*/Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:
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Subject: [oaba-b] Luther Vandross dies at age 54
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:00:56 -0700
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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:00:56 -0700
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Luther Vandross dies at age 54
*Famed RB crooner faced setback after stroke in 2003*
Original Message
Subject:[oaba-b] Runaway Racism
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:29:58 -0700
From: Edward Thomas Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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washingtonpost.com
Runaway Racism
By Eugene Robinson
Post
Tuesday, June 28, 2005; A15
A man and a
The following warning was posted on a cloth towel dispenser in the
bathroom at Top Hat my favorite pub in Rogers Park, Chicago:
Use only to dry hands and face. Do not hang from towel. Intentional
misuse can be harmful or fatal.
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Aids activists describe pope as an 'obstacle'
Libreville, Gabon
/05 April 2005 10:07/
Aids activists in Africa describe the late Pope John Paul II's fierce
opposition to the use of condoms as a major obstacle in the battle
against Aids in Africa, where the disease killed 2,3-million people in
A fast way to measure humanity's destructiveness
Mike Shanahan
/21 March 2005 01:33/
Using seven countries in Southern Africa, local scientists have found a
new way to assess rapidly how human actions are affecting the natural
world, according to the Science and Development Network.
The
New road map to help fight TB in Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
/04 May 2005 01:03/
A detailed plan for fighting the increasing number of tuberculosis (TB)
cases in Africa was unveiled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday,
according to the global Stop TB Partnership.
African and
Africa 'ready to tackle its own problems'
Boyd Webb | Singapore
/21 April 2005 06:08/
President Thabo Mbeki described the new African era as the season of
hope for the continent and one in which Africans are prepared to take
care of their own.
He was addressing the 26th Singapore Lecture on
Why Africa needs a plant bank
Midrand, South Africa
/11 April 2005 02:15/
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) recommended on Monday the creation of a
bank for storing samples of the continent's plant resources.
This should be done with a view to preserving plant species and
reconstituting the
African publishers reach out to the West
Donna Bryson | London, United Kingdom
/17 March 2005 04:14/
Twenty years after a group of publishers gathered to discuss how to get
African ideas on the West's agenda, a gathering at the British
Parliament offered a measure of how much the publishers
'All of Africa not collapsing under weight of Aids'
Christina Scott
/09 March 2005 02:54/
There is no single Aids epidemic in Africa, says Hein Marais, until
recently the chief writer for the United Nations Joint Programme on
HIV/Aids (UNAids). There are many. And reasons for these different
Manuel's Imbongis
Tawana Kupe
/01 April 2005 08:01/
A major failure of the media in South Africa seems to be their reporting
on the national budget and the government's economic policies. The
budget process (not just the budget speech) and its attendant policies
are critical to a nation's
site b4 you call
http://www.shiptouganda.com/.
Jesse
gt;From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;
gt;Reply-To: ugandanet@kym.net
gt;To: ugandanet@kym.net
gt;Subject: [Ugnet] Freight amp; Forwarding To Uganda From the
United States
gt;Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:48:52 -0500
gt;
gt;Hello folks
/Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) delivered the following speech to the
American Business Women's Association in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 2005./
(www.blackcommentator.com)
Business Ladies and Gentlemen:
Congratulations for 33 years of excellence.
I am very happy to be here this evening with the
/Yvon Neptune Nears Death/
Clearing the Fences in Haiti
By BRIAN CONCANNON, Jr.
(www.counterpunch.org)
Yvon Neptune's last meal may have been on April 17. Haiti's most recent
constitutional Prime Minister, now its most prominent political
prisoner, stopped eating eighteen days ago to protest
Hello folks,
I'm planning to send an American car dashboard to Uganda from Chicago.
Price quotations from courier services and major international shippers
are prohibitive. I suspect this is a niche business where a
geographically specialized freight and forwarding company would offer
less
/What We Don't and Do Know/
The Case of Hasan Akbar
By STAN GOFF
The determinations of a court martial, in much the same way as a
civilian trial, conform to reality selectively where these
determinations match the facts at all. That is certainly the case for
Hasan Akbar, who was sentenced to
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
POP GOES THE EASEL
Zimbabean artist Kudzi Chiurai is about to explode onto the local scene.
Bongani Madondo talks to a young man taking up arms against history
01 May 2005
Print friendly
The following interview article from the Kigali (Rwanda) paper, The
New Times, was seen on AllAfrica.com at
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503100973.html . Although it doesn't
deal specifically with African language literature, it may be of
interest for the observation quoted in the title, and
The following article from the (Johannesburg?) daily, The Star, was seen at
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=233fArticleId=2464457
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=233fArticleId=2464457
(thanks to
a Google alert). South Africa has 11 official languages and is an
The following item from the South African government news service
BuaNews was
seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200503150358.html (and
also on ILAT). DZO
Pandor Receives Report On Indigenous Languages
BuaNews (Pretoria)
http://www.gcis.gov.za/
March 15, 2005
Posted to the web
A Clown Who's Plugged Into Youth Culture
Sunday Times (Johannesburg)
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za
April 17, 2005
Posted to the web April 18, 2005
Kerry Cullinan
Johannesburg
Democracy for the airwaves brought opportunity to Ashifashabba, who
has his roots in Venda and is now an icon for the
How African languages are penetrating the US
Story by KIMANI NJOGU
(From Kenya's Sunday Nation)
Publication Date: 05/01/2005
*Prof Mazrui: Think about brain gain''*
During a recent conference in Nairobi, Prof Ali Mazrui argued that
instead of lamenting about the brain-drain that seems to
Big welcome for Somalia PM at home
(From Kenya's Sunday Nation)
Story by MARK AGUTU in Mogadishu
Publication Date: 05/01/2005
Somalia Prime Minister Ali Gedi received a tumultuous welcome in his
first official visit to capital Mogadishu since his appointment.
Huge crowds eager to catch a
It's raining money, must be the elections
(From Kenya's Sunday Nation)
Story by SIMWOGERERE KYAZZE /Talking Point
Publication Date: 05/01/2005
This is going to be a very long, exciting and expensive election season
in Uganda. There is fawning over the peasants (who are the majority of
If you wannah know why the world of news is so flat, check this out:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/giants/index.html.
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Times, South Africa. ]*
'ANC can take vote for granted'
Wednesday April 27, 2005 12:42 - (SA)
By Donwald Pressly
Popular control over political decision-makers in South Africa has been
weakened because of a lack of
The drum: Africas final last frontier
John Matshikiza: WITH THE LID OFF
/25 April 2005 10:59/
In his magnificent (and largely uncelebrated) jazz suite, /A Drum is a
Woman/, Duke Ellington lets go with both barrels by telling us that
rhythm came to America from Africa.
It is a bold and
'We were stripped of everything'
Ben Maclennan | Cape Town, South Africa
/26 April 2005 01:51/
A Richtersveld elder on Tuesday told how as a young man he laboured for
less than 40c a day on the state diamond diggings that his community is
now reclaiming.
Oom Gert Domroch (75), speaking his
Land reform 'at a standstill'
Yolandi Groenewald
/25 April 2005 08:15/
More than three-quarters of land in Limpopo is still in white hands.
Research released last week has found that there has been almost no
redistribution of white-owned land in Limpopo, one of South Africas
richest
Nation's Inmate Population Increased 2.3 Percent Last Year
*By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
(published in today's ny times)
*
WASHINGTON, April 24 (AP) - The nation's prisons and jails held 2.1
million people in mid-2004, 2.3 percent more than the year before, the
government reported on Sunday.
The
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
Asia, Africa mustn't underplay strengths: Mbeki
Saturday April 23, 2005 11:40 - (SA)
For Africa and Asia to create a new world order responsive to their
peoples' needs, the two blocks must not
Drought shuts Zambia's door to GMOs
Brenda Zulu
/22 April 2005 12:15/
Hunger is a perennial challenge facing African countries, and Zambia is
no exception. But while some nations are prepared to boost supplies by
importing food containing genetically modified organisms, Zambia is
sticking to
Zim opposition finally acts on election dispute
Godwin Gandu
/22 April 2005 12:15/
Zimbabwes opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has filed
petitions with the electoral court challenging the results of 13 of the
78 constituencies won by Zanu-PF in last months parliamentary election.
*HAGGAG HASSAN ADOUL: NUBIAS HUMAN ASPIRATIONS*
*Interview conducted by Hosam Aboul-Ela*
* Can you tell us something about your childhood and particularly
whether or not your consciousness as a Nubian was something that was
always with you as you grew up in Alexandria or was something that
SOS Save the Nubian
The International Appeal to Rescue Nubia in Egypt and Sudan
The on-going cultural and ethnic cleansing in the Nubian lands
Say No to depopulation of the Nubian lands
Say No to destruction of the Nubian historical sites and wealth by dams.
We, the undersigned Nubians and
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
'The West must leave us alone'
Tuesday April 19, 2005 07:38 - (SA)
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe marked 25 years of independence for his
country yesterday by telling the West to mind their own
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
Land reform fails rural Zimbabwe
Tuesday April 19, 2005 13:22 - (SA)
HARARE - Thousands of Zimbabwean families are still sharing small
patches of farming space five years after their government
The Silencer
By Mary Jo McConahay, Pacific News Service
Posted on April 20, 2005, Printed on April 20, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/21814/
Joy, consternation, and for some, outright shock is reverberating among
Catholics worldwide at the first sight of their
Marburg virus: Death toll climbs at slower rate
Pedro Makuto Nkondo | Luanda, Angola
/20 April 2005 02:31/
Angolan health officials said on Wednesday that the death toll from the
Ebola-like Marburg virus is climbing still, reaching 239, but at a
slower rate as more citizens are joining in a
Marooned on baboon logic
John Matshikiza: WITH THE LID OFF
/11 April 2005 10:59/
I remember hanging around in my white American friend Pauls house in
Lusaka when we were about 12 years old and listening to a well-worn
vinyl that had Bill Cosby or somebodys voice bubbling out of it in a
live
All very nice, but how do you know?
John Matshikiza: WITH THE LID OFF
/18 April 2005 10:59/
The death and extraordinary worldwide outpouring of grief and ecstatic
praise at the burial of Pope John Paul II in Rome brings the issue I
raised on agnosticism recently to an unexpected focus.
The miscarriage of a winning concept: Tribute
Thursday, 11 December @ 00:00:00
Topic: *Wits Research*
*
Introduction
*
/Tribute/ was born in February 1987. Greg Psillos, a Greek businessman
and merchant turned publisher, owner of Enosi Publishers, owned the two
major lifestyle magazines for
Hmm. On a ligher note, a friend in Kampala told me that in Owino market
the new name for underpants is Opondo.
musamize wrote:
*The agony of working with Movt Secretariat*
We soldiers and policemen working with the Movement Secretariat are
treated like second hand citizens. Our lunch allowances
Mis)reporting the Zim Elections
Professor Tawana Kupe
/01 March 2005 08:01/
It's election time again in crisis-ridden Zim. So what's new? South
African and foreign media have less interest then they did in the 2000
parliamentary elections and 2002 presidential elections. Even the
SA backs former Zim minister for AfDB head
Lynn Bolin | Cape Town, South Africa
/20 April 2005 01:53/
South Africa is backing former Zimbabwean finance minister Simba Makoni
in the upcoming election of the new president of the African Development
Bank Group (AfDB), the multilateral development
This is the worst possible news for Catholics who pine for a church that
respects/celebrates diversity, fights for social justice, and balances
tradition with progress. He is one of those who said no to liberation
theology and put to the index the works of progressive Catholic
theologians such
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
'Ascot meets Africa' at Mswati bash
Tuesday April 19, 2005 16:36 - (SA)
By Abhik Kumar Chanda
MANZINI, Swaziland - King Mswati III of Swaziland feted his 37th
birthday today with a
*When Media Dogs Don't Bark*
By Norman Solomon
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 18 April 2005
The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from
the Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well.
Blame the press, Daily Variety scoffed in mid-April, after
*Bush Administration 'Broke Its Own Embargo to Sell Arms to Haiti Police'*
By Andrew Buncombe
The Independent UK
Sunday 17 April 2005
The Bush administration has been accused of ignoring its own arms
embargo and overseeing the sale of $7m-worth (£3.7m) of weapons to the
Haitian
This article can be found on the web at
*http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502s=klein*
*lookout* /by/ Naomi Klein
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
[from the May 2, 2005 issue]
Last summer, in the lull of the August
/NB: The following document is best read in PDF, the original format in
which it was published on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Web
site. I recommend that all recipients whose computers can open PDF files
should retrieve the original document from the ACLU Web site
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
Grim testimony in Boksburg murder trial
Wednesday April 13, 2005 14:47 - (SA)
Mariette Labuschagne realised her boyfriend and his two friends had
assaulted a man when she saw blood on their hands
*[ This article was printed from Sundaytimes.co.za - home of the Sunday
Times, South Africa. ]*
'Hungry people cannot eat pledges'
Wednesday April 13, 2005 14:37 - (SA)
WASHINGTON - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Wednesday urged donors who
pledged 4.5 million dollars for war-torn Sudan to
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