Tutti i temi: Africa del Sud

31.10.2005 Watch the webcast of this reading and panel discussion with South Africa Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Edwin Cameron who talked about his memoir, Witness to AIDS. The reading is followed by a discussion featuring Gay McDougall, international human rights leader and executive director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice; Princeton Lyman, former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa and current Council on Foreign Relations Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies; Terje Anderson, executive director, National Association of People with AIDS; and moderated by ABC correspondent Michel Martin.

28.10.2005 NAIROBI, Oct 28 (IPS) - A generator rumbles behind the two-roomed building, which looks like one of the maize mills that dot Kenya's rural landscape. But, you're not likely to find a harvest of any sort in here -- rather, food for thought.

26.10.2005 The Zimbabwean government is well known for its repressive treatment of critics and independent journalists. A crackdown on the press over the past five years has left the country with no independent daily newspapers, no private radio news coverage, and only two prominent independent weeklies. What is less documented is the toll that this crackdown takes on the country's journalists, including those flee overseas and struggle to rebuild their lives in exile, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

26.10.2005 Fresh doubts have arisen over the progress of an empowerment charter for the ICT industry, since the empowerment charter steering committee, South Africa appears to have no leader.

20.10.2005 In an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the CSIR, a group of science and technology (S&T) leaders from around the world gathered in Pretoria to find new ways for S&T to play a part in sustainable development.

20.10.2005 Mafutsane Secondary School at Rakoma Village, near Tzaneen, South Africa has received a fully furnished computer lab funded by the Universal Service Agency (USA) in partnership with government communications, the GCIS, and through the lobbying of Bathlabine Rural Development Trust earlier this year.

18.10.2005 The fourth annual mobile learning conference, mLearn 2005, will take place from 25 to 28 October at the BOE Conference Centre in Cape Town.

17.10.2005 South Africa is to host the first national conference on climate change, bringing together experts and concerned groups.

14.10.2005 The Innovation Hub and Active Touch are hosting an all day e-learning conference at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria, Johannesburg on 27 October 2005.

13.10.2005 Adoption of electronic voting in future elections in South Africa may have been settled as President Olusegun Obasanjo believes that digitalising the ballot system would help minimise short comings associated with past elections.

12.10.2005 Food First is proud to sponsor the US tour of Mangaliso Kubheka, National Organizer of South Africa's Landless Peoples' Movement. Mangaliso is building global bridges between his movement and organizers in the United States. Check our events calendar to see Mangaliso speak in your city.

11.10.2005 Speaking at the end of Pamoja South African Development Community (SADC) Disability Conference,Deputy Chairperson Petronella Linders, of the National Youth Commission (NYC), South Africa says ICT's are the most appropriate tool for people with disabilities to get connected to society.

11.10.2005 The Government Technology World Africa conference scheduled to take place from 9 to 11 November at Gallagher Estate in Midrand will provide ICT vendors with the opportunity to meet, interact and do business with decision-makers from all tiers of government.The conference will explore ICT strategies applicable to the African arena.

08.10.2005 The eviction of dozens of Bushmen from their ancestral land in Botswana yesterday has been condemned as "the last chapter in a 200-year old genocide".

08.10.2005 During the days of the G8 summit, London's Soho Theatre worked with South African and British schoolchildren, documenting its impact on their day-to-day lives. These diaries, woven with reports from the summit, are presented in a "thought-provoking and insightful new show", 18-22 October

06.10.2005 Three Bushmen, including a child, have been shot and wounded by Botswana police during incidents reportedly designed to intimidate Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all, according to a group committed to the protection of tribal peoples.

06.10.2005 The Department of Communications, in partnership with the Presidential National Commission on Information Society and Development Southern African Development Community(SADC), is hosting the Pamoja 2005 SADC Disability Conference at Emperors Palace, Gauteng,Johannesburg on 5 and 6 October 2005.

06.10.2005 Gilat Satellite, South Africa is trying to introduce more technology to the election process. The aim is that the country considers using technology to make democratic elections easier and faster while retaining high security levels.

05.10.2005 A three day workshop on developing media professionals’ skills to better serve sustainable development was recently organised with UNESCO’s support in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

04.10.2005 Zambia has continued experiencing critical fuel shortages across the country with almost all service stations running out of petrol, diesel and kerosene.