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• Water: A Precious, and Wasted, Resource

  Sat Nov 3, 2007
  • In South Australia we are in our 2nd year of drought. Bearing in mind that we are the driest state in the driest continent in the world, that is saying something. Our winter rains have failed again. Discussions about water are popular amongst people at casual meetings.

• A New Voice for the Poor

  Wed Oct 31, 2007
  • Yes! Well having being born there on Lake Victoria and living in Colonial East Africa until I was 16 makes me an African but of course tainted with being white and part of the relatively wealthy colonial elite! I have read a lot of history about colonialism, especially regarding the Swahili coast …

• A New Voice for the Poor

  Wed Oct 31, 2007
  • djprotor, You might be interested in a little story: my father was a District Commissioner in Tanganyika after the 2nd WW and he used to go on safari on foot into the mountaints near Kilimanjaro visiting the villages (no roads then).

• Zimbabwe- Inside a failed state

  Thu Nov 1, 2007
  • krishna-167929, Its a complex issue for African leaders. There are many in South Africa such as Desmond Tutu who are horrified by the tacit support that South Africa has given Zimbabwe. However, many admire him on the land grab issue.

• Zimbabwe- Inside a failed state

  Thu Nov 1, 2007
  • President Mugabe justifies his policies on the basis that he has redistributed land in his country from the white farmers to other Zimbaweans (many to the ruling elite). The effect of his many actions is war on the defenceless people of Zimbabwe. LIttle is being done by South Africa to stop this.

• SAfrican Reggae Star Shot in Carjacking

  Fri Oct 19, 2007
  • Very sad. A waste of life, a waste of talent.

• Iraqi, Armenian, Afghan, Aboriginal & Climate Genocides & White Australian Holocaust Denial

  Sat Oct 20, 2007
  • djproctor, I dont want to waste time by expanding too much on my ignore suggestion except to say that anyone who paints with a broad brush as follows Holocaust Commission, Holocaust Denial Genocide Commission and Genocide Denial by White Australia and its Anglo allies and Racist White Australia etc.

• Iraqi, Armenian, Afghan, Aboriginal & Climate Genocides & White Australian Holocaust Denial

  Sat Oct 20, 2007
  • One of only problems of Newsvine (amongst its many great features and advantages for free speech) is that it allows writers of this nature to have a platform. To be honest I have come across few like GP.

• Orapa Diamond Mine, Botswana

  Sun Sep 23, 2007
  • what you may not realise is that:

• Alan Johnston Dead?

  Sun Apr 15, 2007
  • What can one say, but how sad and what a waste of a good life. What was the point of killing him? - if this report is true.