Imbizo crowd told to behave after jeering at ambassadors Agency Staff 20 April 2015   A crowd of 4,000 people from around KwaZulu-Natal jeered at the Zimbabwean and Nigerian ambassadors to SA during King Goodwill Zwelithini’s imbizo against xenophobia on Monday. Acting MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs and programme director Mike Mabuyakhulu had to urge the crowd to behave and listen to their leaders after they booed

South Africa's xenophobic attacks: are migrants really stealing jobs? Kate Wilkinson, The Guardian 20 April 2015   With every outbreak of xenophobic violence in South Africa, the refrain is the same: ‘The kwerekwere are stealing our jobs’. Shops are torched. Streets are barricaded. Tyres are set alight. People are stabbed, shot and burned to death. Mobs hound Somalis, Mozambicans, Zimbabweans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis from their homes

South Africa violence: Zulu king appeals for calm BBC News Africa 20 April 2015 Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has appealed for calm after recent violence against migrants in South Africa. He has been accused of fuelling the attacks, which have killed at least seven people, after saying foreigners should "go back to their countries". More than 300 people have been arrested in the unrest. Thousands packed into a stadium in the eastern city of Durban

Xenophobia can easily mutate into genocide- Zimbabwe Minister of Information News 24 14 April 2015   Harare - Zimbabwe's outspoken information minister, Jonathan Moyo, hit out on Tuesday at xenophobic attacks in South Africa, warning that xenophobia could "easily mutate" into genocide. "King [Goodwill] Zwelithini must extinguish what he ignited. Xenophobia is a crime against humanity," Moyo tweeted in one of the first public reactions from

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma set for State of the Nation showdown African National Congress, party of Nelson Mandela, faces corruption accusations amid struggles The Washington Times February 11, 2015 By Geoff Hill   CAPE TOWN, South Africa — President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation speech Thursday, meant to celebrate his government’s achievements and lay out its agenda, instead seems set to be one more embarrassment for the presidency

Gwede Mantashe admits ANC could lose power Mmanaledi Mataboge and Qaanitah Hunter, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 19 December 2014   The flight of middle-class and young people to the opposition is a threat to the party's power at the polls, according to his leaked internal report. The ANC has woken up to the reality that ruling South Africa “until Jesus comes back” might remain just a dream. It has begun to address the fears that it is gradually

ANC MPs told to discipline EFF ‘thugs’ Mmanaledi Mataboge, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 19 December 2014 The order for ANC MPs to deal swiftly and firmly before the parliamentary recess with unruly Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MPs came straight from the ANC national executive committee (NEC). This kragdadige (forceful) action by the ruling party’s deployees that led to the suspension of 20 red beret MPs was meant to send a message to

A whiff of regime change in the air RW Johnson 04 December 2014   RW Johnson writes on the significance of the battles in the South African National Assembly The present imbroglio of the South African National Assembly is deeply revealing in several respects. (One should insist on the term "National Assembly" since all the trouble and the action has lain there, not in the Council of Provinces or the Senate before it. The term "Parliament" really

Press Release 5 December 2014 For immediate release Contact: Dr. Greg Stanton of Genocide Watch Warns of Crime in South Africa At a press conference at the Transvaal Agricultural Union today, Dr. Gregory Stanton, Founding President of Genocide Watch, warned that early warnings of genocide are still deep in South African society, though genocide has not begun. Dr. Stanton was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, worked

South Africa's police must investigate Zimbabwe torture allegations by Max du Plessis & Anna Maunganidze 11/10/2014 Source: Institute for Security Studies Source Website: http://www.issafrica.org African Charter Article# 4: Everyone's life and integrity are inviolable. Summary & Comment: The landmark judgment which ordered the prosecuting and investigating authorities to investigate documented crimes against humanity, includi! ng acts of