Botswana

The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health care as, “all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health” (Kruk & Freedman, 2008 p. 263). Under this definition includes childhood immunization, drugs for infectious disease, education relating to sanitation and proper dietary needs, and life sustaining medical treatment. Yet, in TWN almost 10 million children under 5 years of age die yearly from manageable diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia (10…

When Rain Clouds Gather assigns children an important economic role. When Makhaya is roaming the Botswana bush, he stays the night at a hut owned by a woman and her daughter. Though only ten, the girl sneaks into Makhaya’s hut and offers to have sex with him. He rejects her advances but still gives her money. Additionally, Paulina, Makhaya’s eventual…

Article Analysis - “Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?” by Satvik Gurram Though the fees for hunting animals may presumably go to conservation and help maintain conservancies and wildlife reserves, many critics believe that endangered and big game animals shouldn’t be killed and the benefits of hunting fees are not significant at all. Nyae Nyae, a wildlife reserve in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, protects one of the last large elephants in the world. In addition to these elephants, around 3,000…

later now married and a child on the way then two years later he and his employers have spread the gospel to 1,348,000 people. Bonke had a dream and he said “… I heard the words, ‘Africa shall be saved.’” (CFaN,19) He started of by going to Gaborone, Botswana and met up with a pastor whose congregation were 40 people but Bonke had a bigger vision that there would be 10,000 people at this stadium, he asked many pastors from the Gaborone city to help him with this operation. The first night of the…

Back in the 20th century, around the 1970s, South Africa was going through the infamous apartheid where there was major discrimination towards the blacks. The crowds in South Africa were categorized by races differences. This was the time when there was a domination by the white population. There was more control within the whites, and a lot of restrictions for the blacks. They were not allowed to do all the activities the whites were allowed to do, and those activities that both were allowed…

Africa area totals about 1,219,090 sq. km with about 1,214,470 sq. km of land and about 4,620 sq. km of water. Also, South Africa is compared as twice the size of the state of Texas. The border countries surrounded by South Africa are as follows: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. South Africa holds sunny days with cool nights and is subtropical along the east coast. The Atlantic Ocean elevates at the lowest point in South Africa, while Njesuthi elevates at the…

Privatizations efforts also come hand in hand with massive layoffs. For Telkom’s case, twenty thousand workers were also fired. Another thirty thousand jobs were loss in nationalizing the state-owned electricity firm Eskom. Proponents of GEAR promised 3-4 percent annual employment growth, but instead delivered 1-4 percent job loss during the late 1990s. Unemployment rates grew from 16 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002, coincided with the sale of over 30 SOEs at value of over R35 billion…

The international political thinking of Thabo Mbeki 1. Biographical particulars Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Idutywa, Transkei, to Govan and Epainette Mbeki, whom were educators and activists. Thabo spent lengthy periods away from home, and was often raised by extended family and friends because Govan, as a prominent figure of the African National Congress, was concerned that they might be arrested by Apartheid police. Thabo also became politically active when he…

The Relationship between Ritual and the Construction of Space in Mapungubwe. The following events take place whilst I am a minor in the K2 culture, once we had relocated to Mapungubwe. The essay encapsulates what I see around me and how I feel about it, the types of spaces created, and the alteration in space to suggest the move from profane to sacred. My emotions correspond and add value to the exploration of ideas and themes that I have investigated, namely: The background and meaning of…

When people think of international travel, they often think of exotic people, places, and animals that are foreign to them. Swimming with dolphins, riding elephants, visiting large cats, staged photos with wild animals, rodeos and animals in shows are just a few ways animals play a part in tourist attractions. The desire to see and interact with both wild and domesticated animals is a major part of the tourism industry. In 1988, one study estimated, wildlife tourism accounted for 20-40% of…