Don Boroughs appears in the following:
Rape And Facebook Make Tense Headlines In South Africa This Spring
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Wind And Sun Come To The Rescue In Power-Short South Africa
Friday, December 11, 2015
Is renewable energy worth the cost? This question is central to the debates in Paris over how to address climate change. Though the conundrum has no simple answer, in South Africa the verdict is in.
Renewable energy arrived in South Africa as a green luxury. But this year, wind and ...
Maybe Trevor Noah Shouldn't Be So Comfortable With An Indoor Toilet
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Trevor Noah started off his gig as the new host of The Daily Show with some bathroom humor.
"Growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I'd one day have — well, two things really — an indoor toilet, and a job as host of ...
Basketball (And The NBA) Try To Find Fans In South Africa
Monday, August 03, 2015
Motlapule Mofokeng missed his chance to see the biggest professional basketball game ever played in South Africa on Saturday. Tickets sold out in less than an hour for the NBA's All-Star Team Africa vs. Team World game in Johannesburg.
Fortunately, it wasn't the only big game in town. On Friday ...
What Botswana's Teen Girls Learn In 'Sugar Daddy' Class
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Chilo Ketlhoafetse struts around an eighth-grade classroom like the coolest guy in Botswana, warming the students up to talk about an awkward subject. He calls out "Nomhlaba!" and they respond "Auwe!" — nonsense words from a local childhood game. Soon he has the students clicking their fingers, dancing and following ...
Why Somali Grandmas And Aid Workers Might Be Short On Cash
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A Somali who's living and working abroad wants to send money to his grandmother in a remote village. A money transfer company gets the cash delivered in a flash.
An aid organization wants to pay its Somali staff. Again, money transfer companies do the job in a country where the ...
Advice For Trevor Noah From The 'Jon Stewart Of South Africa'
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
This week, Comedy Central announced that Jon Stewart's replacement on The Daily Show will be a South African comedian, Trevor Noah. To get some perspective on this surprise decision, we contacted Noah's colleague and friend Loyiso Gola, a comedian who hosts Late Nite News, his own satirical news program on ...
Why South African Students Say The Statue Of Rhodes Must Fall
Saturday, March 28, 2015
For more than two weeks, public debate in South Africa has been dominated by a statue. Students at the University of Cape Town have been demonstrating to have the bronze figure of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes removed from its central position on campus.
Rhodes bequeathed the land on which the ...