Infrastructure support intervention has been placed at the core of the region’s community-building agenda and concerted efforts are being made to ensure the availability of an integrated, efficient and cost-effective system to sustain regional economic development and trade.
The intervention areas are highlighted in SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP)– the region’s 15-year blueprint. [read more]
NAMIBIA IS taking precautionary measures to save water and electricity in the face of power blackouts experienced by South Africa.
The country’s water utility, NamWater, has warned that the power shortage could also affect the supply of water around the country.
NamWater chief executive, Vaino Shivute, said the shortage of electricity was affecting his company’s ability to pump water to its customers. [read more]
CORRIDORS ARE the focal point for regional development initiatives. Initially based on transport routes, the corridors are critical to the achievement of the region’s economic and political objectives. This is particularly so given that almost half of the SADC Member States are landlocked and require efficient regional transport links for access to the sea.
Over the past decade, the corridors have become microcosms of regional integration as manifestations of initiatives targeted as regional development within the framework of Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs). We profile some of the corridors in this issue.
The North-South is a transport corridor linking South
Africa to countries to its north and is the
busiest regional transit link in eastern and
southern Africa. The North-South Corridor
(also known as the Durban Corridor)
is also the most extensive corridor in the
region, linking the largest number of
countries in eastern and southern Africa.
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ZIMBABWE SAYS a new concoction of herbal drugs under clinical tests in the country has proved effective in prolonging the lifespan of people living with HIV and AIDS.
According to the country’s Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Edwin Muguti, clinical tests done on the herbal medicine, locally called gun - damiti , have so far proved that it possesses healing properties for people living with HIV.
Clinical trials started on 1 December 2005 with 45 patients. Muguti said preliminary results are encouraging as the condition of patients on the herbal therapy has improved tremendously with some opportunistic infections disappearing. [read more]