HOPES OF HEALTH FOR ALL BY 2000 IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FADE
by Sarudzai Zindoga and Diana Mavunduse
There is urgent need for Zimbabwe's government to put its struggling health delivery system at the top of its...
WOMEN FIGHT FOR BETTER REPRESENTATION IN NEW MILLENNIUM
by Ellen Kandororo
It is now five years since the Dakar Platform for Action (DPFA) was adopted and four years after the Beijing Platform...
SADC SET TO LOSE OUT IN RECIPROCAL TRADE WITH EU
by Munetsi Madakufamba
This is the third in a four-part series on future SADC-EU trade relations under the Lome Convention.
Beef farmers in southern Africa are...
MORE ACTION, LESS TALK ONLY SOLUTION TO REGIONAL ECONOMIC ILLS’
by Munetsi Madakufamba
When politicians and business-people meet to discuss development issues, the question that is often asked at the end is whether a...
JOSHUA MQABUKO NKOMO, SYMBOL OF UNITY IN SADC
by Tinashe Madava
"A leader is he who expresses the wishes of his followers. No sane leader can disregard the voice of his people...
CHILD ABUSE RAMPANT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Winnet Mutimbe
Amid reports of increasing cases of child abuse in the region, law enforcement agencies are lobbying for the establishment of victim-friendly...
NEED TO TAKE LAND POLICY DEBATE TO THE PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Diana Mavunduse
The failure to include civil society in land policy formulation has resulted in policies that do not respond to fundamental issues...
AIR POLLUTION DEBATE DRAGS ON
by Tinashe Madava
As the Kyoto United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference on emissions reductions was being concluded in Japan two...
THE CHANGING FACE OF BEAUTY PAGEANTS
by Diana Mavunduse
Beauty pageants are no longer about modelling half-naked in catwalk styles, but a life-time opportunity for young women to become ambassadors...
WATER DEVELOPMENT: KEY TO SOUTHERN AFRICA’S ECONOMIC BOOM
by Tinashe Madava
"Water could become for southern Africa what steel and coal was for the European integration process." Dr Kaire Mbuende, SADC Executive Secretary,...
THE IDEOLOGY OF MILITARISM
by Fernando Goncalves
Scholars have in recent years tried to grapple with the question of re-defining the concept of security, in an attempt to...
RENAISSANCE BEGINS WITH THE ABUJA-PRETORIA AXIS
by Phyllis Johnson
The African leadership renaissance has begun, in two related events that took place within days of each other in different parts...