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Nagmerrie in Zambiu00eb

Nagmerrie in Zambië

Dani Booysen
Dani Booysen - Die wyse waarop die Zambiese regering maande gelede op etlike honderde vragmotors uit buurlande beslag gelê het, moet streekinwoners kritieke vrae laat vra.

Baie van die vragdraers kom uit Namibië.

Van die lorries is nou vrygestel om na lande van oorsprong terug te keer, maar op die grens is daar hernude oponthoude omdat nuwe permitte nodig is om Namibië se paaie te gebruik.

Dit is belangrik om sluikhandel in bedreigde Mukula-hout, oftewel rooshout of bloedhout, met hand en tand te beveg, maar nie op ‘n wyse wat honderde onskuldiges se regte skend nie.

Ondernemings het massiewe verliese gely en lorriebestuurders was nie net aangehou nie, maar die wat die tronk vrygespring het, moes soos ander vir maande in uiters beproewende omstandighede wag dat hul lot uitgeklaar word.

Dit is nie die beeld wat ‘n mens van oorgrensmisdaadbestryding en kommunikasie tussen lidstate van SADC wil sien nie. Pres. Hage Geingob moes glo persoonlik vir pres. Edgar Lungu bel om die wiele uiteindelik aan die rol te kry.

In baie kringe is daar kommer oor algemene, groeiende outokratiese tendense in Zambië.

Om skadevergoeding te eis, sou makliker gewees het indien SADC-leiers nie besluit het om die streekstribunaal in Windhoek se deure weens politieke redes toe te dwing nie. Die SADC-tribunaal kon sulke griewe hoor, maar selfs wanneer ‘n nuwe mandaat vir die hof aanvaar word, sal net state sake voor hierdie hof mag bring.

Die inperking van die SADC-tribunaal se magte gaan lank en op baie fronte by die streek spook.

So sê ander

26 Junie 2017

When it comes to Trump’s ‘urgent’ travel ban, there’s no hurry

For a so-called emergency measure brought in by the Trump administration in its first days in power, the travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries is proving to be a farce.

As a candidate, Donald Trump played to fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists.

Now the U.S. Supreme Court says it will hear the government’s appeal.

But here’s the farcical part: The Supreme Court will only hear the case in October – because the government didn’t ask it to move faster. That’s strange, because Mr. Trump insisted in January that a 60-day travel ban was urgently needed.

And why isn’t Mr. Trump in a hurry? Quick answer: The reality-TV president prefers the drama of a long fight, co-starring a court system he loves to demonize, to the chance for a quick resolution.

There is no urgency, and there never was. There is only Mr. Trump playing to his audience, the consequences be damned.

• THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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