Southern African News Features

RWANDAN REFUGEES ADD TO TANZANIA’S FOOD PROBLEMS

by Ronald Imbayago Even without guests, Tanzania needs nearly half a million tonnes of cereal imports to make up for production shortfalls for 1994/95. Now...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: PRIVATIZATION BEHIND SCHEDULE

by Yvonne Chitiyo Countries implementing economic structural adjustment programmes (ESAP) in southern Africa are finding it difficult to privatize their parastatals which have become targets...

CHALLENGES FACING MALAWI’S NEW GOVERNMENT

By Virginia Kapembeza Malawi's new democratic government might regret the day it won the May elections now that the dreams of its more than nine...

CAMP OFFERS HAVEN TO MOZAMBICAN REFUGEES

by Alec Dowe Mazoe River Bridge refugee camp, has for the past decade, provided sanctuary to many people who the war in Mozambique. The camp is...

STREET CHILDREN SPEAK OUT

by Yvonne Chitiyo This is the last in a four-part series on street children. For 12-year old Sam Manuel, the day begins at Sam when the...

SOUTH AFRICA: OBSTACLES STALK THE ELECTIONS

by Richard Chidowore This is this is the first in a four-part series on South Africa elections The date for South Africa's first all-race election...

SOUTH AFRICA: THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC BUDGET

by Ronald Imbayago South Africa's first democratic budget has seen social spending emerge as a priority in the government's Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). Out...

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT: WHY WEAPONS DON’T BUY PEACE

by James Mpinga No amount of arms spending can buy any country, no matter how powerful, any peace. As countries, across the globe spend billions...

NEW ROLE FOR FRONTLINE STATES

by David Martin The Frontline States (FLS) grouping of leaders of eight southern African countries, formed to pursue independence and majority rule, has adopted a...

PLANT SEEDS OF THE FUTURE

By Mutizwa Mukute Along the lakeshore of Malawi, beautiful indigenous trees grow, right at the entrance of the Mangocha Hotel reception. These have been carefully...

NEW APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

by James Mpinga The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has put forward radical, new approaches to development cooperation, seeking, of all things, to replace horse-and-rider...

DONORS ACCUSED OF BLACKMAIL

by James Mpinga and Simangaliso Ncube "If you do not know where you are going, all the roads will take you there." That old Zambian...