Namibia

It is estimated that more than half a million older people are experiencing some form of abuse, but the true extent is not known and this is likely an underestimate (HCHC). Abuse of vulnerable older people can be defined as ‘a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights’ and it can take place in any content. (DH) As people start to get older, they slowly lose their ability to move or fight back; they become frail and weak. This makes them vulnerable to abuse. Most cases happen in a…

Sea Continental Shelf Case, the court (ICJ) based its judgment on the general precepts of justice and good faith. It recognized the principle of estoppel establishing an obligation of the parties to act in good faith. And in its South West Africa/Namibia (Advisory Opinions and Judgments) the ICJ on dealing with a burden of proof question, decided that, before assuming a breach of its obligations under the mandate regime, South Africa’s not acting in good faith when exercising its legislative and…

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 highest point. The natural resources…

The Europeans started colonizing in Africa in the 15th century, and continued to do so until the early 19th century. One of the main reasons Europe did this was to gain access to the abundant and untapped resources there. The growth of some African countries’ economies during that time can be credited to the international trade of those resources. Africa supplied a wide array of resources that were new, and therefore very desirable, to the Europeans. Among these many resources that were exported…

Name: Institution: Course: Date: Why Hillary Clinton Should Have Been Elected The politics of the United States have been one of the issues that have been a world focus, and every time US goes to the ballot the world at large follows the proceedings. Recently, American conducted their presidential elections that saw two major candidates compete against each other. Americans desired for a change in leadership that would make progressive changes ranging from climate to health. Certainly, the…

The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement was signed by DR Congo and the five regional states (Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda & Zimbabwe) involved in the conflict. In 2006 the UN peace operations team known as MONUSCO helped DR Congo to hold the first free and fair elections ever. The UN peace team stayed their after the elections with devising tasks on military…

Poverty is more or less a manifestation of how a society shares its resources and how much of these (natural) resources are there overall. While some individuals describe poverty as a disease, others believe that poverty is a product of ignorance. Regardless, Africa has occupied an unenviable position worldwide as the Mecca of poverty. Statistically speaking, 34 out of the 50 nations on the 2006 UN list of least developed countries are in Africa. In 1820, the salary of an average European…

NATIONAL ORIGINS? I am a proud citizen of South Africa. I grew up in Gauteng in Johannesburg. I am Afrikaans speaking and English as my second language. But Afrikaans is my native language. Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It progressed from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it progressively began to develop unique characteristics in the course of the 18th…

needed to create good governance systems. The result is that many postcolonial states, although independent, are still ruled by repressive and restrictive regimes. For example, Melber (2002) states, "(t)he social transformation processes in Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa can at best be characterized as a transition from controlled change to changed control’’. The Cold War It was this fear of Soviet influence in Africa, particularly on the part of the United States, that created such a major…

A well-educated clerk by the name of Joseph Goldberg from a town in the Ukraine decided to seek refuge from an anti-Semitic homeland. Seeking a life in the New World Joseph embarked on a journey through Alaska, and California, finally landing in Texas in 1890. Later, continuing his journey, Joseph finally arrived in Chicago where his youngest child of eleven was born with the name of Arthur Joseph Goldberg. Arthur was only eight years old when his father passed away. Destined to graduate, Arthur…