From CBC 1 this December 17, 2007. The program Dispatches taking a look as how the world was fairing on this December day.
Starting with news from Cape Town South Africa where the DNC, ruling party for the previous 16 years was, despite outwards signs all was well was showing inward signs of anything but during this transition period. Signs of division in the ranks were on public display as the party gathered to select a new leader. Timing couldn’t be worse, although it was acknowledged there was no such thing as a good time where South Africa politics were concerned. The driving force in South Africa since the end of Apartheid some sixteen years prior, the ANC was slipping in to a party of the brand new Middle Class while at the same time, the same old Under class.
In India, a plague of grave robbers in search of human bones to be exported in global trade was under intense scrutiny as the India’s cemeteries were in danger of being emptied in order to keep fresh supplies of bones to medical schools primarily in North America.
And a call to boycott the fabled Western Union company had many perplexed, since it was the go-to agency for sending money in the developing world.
All that and a lot more in this half-hour edition of Dispatches from the CBC on December 17, 2007.
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