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1.	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
2.	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
3.	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
4.	Zambia: Politicians and another challenge from the Church
	Author: Peter Henriot, Lusaka	Date Written: 23 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: The Post, Lusaka
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.postzambia.com
	Key Words: CCZ, politicians, challenge, Church, CCZ,
	Summary & Comment: Here is support from beyond the Council of Churches in Zambia for a recent CCZ Pastoral Letter that emphasised the need for Government economic policies to be more concerned about the welfare of all citizens. “Positive economic growth is meaningless if the lives of the majority of the citizenry are not positively affected." DN
5.	The Degeneration of the African National Congress
	Author: Prof. Richard Pithouse, Grahamstown	Date Written: 23 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: South African Civil Society Information Service
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http:// http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/433.1
	Key Words: South Africa, African National Congress, terror, nepotism, visionless, self-aggrandizement
	Summary & Comment: This is what will cause the "implosion" I am leaning towards unless the leaders come to terms with what they are doing to the country and their selfishness using ’Black Economic Empowerment’ as the crutch. The recent service delivery protest in Sharpeville, brings back memories of the infamous massacre that took place there 50 years ago. . . . [expand]
6.	Mozambique: War ended 17 years ago, but we are still poor
	Author: Joseph Hanlon & Milton Keynes	Date Written: 19 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 470
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Mozambique, poor, conflict, security, development,
	Summary & Comment: Joseph Hanlon argues that Mozambique poses stark questions for development cooperation because Mozambique is not the success story painted by donors who have not addressed the problems of increased poverty and jobless youth. A growing group of young people are leaving school with a basic education but no economic prospects. Will they pose a threat . . . [expand]
7.	Botswana: Bushmen denied right to vote
	Author: Survival International	Date Written: 17 February 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Survival International
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://www.survivalinternational.org
	Key Words: Botswana, Bushmen, Election, Land, Water
	Summary & Comment: Despite a court ruling in 2006 that the Bushmen have a right to live on the reserves in Botswana, the government continues to sideline them. In 2009 the Bushmen did not vote for the government of their choice because the authorities did not give them access to vote. Are the bushmen stateless in their own state? FJ

News from Additional Sources

IPS Inter Press Service - Southern Africa

1. 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.
2. NAMIBIA: Female Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Stereotypes
   WINDHOEK, Mar 9 (IPS) - African hip-hop prides itself on a more positive portrayal of women, but traditional cultural attitudes towards women still dominate the industry, say Namibian female rappers.
3. HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment
   CAPE TOWN, Mar 8 (IPS) - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries’ health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment.
4. HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
   JOHANNESBURG, Mar 8 (IPS) - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus.
5. SOUTH AFRICA: Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness
   CAPE TOWN, Mar 8 (IPS) - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness.