Award-winning filmmaker Carlos Carvalho (47) died a week after an accident while shooting a game lodge in South Africa. He was tragically injured when a giraffe attacked him while he was getting a close shot of the animal. Award-winning filmmaker Carlos Carvalho dies after giraffe head-butts him https://t.co/3EOfPrOLPx — Fox News (@FoxNews) May 6, 2018 Carvalho had been…
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Africa’ $3 trillion free-trade zone
African leaders agreed to form a $3 trillion continental free-trade zone encompassing 1.2 billion people, but its two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, declined to join. The African Union launched talks in 2015 to establish a 55-nation bloc that would be the biggest in the world by number of participating states, aiming to increase…
South African wine producers at risk caused by drought
A three year drought that is considered once a millenium weather event has significant negative impact on the South African wine industry, particularly with that segment that is geared to the production of low-cost bulk wine which relies heavily on irrigation. With water rights cut by 50% in the Western Cape, wine producers are having to…
Ramaphosa to pursue land grabs
Cyril Ramaphosa, who replaced Jacob Zuma after his plagued by corruption scandals presidency, was cheered in the South African parliament as he pledged to “accelerate our land distribution programme … to redress a grave historical injustice [and] make more land available to our people for cultivation.” South Africa’s new president has vowed to pursue the…
Cyril Ramaphosa presidency inspires hopes
Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as South Africa’s President in a parliamentary vote on Thursday (15.02.2018) after scandal-ridden Jacob Zuma resigned on orders from the ruling African National Congress. Cyril Ramaphosa sworn in as South Africa's new president https://t.co/bICijaVYfw #PresidentElection pic.twitter.com/oUajld90Vt — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) February 15, 2018 South Africa’s main stock market index…
Kenyatta visits South Africa
President Uhuru Kenyatta will on January, 11 make an official visit to South Africa in his first foreign trip since he was sworn-in for a second term. His Excellency President @UKenyatta will visit South Africa on 11 January 2018, the first foreign trip since he was sworn in as President for his second and final…
Atkinson condems land grabs in South Africa
Janice Atkinson, MEP, shares her view on ways of political and economic issues in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Problems of successful farmers, land grabs, farming as most dangerous profession – why EU remains silent? How to break Africa dependency on aid ‘needle’? Can trade agreements become tools to direct African societies towards prosperity?
Nelson and Ciam in South Africa!
Nelson and Ciam travelled from their temporary home in Belgium – via Germany – to Port Elizabeth, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, where they were this morning introduced into their spacious, safe and enriching accommodation at the award-winning Shamwari Game Reserve. With them every step of the way on their more than 10,000km journey was…
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