Limpopo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/limpopo/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Limpopo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/limpopo/ 32 32 Crunch time for migrants https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/crunch-time-for-migrants/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/09/crunch-time-for-migrants/   The wind picks up on the sea these late summer evenings, whipping up the waves. If one hopes  to navigate the Mediterranean with any safety in a small boat, it had best be before winter turns the water colder and rougher. So this is a crucial time for those fleeing conflict and persecution back […]

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The wind picks up on the sea these late summer evenings, whipping up the waves. If one hopes  to navigate the Mediterranean with any safety in a small boat, it had best be before winter turns the water colder and rougher.

So this is a crucial time for those fleeing conflict and persecution back home – or simply wishing to feed a family – by crossing the Mediterranean and finding shelter in Europe.

Indeed it is crunch time for refugees everywhere as the spotlight is turned on them by the United Nations General Assembly starting in New York.

The bigoted Matteo Salvini , who aligned himself with United States President Donald Trump in making cruelty a policy for deterring migrants, has disappeared for now as Italy’s Interior Minister. 

The full effect of this has yet to be revealed.

But for now captains of rescue ships do not risk imprisonment by taking aboard those cynically thrown to their fate by people smugglers. 

Some relief then for those taking this route to Europe. Their numbers have dramatically diminished:About a tenth of the number crossing  three year ago. But the Mediterranean  claims proportionately more of their lives.

Thanks to the efforts of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, fewer of them will be taken to Libya where they face detention in appalling conditions or worse.

The country rendered ungovernable after the fall of Muammar Gadaffi is no longer an easy option for European countries trying to reduce the migrant wave.

This does not mean European countries will take appreciably more people from Africa and the Middle East.

No more than the United States will welcome those from Central and South American countries seeking safer, better lives.

Indeed, South Africa will not be able to take in all those Africans coming  across the Limpopo and the Kruger National Park.

One must hope an international understanding can be reached that there is a universal responsibility to provide a refuge.

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]]> Let us sell rhino horn legally, or we’ll poach it https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/let-us-sell-rhino-horn-legally-or-well-poach-it/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/let-us-sell-rhino-horn-legally-or-well-poach-it/ Limpopo community leader Reuben Malema says Rhino horn is a commodity that his people must be allowed to sell. Malema tells a workshop organised by the Department of Environmental Affairs if this doesn’t happen, poaching will increase because a hungry man will do anything to put food on the table. Reuben Malema was speaking to […]

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Malema tells a workshop organised by the Department of Environmental Affairs if this doesn’t happen, poaching will increase because a hungry man will do anything to put food on the table.
Reuben Malema was speaking to a panel of 22 experts who’ll recommend whether or not government supports legalising the sale of rhino horn at next year’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
He says members of his Balepye and Selwane Communities in Limpopo need a stake in conserving rhino otherwise there will be poaching from within their own ranks.
Malema says community involvement must be at the forefront of any decision South Africa takes to CITES.

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]]> Protestors’ bonfire blocks national road https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/protestors-bonfire-blocks-national-road/ Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/protestors-bonfire-blocks-national-road/ Angry residents of Mankweng in Limpopo have marked the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s passing by mounting a service delivery protest that paralysed traffic between Polokwane and Tzaneen. The demonstrators lit a huge bonfire on the N71 causing tailbacks for kilometers both ways. Ends intro Police in Mankweng says they have not been told by protestors […]

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]]> Angry residents of Mankweng in Limpopo have marked the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s passing by mounting a service delivery protest that paralysed traffic between Polokwane and Tzaneen.
The demonstrators lit a huge bonfire on the N71 causing tailbacks for kilometers both ways.
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Police in Mankweng says they have not been told by protestors exactly what their grievance is.
Last month demonstrators blocked access to the Tzaneen hospital demanding that the local authority  restore  water supply to their homes.
Today’s action in the heat of the day stopped commercial traffic and holiday makers heading for the Lowveld.
Extra police have been deployed to extinguish the roaring 20 meter  fire melting the tar road and attempt to get traffic moving.

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