Investing in the Environment: Corporate Award Finalist: Conservation Corporation Africa Niki Moore The Phinda private game reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal used to be a 17?000ha stretch of degraded farmland. Now it is a world-famous “big five” tourist destination as well as a conduit for international foreign aid. Phinda, which means “the return”, is an apt […]
If you don’t know Richard Leakey, you may remember the man who persuaded Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi to burn about $3-million worth of ivory in 1988, writes Fiona Macleod. The burning pyre of elephant tusks was a highly publicised statement against the international trade in ivory. Many conservationists in South Africa have not forgiven […]
Urban Renewal Award Finalist: The Molopo River Basin Project Michelle Nel Mafikeng, the capital of the North West province, has been the cradle of the scouting movement ever since it was conceived by British General Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell during his time there. Scouting enjoys a membership of 30-million worldwide and has the potential to attract […]
Stefaans Brmmer A week ago the taxman raided Irvin Khoza, alleging tax delinquency worth millions. Then the cops moved in, nabbing him over an allegedly stolen rifle. At midweek, a relative was arrested with allegedly stolen cars. And this may only be the beginning … It is an open secret that authorities from the Scorpions […]
‘The environment is us’ is Mentoor’s enviro-mantra Heather Dugmore “What is wrong with you that you want to cut down all these trees?” a 10-year-old girl from Chiawelo township in Soweto demands of a girl the same age. Between them stands a smaller child with her arms raised to resemble the branches of a tree. […]
a second look Hamilton Wende Sipho Seepe’s interesting article about African languages (August 10) reminded me of the moment in November 1996 when I was standing outside the main post office in the town of Bukavu in eastern Congo. Laurent Kabila was the leader of the new uprising against the corrupt Mobutu Sese Seko and […]
Imperial Ghetto is a photographic diary of people and events encountered by photographer Omar Badsha in Durban’s Grey Street vicinity in the apartheid era. The title of Badsha’s exhibition, Imperial Ghetto, is an ironic play on the fact that the labyrinth of streets was named after leading members of the Victorian imperial establishment. The photographs, […]
Isn’t it strange… (1) When any African National Congress officials/parliamentarians/Cabinet ministers are accused of corruption, inaccurate or downright false statements, the inevitable response is that the complaint is unjustified and racist regardless of who makes the accusation? (2) We have the most advanced Constitution in the world, we are told, which makes us the envy […]
The Arab and the Jew may never solve their problems, not because the problem is insoluble, but because they seem both to be terminally disabled by the disease of ideology, both religious and nationalist in character. Ideology makes impossible any objective debate. This is Laura Stovel’s point (“A debate long overdue”, August 17). Frog-marching these […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) in the Northern Province has threatened to disrupt the already troubled provincial education system if the province’s education head does not resign by the end of this week. Cosas says it will embark on a “militant and radical” action if Northern Province education superintendent […]