Blog posts tagged "South Africa"

September 30, 2011 12:15 pm 3 Comments

Alex Thomson on the dramatic run of luck which seems to have saved the life of a man attacked by a shark in Cape Town.

June 9, 2010 6:00 pm No Comments

On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa's World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.

June 1, 2010 3:25 pm 2 Comments

As South Africa prepare for the football World Cup, Jonathan Miller blogs from Cape town on the devastation wrought by addiction to crystal methamphetamine - or "tik", as it is known.

March 4, 2010 7:20 am 3 Comments

Channel 4 News international editor Lindsey Hilsum analyses comments made by South African president Jacob Zuma shortly before his visit to Britain.

February 11, 2010 6:45 pm 1 Comment

Twenty years on from Nelson Mandela's walk to freedom, Jonathan Miller looks at the difference between the hope and the reality in South Africa.

November 6, 2009 10:35 am 6 Comments

Channel 4 News journalist Samira Ahmed has won a Stonewall award for broadcast of the year for a report on "corrective rape" in South Africa following the murder of female football star Eudy Simelane.

April 23, 2009 5:48 pm 3 Comments

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – The ANC spokeswoman, Jesse Duarte, was getting pretty sick of us. “Look,” she said, “no one-to-one, okay? You can ask Mr Zuma what you want at his news conference on Tuesday.” She was adamant. “Oh, and by the way,” she added, “We won’t be entertaining any questions on the rape case [...]

March 23, 2009 3:07 pm 4 Comments

Obscene would be putting it too strongly, but it did seem odd talking about dead African children amid the gilded Louis XIV interiors of Lancaster House last week. One of London’s finest townhouses, just across the road from Buckingham Palace, this is where Rhodesia’s independence from Britain was signed in 1979.

March 19, 2009 2:35 pm 1 Comment

In this business, we spend a lot of time mired in the misery of the world, so it was good last night to see a film, and chair a discussion, about how one of the most intractable problems in the world was solved. It was the opening of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and [...]

March 12, 2009 7:20 pm 4 Comments

“I know a million men and not one of them would hit a lesbian or a gay man,” said the articulate young man eyeing me cynically. “What are you trying to say? Africa the dark continent? Everyone must be evil? Finding out all the men who rape lesbians?” I could see his point. I’d approached [...]