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Helen Zille, Cape Town city mayor and leader of the main opposition party, center, outside the court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Zille appeared briefly in court in connection with a demonstration outside the houses of alleged drug dealers. Police say that Zille is encouraging self-style vigilantes to take the law into their own hands, whilst her supporters say the demonstrations reflect growing fury that drug lords are targeting children and ravaging entire communities with impunity.
(photo: AP)
Zille speech interrupted
Independent online
DA leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted in Johannesburg on Tuesday. | Tension was in the air as she took the microphone in the city centre. | The louder she spoke, the louder chants from Congress of SA Trade U...
Climate ship plots course through the battering waves
(photo: EC / EC)
Climate ship plots course through the battering waves
BBC News
The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change. | Last December's UN climate summit, in the South African port of Durban, saw heated discussions on a proposal that governments should commit to agreeing a new comprehensive glob...
RONAK GOPALDAS: Deal with the threat before it spreads through Africa
Business Day
| A COCKTAIL of poverty, corruption and political alienation has contributed to the spread of terrorism in Africa. From al-Shabaab in the Horn of Africa, to the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb in the Sahel, and Boko Haram in Nigeria, bot...
IVAN TUROK: Urban growth can drive Africa’s resurgence
Business Day
| THE relationship between urbanisation and economic growth is one of the crucial issues of our time. New estimates from an important United Nations (UN) Population Division report show that Africa’s urban population is likely to treble in size, fr...
ARTS: Up close and personal is the only way
Business Day
| HARARE-based photographer Davina Jogi has a snappy solution for shyness. She bayonets a short lens onto one of her Canon cameras, a 24mm-105mm or a "50 mill that I’m indefinitely borrowing from my boyfriend", then she gets close, real close, befo...
Regulator caps gas prices
Business Day
| FOR the first time, the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) is setting maximum prices for gas, after it determined that there was insufficient competition in the piped gas market. | While this could benefit consumers in the long term, in the sh...
Zille speech interrupted
Independent online
DA leader Helen Zille was interrupted while speaking at a protest against Cosatu over the youth wage subsidy when violence erupted in Johannesburg on Tuesday. | Tension was in the air as she took the microphone in the city centre. | The louder she sp...
S.Africa protesters hurl rocks at opposition march
Austin American Statesman
| JOHANNESBURG — The leader of South Africa's main opposition party was whisked away from a protest in central Johannesburg after rocks were thrown at her. | Helen Zille, who has been leading a protest by her Democratic Alliance party on econom...
How Opening a Fair Trade Store Brought Global Perspective to a Small Town
Huffington Post
| World Fair Trade Day is May 12. How does this matter? | Six months ago I opened a fair trade Store in Storm Lake, Iowa. Storm Lake has a population of about 10,000 diverse souls. At the time we moved here, there were 43 languages spoken by students...
Business
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012.
(photo: UN / /Isaac Billy)
Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
BBC News
More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning. | It says fighting on the border between the two countries and the shutdown of oil production have had a devastating impact on the South's economy. | It adds there are fears the situation in the South, which gain...



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