South Africa’s climate battle: mining district exposes gaps in emissions control: In South Africa, the new 2024 Climate Change Act requires local governments to plan responses to global warming. These local authorities should find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible, such as from their bus services, and reduce their use of electricity that …
Russia in Africa: Prigozhin’s death exposes Putin’s real motives on the continent: The apparent assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the crash of his private jet between Moscow and St. Petersburg represents an inflection point in Russian-African relations. Prigozhin, as leader of the notorious Wagner Group, had been the point man for Russia in Africa since …
Cape Town taxi strike exposes a deeply unequal city – and the legacy of apartheid: Cape Town in South Africa often tops international travel polls and was recently voted the best city in the world to travel to by readers of a UK newspaper. But the reality for many residents is a stark contrast. On …
They Eat Our Sweat – new book exposes daily struggles of transport workers in Lagos: A minibus driver and an agbero exchange blows at Ojota, Lagos. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Daniel E. Agbiboa’s book They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria explores the world of drivers of …
Corruption in South Africa: former CEO’s explosive book exposes how state power utility was destroyed: Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter. PenguinRandomHouse One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s troubled power utility, Eskom, is that “negligence and carelessness had …
Climate crisis in Africa exposes real cause of hunger – colonial food systems that leave people more vulnerable: Zawadi Msafiri is seen in a withered maize crop field in Kilifi County, Kenya. The drought situation started in 2021. Photo by Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images In the waning hours of the year’s biggest climate change …
Red kite chicks born during droughts are scarred for life – study exposes hidden threat of climate change to wildlife conservation: Werner Baumgarten/Shutterstock Take a drive down England’s M40 motorway and chances are you’ll see a large bird with a forked tail overhead searching for roadkill: the red kite. The conservation status of this species …
Shelling of Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant exposes multiple risks – a nuclear expert tells us what they are: Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in March, and now have taken it over. It's the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. American Photo Archive/Alamy Shelling has recently intensified at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia …
Ukraine war: Black Sea grain deal exposes Moscow’s long-term diplomatic game: Odessa's grain silos are full as a Russian blockade has stopped ships leaving during the Ukraine war. Rospoint/Shutterstock The deal to open up Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, brokered by the UN and Turkey, is expected to facilitate the much-needed export of several million tonnes …
A street art mural in Zimbabwe exposes a divided society: King Lobengula holds Mbuya Nehanda in the mural. Screenshot/Leeroy Spinx Brittain aka Bow The Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe’s two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial state by the …
Bestia: Oscar-nominated film exposes how the powerful in Chile still don’t pay for human rights abuses: Hugo Covarrubias This article contains references to sexual assault and rape that some may find distressing. Chilean stop-motion animation film Bestia, up for an Oscar in the shorts category, has exposed wounds in a country still grappling with the …
Swedish gangsta rap exposes a dark side of the country some would rather ignore: The Cover of Swedish rapper Yasin's second album featured his passport stamped with “convicted in advance” on it. Byn Block Entertainment “Sweden’s most wanted”, raps the controversial artist Yasin in his track 20 Talet. The rapper’s lyrics are without filter, direct, …
Boris Johnson exposes the weakness at the heart of a ‘good chaps’ rule of government: It can be easy to get swept up in the drama surrounding Boris Johnson. He, after all, appears to encourage it. But the current instability plaguing the British government raises more important questions than what will happen to one man. …
COVID vaccine weekly: delta variant exposes the flaws of stop-start vaccination programmes: For many countries, vaccine programmes have been one of the great triumphs of the pandemic. But in South Africa, it’s a very different story. To date, fewer than 5% of South Africans have been vaccinated, and the country is now in the grips …
South Africa in the news: Ntseki exposes Bafana Bafana’s lack of top quality options from Europe: Bafana Bafana head coach Molefi Ntseki has brought up some interesting points this week when speaking about South African footballers abroad.: “South Africa” – BingNews Moody’s revises upwards India GDP forecast to -8.9 per cent contraction in 2020: The …
South Africa in the news: Bushiri fires bullet on ‘thieving’ South Africa police: Exposes how they use girls to extort from him: Writing on his Facebook page, Prophet Bushiri said there is a police officer from the Hawks, Phumla Mrwebi by name, who for the past 3 years, has been running an extortion syndicate through …
Repression in Zimbabwe exposes South Africa’s weakness: President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe and President Cyril Ramaphiosa of South Africa in 2018. GCIS South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s despatch of envoys to Zimbabwe in a bid to defuse the latest crisis, in which the government has engaged in a vicious crackdown on opponents, journalists and the …
COVID-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya’s healthcare system. And what can be done: A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the COVID-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. There are reports that Kenya’s hospital beds are filling up because of a surge in COVID-19 patients. …