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1.	Botswana: UN report condemns government treatment of Bushmen
	Author: Survival International	Date Written: 11 March 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Survival International
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.survivalinternational.org/
	Key Words: Botswana, rights, UN report, Bushmen, water,
	Summary & Comment: A report by the UN’s top official on indigenous rights calls for urgent action because of the Botswana government’s denial of water and services to the Bushmen and Bakgalagadi tribes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. It also recommends that the Government ‘fully and faithfully implement’ the 2006 High Court ruling and facilitate ‘the return of . . . [expand]
2.	Malawi: Release Eye For Development youth activists
	Author: Global Call to Action against Poverty	Date Written: 11 March 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 473
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Malawi, GCAP, poverty, petition,
	Summary & Comment: Civil society organisations across Africa are shocked at the arrest and detention without bail of three activists from Eye For Development a youth-based NGO in Malawi. DN
3.	South Africa: Forgotten xenophobia victims
	Author: Tichaona Sibanda	Date Written: 9 March 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: SW Radio Africa
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.swradioafrica.com
	Key Words: Zimbabweans, refugees, documents
	Summary & Comment: Intergration for the community for victims of xenophobic attacks is taking long; maybe it will never happen at all. M. Makoni
4.	Swaziland: Property rights for women at last!
	Author: Mantoe Phakathi, Mbabane	Date Written: 5 March 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: IPS News
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa
	Key Words: Swaziland, rights, property, women,
	Summary & Comment: A recent court ruling has given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names. SN
5.	SADC takes investment drive to Europe for energy sector
	Author: Kizito Sikuka	Date Written: 1 March 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Southern African News Features
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.sardc.net
	Key Words: SADC, SAFRI, Energy, Projects, Electricity
	Summary & Comment: In a bid to address energy shortages the Southern African Development Community and the Southern Africa Initiative of German Business have taken part in an Energy Infrastructure Development Conference in Germany to woo energy sector investors. FJ
6.	South Africa: Canada and Mandela: the story behind the myth
	Author: Gerald Caplan	Date Written: 26 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: The Globe and Mail
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Africa in World History	Source URL:
	Key Words: South Africa, Canada, apartheid, Mandela, ANC,
	Summary & Comment: "While Brian Mulroney did more than many (government leaders) in the West, his government and the Canadian business (community) also became dupes to South Africa’s insidious propaganda campaign." GC
7.	Malawi: More relief money
	Author: Charles Mpaka	Date Written: 25 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: IPS News
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net
	Key Words: Malawi, Drought, Rains, Food, Maize
	Summary & Comment: Dry spell across Malawi means this year the country, which has managed to tame hunger the past four years will face food shortage. The government has set aside to buy relief maize to feed close to 255 000 people who are estimated to have been affected by the drought. FJ

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1. SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
   WINDHOEK, Mar 17 (IPS) - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members.
2. NAMIBIA: "If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It"
   WINDHOEK, Mar 16 (IPS) - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people."
3. SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health
   MBABANE , Mar 16 (IPS) - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication.
4. SOUTH AFRICA: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
   CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and education experts say they fear that a special focus on the advancement of girls is getting lost amidst the growing levels of poverty in the country.
5. TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
   DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.