Land & Environment

Forceful evictions are still common in Kenya.

‘People are always entitled to their OPINIONS but not their FACTS’

Climate change is a topic that is of major concern to Africa, primarily because climate scientists argue, with evidence, that Africa is the continent most vulnerable to climate change while being the least able to adapt to its impacts [1].

In 2011, I published ‘Zambia: Struggles of My People’. In this book I rather presciently predict the future of Zambia from what has gone before. I detail our struggles from pre-colonial days to colonial days to post-colonial days.

At every step, from mine to ring finger, South Africa’s diamond industry is benefitting from royalty and export tax structures riddled with loopholes, short-changing the citizens of one of the world’s premier diamond sources of tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue.

Britain had in 1913 allocated five million African people 7% of their own land against 93% to its 349,837 colonial European settlers.

Opposition parties were colluding with “tentacles” from outside South Africa to unseat the ANC, alleged the ruling party’s chairwoman Baleka Mbete at a meeting for young professionals recently in Cape Town.

Retired Zimbabwean High Court Judge, Justice Simpson Mtambanengwe says it would be grossly naïve for anyone to expect former colonialists not to denigrate Zimbabwe’s land redistribution policy after that policy literally snatched bread out of their mouths.

Climate crisis generated increased insecurity is now boldly visible. IPCC, the global scientists’ panel on climate change, for the first time, has connected climate crisis to possibilities of conflicts.

The Congo River watershed feeds not only Africa’s second longest river (after the Nile), but is also a vital site of struggle over BRICS’ role in Africa.