Disciplinary action for racist Facebookers

Sowetan Seven students of the North West University will face disciplinary action over a racist group which surfaced on the Facebook social network site recently.
NWU spokeswoman Phumzile Mmope on Monday said this followed an investigation into the alleged involvement of students registered at the Potchefstroom Campus of the NWU as members of the group.
The Facebook group, called “ek laaik nie ’n houtkop nie, sou what”, also contained other racially abusive words and comments posted by members.

Zimbabwe's U.S. Visit Discussion

Interview with Newton Kanhema of the Zimbabwe Independence Assistance Network talks about Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's U.S. visit.

Right wing white supremacists in Ventersdorp

Right wing white supremacists today descended on the small South African town of Ventersdorp , where the court case of two farm workers accused of killing right-wing leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, Eugene Terre'blanche is to be heard. Terre'blanche who led the AWB, that pushed for the preservation of apartheid in the 1990s, was hacked and battered to death by two black farm workers in a suspected dispute over pay.

Sudan poll boycott threatens peace

AlJazeeraEnglish — April 06, 2010 — South Sudan's main political party has announced a partial boycott of the elections scheduled for April 11. The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has withdrawn its candidates from local and parliamentary polls in North Sudan. A History of Modern Sudan

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