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South Africa E-Tolling - Sanral Misleading Public About Lack of Funds
Two independent studies by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) and the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) confirm that the South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is misleading the public. SANRAL has argued that a fuel levy to fund road infrastructure and maintenance is insufficient, and that e-tolling is therefore necessary. However, two independent studies confirm ...
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Zambia Workers Compensation Fund Scam Uncovered
A SCAM in which some employees at the Workers Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) have allegedly been tampering with employers' contributions has been laid bare. The fraudulent employees have allegedly been declaring less contributions from companies, while others have been delaying to bank the money which led to embezzlement of the pension funds. WCFCB commissioner Elizabeth ...
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Angola Benguela to Host Inventor Fair
Benguela - The province of Benguela will host from 2 to 4 August the Angolan Inventor/Creator Fair, as part of the implementation of promotion of scientific culture program and transfer of technology and entrepreneurship of technologic basis. According to a press release from the Ministry of Science and Technology that Angop had access to, for the first time from 15 to 17 May, fairs were ...
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Syrian TV Troops Enter Rebel Stronghold of Qusair
Syrian state television says government troops have entered the rebel town of Qusair as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean ...
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Paul Libya like Iraq
The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ...
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Zimbabwe Tsvangirai Lays Out Vision
The MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has laid out his vision for a new Zimbabwe under his rule, promising citizens justice, freedom and happiness. Launching the MDC's Agenda for Real Transformation at the party's policy conference in Harare yesterday, Tsvangirai, who is also Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, said his party would ensure that Zimbabweans enjoyed their country. "We ...
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Zimbabwe Villagers Urban Developers Clash Over Land
Villagers from Goromonzi's Yafele area have said their livelihoods are under threat following the encroachment of urban developments into their area. The residents have formed Simukai Rural Residents Trust, a platform through which they were fighting for land allocation and utilisation programmes which do not disturb communal farmers' lives. "Simukai was registered at a time ...
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Zimbabwe Teenage Girls Dying of Pregnancy Complications
Adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 constitute a quarter of the 960 women that die as a result of pregnancy-related complications in Zimbabwe, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. UNFPA country representative, Basile Tambashe said there is need to place a special focus on young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights. She was speaking during the handover of ...
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Zimbabwe Ten Years in Jail for Stealing Zesa Transformer Oil
Chipinge - Two notorious oil dealers, who have been wreaking havoc in and around Chipinge draining electricity transformer oil, finally met their fate last week when they were jailed for an effective 10 years. The duo, Michael Mudzamiri and Phillip Mandizvidza appeared before Chipinge magistrate Makamera Waini facing charges of contravening Section 6 of the Electricity Act. The State led by ...
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South Africa IFP Sends Condolences to the Family of Vuyo Mbuli
It is with shock and sadness that the IFP has learned of the passing of the popular and renowned SABC journalist, Mr Vuyo Mbuli. The IFP's National Council said that his untimely passing is a loss to the entire journalism fraternity. "Mr Mbuli deserves to be praised. He was always a true professional; talented, insightful and passionate. Mr Mbuli was an admired and respected ...
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Zimbabwe Lira Alexio to Share Stage At 7arts
Alexio Kawara is anxiously looking forward to sharing the stage with South African diva Lira, who performs at 7Arts Theatre in Avondale on June 7. The Shaina hit-maker is fast becoming a "ladies man" following various collaborations and stage performances with female artists. On two occasions, he shared the stage with South Africa's Zahara whose last tour of the country was in ...
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Zimbabwe Harare Airport Road to Be Completed By Year-End
Augur Investments (Pvt) Limited, the company constructing the Harare Airport Road hopes to complete the dualisation of the road this year, the company's managing director has said. In an interview with The Standard, Michael van Blerk said a lot of unfair criticism had been lumped upon his company which was doing its best to complete the "complex project". "I want to ...
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There is Insecurity in Northeastern Kenya – Who should take the blame
Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...
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Zimbabwe MDC-T to Reform CIO
THE MDC-T government plans to have legislation that would govern the operations of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), among a raft of reforms designed to create a professional security outfit. MDC-T has been insisting on security sector reforms saying some of the CIO operatives were dabbling into politics and operating like an arm of Zanu PF. Reforming the security forces is one of ...
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Zimbabwe Zanu-PF Internal Fights Weaken Mutasa
INTERNAL fights within Zanu PF in Manicaland, which recently reached a boiling point, have severely weakened the most senior politician in the province, threatening his potential to further rise within the party, analyst have said. For decades, Zanu PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa has been the godfather in Manicaland and his word was unquestioned. Anyone in the province who ...
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Zimbabwe Man Offered U.S$10 As Monthly Retirement Payment
AFTER 34 years of service in the construction industry, Vincent Muzivorwenyu retired to his rural home in Bikita, hoping that his pension contributions would take care of his needs. In February hope turned into despair for Muzivorwenyu: the Construction Industry Pension Fund told him that his money was ready. His bank account was credited with a "lump sum" of US$647. In addition, the ...
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Namibia SSC Investment Fraud Trial Date Set
EIGHT years after a botched investment of N$30 million by the Social Security Commission led to a high-profile Companies Act enquiry in the High Court in Windhoek, a date has been set for the trial of seven people facing charges in connection with the alleged embezzlement of the investment. The seven accused are due to go on trial in the High Court on 19 May next year, they were informed when ...
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Zimbabwe Government to Crack Whip On Telecoms Operators
GOVERNMENT is mooting a policy that forces telecommunication firms to share infrastructure in far reaching reforms set to remove the duplication in investments by operators. The move comes at a time when government's calls for infrastructure sharing had been ignored by the operators. Speaking in Bulawayo last week, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure ...
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DR Congo giant hydro dam work starts 2015
WORK on the world's biggest hydroelectric dam will start in October 2015 in the Democratic Republic of Congo after talks between DR Congo and international officials. Sunday's meeting on the proposed Inga dam on the Congo river also involved multilateral lending institutions. A statement said the "foundation stone will be laid in October 2015." "With a production of 40,000 ...
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Islamists Riot in Tunisia After Major Rally is Banned
Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ...
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The Parable Of The Cockroach And Nigeria By Prince Charles Dickson
By Prince Charles Dickson The Edos say "Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan". A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day. (English) When my son was a baby one of his scary moments was seeing a ...
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Zambia frees students held over food subsidy protests
Zambian police officers arrive at the University of Zambia where students protest against the government's removal of fuel and mealie meal subsidies on May 17, 2013 in ...
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Exclusive - South Africas NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold coal producers
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling ...
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South Africa South Africa Mourns Popular TV Hosts Sudden Death
President Jacob Zuma, political parties and the broadcasting community expressed shock and sadness on Sunday at the death of SABC television and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli. The SABC reported that Mbuli, 46, collapsed while watching a rugby match between the Cheetahs and the Reds at the Free State Stadium on Saturday night. He was treated at the scene before being rushed to the Mediclinic ...
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Britains Obama urges ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- A British lawmaker widely viewed as a rising star in the Labour Party says the United Kingdom should more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's growing ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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