White beaches, blue skies, waving palm fronds, coloured fish — Quilalea could be any South Sea Island which Europeans dream of as they ponder another day with bad weather.
The leaders of three southern African countries are due to sign a treaty that will bring into existence the world’s largest game park, the 95 000-square-kilometre, cross-border Great Limpopo National Park.
Singing, ululations, drumbeats and dancing heralded the establishment of one of the world’s biggest cross-border conservation areas on Monday, signed into existence by the presidents of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Clean natural gas should start flowing from Mozambique’s gas fields in late 2003 and is expected to seriously re-arrange neighbouring South Africa’s energy mix as many industries switch from dirty coal.
Roshila Pillay The government has yet to formulate and implement legislation to prevent the trafficking of women and children, despite being a signatory to a United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, which includes a protocol on trafficking in people. South Africa first ratified a UN convention in trafficking and prostitution in 1951. This week […]
Barry Streek The people of the remote Richtersveld area near the Namibian border have lost the first round of their long legal battle to reclaim their land. The people of Richtersveld instituted an action in the Land Claims Court against the state diamond company Alexkor and the government in terms of the Restitution of Land […]
There was motive for the then South African government to kill Mozambique’s Samora Machel, and there is plenty of evidence to back up these claims.