Today, the South African Press Association displays a long list of violence-driven crimes carried out over this past holiday season. Yet the SA police continue to claim that it had been 'quiet'.

A Canadian company this week was granted exclusive uranium-prospecting licenses in two ecologically very sensitive nature reserves in Namibia in the Namib Naukluft Park. The local Nama tribal chief warns that mining would destroy their desert homeland.

Afrikaners across the entire political spectrum, from famous left-wing dissident author Breyten Breytenbach to the only parliamentarian of the conservative Freedom Front opposition party, warn that the ruling ANC is plunging South Africa into civil war.

Richard Wood, former Anglican bishop suffragan of Namibia, died on 9 October 2008 at his home at Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, England.

Google has added multiple sites and services to its various properties for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The company gives the latest updates and information that can be accessed worldwide.

The latest news on the true cost of advancement for society may have human rights activists throwing their computers in the dumpster and running for a cabin in the woods.