Southern African News Features

Toward the Millennium Development Goals: Key challenges for SADC are poverty, HIV and AIDS

by Chengetai Madziwa and Mukundi Mutasa - SANF 05 no 77 Southern Africa is making progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals but the region...

New SADC Executive Secretary widely respected in the region

SANF 05 no 75 The new SADC Executive Secretary, Dr Tomaz Augusto Salomão, is a former planning minister in Mozambique who is well known and...

SADC summit expands membership, appoints new leadership

by Munetsi Madakufamba - SANF 05 no 74 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has celebrated its silver jubilee summit with landmark decisions that will...

Madagascar, huge potential to contribute to regional development

by Chengetai Madziwa -  SANF 05 no 73 The approval of Madagascar as the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) newest member demonstrates the deepening of...

SADC aims for macro-economic convergence ahead of common currency

by Munetsi Madakufamba - SANF 05 no 72 Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are working towards stabilizing macro-economic variables in preparation...

Mogae outlines delivery-oriented vision for SADC

by Munetsi Madakufamba -  SANF 05 no 71 Botswana President Festus Mogae, who has just taken over the rotating chair of the Southern African Development...

Shared water resources critical to regional integration

by Clever Mafuta - SANF 05 no 70 Southern Africa recognises the role that water plays in the process of regional integration and has made...

A full agenda for SADC’s silver jubilee summit

by Munetsi Madakufamba - SANF 05 no 69 Southern African Development Community (SADC’s) historic Silver Jubilee Summit on 17-18 August in Botswana is set to...

SADC attains rapid shifts in gender equality and women’s empowerment

by Washington Midzi - SANF 05 no 68 Southern African countries have experienced rapid shifts in gender equality and women’s empowerment processes in the last...

SADC Summit urged to elevate gender declaration to a protocol

by Barbara Lopi - SANF 05 no 67 Gender and women’s empowerment organisations in southern Africa have called for the upgrading of the SADC Gender...

SADC countries embark on biomass energy conservation

by Singy Hanyona - SANF 05 no 66 An ambitious regional programme for biomass energy conservation has been launched in southern Africa with a vision...

Market-driven land reform has proved ineffective in southern Africa

by Hopewell Radebe - SANF 05 no 65 Experiences shared by representatives from southern Africa at the recent Land Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, seem...