Robert Mugabe opted to leave for some United Nations summit instead of resolving the issue of the llocation of posts in the new cabinet that was expected following he signing of the GNU deal September 15. Sources within the MDC-M and MDC-T told the Tribune that the issue of the allocation of cabinet posts has temporarily been put on hold, to resume when Mugabe comes back from the UN.

A plane which ran out of fuel has crash-landed in Mozambique, killing seven South Africans, state television reported.Televisao de Mozambique (TVM) said yesterday seven bodies burnt beyond recognition were removed from the wreckage of the South African-registered plane.The aircraft was coming from the central province of Zambezia when it crashed in the densely-populated Beira suburb of Palmeiras late on Saturday.

The ruling African National Congress will name party deputy head Kgalema Motlanthe as South Africa's caretaker leader after the ousting of President Thabo Mbeki, ANC members of parliament said on Monday.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma made clear his backing for Motlanthe as he pledged that the party would ensure a smooth transition and economic policy continuity despite the biggest political crisis since the end of apartheid in 1994.

Tanzanian author Swallehe Msuya takes you to a quaint village, Ugweno on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro,  in the 1950’s where life was simple and arranged marriages a glorious norm. The Kitchen Party, his first novel, is a simulation of many traditional East African communities.The narrative revolves around the life of a religious girl named Mariam as she experiences her rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood.

In the greyness and drizzle of one despondent, dawn unstirred by harbingers , of sunbreak a vulture perching high on broken
bone of a dead tree, nestled close to his mate his smooth bashed-in head, a pebble, on a stem rooted in

If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).
Explanation
This well-known saying is attributed to the Ghanaian scholar Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey (1875-1927.....

The Redd’s African Fashion Design Awards (RAFDA) is back in the fourth year of spotlighting Africa fashion design talent. Redd’s Premium Cold, a flavoured alcoholic beverage that is targeted at the trend-conscious young woman, sponsors the contest that was won in the last consecutive years by Batswana designers, Mpho Kuaho and Seneo Moji.

The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure.
Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873. It is believed that he received training as a teacher at Lovedale Institution and was then sent to a Methodist Mission school in Nancefield, near Johannnesburg.