The spread of HIV/Aids is an enormous problem in Africa. According to the UN Aids Report 2008, there were approximately 5.7 million people living with HIV in South Africa in 2007, and almost 1,000 people died from HIV-related illnesses.
The Afrikaans people are a significant white indigenous ethnic and cultural group in South Africa, the descendents of mostly Dutch settlers in the Cape of Good Hope from the 17th century. Throughout their 300-plus-year history, the Afrikaans people have been
Last year’s wave of xenophobic attacks against African immigrants in townships across South Africa marked a time when the dark days of discrimination seemed to have caught up with the present.
Although hemispheres apart on the globe, Ireland and South Africa are closer in spirit than one might expect, as Katrin Schmidt discovers
Katrin Schmidt was blown away by her experiences in multicultural Ireland
With the credit crisis reaching every corner of the world, it has become increasingly important for countries to build long-lasting business relationships beyond their borders to revive their economies.
Katrin Schmidt meets Peter Audit of Dodo, a new Mauritian and Indian restaurant in Dublin that - despite the ongoing recession - is no endangered species
Poland’s Interior Min-istry is partially withdrawing from its earlier planned radical reform of the retirement scheme for police officers.Currently 100,000 police officers are entitled to retire after just 15 years of work. In 2007, every fifth police
As a youngster in Poland, I used to associate June with the signs that read ‘Entering the forest is forbidden’. The woods were very dry, you see, and the risk of forest fires was too great to take any chances. We got used to these times of drought