EXPO 2000 AND WOMEN IN SOUTHERN AFRlCA
by Tinashe Madava
As the EXPO 2000 to be held in the Germany city of Hannover next year approaches, women from southern Africa are...
RULING PARTY SWEEPS TO VICTORY IN BOTSWANA
By Hugh McCullum
Three Botswana Defence Force Strikemaster jet fighters swooped low over the capital on 20 October marking the inauguration of Festus Mogae as...
HOPES OF HEALTH FOR ALL BY 2000 IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FADE
by Sarudzai Zindoga and Diana Mavunduse
There is urgent need for Zimbabwe's government to put its struggling health delivery system at the top of its...
WOMEN FIGHT FOR BETTER REPRESENTATION IN NEW MILLENNIUM
by Ellen Kandororo
It is now five years since the Dakar Platform for Action (DPFA) was adopted and four years after the Beijing Platform...
SADC SET TO LOSE OUT IN RECIPROCAL TRADE WITH EU
by Munetsi Madakufamba
This is the third in a four-part series on future SADC-EU trade relations under the Lome Convention.
Beef farmers in southern Africa are...
MORE ACTION, LESS TALK ONLY SOLUTION TO REGIONAL ECONOMIC ILLS’
by Munetsi Madakufamba
When politicians and business-people meet to discuss development issues, the question that is often asked at the end is whether a...
JOSHUA MQABUKO NKOMO, SYMBOL OF UNITY IN SADC
by Tinashe Madava
"A leader is he who expresses the wishes of his followers. No sane leader can disregard the voice of his people...
CHILD ABUSE RAMPANT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Winnet Mutimbe
Amid reports of increasing cases of child abuse in the region, law enforcement agencies are lobbying for the establishment of victim-friendly...
NEED TO TAKE LAND POLICY DEBATE TO THE PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Diana Mavunduse
The failure to include civil society in land policy formulation has resulted in policies that do not respond to fundamental issues...
AIR POLLUTION DEBATE DRAGS ON
by Tinashe Madava
As the Kyoto United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference on emissions reductions was being concluded in Japan two...
THE CHANGING FACE OF BEAUTY PAGEANTS
by Diana Mavunduse
Beauty pageants are no longer about modelling half-naked in catwalk styles, but a life-time opportunity for young women to become ambassadors...
WATER DEVELOPMENT: KEY TO SOUTHERN AFRICA’S ECONOMIC BOOM
by Tinashe Madava
"Water could become for southern Africa what steel and coal was for the European integration process." Dr Kaire Mbuende, SADC Executive Secretary,...