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      Reporting elections in Southern Africa: a media handbook by Kondwani Chirambo and Hugh MkcCullum 227pp.
      Reporting Elections in Southern Africa: A Media Handbook is a product of the experiences of a team of journalists who covered five elections in SADC in 1999.
      Written, edited and compiled with the input of 45 senior journalists and trainers, the handbook provides background, historical and current information about elections in the SADC region with special emphasis for journalists who must cover elections at home and throughout the region.
      The handbook was produced by SARDC’s Sustainable Democracy department, a regional information programme on democracy and governance which aims to collect and disseminate information, and

to share regional expertise within the 14-member SADC, with the vision of strengthening sustainable democratic development, based on the perspective that: "Democracy is more than just an election. It is a culture that cannot be imposed but must be developed from within."
Multiparty Elections are in some ways a new activity in many countries. In 1999 five of the SADC countries — Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique — held elections for pres-ident, legislatures and, in some cases, local government. In 2000, several more countries have had or are going to polls — Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mau-ritius and Tanzania.
The handbook is an essential resource pack on regional electoral perspectives. It

introduces the reader to parliamentary and electoral formations in the region that point to future political integration; it explains the electoral systems in use in southern Africa, their merits and demerits and the arguments sur-rounding them; provides country profiles, including political histories, tips on election coverage techniques, ethics and role of media in elections as seen through the public and professional’s eye.
The handbook crystallizes the experiences of twelve senior journalists who covered elections in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, under a USAID Regional Centre for Southern Africa (RCSA)-supported project titled: Cross-border Media Coverage of Elections and Election Issues Within the SADC region

Recent publications and acquisitions

African Development Indicators 2000
—World Bank.- 2000 Available from The World Bank or Ac-ademic and Baobab Books (Pvt) Ltd. PO Box 567, Harare, Zimbabwe

Annual Progress Report, November 1999: Agroforestry for Sustainable Rural Development in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa Region SADC-ICRAF Agroforestry Programme.- 1999
Available from Food and Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector

Botswana Elections Observer Mission Report. —Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries.-1999
Available from SADC Secretariat P Bag 0095, Gaborone, Botswana

Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: Es-says on South Africa’s New Urban Crisis — Bond, Patrick.- Africa World Press, Inc.- 2000 Available from Africa World Press, Inc. PO Box 1892, Trenton, NJ08607 or PO Box 48 Asmara, Eritrea

Effects of Structural Adjustment in Southern Africa: The Case of Zimba-bwe’s Manufacturing Sector During Phase 1 of ESAP: 1991 - 1995

— Kadenge, Phineas G; Chipika, Jesimen T and Chibanda, Stanford.- SARIPS of SAPES Trust Regional Office.- 2000 Available from SARIPS of SAPES Trust Regional Office, PO Box MP 111, Mt. Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries 2000
—The World Bank.- 2000 Available from The World Bank or Academic and Baobab Books, Zimbabwe

Integracao Economica Africana: viabi-lidade da SADC.
—Magalhaes, C.C.- 1999. Available from SADC Secretariat

National Information And Communica-tions Infrastructure Development Workshop For SADC Region: Report. (Windhoek, Namibia 12-14 April, 2000) —ECA.-2000
Available from ECA

Our Continent Our Future: African Per-spectives on Structural Adjustment —Mkandawire, Thandika and Soludo, Charles C.- Council for the Development Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) or Africa World Press, Inc.,

International Development Research Centre.- 1999 Available from CODESRIA, Avenue Cheik Anta Diop, Angle Canal IV, BP 3304 Dakar, Senegal or Africa World Press PO Box 1892, Trenton, NJ 08607, USA
Past, Roles and Development of Theatre Arts in SADC.
—SADC Culture & Information Sector.-1999 Available from the Culture, Information and Sports Sector, 780 O Mugumbwe Maputo, Mozambique

The Politics of Patronage in Africa: Parastatals, Privatization and Private Enterprise
— Tangri, Roger.- James Currey, Fountain Publishers and Africa World Press.-1999 Available from Fountain Publishers PO Box 488, Kampala Uganda or James Currey, 73 Botley Road, Oxford OX2 OBS, United Kingdom

Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Or-ganizational Meeting (Lusaka, Zambia 21- 25 February, 2000). —SADC Regional Early Warning System for Food Security
Available from Food Agriculture and natural Resources Sector, PO Box 4046 Harare, Zimbabwe

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