By Joseph Hanlon Renamo and the government signed an agreement Tuesday on the separation of party and state, while also on Tuesday Renamo president Afonso Dhlakama told the Portuguese press agency Lusa that he had ordered the 14 June ambush of an army patrol in Tete. Attacks “I gave the order” to attack when government…
By Beaton Galafa Maybe justice will dawn on sand today. The corpses, piled on piles of other corpses, rot beneath the dunes. Bones scatter unattended to in ruins of villages that once harboured life. Stains of blood got tired of stench that attracted vultures. These people are black. This is Africa. There’s a government too,…
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By Joseph Hanlon Renamo’s enlarged National Council meeting Thursday in Beira decided that negotiations with the government are over. Using a pair of popular Portuguese expressions, Jose Manteigas, spokesman for the meeting, said the negotiations are “em aguas de bacalhau” – meaning useless or fishing in waters that have no fish – and that the…
By Beaton Galafa The numbers are alarming. The Mediterranean Sea has overseen the sailing of over a 100 000 migrants to Europe this year alone, says a United Nations report that’s been making headlines recently. The ‘Let a family drown to dissuade others’ policy has clearly failed. Topping the list of those undertaking the treacherous…
By Patrick Bond, Durban 3 June 2015 The last week has provided extraordinary examples of how corruption erodes the resources and morals of an entire continent – Africa – in part because villains in South Africa made alliances with wicked brothers in Switzerland, Latin America, the Caribbean and, especially, the United States. We now know…
According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front) has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats. The same board and the Ethiopian government qualified the result as a triumph of democracy, which leads one to assume…
Cape Town — Researchers have announced the discovery of the wreck of a Portuguese slave ship in which an estimated 200 Mozambicans died when the ship sank just off Cape Town more than two centuries ago. Iziko Museums of South Africa will host the official announcement of the discovery in Cape Town later Tuesday. However,…