Southern African News Features

SADC gender ministers push forward the gender agenda

SANF 17 no 25 - by Nyarai Kampilipili in Ezulwini, Swaziland Southern Africa has made significant progress towards promoting gender equality and equity in the...

Lesotho – Time to address political instability

SANF 17 no 24 - by Kizito Sikuka  Speaker after speaker spoke from the same script at the inauguration of Thomas Thabane as the new...

SADC gender ministers to review progress on regional gender development

SANF 17 no 23 - by Nyarai Kampilipili Equality for both women and men continues to be a priority for southern Africa’s development agenda. In fact,...

All set for Lesotho national elections 3 June

SANF 17 no 22 All is set for national parliamentary elections in Lesotho on 3 June when Basotho will choose a new leadership for the...

Africa Day – Towards a united continent

SANF 17 no 21 - by Kizito Sikuka “Our liberty is meaningless unless all Africans are free. Our brothers in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),...

Botswana signs SADC gender protocol

by Nyarai Kampilipili - SANF 17 no 20 A total of 14 countries in southern Africa out of the 15 have now signed a regional protocol that...

The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation

by Tanaka Chitsa - SANF 17 no 19 Global leaders will meet in mid-May to discuss a new Chinese-led initiative to develop a seamless infrastructure network...

“Legacy of SADC Founding Fathers should be maintained”

SANF 17 no 18 - by Kizito Sikuka Southern Africa has come a long way and the region should continue to uphold the ideals of the...

SADC moves towards a Simplified Trade Regime

by Joseph Ngwawi - SANF 17 no 17 Studies and experiences from other parts of the world show that the simplification and streamlining of documentation requirements...

SADC reviews forestry protocol implementation

SANF 17 no 16 Southern Africa has begun the process of assessing the status of implementation of the Protocol on Forestry to determine the level...

Botswana ready to sign SADC gender protocol

by Nyarai Kampilipili and Kizito Sikuka - SANF 17 no 15 The announcement by Botswana that it is ready to sign a regional protocol that advances...

SAPP steps up efforts to link up SADC, East Africa power grids

by Joseph Ngwawi - SANF 17 no 14 Southern Africa has stepped up efforts to ensure electricity grids of all mainland countries are interconnected and that...