Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Botswana on Nov 21st, 2008
Together with my colleague Martin and Christian from Port Elizabeth we started our research-tour trough South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland for interviews with ministries, agencies and donors. The first step brought us to Johannesburg and introduced us to our new small white GOLF I, which serves us perfectly. Afterwards we entered the Kruger-Park, which has [...]
Posted in Botswana on Nov 15th, 2008
After some days at workshop in Francistown in the South-East of Botswana I came back today and just wanted to relax after six hours of bus-drive and early-bird-departure. So I decided to finally visit the Mokolodi-Game Reserve, which is only twenty kilometers away from Gaborone. Normally everybody goes there first after arriving but it took [...]
Posted in Botswana on Nov 12th, 2008
When I started thinking about my thesis I just wanted to realise a topic, which had afterwards an effect on real life and did not end up in a dustbin after reading by the professor and maybe me. Than it speeded up fast… I managed to convince an MP as my supervisor, got an internship [...]
Posted in Botswana on Nov 10th, 2008
I thought I go to Africa but the Chinese and also the Indian people are already here and quite massive. Specially the Chinese own huge storages, where container from China arrives and they sell everything to the Botswana markets while the Indian people almost own the complete service sector. And I experienced this myself, as [...]
Posted in Botswana on Nov 8th, 2008
As me and Martin Hofmann, the other diploma-aspirant working for GTZ, normally work from the GTZ office everything was going smoothly there and fine. But our old office from Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, where we stayed some weeks in the beginning, went on an internal seminar and asked us to babysit the office. We thought no problem but [...]
Posted in Botswana on Nov 1st, 2008
After my experiences in Maun with the regional parliament we went on to Sowa, near the boarder to Zimbabwe and consulted the regional parliament of this township. That was amazingly different – not only that the gender-situation was the opposite of Maun and the meeting was dominated by femals but as well the parliament was [...]