For the first time since the late 1940s when South Africa consolidated its then policy of apartheid and African nationalism gave birth to liberation movements in most SADC Member States, southern Africa is enjoying relative peace, political stability and security.
Lasting peace has returned to Namibia after independence in 1990, to Mozambique following the signing of the 1992 peace accord that ended 16 years of civil war, and to South Africa after majority rule and the end of the apartheid system in 1994. [read more]
“BY 2020, Lesotho shall be a stable democracy, united, prosperous nation at peace with itself and its neighbours. It shall have a healthy and well-developed human resource base. Its economy will be strong, its environment well-managed and its technology well established.”
This is the vision statement that has been the rallying point for all Basotho since 2004 and is expected to guide the development agenda of this kingdom of just over two million people up to 2020.
The Vision 2020 was the culmination of wide national consultations that started in 2000. Inspired by the Basotho values of peace, unity, tolerance, selfrespect, order and sharing, the Vision 2020 blueprint was officially endorsed as representing the developmental aspirations of the Basotho in 2004. [read more]
MOZAMBIQUE HAS become the eighth African country - and the third from SADC - to sign up for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) e-schools programme.
The southern African country signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the NEPAD e-Africa Commission, Microsoft and HP to join Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Senegal, South Africa, Rwanda and Uganda as the only countries to sign up for the e-schools project.
The NEPAD e-schools project
aims to equip young Africans
with information and communication
technology (ICT) skills to
enable them to compete
favourably in the information
society and global economy.
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