WSIS Action Plan A “Living Document” To Build SADC Information Society
By Phyllis Johnson - SANF 04 no 06
The SADC Executive Secretary, Dr Prega Ramsamy says the plan of action for technology development approved by...
Water, Energy And Transport Development A Priority For SADC
By Phyllis Johnson - SANF 04 no 05
Water resources management remains a major challenge and priority in 2004 for the SADC region, which is...
Charter On Fundamental Social Rights A Milestone
By Chengetai Madziwa - SANF 04 no 04
The SADC region has made milestone advances toward social and human development challenges in the past year, including...
SADC On Track For “Free Trade” By 2008
By Chengetai Madziwa - SANF 04 no 03
The SADC region is on track towards meeting the major objective of its trade protocol which is to...
Food security remains the major priority for SADC
By Chengetai Madziwa - SANF 04 no 02
The regional food security situation has improved and SADC is working towards long-term strategies to avoid future shortages,...
A VOICE FROM THE DARK PAST
by David Martin in Kilwa, Tanzania
"We are going to re-colonize this place," a white South African Afrikaner from Durban told me bluntly in the...
A CANDLE ON KILIMANJARO
by David Martin in Dares Salaam
"We, the people of Tanganyika, would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro...
500 DANCERS BUILD SADC’s CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH DANCE
by Jabulani Sithole and Nyasha Kumbawa
The SADC Dance Festival opens in Harare from 11 to 22 September, using the theme "Building SADC through Dance."
The...
Blantyre summit’s quiet endorsement of restructuring misses’ media attention
by Munetsi Madakufamba
The recent SADC summit held in Blantyre, the sprawling commercial capital of Malawi, endorsed many decisions that properly received wide media attention,...
A FINAL LOOK AT SOUTHERN-AFRICA’S Y2K PREPAREDNESS
by Tinashe Madava
Southern African governments say they are ready to counter the millennium bug if it strikes computers in the region over the...
EXPO 2000 AND WOMEN IN SOUTHERN AFRlCA
by Tinashe Madava
As the EXPO 2000 to be held in the Germany city of Hannover next year approaches, women from southern Africa are...
RULING PARTY SWEEPS TO VICTORY IN BOTSWANA
By Hugh McCullum
Three Botswana Defence Force Strikemaster jet fighters swooped low over the capital on 20 October marking the inauguration of Festus Mogae as...