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July 30 2015 – There is so much ado about the killing of a Cecil in Zimbabwe that it makes you wonder. No, it’s not about Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist marauder who came, saw and raped a subcontinent in the nineteenth century. It’s about a lion – Cecil the Lion – that was killed by an American dentist with a hobby of trophy hunting. According to reports, Dr Walter Harper,…
November 3 2016 At about this time in November of the year two thousand and seventeen, President John Pombe Magufuli will have spent two years in office, and he will still have not reached the halfway mark of his first term. That means he will be far from being worried about his reelection, which will not be due till three years later. As he celebrates his first year in office…...
Chinese poster from 1987 promoting one-child policy. Text reads, “Fewer and better births revitalize China”. Provided by IISG, via Flickr. January 8 2019 – It has to be easy to imagine the smiles on faces of millions of Chinese men and women over this great piece of news: the Chinese government has decided to reverse the one-child policy and to allow families to have more than one child, which has…...
August 4 2016 South Africans went to the ballot box this past week to elect local councilors in what was described as a hotly contested election presenting the ruling African National Congress (ANC) with its stiffest challenge since the end of Apartheid. Indeed, early trends in the tallying of the votes indicated that the ruling party was struggling in places like Gauteng as the Democratic Alliance (DA) looked like a…...