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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Southern Region category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Southern Region articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

Countries in this region include: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

Note: Articles from external sources are also included at the bottom of this page. Click here to see them.

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. Longer, analytical article. 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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News from Additional Sources

IPS Inter Press Service - Southern Africa

  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.