People in Southern Africa

  • Africa’s demographics are driving global population growth

    AFRICA, 2013/09/15 Sewage spilling into the streets, shacks for homes and shanty towns stretching into the horizon. This is New York in the late 1800s, its grim scenes famously captured by local reporter Jacob Riis, who took chance of newly-invented flash photography to portray the city’s hard scrabble life The same was authentic of London, its own miserable conditions captured by the pen of Charles Dickens. The images conjured are little different to what one finds today across a lot of developing cities, whether Mumbai or Jakarta. And the experience of the New Yorks and Londons shows that a lot of of today’s most liveable cities were once anything but. So, how do cluttered urban sprawls become cities? And how do Africa’s people trends compare to other regions?
  • 'Nelson Mandela continues to show improvement'

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/07/31 Former South African President Nelson Mandela's health condition has continued to improve, even though he remains in a 'critical but stable' condition in hospital in Pretoria, the presidency said Tuesday. The update on the health of the world icon was the initial by the South African presidency since his 95th birthday was marked globally 18 July. The former President has been in hospital since 8 June over a recurring lung infection.
  • The father of the nation, Nelson Mandela

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/03/31 It has become an ominously frequent ritual. Officials announce that Nelson Mandela, 94, is in hospital; their statements are hungrily dissected for subtexts and hints between the lines; the president\'s spokesman is bombarded with calls and fails to give satisfaction; TV crews gather outside a hospital on a best guess of where Mandela is being treated; editors polish obituaries and supplements; Twitter fills with prayers and unfounded rumours; and millions of South Africans are on edge, pondering: what happens next Mandela?
  • Diocese of Botswana Celebrates 40 Years of Existence

    BOTSWANA, 2013/03/07 Anglicans from the Diocese of Botswana on Sunday celebrated the diocese 40th anniversary and bade farewell to their bishop in a appropriate thanksgiving service held at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Botswana capital Gaborone. Thousands of jubilant Christians and a lot of high level dignitaries inclunding the president of Botswana His Excellency Lt General Ian Khama Seretse Khama and the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu attended the event.
  • President Mugabe Celebrates 89th Birthday

    ZIMBABWE, 2013/02/24 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 89th birthday on Thursday. He remains Africa’s eldest statesman and one of the continents best and brightest leaders. He is as well the third longest serving leader in Africa. At an event hosted by his office on Wednesday, President Mugabe said he had been tasked by God to lead the county and would not backtrack on the “divine task.”