Is trade with China stifling Africa’s economy?
(June 21st, 2006)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is in South Africa this week. China has been boosting its trade ties with Africa, but some are worried cheap Chinese imports might sink the local economy.
Archive for 2006
Cell phone banking in Soweto
(June 16th, 2006)
In the 12 years since apartheid ended, Soweto has been transformed. The country even leads the world in some major technological realms.
Unfinished business
(June 2nd, 2006)
A decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) started its work, many South African communities are still recovering from the brutal conflicts it tried to cauterise.
Violence still haunts South Africa a decade after reconciliation efforts
(April 28th, 2006)
JOHANNESBURG, 28 April 2006 (IRIN) – South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime was officially dismantled 12 years ago, with the nation’s first democratic election. But in many communities, the violence of those years is hardly forgotten. In the early 1990s, as government officials and liberation leaders negotiated a peaceful transition of power, many local communities were [...]
China cozies up to Africa
(April 24th, 2006)
Chinese President Hu Jintao is headed to Africa looking for oil. China’s growing economy is increasingly dependent upon Africa’s natural resources. Gretchen Wilson reports.
SOUTH AFRICA: Tired of waiting – frustration mounts over promised change
(February 24th, 2006)
MUSINA, 24 Feb 2006 (IRIN) – Every day, Mashudu Beauty Mukavhatsindi fetches water from an outdoor tap. To get there requires an ankle-twisting walk down a potholed road, past garbage-strewn lots that reek of human waste. A resident of the Sihlala Nge Nkani informal settlement in the South African border town of Musina, 19-year-old Mukavhatsindi [...]
SOUTH AFRICA: From Landless to Landowners – the benefits of land reform
(February 17th, 2006)
MAKHADO, 17 Feb 2006 (IRIN) – In the late 1990s – still the early days of South Africa’s democracy – Joseph Makhadi couldn’t afford to continue his studies at a local technical college. He dropped out and lived, unemployed, in a humble dwelling along with 10 members of his extended family. But in 2002, Makhadi [...]
