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1.	Malawi: 200 inmates die in Malawi prisons
	Author: Pilirani Phiri	Date Written: 26 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Zodiak Online
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://www.zodiakmalawi.com
	Key Words: Malawi, Prisons, Congestions, Rights,Sanitation
	Summary & Comment: There is massive congestion in Malawian prisons such that some have dubbed them hell on earth. This has led to over 200 inmates losing their lives over the past year, according to a new report by the Malawi Inspectorate of Prisons.FJ
2.	Swaziland: Swazi journalists threatened with death
	Author: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)	Date Written: 23 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://appablog.wordpress.com
	Key Words: Swaziland, King Mswati, Dialogue, Media, Governance
	Summary & Comment: In a bid to gag the press, Swaziland’s traditional leaders have threatened to kill journalists writing stories that undermine the country’s leadership. This is not the first time this has happened in Swaziland, which is known for strangling dissent.
3.	South Africa: Career guidance for higher education
	Author: Munyaradzi Makoni	Date Written: 18 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: University World News
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.universityworldnews.com
	Key Words: Career, Mandela, training
	Summary & Comment: Many opportunities for youth educational advancement in South Africa have gone to waste because youth have no clue as to what career to follow or where to get appropriate information. But that might change in the future with the launch of this career helpline. M.Makoni
4.	Nujoma feature film under scrutiny
	Author: Brigitte Weidlich	Date Written: 16 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: The Namibian
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.namibian.com.na
	Key Words: Namibia, film, Sam Nujoma, NFC,
	Summary & Comment: "Members of Parliament were told that during the making of the film on the life of former President, Sam Nujoma, the filmmakers used some unorthodox methods like storing bookkeeping documents in over 50 cardboard boxes and taking half a million dollars into the bush to pay crowds of extras." DN
5.	South Africa: After the World Cup how can we build on our success?
	Author: Patrick Craven, National Spokesperson	Date Written: 14 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: COSATU
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.cosatu.org.za
	Key Words: South Africa, World Cup,
	Summary & Comment: The COSATU Declaration below is an important initiative that invites commitment to implement a set of eleven specific goals following the success of hosting the FIFA World Cup. DN
6.	South Africa: We are being tainted as savage and ferocious animals
	Author: Malusi Gigaba	Date Written: 12 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Politicsweb
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Africa in the Media	Source URL: http://www.politicsweb.co.za
	Key Words: South Africa, rumours, crime, immigrants, xenophobia,
	Summary & Comment: An eye for an eye makes the world blind. Here is a writer trying to see reason amidst chaotic emotion. Is it really worth it to kill your neighbour because they are immigrants? M.Makoni
7.	South Africa: Xenophobia fears increase
	Author: SAPA & Mail & Guardian reporter	Date Written: 6 July 2010
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Mail and Guardian
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.mg.co.za
	Key Words: Violence, Zimbabweans, traders
	Summary & Comment: Old fears of attacks on migrants have been rekindled with talks that foreigners in the black townships of South Africa are under siege. M. Makoni

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1. ZIMBABWE: Badly Needed Work Begins on Bulawayo Water System
   Dispersing feasting flies and angry residents from a manhole cover spewing sewage from people's homes and into the road: another day in the working life of Njabulo Siziba. It's a dirty, frustrating, thankless job as a civil engineer for Bulawayo city council, but help is at hand for Siziba and the city he serves.
2. MADAGASCAR: Women Form Own Political Parties for Fair Representation
   Brigitte Rasamoelina and Yvette Sylla are women with two different approaches to politics in Madagascar. One formed a political party, while the other decided to legalise her organisation as an association. But both women are considering running in Madagascar's November elections.
3. ZIMBABWE: Rural Children with HIV a ‘Lost Cause'
   Eleven-year-old Irene Thembo* lies curled like a foetus on a white wooden bench for outpatients at a clinic in rural Zimbabwe. The orphan, whose parents died of HIV-related illnesses, is terribly sick.
4. ZIMBABWE: 'Free' Maternal Health Care Too Costly For Most
   As African Union heads of state consider child and maternal health at the 2010 summit in Kampala, Uganda, the perennial question of user fees has reared its head in Zimbabwe. Fees for services are opening a growing gap between policy and implementation in maternal health care in the Southern African country.
5. MALAWI: Government Money-Saving Measure Costs Traders Dearly
   The Malawian government's new cost-cutting prohibition on the hosting of conferences, training sessions and workshops on the shores of Lake Malawi has hit small-scale merchants who ply their trade on the roadsides and beaches of the fresh-water lake.