Just more than a decade ago, Cameroon drafted a law that was intended to regulate commercial use of the country’s forests. In spite of this, corruption and uncontrolled exploitation are putting forest areas at risk, say NGOs. The 1994 Law on the Regulation of Forests, Fauna and Fishing contains clauses that limit logging, with a view to protecting the environment.
‘Half-naaitjies [little bastards].” This is one of the stinging labels that children of farm labourers in South Africa have endured for generations. Children like these have, for centuries, been denied any value beyond the cheap muscle-power they provide to farm owners.
The Department of Education (DoE) will introduce a new curriculum to grades 10, 11 and 12 over the next three years. Some seem to think curriculum change is a uniquely South African phenomenon. But across the world, in developed and developing countries alike, school and higher-education curricula are consistently revised.
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There was no evidence of ”crispy, fried monkeys” at the fire-ravaged premises of the Animal and Reptile Park in Muldersdrift, an International Wildlife Welfare Organisation inspector said after visiting the private sanctuary on Monday, contradicting claims of animal deaths by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Hurricane Emily blasted the world-famous beach resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the storm toll across the Caribbean rose to seven dead. Thousands of tourists were evacuated to wait as Emily headed out into the Gulf of Mexico.
About one million people have been displaced from rain-swept villages in heavy monsoon flooding in northern and central Bangladesh, officials said on Monday. Earlier, disaster management officials said about 100 000 people were fighting the elements in villages isolated by flood waters.
A group of South African church leaders from the South African Council of Churches (SACC) arrived back in Zimbabwe on Monday to discuss an aid package for people affected by the government’s blitz on illegal homes and market stalls that has left hundreds of thousands homeless. The visit follows a fact-finding mission last week by an SACC delegation.
”No shocks, no headlines, no surprises,” said Fifa director of communications Markus Siegler after arriving in Johannesburg on Monday as part of a delegation that is in South Africa to study facilities for the 2010 World Cup. But he followed his comment up with bad news for some of the country’s World Cup venues.
The names of Department of Home Affairs officials found to have been corrupt or to have committed serious acts of misconduct were released by the department on Monday. Sixty-six officials were dismissed between April last year and June this year for serious acts of misconduct, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said.