Daily Archives: July 20, 2011

South Africa’s local government elections: in the toilet

Free State, May 18th 2011 When the African National Congress (ANC) mayor in the small town of Viljoenskroon in South Africa’s Free State province let an untendered sanitation contract for the local black township to a company owned by her … Continue reading

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DRC: Huricane

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo July 2011 The lives of professional boxers are inextricably linked with suffering—success tending to be fleeting and short lived, brought short by defeat, self-destructive behaviour or injustice. Hurricane Carter endured years of wrongful imprisonment, Mike … Continue reading

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