tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34159080595041794092024-03-19T06:07:58.711+02:00Development Safaria story telling journey for social change in Africaafricanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-90037237985080666342013-01-20T19:11:00.000+02:002013-01-20T19:11:09.101+02:00"Rhino poaching is a white issue"Just had an interesting twitter debate with Kay Sexwale (niece of Tokyo) about the value of protecting rhino for the well-being of our broader wildlife economy. Sadly, irrational Kay and her followers think rhino poaching is a white problem and has little to do with maintaining the R186 billion tourism supplied into the South African economy in 2012. I grow more disillusioned by the day by the africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-77266722152383137532012-08-13T11:22:00.000+02:002012-08-13T19:04:03.861+02:00The real African Land grabbers
A recently published article by Fred Pearce in the Daily Mail makes a really poor and reckless job of representing an extremely complex issue. My response:
Firstly, citing
two examples from Brazil hardly builds a case for an article about supposed
land grabbers in Africa. Brazil is experiencing the highest economic growth
among developing countries and their new economic model based on africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-41186304537227824382011-08-22T22:28:00.000+02:002011-08-22T22:28:41.045+02:00265 Rhinos killed this yearWe cannot continue to behave like victims while the Chinese profit from Africa's forests, coal, mineral wealth and now our wildlife heritage due to our lack of sustainable conscience and easily bought government officials, but appealing to the Chinese appetite for commerce may be an option.
We need to call for a moratorium on Chinese imports and an immediate boycott on all Chinese goods until africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-33424962551727231002011-03-03T09:34:00.000+02:002011-03-03T09:34:03.669+02:00Water not energy constraining growth in South Africa
South Africa's climate change debate has, so far, largely focused on the country's overdependence on coal-fired energy and how it makes the country one of the world's highest per capita polluters.
A failure to factor in the cost of water in producing electricity is starting to have negative consequences. Little consideration has been given to the link between water, energy and climate change africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-6216130776351583042011-01-09T16:24:00.002+02:002011-01-09T16:29:22.076+02:00A participatory approach to rural development - by Kristina Gubic"Development has become an increasingly academic field. As the CSI industry in
South Africa has matured, there is much evidence to show that the sector has
graduated from random acts of philanthropy to more strategic interventions.
But as practitioners strive to maximise the CSI rand, has this more targeted
approach disconnected CSI from the very communities we are seeking to uplift?
In this africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-6563158013015670152010-09-18T11:28:00.002+02:002010-09-18T11:41:20.420+02:00Somalia - celebrating tweny years of madnessI am currently reading Aidan Hartley's 'The Zanzibar Chest' - a very gritty memoir of his upbringing in East Africa, retracing his father's steps through Yemen and his days as one of the bang bang club - the war correspondents sent in to capture live accounts of wars in deepest Africa that the world has never really cared about.
Hartley was at the frontline of the civil war that erupted in africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-72499367763657629892010-07-15T15:31:00.004+02:002010-07-15T16:26:21.197+02:00Communication training course for NGo's in Africahttp://www.ngopulse.org/event/africanscribe-media-communications-toolkit-grassroots-ngosafricanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-32216053074889805302009-10-19T00:02:00.001+02:002009-10-19T00:02:46.943+02:00Africanscribe Media 2010Africanscribe Media Power PressedView more presentations from africanscribe.africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-50266597369961454612009-09-27T16:03:00.003+02:002009-09-27T16:14:41.215+02:00'No-till' farming the answer?Worldwide, there are 923 million people who go hungry. The FAO estimates that 75 million of those are suffering as a result of high food prices. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, the number of people who cannot afford to eat is 24 million.While food costs continue to spiral, the environmental cost of growing food is also mounting as the world struggles with another less tangible but far more imminent africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-19718915056792700472009-08-24T21:45:00.001+02:002009-08-24T21:47:22.024+02:00Tourism building our schoolsafricanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-73145097838030799252009-08-07T13:46:00.004+02:002009-08-07T14:39:20.606+02:00The island of conservation in AfricaI just had a really exciting conversation with IUCN about conservation. They asked me what I thought the greatest challenges facing our continent were and whilst I managed a few off the cuff responses, sometimes great ideas need a little time to percolate, a bit like good coffee.So my answer IUCN is as follows:Transfrontier Conservation Areas!This is not a new concept. We've had experts mapping africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-62217451215369614822009-08-05T15:50:00.000+02:002009-08-05T15:51:47.672+02:00Lifesaver water purification bottleafricanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-69227930127343302442009-08-04T13:11:00.012+02:002009-08-04T13:56:46.294+02:00Water crisis in KwaZulu NatalI just got back from a field trip where I explored several rural communities that currently do not have access to clean drinking water.Situated on the hemline of a collection of conserved land such as Phinda Private Game Reserve, Mkuze Game Reserve and the IsiManguliso ( St Lucia) Wetland - now a World Heritage Site, I visited, Makhasa, Mnqobokasi, Kwajobe and Kwangwenya. The first two villages africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-86124257252712085442009-07-24T23:23:00.019+02:002009-08-04T13:10:10.115+02:00Global recession could teach Africa a valuable lesson<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-74894387923959013622009-07-19T19:19:00.026+02:002009-07-24T23:18:34.047+02:00Talking deforestation in MalawiEyewitness accountA friend of mine recently returned from a month-long trip around Southern Africa and in our catch up conversation, I learned about how Malawi - in the ten year interval since we last travelled there - is almost unrecognisable in the face of rampant deforestation.Malawi - affectionately known as the warm heart of Africa - has dropped off the donor aid and media radar in recent africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-71102390716885799612009-07-01T19:43:00.002+02:002009-07-01T19:45:06.968+02:00The Big Promise | Oxfam InternationalThe Big Promise | Oxfam InternationalThe Big Promise Do you think a promise should be kept? We do…especially when the lives of millions are depending on it. Four years ago leaders of the eight richest nations promised to give an additional $50 billion a year in aid to the world’s poorest countries by 2010. Now they threaten to break that promise in the wake of the global africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-22927571275993630672009-07-01T19:24:00.002+02:002009-07-01T19:38:02.908+02:00Participate | A Global Call to Action | Mandela Day 2009Participate | A Global Call to Action | Mandela Day 2009Posted using ShareThisafricanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-61711701815590324712009-06-21T16:11:00.007+02:002009-06-21T19:28:24.632+02:00The untapped paradox of water and energy in South AfricaImage: Hartebeesport Dam in March 2009 by Kristina GubicDriving over the Hartebeesport Dam wall in March this year I couldn't help being struck by a wave of irony. Thousands of litres of water were pulsing over the dam wall - untapped, on its way to who knows where.I was on my way to visit a rural community just 15 kilometres away from the dam that has been experiencing water shortages for africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-20982113449229126742009-06-19T14:10:00.003+02:002009-06-19T17:16:56.937+02:00Playpumps International - bringing clean drinking water to millionsDuring my time at PlayPumps International as their Communications and Media Manager I had the privilege of visiting over 100 rural school and communities around Southern Africa. I got to experience first hand how clean water is an instant bridge to good health and nutrition but also how it reduces the barriers of education for girls.....africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-18866185833057392982009-06-19T13:46:00.007+02:002009-06-19T17:13:10.920+02:00Obama's Strings for development aid to ZimbabweSo hats off to Morgan Tsvangarai for clinching a meeting at the White House within Obama's first 100 days of office.On Saturday, Obama announced a $73 million aid package for Zimbabwe. The conditions? The money would not be diverted through government but through local development aid agencies.This is great news as far as stemming the bureaucratic red tape that has delayed so much development africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3415908059504179409.post-69658070970347682592009-06-18T13:50:00.021+02:002009-07-01T17:11:35.897+02:00Is America the new begging bowl?A sucker for a good cause - when a new appeal dropped into my mailbox yesterday, I sat up soberly and leaned into my screen:"1 in 8 Americans is struggling with hunger" it said. The very notion of 'America' and 'hunger' in the same sentence seems unthinkable when you're an African. In our minds, America is the fat, healthy, gluttonous success of capitalism. America's afflictions are consumerism, africanscribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08912048510856200854noreply@blogger.com2