Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Botswana on Dec 15th, 2008
When I arrived in Gaborone our garden showed almost no green and no flowers and it was quite depressing but after the rain from last weeks it totally changed. Our garden is amazing green and blossom all around, now it makes fun to use the swimming-pool and enjoy life over there. But as you see [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 5th, 2008
Since several years I was just organising journalism workshops, trainings and congresses on German and European level and build up even networks in Jordan and Afghanistan but I lacked always the time to constantly write own articles. That changed here in Africa and I took the chance to experience work as foreign correspondent with the [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 2nd, 2008
Sometimes live is crazy and from day to day more doors opening up. Thanks to an invitation of the Plenary Assembly of the SADC Parliamentarian Forum Martin and me went last week up to Arusha in Tanzania to attend the meeting of sixty parliamentarians of thirteen countries from SADC region, including of course Zimbabwe or [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 1st, 2008
Everybody we talked to before arriving in Maputo recommand us to go to the local fish market because there you could pay your fresh fish direct from the fishermen and on the opposite side the restaurants are preparing the fish in 30min for your dinner. This experience was really great and an hour later we [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 1st, 2008
After departing from LICOM-meeting we were supposed to get to Maputo (Mozambique) to follow-up our interview tour but all went different then expacted because our formal invitation to Plenary Assembly of SADC Parliamentarian Forum arrived and also our flights were finally scheduled on Sunday. So after Christian came back from his extensive trip through the [...]
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 [...]