Last week it was announced that Mugabe's Kimberley Process cronies have decided to give him until June to withdraw the soldiers in the Marange diamond fields. The army runs smuggling operations and use forced labour in mines whose profits benefit Zanu PF.

Human Rights Watch exposed the horrors of...

Once upon a time there was an African country that after several years of instability seemed to be moving shakily towards reform and democracy. Its aging despotic president had signed a power-sharing deal with the opposition that created a unity government that would precipitate a new constitution and elections.

Sounds...

In South Africa, Women's Day on August 9, commemorates the march of thousands of women to Pretoria's Union Buildings in 1956 in protest against apartheid's evil pass laws that sought to restrict the movements of non-white South Africans.

Across the country, males will doubtless be wondering why can't there be...

Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.

This is according to a comprehensive report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based rights NGO, which interviewed over...

A year ago mobs rampaged through South African townships beating and in some cases killing the African immigrants living amongst them. Thousands who came to South Africa seeking the peace, freedom and economic opportunities lacking in their own often conflict-ravaged countries were forced to seek shelter from vicious attacks by...