Southern African News Features

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...

SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT NEXT!

by Rhoda Njanana As the political crisis continues to mount in South Africa, the role of the international community in averting a descent into violence...

ZIMBABWE INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR: FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENT

by Costa Chisvo "For me the Book Fair is an opportunity to explore and discover some of the greatest literary minds. During the Fair week...

AFTER THE CODESA II IMPASSE

by Rhoda Njanana Differences over methods of creating a new constitution and the percentage of majority required to take decisions on a final constitution marred...

AN EARTH SUMMIT REVIEW

By Tendai Msengezi and Mutizwa Mukute  Poor countries arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED) with...

WOMEN – CARETAKERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT

By Kudzai Makombe A drive through any village in southern African reveals a dry, sandy, semi-desert landscape, almost devoid of trees with cattle and goats...

THE STRUGGLE IS FAR FROM OVER FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN

By Fortune Ncube ''We, the women of South Africa, wives and mothers, ·working women and housewives, Africans, Indians, Europeans and Coloureds, hereby declare our aim...