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April 17, 2008

Isn’t South Africa Meant to be Helping?

More on the Chinese arms currently parked off Durban, courtesy of The Times of South Africa - and more for the South African Government to be thoroughly ashamed of.
First of all, the shipment was expected and approved of by the government’s National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), whose scrutiny committee met earlier in the week [...]

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Mbeki Position Shifting?

Looks like the message may finally be getting through to Thabo “No Crisis” Mbeki, if a BBC report is anything to go by - up until now South African criticism of the election fiasco has been coming from the ANC and other non-governmental bodies, but now Government spokesman Themba Maseko has joined the growing chorus:
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Sending Messages

A less-than-subtle message for Thabo Mbeki was flown over New York yesterday to coincide with his address to the UN Security Council.  Hopefully he didn’t miss it.

Meanwhile, Zanu-PF seem to have decided that asking foreign nations to call for election results to be released is treasonous - according to “Justice Minister” Patrick Chinamasa, at least, [...]

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First Riots Reported

SW Radio Africa reports that students at the National University of Science and Technology at Bulawayo have rioted on campus, during protests calling for Mugabe to stand down.  There has also been a statement from the President of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, Clever Bere, that the country’s students won’t stand by if the election [...]

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