A wrangle has erupted between De Beers and the workers in Koffiefontein mine in the Free State over the company’s decision to award lucrative shares to nominated employees only when it was delisted in June last year.
Botswana has one of the most progressive and successful land policies in Southern Africa. Part of the reason for this is that upon independence Botswana did not inherit the same kinds of problems that South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia did.
How Colombia’s ancient U’wa tribe sent a US oil giant packing. When geologists from the United States oil giant, Oxy, found what they believed was one of the largest oilfields in Latin America in 1994, there was jubilation in the company’s Los Angeles headquarters.
The translocation of young elephant bulls has taught scientists the value of the animals’ social structure. In 1994 rhinos were being found dead in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve with their horns ripped out, their backs broken and their bodies mutilated.
Negative attitudes toward sexual assault survivors hamper specialised treatment. Models of care for sexual assault survivors who access the public health system will feature in hearings on gender-based violence and the health sector in Parliament.
Americans are at last asking whether their government did enough to protect them on September 11. Normal service has resumed. Republicans are once more hurling abuse at Democrats, Democrats are slamming Republicans.
Any government amnesty policy must apply across the board, argues. The government’s moves to start pardoning failed amnesty applicants will come as no surprise to those who have followed the TRC process — and particularly the stance of President Mbeki.
Township consumers who buy live chickens on street corners run the risk of contracting diarrhoea, skin ulcerations, abscesses and even typhoid fever. The health risk emanates from factory farms that dispose of old livestock by selling it to township vendors.
Communities surrounding Grahamstown are reaping the benefits of "ethnic tourism". Xhosa women are now doing beadwork as they have recognised "they can make business out of their culture and tourism can be used to boost rural economic development.
Activities of a company claiming to enforce copyright piracy laws appear designed to drive small competitors of the big film and video games distribution companies out of the market.