Botswana
The winning in 2012 of the bid to site the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the most powerful radio telescope in the world would bring a plethora of benefits to South Africa and the African continent, says South Africa’s Project Director for SKA, Dr. Bernie Fanaroff.
South Africa was short-listed to site this iconic telescope in 2006 by the SKA Steering Committee....
In Africa, cloth is not simply a way of covering the body. It also a means of communicating cultural belonging and defining social status. It is like a history lesson made plastic, walking around in towns and villages. This is the concept that Ann Gollifer, a British artist living permanently in Botswana, explores in her work, particularly in her ‘Urban Camouflage’ project....
Africa has been central to the South-South strategy advocated by President Lula – full name Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva – during his eight years as Brazil’s leader. For reasons of solidarity, but also, and above all, due to geopolitical and economic interests.
“Brazil will never be able to repay its historical debt to the continent”, Lula has stated repeatedly...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
A new team of Assistant Secretaries-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) have been appointed, which for the first time in the organisation’s history includes two women.
The four appointees are: Nthisana Matlhogonolo Philips (Botswana, Southern Africa), Head of the Department of Administration, Finance and Human Resources; Achille Bassilekin III (Cameroon...
The visit to Botswana in March 2009 of James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, seems to have produced results. The Bushmen, driven from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari in 2002, will have their case heard once again by the High Court on 9 June.
The question was also raised at the European Parliament in March this year by Irish MEP Brian Crowley. He asked...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
An African Elephant Coalition is calling on the European Union to oppose any move in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that would give a green light to exports of African ivory which, it says, would further put in peril the African elephant. The ministerial meeting of CITES in Qatar, 13-25 March, was expected to look at requests from Tanzania and Zambia to...
Should youth move up the development agenda?
There is no specific Millennium Development Goal on Youth, but all the MDGs from the eradication of poverty (MDG1) to a global partnership for development (MDG 8) have relevance to the 15-30 age bracket.
Over the last two decades there have been many international and regional initiatives to move youth further up the development agenda including...
Global crisis chips Africa’s gem
Diamond-dependent Botswana, a land-locked country with a population of just under two million, saw its economic sparkle fade in 2009. The precious gems have long been a mainstay of the economy, providing half of government revenue and 70 per cent of foreign exchange and contributing to the country’s enviable social development which has almost...
The winning in 2012 of the bid to site the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the most powerful radio telescope in the world would bring a plethora of benefits to South Africa and the African continent, says South Africa’s Project Director for SKA, Dr. Bernie Fanaroff.
South Africa was short-listed to site this iconic telescope in 2006 by the SKA Steering Committee....
In Africa, cloth is not simply a way of covering the body. It also a means of communicating cultural belonging and defining social status. It is like a history lesson made plastic, walking around in towns and villages. This is the concept that Ann Gollifer, a British artist living permanently in Botswana, explores in her work, particularly in her ‘Urban Camouflage’ project....
Africa has been central to the South-South strategy advocated by President Lula – full name Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva – during his eight years as Brazil’s leader. For reasons of solidarity, but also, and above all, due to geopolitical and economic interests.
“Brazil will never be able to repay its historical debt to the continent”, Lula has stated repeatedly...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
A new team of Assistant Secretaries-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) have been appointed, which for the first time in the organisation’s history includes two women.
The four appointees are: Nthisana Matlhogonolo Philips (Botswana, Southern Africa), Head of the Department of Administration, Finance and Human Resources; Achille Bassilekin III (Cameroon...
The visit to Botswana in March 2009 of James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, seems to have produced results. The Bushmen, driven from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari in 2002, will have their case heard once again by the High Court on 9 June.
The question was also raised at the European Parliament in March this year by Irish MEP Brian Crowley. He asked...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
An African Elephant Coalition is calling on the European Union to oppose any move in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that would give a green light to exports of African ivory which, it says, would further put in peril the African elephant. The ministerial meeting of CITES in Qatar, 13-25 March, was expected to look at requests from Tanzania and Zambia to...
Should youth move up the development agenda?
There is no specific Millennium Development Goal on Youth, but all the MDGs from the eradication of poverty (MDG1) to a global partnership for development (MDG 8) have relevance to the 15-30 age bracket.
Over the last two decades there have been many international and regional initiatives to move youth further up the development agenda including...
Global crisis chips Africa’s gem
Diamond-dependent Botswana, a land-locked country with a population of just under two million, saw its economic sparkle fade in 2009. The precious gems have long been a mainstay of the economy, providing half of government revenue and 70 per cent of foreign exchange and contributing to the country’s enviable social development which has almost...
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