Last week a huge consignment of six tonnes of ivory, believed to have been hunted in the DRC, was seized in Zambia. East Africa is fast becoming a major international hub for ivory trafficking, yet efforts to catch traffickers are being frustrated by poor regional cooperation.
Tony Blair’s hopes of leading Britain into the single currency before the next general election are in ruins after Labour loyalists admitted this week that Downing Street’s battle with the BBC has ”derailed” the pro-euro campaign.
The countries surrounding Africa’s Great Lakes are not known for their democratic credentials. So it was with some justification that eyebrows were raised on Tuesday when Paul Kagame and his Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) romped home with an unbelievable 95% landslide victory in Rwanda’s first-ever, multiparty elections.
Mutinational corporations must also be tackled as part of the case against Zuma, writes Hennie van Vuuren.
Last week’s attacks come at a sensitive time for India, when relations between Hindu and Muslim communities are severely strained, and as India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prepares for a general election next year.
Rudolf Straeuli has spread the net far and wide, so just about anyone bar Geo Cronje might be named in his Springbok World Cup squad this weekend. True to form, Straeuli has refused to dismiss the claims of any of the walking wounded in his extended World Cup squad of 40, repeating merely that all would be revealed at the Supersport Show on Saturday.
With just a couple of days remaining of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Paris, South Africa’s final medal tally is assuming a far greater meaning than simply hardware brought home.
The South African Airways Super 8 Cup took off on Women’s Day and began dropping off passengers — including favourites Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates — the same day.
Making uKhahlamba (Drakensberg) out of a molehill.
Earlier this year I came across a particularly relevant article by Prof Hennie Kotze which analysed public attitudes to the criminal justice system.