"Zimbabwe's Fight For Justice"

Hundreds of S. African smugglers jailed in other countries
There are 865 South Africans inprisons across the world for trying to smuggle drugs from South Africa into foreign countries, local daily Die Burger reported on Saturday.

Why does nobody care about blacks?
Some of our readers may find the title on the cover of New African this month too provocative. In a change to the normal format of the magazine, we have invited three writers to cast their very different and contrasting opinions on the world’s attitude towards Africa. We ask why the international community does not respond with the same urgency to the on-going humanitarian emergencies in Africa, to the recent Indian Ocean tsunami disaster?

How Britain Undermined Democracy in Africa
Today, Britain goes around the world preaching against election malpractices. But in 1956 and 1959, Britain deliberately interfered with Nigeria’s independence elections so its favoured friends in the North would dominate the country after independence. On 13 April 2005, we went to interview one of the British colonial officers involved in the affair, Harold Smith. “A Methodist, brought up to be decent, honest and obey the law” (his own words), Smith was the only British official in Nigeria at the time who would not do Whitehall’s bidding and influence the elections. For that, he has suffered for the past 45 years during which the British authorities have offered him “inducements”, including a knighthood, to keep quiet or… Having refused the inducements, Smith has not been allowed to work since 1960. He believes he was even poisoned, and his phone constantly bugged. This is a story that shames London and makes its criticisms of other people’s elections sound hypocritical and insincere.

Togo: Africa's Churches Call for Dialogue
The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) has called on the government of Togo to ensure that the security its nation is guaranteed, adding that reports from the West African country are disturbing.

Cops handcuff another Black 5 year old child
The city's police department has suspended with pay two police officers involved in handcuffing a five-year-old after a fight on a school bus.

Zimbabwe's Fight For Justice
Twenty-five years ago, Zimbabwe's liberation movement came to power after years of struggle. Hopes soared that independence would bring an end to the legacy of colonial rule and apartheid power and give birth to a more equitable and just social order. But in many ways, those expectations had to be put on hold due to British and U.S. pressure, and for years Zimbabwe was compelled to maintain the inequitable land ownership patterns inherited from apartheid Rhodesia. The process of land reform is at root a struggle for justice and a challenge to the Western neoliberal model. The refusal to serve Western interests is what motivates U.S. and British hostility.

Anglicans reject same-sex marriage

'Johnny Mad Dog' examines Africa genocide

The Failure Of African Leadership, Cause Of Africa's Problems
In terms of natural resources, Africa is the world's richest continent. It has 50% of the world's gold, most of the world's diamonds and chromium, 90% of the cobalt, 40% of the world's potential hydroelectric power, 65% of the manganese, millions of acres of untilled farmland, as well as other natural resources. Despite its natural wealth, Africa is home to the world's most impoverished and abused people. African leaders are quick to blame the legacy of colonialism, others accuse its neo-colonial dimension, and some others pose culture, climate and bio-geographic factors as the explanation to the "why" of the African problems. In fact, the wave, the struggle for African Independence that started in the late 50’s and continued through the 60’s, was based on this understanding of colonial rule. Of course at the time it had been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the colonial masters were using the colonies to provide for their countries in Europe.

Another "Three Strikes" Travesty
Why is Santos Reyes Facing Life in Prison?

Moving out of the superpower orbit

U.S. says it upholds U.N. torture rules

Over 100,000 Latin Americans to Receive Treatment in Cuba

Burned into World Memory

Excuses, Excuses:
How the Right Rationalizes Racial Inequality in America
Whenever I write an article about racism, or give a speech concerning the ongoing reality of discrimination in the labor market, I am assailed by those who refuse to believe what virtually any study done in the past two decades confirms: namely, that people of color are not seeing things, nor crazy when they suggest that racial bias is very much a modern-day phenomenon.

Apocalypse Soon
Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we've come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.

1971 India-Pakistan war: Richard Nixon's predicaments

Ex-Haitian PM Yvon Neptune Near Death
We get an update on the condition of jailed former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune who has been on a hunger strike for 18 days and is reportedly near death. We go to Haiti to speak with human rights activist Patrick Elie who served as Haiti's Drug Czar and Undersecretary of State for Defense under Jean Bertrand Aristide and we speak with lawyer Brian Concannon.