Severe challenges for one of Cape Town’s most closely contested wards
Manenberg is not free. It is governed by gangs – The Hard Livings, The Americans, The Clever Boys, The Dixies, as well as The Jokers.
Nyanga, too, has its gangs, but they are less organised, less armed, their territory is more fluid and the battles are mostly confined to their teenage members.
In Manenberg (population 53,000 in 2011) the gangs loom over the entire community. Gangs, and the drugs and violence that accompanies them, turn up sooner rather than later in any conversation, whether with a child, mother or grandparent.
There are hundreds of teenagers, many of them with promising grades, who have had to drop out of high school, or at the very least skip months of school, because their school is in a territory controlled by a gang different from the one that controls the street they live in.
For them, going to school – a right guaranteed in our Constitution – can be a life-threatening activity.
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How Kenya Plans to Boost Electricity Through Nuclear Energy
Kenya is planning to increase its electricity through the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The east African nation has signed three different deals with China, South Korea, and Russia in a rush to establish a suitable pact.
Kenya has signed two separate deals with two countries on nuclear energy in a race to build its first nuclear power plant of 1,000 megawatts (MW) by 2025.
The new development is expected to increase to 4,000MW by 2033, adding to the country’s energy mix which is projected to be about 19,000MW in total.
Currently, Kenya has a capacity of 2,298MW of energy from hydro, geo thermal and thermal sources.
Last week, the East African nation signed nuclear energy cooperation with Russia and South Korea.
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A Tanzania Reserve Could Lose All Elephants in 6 Years
Serious measures have to be put in place to save about 15,000 elephants in Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve, which are on the verge of extinction due to illegal poaching.
Tanzania’s largest game reserve is under threat.
Elephants in Selous Game Reserve could be wiped out within six years following heightened poaching, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned.
The oldest in Africa, the reserve once boasted 110,000 elephants in the 1970s. Today, it has around 15,000 remaining, and they are threatened by “industrial-scale poaching”.
Increased poaching is driven by demand for ivory from Asian nations and in particular China. If urgent measures are not taken, the Selous “could see its elephant population decimated by 2022,” the WWF said in a report.
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DA vs ANC vs gangs in Manenberg
Severe challenges for one of Cape Town’s most closely contested wards
Manenberg is not free. It is governed by gangs – The Hard Livings, The Americans, The Clever Boys, The Dixies, as well as The Jokers.
Nyanga, too, has its gangs, but they are less organised, less armed, their territory is more fluid and the battles are mostly confined to their teenage members.
In Manenberg (population 53,000 in 2011) the gangs loom over the entire community. Gangs, and the drugs and violence that accompanies them, turn up sooner rather than later in any conversation, whether with a child, mother or grandparent.
There are hundreds of teenagers, many of them with promising grades, who have had to drop out of high school, or at the very least skip months of school, because their school is in a territory controlled by a gang different from the one that controls the street they live in.
For them, going to school – a right guaranteed in our Constitution – can be a life-threatening activity.
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SITUATION REPORT: US TERRORISM WARNING ISSUED FOR SOUTH AFRICA
The US Diplomatic Mission to South Africa issued aSecurity Message to US Citizens in South Africa on 4 June.
“The U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa informs U.S. citizens that the U.S. Government has received information that terrorist groups are planning to carry out near-term attacks against places where U.S. citizens congregate in South Africa, such as upscale shopping areas and malls in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This information comes against the backdrop of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s public call for its adherents to carry out terrorist attacks globally during the upcoming month of Ramadan.”
The warning was accompanied by a reassessment and reissuing of a terrorism warning by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on the same day (see below) and an additional note by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade , which repeated the US warning (above).
“There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners such as shopping areas in Johannesburg and Cape Town.”
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