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/ 29 November 2004
The British government on Sunday night entered the debate over England’s controversial cricket tour to Zimbabwe with Peter Hain, the leader of the Commons, calling it a ”propaganda victory” for President Robert Mugabe. As the first of four one-day internationals ended with an England win in Harare on Sunday, Hain said the sport’s governing body should have complied with the players’ wishes.
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/ 29 November 2004
Ukraine’s electoral crisis threatened to split the country in two on Sunday night when leaders in the east voted to hold a referendum on regional autonomy, as the government ruled out the use of force to solve the week-long standoff. The Donetsk regional council voted 164-1 to hold the referendum this coming Sunday on giving the region the status of a republic within Ukraine.
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/ 29 November 2004
This was a victorious year for women environmentalists in Africa. The highlight was the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai in October, while on the same day, two of <i>Earthyear</i>’s journalists were fêted at the annual SAB Environmental Journalists of the Year Awards.
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/ 29 November 2004
As the pressures of urban living increase, more city people are looking for places where they can find peace, solitude and a release from stress. New developments aimed at meeting their needs are taking place around the country, but often they cause environmental and social degradation. Eco-trails and farming are a good match, but you have to get the mix right.
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/ 29 November 2004
This is a country of mood swings, anxiety attacks and febrile excitement, and we ride the big, crude indicators — sports scores, the rand, emigration statistics — like kids at a funfair, alternately terrified, exhilarated and petulant. Has a long year of rate cuts, all of them shrugged off by the tumescent rand, really brought the cost of money down to a level that will pacify Mboweni’s critics in business, labour and NGOs? Don’t bet on it.
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/ 29 November 2004
"We need Renamo to see what they will bring," says Asahel Bin Dando Ossene who, along with most other people on Mozambique Island, survives by fishing. "For 20 years we had Frelimo and they brought us nothing." Mozambique Island is closer to Zanzibar than to Maputo and its dhows and mosques emphasise the point. As Mozambique goes to the polls, a remote area in the "forgotten" north of the country raises its voice.
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/ 29 November 2004
The two largest coffee roasters in the United Kingdom, Nestlé and Kraft Foods, are planning to launch their own ethically aware brands next year in the hope that some of the success enjoyed by Fairtrade-certified products will rub off on them. The United States food combine Kraft is preparing to add a brand likely to be called Kenco Sustainable Development to its regular product lines on supermarket shelves.
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/ 29 November 2004
Iraq’s independent election commission may have designated January 30 2005 as polling day, but it will be the country’s interim leaders who will decide whether the first free vote in decades goes ahead as planned. ”What we are saying is that we will be ready to hold nationwide elections on January 30,” said Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral officer on the commission, which is responsible for organising the vote.
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/ 29 November 2004
A brilliant partnership of 94 runs off just 87 balls between Justin Kemp and Gerald Dros ended the KZN Dolphins’ hopes of victory in their Standard Bank Cup match against the Easterns Titans at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Sunday.
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/ 29 November 2004
Three teenage girls, their arms around each other’s waists, stand perspiring in the bright Sudanese sun as a gaggle of boys gather round them. ”I have a beautiful bull!” one boy shouts. ”I know how to dance!” another cries, as the girls listen with their eyes demurely downcast. For the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan, this Sunday evening dance is the equivalent of a school disco, and bringing an impressive bull to the party is a bit like turning up in your dad’s Porsche.