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Africa will need to adopt robust bargaining skills for the forthcoming global climate change attacks, best referred to as COP16 (Conference of Parties)

By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today named South African actress Hlubi Mboya as its National Ambassador Against Hunger. “I come from a family with a legacy of helping those in need. Let us all as a South African family stand united against hunger,” said Mboya, adding that in 2009 WFP had made record purchases of maize in South Africa to feed millions of hungry people across Africa. “Almost all the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries with 239 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa,” Mboya said. “Through all our efforts, we... Continue Reading

By Novell Zwange – PRETORIA – UNESCO organized a one-day consultative meeting with the four South African universities designated as centres of excellence/reference in journalism education. The meeting took place yesterday and was hosted by the University of Fort Hare at its East London campus. It focused on the implementation of one of the modules of the Reporting Africa syllabus, based on UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education. Participants of the meeting shared ideas on how the four institutions, namely Rhodes University, Stellenbosch University, Tshwane University of Technology and Walter Sisulu University, could implement the module, Indigenous Language Media and... Continue Reading

By Novell Zwange – A powerful horn section, deadly percussions and relentless keyboards, is the best way one can describe the Ethiopian music gurus, Imperial Tiger Orchestra. The group comes to The Bassline, 10 Henry Nxumalo Street, Newtown Johannesburg, South Africa, tomorrow Friday, October 8 · 9:00pm – 11:30pm. The tuneful Imperial Tiger Orchestra, is one of Geneva’s best kept secrets. The Orchestra plays revamped versions of songs from the Golden Age of Ethiopian Modern Music, combining modern and traditional inspiration into an eclectic soundscape. The group has brought audiences in Addis Ababa to their feet, and now brings its... Continue Reading

By Shout-Africa News / STV – The debacle of X Factor star, Zimbabwe’s Gamu and her mother as they face removal from the UK after visa expires has taken a fresh twist, with Scottish Secretary Michael Moore being urged to intervene to save her. Labour MP Gordon Banks said Moore should “bang heads together” and take a personal look at the situation faced by Gamu Nhengu, who is one of his constituents. And the singer’s local MSP, Keith Brown of the SNP, condemned the “terrible situation” the teenager finds herself in and demanded answers from immigration officials. The teenager, who... Continue Reading