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 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 Oct 8th, 2008
After visiting yesterday the fancy GTZ office in the United Nation Building and enjoying the “down-town-athmosphere” I am back to the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation to work on my thesis. The GTZ office is directly supporting the SADC (Southern African Development Cooperation) cooperation and their headquarter, which is some hundred meters around the corner from [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 4th, 2008
After some long days in transit I finally arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, where I will stay the next three months until chrismas and work for my final thesis on the transboundary water-management in the SADC region. I flight over crazy Dubai and arrived in Joburg fine, where I had a great stay in the former [...]