Mercedes Sayagues Unita’s artillery rumbled 5km away. Malanje was surrounded. Panic ensued. The airport was swept by people desperate to get on a relief plane bound for Luanda. The Antonov had little safe time for take- off. Manuel’s mother lifted him over her head. A hand pulled him up on board. While his mother scrambled […]
CHARLES MANGWIRO, Maputo | Friday 2.45pm. REGIONAL governments must begin involving rural communities in the management of natural resources if they wish to avoid cross-border water conflicts, European and African resource managers said in Maputo on Friday. The managers told delegates from nine southern African countries that water remained the region’s scarcest and most desirable […]
Community management of natural resources is all the rage among conservationists. But is it really working, asks Saliem Fakir To promote the sustainable use of natural resources and to maximise benefits for rural communities, several community-based natural resource management projects have been initiated in South Africa, mainly by foreign donor agencies. These projects aim to […]
Marianne Merten Deputy justice minister Cheryl Gillwald was job-hunting when she heard the news of her appointment. She now laughs about it. When Gillwald realised she was not on the party list for re-election to Parliament she sent out her curriculum vitae. “I started job- hunting. I did quite a lot of hunting – I […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Massi Delle Donne (27) is the first winner of the Mail & Guardian’s MBA scholarship to the Rotterdam School of Management. He met the academic who facilitated the general management study programme, Professor Wil Foppen, in Cape Town earlier this week. Foppen was in town to meet several academics and squeeze […]
Peter Dickson Impoverished rural Transkei faces a “real possibility of famine” unless there is large-scale government intervention, welfare groups warn. Transkei Land Services Organisation acting director Simphiwe Ntshweni says widespread crop neglect and drought in the province is a recipe for disaster. “The government should revive the parastatals and introduce irrigation schemes on a large […]
respect you’ Sarah Ruden Okay, okay – don’t forget the United States entirely. You need those tourists, and you need foreign direct investment. But the irony is that economic progress is not going to happen if the South African government is craven in following advice from abroad. Current American economic policy, even as applied in […]
RESCUE services were searching the sea off Angola’s southwest coast on Wednesday after a helicopter carrying a senior Angolan government official and at least four other people failed to arrive at its destination, an official said. Deputy Interior Minister Dario Ngongo was on board a police helicopter that left Luanda on Tuesday en route to […]
MPUMALANGA’S former environmental affairs MEC, Luckson Mathebula, suspected of conspiring to murder his estranged wife, was again remanded in custody during a court appearance in Phalaborwa on Thursday. Mathebula’s girlfriend, Pretty Thembi Gama, was on Thursday afternoon placed in a police witness protection program after she agreed to become a State witness. All charges against […]
John Matshikiza With The Lid Off I met Danny Glover in the Sheraton hotel in Harare in 1986. It was a bitterly cold winter’s morning, the sun had not yet come up, and we were gathering in the lobby of the hotel, waiting to go on to the set to shoot a made-for-TV movie called […]