AFRICA’S CHILDREN – OUR HOPE FOR TOMORROW
By Kudzai Makombe
"Children are the flowers that never wither," the late President Samora Machel of Mozambique once said.
Indeed, children are flowers of the world...
MAPUTO: A HIVE OF ACTIVITY
By Tendai Msenge
Sixteen years of a costly and highly destructive war coupled with the worst drought in living memory, have not succeeded in breaking...
DOES THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT DEMOCRACY AND PEACE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA?
by David Martin and Phyllis Johnson
The will of the international community to support democracy and peace is being tested in southern Africa at present,...
THE EFFECTS OF DROUGHT ON AGRICULTURE
By Richard Chidowore (This is the third in a series of four articles about the drought in southern Africa and its implications)
Three years of...
SOUTHERN AFRICAN RIVERS RUN DRY
By Mutizwa Mukute (This is the second in a series of four articles about the drought in southern Africa and its implications.)
As southern Africa's...
SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING – SUSTAINING CHILDREN THROUGH THE DROUGHT
By Kudzai Makombe
Sitting in her smoky but well-kept kitchen hut breast-feeding her two- month-old baby, Amai Judy (Judy's mother), surprisingly appears very composed despite...
CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Richard Chidowore
Caetano Domingo watched with little interest as the older people in his village in Zambezia Province celebrated the ceasefire agreement between the...
HUNGER STALKS RENAMO IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE
by David Martin in Maputo
Forces of the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR or Renamo) inside Mozambique were demoralized and deserting in consequential numbers when the...
ANGOLA: FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS
by Phyllis Johnson
An elderly woman, bent over double with age, made her way slowly across dusty, open ground toward a polling table set up...
ZIMBABWE – ALLEVIATING THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ESAP ON WOMEN
By Kudzai Makombe
Only a month ago, scores of people, the majority of them women, could be found standing, sitting or squatting in long winding...
SOUTH AFRICA: IN SEARCH OF A NEW SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
by Rhoda Njanana
Sometimes lost in the seemingly endless spiral of violence in South Africa, amid accusations and counter-accusations by the key players in the...
REFUGEES AND EXILES IN SOUTH AFRICA
By Richard Chidowore
Enock Matli, 21, was indemnified against charges relating to his "illegal" exit from South Africa, and he returned to his country from...