South African companies bidding to build an airport on St Helena have triggered fears that their workers may bring the first case of HIV/Aids to the British island. ”At the moment, we have no known cases of HIV or Aids,” said governor Michael Clancy of Saint Helena, the South Atlantic island located about 1Â 700km off the coast of Namibia.
South Africa’s vibrant game auctions replete with animals ranging from rhinos to giraffes are being seen as a key element to the country’s conservation efforts. As game hunting as well as camera safaris and eco-tourism earn mega bucks, more and more people are being lured to open game farms.
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/ 15 January 2006
Sales of new cars in South Africa have reached all-time highs, boosted by an emerging black middle class, once under apartheid’s thumb and now playing an increasingly important role in the economy. The National Automobile Association of South Africa announced this week that car sales figures for the first time shot past the half-a-million-mark in 2005.
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/ 26 November 2005
In South Africa’s picturesque but Aids-ravaged Zulu heartland, the pandemic is rarely discussed and victims suffer in silence due to a mixture of ignorance, denial and fear. Nokuthula (54), who has been living with the disease for several years, says: ”If I tell the other people, they will be frightened and they will think I am going to die.”
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/ 23 September 2005
San Bushmen living in the new settlement of New Xade outside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) say they feel cut off from their homeland and from the tourism dollars flowing to one of Botswana’s top destinations. About 2 000 Bushmen have resettled in New Xade, set up in 1997 west of the reserve, living in wooden huts and small houses.
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/ 21 September 2005
Botswana is embroiled in a new controversy over the fate of its San Bushmen after the government decided to close down part of the Kalahari game reserve, prompting clashes. British-based Survival International last month accused the government of shutting down the reserve as part of a stepped-up campaign ”to remove the Bushmen and end their way of life”.
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/ 13 September 2005
A failure to find consensus on proposed reforms of the United Nations Security Council has snuffed Africa’s hopes to see its voice being heard louder within the international organisation, analysts said on Tuesday. "There are a lot of losers, there is Africa," said Tom Wheeler, of the South African Institute for International Affairs.
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/ 29 October 2004
Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s most famous female detective, exists only on paper but the fictional heroine’s exploits have been followed by millions and popularised the arid southern African nation. Mma Ramotswe made her debut in 1998 in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which rapidly became a bestseller. It was followed by five others, which were lapped up by readers all over the world.
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/ 10 September 2004
From her township on the eastern fringes of Johannesburg, Agnes Gaobepe offers herbal remedies and advice to the legions of sick who turn to the 36-year-old mother of four for treatment. As one of South Africa’s 200 000 traditional healers, Gaobepe was officially recognised as a health care professional under new legislation passed by Parliament on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who have left their economically-ravaged homeland for neighbouring countries, either legally or illegally, are not seeking refugee status but only a means to earn a livelihood. The migration is voluminous and hard to ascertain, but according to official figures in Harare, more than three-million Zimbabweans live overseas.