by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights, South Africa, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville Africans Parks, the Johannesburg-based non-profit conservation organisation, announced on 4th September that it was going to buy rhino owner John Hume’s Buffalo Dreams Ranch and its 2,000 southern white rhinos. The organisation said that...
by kaymusonda | Dec 13, 2022 | Africa, South Africa
By Keith Somerville The newly-released annual report by South African National Parks (SANParks) paints a sobering picture of the losses of white rhino in Kruger National Park (KNP), that sadly mirrors a report compiled by the IUCN (International Union for the...
by kaymusonda | Dec 5, 2022 | Africa, South Africa
By Syed Badrul AhsanIn these dangerous, uncertain times we live through, the absence of Nelson Mandela only makes our circumstances a little more parlous than they have been so far. By the time he died, Mandela did not wield political authority, but there was about...
by kaymusonda | May 25, 2022 | Africa, South Africa, The Commonwealth
By Keith Somerville The problem of how to combat poaching, conserve habitat and wildlife without abusing the human rights or destroying the livelihoods of local communities is a complex and highly controversial one. From David Sheldrick’s and Bill Woodley’s...
by anna | Jul 29, 2019 | Africa, Elections, South Africa
By Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut This piece was originally published in The Conversation on 18 July 2019 It is a quarter of a century since the end of apartheid in South Africa. But it’s easy to forget how complex, difficult and violent the birth of full...
by georgie | May 17, 2019 | Africa, Elections, Human Rights, South Africa
Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow – ICWS It was a remarkable achievement. South Africa’s sixth election since the end of apartheid saw nearly 17.7 million people vote at 22,924 voting stations.They had a choice of 48 parties who were attempting to get into the...
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