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/ 12 September 2005
Everyone wants a piece of Kenya’s national parks: the Somali herdsman in search of pasture for his cattle; the villager hunting antelope; the Tanzanian entrepreneur seeking a rare plant. And, of course, ivory poachers. Park managers say they can’t deal effectively with these problems because of insufficient funding, staff and equipment.
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/ 12 September 2005
Hosni Mubarak’s party machine put on an overwhelming display of organisational strength recently as Egyptians voted in the country’s first contested presidential election. The 77-year-old president, who is seeking another six-year term, went into battle against nine opponents, whose party organisations were mainly invisible as voting took place.
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/ 12 September 2005
Fifteen years ago, Kenyan political scientist Ali Mazrui described the relationship between the United States and the Third World as a ”dialogue of the deaf”. Mazrui noted that Americans are brilliant communicators but bad listeners. This view aptly highlights the difficulties the US faced in seeking to win support at the United Nations for its controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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/ 12 September 2005
Cape Town artist Tyrone Appollis was forced to stand by this week while council workers demolished his sculpture depicting the 1985 “Trojan Horse” shooting of coloured student protesters. The demolition of the offbeat sculpture reportedly followed a call from a Cape Town council official to Appollis asking him whether he had ”space in his yard” for the work.
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/ 12 September 2005
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has all but ruled out his Movement for Democratic Change party will join a new Senate to be introduced under controversial government constitutional reforms. Tsvangirai, said a bicameral parliament was not a priority among food and fuel-short Zimbabweans.
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/ 12 September 2005
”She is South Africa’s Ms Reading. Since I met her 10 years ago, Beulah Thumbadoo has cherished the ambition of getting more people to read more. As a journalist, it is a passion I share in a nation where people seem to want to read less,” writes editor of the Mail & Guardian, Ferial Haffajee.
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/ 11 September 2005
The names alone are evocative — Stoned Cherrie, Black Coffee, Sun Goddess — and the clothes they are stitched into even more so. No surprise, then, that the fitted bodices and A-line skirts made famous by the Stoned Cherrie label — and other, distinctively African designs — have become a common sight on local streets.
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/ 11 September 2005
As the wage gap between chief executives and their tea ladies widens, a series of costly strikes across South Africa has raised the debate about lucrative packages for executives. Workers from municipalities, retail giants and airlines rebelled en masse in 2005, holding strikes that cost the economy hundreds of millions of rands.
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/ 11 September 2005
Retief Goosen bogeyed the 18th hole on Sunday and shot a 5-under 67 to win the German Masters by a stroke. The two-time US Open champion’s total score was 20-under 268 after he missed a 3-foot putt for par at the 18th that almost cost the South African his 22nd title.