WOMEN URGE IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIJING COMMITMENTS
by Virginia Kapembeza
Women from SADC member states met in Botswana in November to review post-Beijing strategies and to create a base for regional networking...
THE ROLE OF POLITICS, DEFENCE AND SECURITY IN SADC’S VISION OF A SHARED FUTURE
by Phyllis Johnson
The Southern African Development (SADC) has taken another step toward its goal of strengthening regional solidarity, peace and security "in order for...
THE HAZARDS OF DRUG TRAFFICKING AND ABUSE
by Richard Chidowore
There is growing concern within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that increased drug trafficking and abuse could seriously erode the social...
SADC STEPS UP MEASURES TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY
by Clever Mafuta
New measures that could boost food security in southern Africa were proposed at a SADC Food Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Community...
PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES HOLD THE FUTURE
By Maxwell Chivasa
With today’s prevalent droughts and the general decline in rainfall in arid and semi-arid parts of southern Africa, coupled with environmental degradation...
INSTITUTION BUILDING IN SADC FOOD SECTOR
by David Gonzalez
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) continues to evolve from a coordinating body the original Southern African Development Coordinating Conference (SADCC) --...
1996: YEAR OF OPPORTUNITY AND CHANGE FOR SADC ECONOMIES
by Virginia Kapembeza
Positive developments during 1995 have created more awareness within SADC of the need for regional cooperation and integration as a more effective...
ZIMBABWE: IN PARTY POLITICS
by David Martin
The loss of a single seat bringing to three the tiny number now occupied by the opposition in Zimbabwe's Parliament may, at...
A FIGHT FOR THE LAST DROP OF WATER
by Munyaradzi Chenje
At a time when there are bleak predictions that rising demand for water worldwide, coupled with growing scarcity will ignite wars among...
TANZANIA: AN ‘AWESOME’ CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT
by David Martin in Dar es Salaam
Tanzanians often refer to their country as 'Bongoland', using this pejorative word to explain that a person must...
SADC MAY BREAK CITES BOTTLENECKS
by Maxwell Chivasa
The Southern African Development Community member states may break the bottlenecks posed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species...
50 YEARS OF THE UN – A SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
by Richard Chidowore and David Gonzalez
Five decades after the end of the 2nd World War, Southern Africa emerges at last from conflict and apartheid...
