Tag: South Africa
Study discovers humans have been using fire for perhaps 1 million years
Humans have used fire for hundreds of thousands of years -- and used it in myriad ways. But a new study out this week, based on research in South Africa, shows that humans — or more precisely, their ancestors -- may have been using fire as much as a million years ago....
VIDEO: Shock, dismay, outrage expressed over desecration of World War II-era graves in Libya
Politicians and veterans groups in Australia, the U.K. and Canada, as well as other area, are outraged over the intentional vandalism of World War II-era graves in Benghazi, Libya....
Western media criticizied for planting surveillance cameras for when Nelson Mandela dies
At least two western news agencies are accused by the South African government of using surveillance cameras installed in a building across the street from where Nelson Mandela is living out his retirement....
VIDEO: Prosecutors charge man with hate crime in brutal beating caught on camera
Shawn Macdonald is accused of a racially motivated attack on Papi Ngoqo, a Black Vancouver man from South Africa. The attack happened in 2008, but charges — and the racial angle — are just now being brought....
Once the province of whites, Black South Africans embracing wine
In the decades since Apartheid ended, many cultural norms in South Africa have remained divided by race. Whites drink wine. Blacks drink beer. But all that is starting to change....
Negotiators reach stunning, sudden agreement at Durban summit on climate change
There was little hope that there would be an agreement coming out of the Durban Climate Summit last week, but China and the United States agreed to a deal to create a legally binding document to replace the Kyoto Treaty and regulate their carbon emissions....
South Africa trying to decrease instances of homophobia
In South Africa, crimes motivated by people's sexual orientation are extremely common, despite having laws that should make it one of the progressive countries in the world, when it comes to LGBT issues. The harassment even goes as far as local authorities....
Hope, doubts on whether an agreement on climate change can be reached
Over the weekend, some signs emerged that the Durban summit on climate change could produce a legally binding treaty that would be endorsed by both China and the United States, two of the largest emitters of greenhouse gas and two countries not subject to the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which is expiring....
South Africans prepare for life after Mandela
Though he's still living, Nelson Mandela, the revered former leader of South Africa, makes fewer and fewer public appearances. Now 93, many South Africans are preparing for the day Nelson Mandela will no longer be alive....
In Swaziland, hope for Arab Spring protests to spread to their impoverished nation
In the last absolute monarchy in Africa, Swaziland, the people have grown discontented with the poverty and lack of freedoms they must endure. Thus far, though, the spirit of Arab Spring has remained far away from the country, near South Africa....
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