South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed to resign after the ruling party ordered him Saturday to step down, a move that could heighten turmoil in Africa's economic powerhouse.

Zanu PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) agreed to ensure immediate processing of all applications for re-registration and registration in terms of both the Broadcasting Services Act as well as the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), by the appropiate authorities under the power sharing agreement.

By Blackman Ngoro

Afro Rights Committee in Asia completely dissociates itself from the plan to grant Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a blanket amnesty for all the torture, deaths, killings, starvation, sufferings he put the inncocent citizens of Zimbabwe to in his quest to remain in power.

Irrepressible Blackman’s poison pen strikes again 

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Local and provincial leaders of the ANC whose positions are threatened by the August perfomance evaluation exercise as the ANC prepares for the December nomination list are at the centre of the xenophobic atttacks which started in Alexandra, Online Asia Africa News has found.

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About 50 people belonging to Kamerun Obosso or Forward Cameroon gathered outside Gallager Estates (Johannesburg) where the Pan African Parliament opened and demonstrated against their president, Paul Biya, blowing horns and dancing kwasa kwasa to keep the spirit up.

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The ZANU(P.F.) political party, military and war veteran  leadership in Zimbabwe appears very  likely, now than ever to face prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity if remarks to the Pan African Parliament (PAP) which opened today in Johannesburg are anything to go by.

by Blackman Ngoro

In 2000, Zimbabwe’s social movements, led by the National Constitutional assembly scored a major victory over ZANU(P.F.) hegemony with the “No” vote on a draft constitution.

Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition party filed an urgent high court application on Friday to force the electoral commission to release results from last weekend's presidential election, its lawyer said.

now an opposition party
 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party has lost its majority in parliament, according to figures announced by the electoral commission on Wednesday.

By Angus Shaw
Last updated: 04/02/2008 15:49:56
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition party claimed outright victory Wednesday for its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying he had won 50.3 percent of the vote compared to 43.8 percent for President Robert Mugabe.

By Blackman Ngoro

In 2000, Zimbabwe’s social movements, led by the National Constitutional assembly scored a major victory over ZANU(P.F.) hegemony with the “No” vote on the draft constitution.

The Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award (for writing in African languages) and k. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award (for Young Novelists) as well as the Literary Journalism Award, embolden the 3^rd (third) edition of the South African Literary Awards in 2007.

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Africans, around the world, continue to moan, rightfully or wrongly that they are either unfairly treated by the Western media or simply ignored. Certainly, the principle of access to fair representation in the media should be universally recognized, particularly when production and reproduction of negative representations violates the dignity of a people.

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INTRODUCTION

The enhancement of democracy through the Internet presupposes that technology is in a way responsible for modernization a concept once prevalent in the late 60s. This is how the interpretation was seen (Valdes:1987:202). But many have discovered that this not the case. Democracy, let alone cyberdemocracy cannot be achieved because a few of the Third World’s population have access to the Internet. As Valdes writes (1987) " It became apparent that a linear causal relationship between the modernization paradigm and its implementation through media campaigns and actual economic take-off did not exist in practice." He however writes that with the dawn of huge leaps in advanced information technologies, the almost abandoned "development through modernization mass media campaigns" have reemerged (1987:203) He continues that the core argument of this perspective is based on the anticipated social and economic equalizing power of information and information technologies."

But is this so?

New reports show that Japan has broken its 2005 promise to increase aid to poor countries in Africa. Oxfam showed this week that Japan slipped to third place among the world's 22 major foreign aid donors.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Japan's aid fell 11.7 percent in 2006 to $ 11.6 billion.  Is Japan paying attention to Professor Kataoka's advice?

Blackman Ngoro As I write, Associate Professor for European and African Studies at  Japan's Waseda University, Sadaharu Kataoka (below) is advising the Japanese government to shift emphasis with African countries from aid to trade in the policy recommendations he is preparing for  TICAD 2008.

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Mainstream Japanese journalists were boycotting the reporting of racism in their country and this was regrettable, said Doudou Diene a United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,  (left) writes Blackman Ngoro

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