For Zambian subsistence farmers losing a crop means going hungry, leaving few resources to spare when the health system cannot help them.
Oxfam’s money transfer scheme in Malawi gives vulnerable citizens access to basic foodstuffs. The NGO’s <b>Nicole Johnston</b> visits the country.
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/ 29 September 2010
In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe, the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.
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/ 20 September 2010
In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.
"Migration has been happening since time immemorial. The United States was built as a nation of immigrants. Migration happens. Fact."
Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.
Dosso Ndessomin knows all about xenophobia — but he also knows how many South Africans are welcoming to foreign nationals.
Jacques Kikonga Kamanda is a gentle leader of refugees. But he wants the South African government to do its job — and avoid catastrophe.
Safia (17) has never been to Somalia and lived in South Africa all her life. But her "otherness" is often used to exclude her.
As part of a series on xenophobia, the <i>M&G</i> presents the Sowda Hussen Mohamud story…
While the nation may have rallied behind Ghana as "Africa’s hope", refugees and migrants fear that come July 12 the solidarity may have withered away.
Threats of more attacks on foreigners after the World Cup are already becoming a reality and many Somalis are fleeing to “Little Mogadishu".
Climate change is affecting the annual Kuomboka ceremony of the Lozi people of western Zambia –Ancient ways in deep water and their way of life.
The war in Mozambique may have ended 18 years ago, but its legacy lives on in the classrooms of rural schools in Zambezia province.
A series of quakes has left people too frightened to sleep indoors until a geological survey is concluded.
Vast swaths of a once-fertile country have become wastelands and life for rural Malawians is now even tougher, reports Nicole Johnston.
Nicole Johnston goes bed-hopping in the Western Cape, from boutique backpackers to five-star eco-luxury resorts.
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/ 27 November 2008
Nicole Johnston savours the (vegetarian) culinary delights of Dubai.
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/ 14 September 2008
Nicole Johnston goes on a survival course with author Lee Gutteridge and learns about the birds and the bees and the plants and the trees.
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/ 11 September 2008
Incompetent prosecution often frustrates the intention of minimum sentencing legislation.
Commission for Gender Equality chairperson Nomboniso Gasa fields a few tough questions from Nicole Johnston.
Nicole Johnston caught some ZZZZZs at a weekend
hideaway, just metres from the office.
Japan blesses Nicole Johnston with good fortune and a new reverence for vegetables.
History has shown us that people will behave as badly as they are allowed to. From Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and Rwanda during the genocide, we have seen how ordinary people are capable of extraordinary acts of callousness and brutality.
Nicole Johnston speaks to the hosts of the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
The battles raging on the streets of Jeppestown on Sunday couldn’t crack my journalistic composure, but Mohamed made me cry. He’s seven years old, beautiful and sparky and he’s been driven from his home because he has a Tanzanian father.
The wave of pogroms that saw foreigners fleeing Alexandra this week, clutching at the tattered remnants of their lives, should surprise no one. Xenophobic attacks have been growing in ferocity and frequency. In just the past three months Gauteng has witnessed a wave of attacks from Itereleng to Atteridgeville and from Alex to Diepsloot.
Once hailed as a healthy alternative to trans-fats, as a green wonder-fuel and as a driver of South-East Asia’s economic prosperity, palm oil’s image has taken quite a beating recently. Now seen as a biofuel baddie — palm oil biodiesel generates 10 times more carbon dioxide than petrol.
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/ 24 January 2008
Tshwarelo Gakegane’s roots run deep in the melapo of the Okavango Delta. "My mother and father used to hunt buffalo and red lechwe here, and they taught me all about the animals and plants of this area." She is part of an exciting community-participation project that ensures that real benefits from ecotourism flow to the people who live on the land.
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/ 7 September 2007
Nicole Johnston reviews Jeanette Winterson’s <i>Tanglewreck</i> and Michelle Paver’s <i>Soul Eater</i>.
On the west coast of Madagascar there is a breathtakingly beautiful place that people from all over the world travel to see. They take long plane rides from Japan and France and the United States, suffer spine-jarring trips over bad roads and endure extreme heat and humidity to see this natural wonder. And then they take photos and go home.
Nicole Johnston speaks to Mavis Cheek about her road to wisdom.