Southern African News Features

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...

A NEW REGIONAL AIR BASE FOR U.S.?

By Masimba Tafirenyika Is the United States about to use a new military base in southern Africa to replace Zaire's Kamina airfield previously used by...

AIDS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

By Kudzai Makombe The last in a series of our articles on health in southern Africa. At Harare's St. Anne's hospital, an elderly man who had...

A HIDDEN CRISIS: THE POPULATION BOMB

by Hugh McCullom Almost forgotten -- some environmentalists say deliberately -- in the mountains of words emanating from the Brazil Earth Summit last month was...

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF APARTHEID

By Georgia Maphosa Apartheid has been described as a systematic negation of the other person, and a determination to deny all attributes of humanity, thus...

THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT: IT’S A NO WIN SITUATION

By Fortune Ncube "I don't know what to do anymore!" exclaimed the middle-aged Ndodana Mazibuko, with a melancholy voice as he lifted his beer mug...

HEALTH INFRASTRURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

by Tendai Msengezi This is the first of a four-part series on health in the southern African region. Holding a bloody handkerchief to his mouth and...