By Mutumwa Mawere – Our civilization has evolved and contemporary African civilization is dualistic with one part based on laws and other institutions underpinned by a market system and another that is based on what can be described as African norms, traditions and custom. I was born in Zimbabwe and I must confess that there is nothing that prepared me to be a businessman of the scale that I have been privileged to engage in. The political, social, moral and economic morality that informed the colonial constitutional order did not allow natives a large measure of freedom in seeking profit... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwangendaba – Johannesburg – The former chief of the Rwandan army, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot on Saturday outside his home in Johannesburg, police said. Nyamwasa’s wife Rosette said the former army chief of staff was shot outside the gate of the upmarket complex where they lived in Johannesburg, in what she described as an assassination act. “When we got to the gate, a black man with a pistol came to the driver’s window… The window was half open… And he fired a shot,” she told journalists. “The driver obstructed the assassin… My husband leaned forward. He was... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – British and Belgian companies have been buying diamonds from the contested Chiadzwa diamond fields, even though London and Brussels claim Zimbabwe should not be given Kimberley Process certification to export diamonds harvested in the area. According to All Africa, which quoted State-owned newspaper The Herald, an independent report compiled for the government now details who has been benefiting from the Chiadzwa resource. State officials denied knowledge of the report, but it apparently states that the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, through the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, had on two occasions this year shipped diamonds from Chiadzwa to... Continue Reading
By James Kokulo Fasuekoi – I was born in a relatively small and secluded town in northern Liberia where until the civil war that spurred a mass exodus, only a few ever made it to the outside world. This is because foreign travel is the least thing on the minds of traditional Lorma people, a tribe whose livelihood for generations centered on farming, fishing, hunting and handy work such as the manufacturing of farming implements. Their settlement begins from the Zorzor-Gizema area and stretches hundreds of kilometres north into upland Voinjama Lofa County; and then hundreds more northeast into the... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News –KNOXVILLE, TN — Today, Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, responded to the difficulties facing the 2010 FIFA World Cup telecasts by unveiling a solution that dramatically reduces the problematic sound of the omnipresent Vuvuzela trumpet favored by South African soccer fans. In response to the widely publicized complaints from TV viewers and broadcasters about the continuous Vuvuzela blasts, Waves engineers feverishly began devising a solution to decrease the amount of noise. Working in conjunction with a major television broadcaster, Waves crafted a real-time processing chain consisting of two plugins which proved effective in... Continue Reading
