South Africa

It has been said that the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa will be one of those events that say less about the procedural bricks and mortar itself than it does about the society it was meant to echo.  The drama consultants flogging off live coverage of a trial as suitable consumption would have been thrilled by the copy – South African athlete and role model Oscar Pistorius (the Blade Runner), humbled by acts of lethal madness when he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death.

By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep In America | August 30, 2014 Just like another Israel, by enemies surrounded, lost in the veld, but for another Canaan elected, led forward by God’s plan. - Reverend J.D. du Toit, Potgieter’s Trek (1909) This past May, in a relatively banal column touting the necessity of an impossible […]

The Creation of an historic alternative to an Anglo-American monetary & financial system

You take my water
Burn my olive trees
Destroy my house
Take my job
Steal my land
Imprison my father
Kill my mother
Bomb my country
Starve us all
Humiliate us all
But … I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.
— Placard first seen in Gaza, 2012

By Helmo Preuss | The BRICS Post | July 15, 2014 Fortaleza, Brazil – After some tough rounds of negotiations, BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have created not only a new $100 billion Development Bank, but also a $100 billion foreign currency reserves pool. The announcement was made after a plenary […]

RT | June 19, 2014 With drones designed to contain ‘unruly crowds’ and ‘violent protests’, a South African company is bringing riot control to a whole new high-tech level. The unmanned aerial system is able to shoot pepper spray and non-lethal paintballs to mark offenders. Desert Wolf, based in Pretoria, has begun selling its Skunk […]

RT | June 19, 2014 With drones designed to contain ‘unruly crowds’ and ‘violent protests’, a South African company is bringing riot control to a whole new high-tech level. The unmanned aerial system is able to shoot pepper spray and non-lethal paintballs to mark offenders. Desert Wolf, based in Pretoria, has begun selling its Skunk […]

By Khadija Sharife | 100Reporters |May 16, 2014 JOHANNESBURG – At every step, from mine to ring finger, South Africa’s diamond industry is benefitting from royalty and export tax structures riddled with loopholes, shortchanging citizens of one of the world’s premier sources of diamonds of tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue. In […]

By Khadija Sharife | 100Reporters |May 16, 2014 JOHANNESBURG – At every step, from mine to ring finger, South Africa’s diamond industry is benefitting from royalty and export tax structures riddled with loopholes, shortchanging citizens of one of the world’s premier sources of diamonds of tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue. In […]

IRIN | February 5, 2013

LONDON/HARARE  – More than 10 years after the chaotic and often violent farm invasions that accompanied Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform programme, a new book argues that the redistribution programme has dramatically improved the lives of thousands of smallholder farmers and their families.