Food security remains the major priority for SADC
By Chengetai Madziwa - SANF 04 no 02
The regional food security situation has improved and SADC is working towards long-term strategies to avoid future shortages,...
A VOICE FROM THE DARK PAST
by David Martin in Kilwa, Tanzania
"We are going to re-colonize this place," a white South African Afrikaner from Durban told me bluntly in the...
A CANDLE ON KILIMANJARO
by David Martin in Dares Salaam
"We, the people of Tanganyika, would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro...
500 DANCERS BUILD SADC’s CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH DANCE
by Jabulani Sithole and Nyasha Kumbawa
The SADC Dance Festival opens in Harare from 11 to 22 September, using the theme "Building SADC through Dance."
The...
Blantyre summit’s quiet endorsement of restructuring misses’ media attention
by Munetsi Madakufamba
The recent SADC summit held in Blantyre, the sprawling commercial capital of Malawi, endorsed many decisions that properly received wide media attention,...
A FINAL LOOK AT SOUTHERN-AFRICA’S Y2K PREPAREDNESS
by Tinashe Madava
Southern African governments say they are ready to counter the millennium bug if it strikes computers in the region over the...
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...