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Your genes or mine, how different are we?
For some time, scientists have believed that individual human beings were 99.9 percent genetically identical. The 0.1 percent of the genome that was different (approximately 3,000,000 bases of DNA) was comprised of "single nucleotide polymorphisms" (SNPs are alterations of the individual bases of DNA) scattered throughout the genome.Of Simmons, bling and De Beers
Staff writer TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA examines Russell Simmons' visit to Botswana and what it means for De Beers and the diamond industry. SI and its backers must learn from Uganda experience
I first read about the Basarwa relocation issue in African Business Magazine of July 2006. It seems that relocation was started because it was increasingly becoming uneconomical to supply water by tankers to the Kgalagadi residents. At the same time, this was some five years after prospecting had indicated a possible find of diamonds in the area - albeit the economic viability of exploitation being uncertain.
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