Tutti i temi: Africa del Sud

26.05.2005 Perinteiseltä maaltaan häädetty Bushman-kansa on vetänyt Botswanan hallituksen oikeuteen. Bushmanit vaativat oikeutta maahansa sekä ilmaista vettä. "hallituksen kuluttaessa aikaa oikeuttaakseen "uudelleenasuttamisen politiikkaansa", maaltaan häädetyn kansan tila heikkenee päivä päivältä. Tilanteesta kärsii myös hallituksen oma uskottavuus", toteaa heimokansojen oikeuksia ajavan Survival-järjestön johtaja.

26.05.2005 The Kalahari Bushmen have taken the Botswana government to court over their eviction from their tribal lands. A key witness for the government is giving contradictory evidence which may strengthen the Bushmen's case for being allowed to return.

23.05.2005 Declining food production in Southern Africa has shifted the region's focus to improving small-scale farmers' access to agricultural inputs like fertilisers.

23.05.2005 Swaziland donor agencies are increasingly asking theatre groups to write and perform dramas about hot topics like HIV/AIDS and women's rights. Particularly with HIV/AIDS, donor agencies hope that by providing the message in an entertaining way, they can reach more people about the dangers and spread of the disease.

11.05.2005 One of the by-products of the AIDS epidemic sweeping many African nations is the loss of knowledge; for example, with no one to teach them, rural children orphaned at a young age might never learn to farm. But the UN agricultural agency is now taking many of these children under its wings, teaching farming, business, and life skills to ensure another generation is not lost.

10.05.2005 High HIV/AIDS infection rates among soldiers in national armies and peacekeeping forces have ignited debate over compulsory HIV testing in the military. In forces tasked with stabilizing communities, concerns about the potential destabilizing influence of AIDS in militaries were discussed in a conference at The Hague last week.

09.05.2005 SANGONeT, in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), is hosting a Thetha on 24 May 2005 to discuss whether Southern African organisations should use Creative Commons to licence the information that they produce.

06.05.2005 Although the recent appointment of a female vice-president is seen as a positive step, gender lobbyists in Zimbabwe continue to agitate for more women in public office. Since the legislative elections in March 2005, women now represent just 16 percent in parliament, up from 10.6 percent. However, the figure falls far short of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) declaration in 1997, which agreed to a 30 percent target for female representation in national political bodies by 2005. Gender rights groups said the ruling ZANU-PF party had reneged on a campaign promise to have a third of its seats in parliament filled by women.

05.05.2005 Study of pilot project using mobile phones for healthcare in Africa finds that technology works, but implementation, management and human factors are real hurdles.

04.05.2005 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has launched its annual survey "So This Is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa." The survey assesses conditions in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2004. This year, it features a regional review of gender in the media.

03.05.2005 Over 7,000 women in rural Chipata (Eastern province of Zambia) are to benefit from agricultural marketing information project called the Chipata Women’s Mobile SMS project initiated by One World Africa (OWA) and Celtel Zambia.

03.05.2005 While indigenous leaders say that constitutional amendments proposed by the government will forever deny Bushmen rights to their traditional land in the diamond-rich Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the government contends that the change is aimed simply at rendering the constitution "tribally neutral," denying that the land has been earmarked for diamond mining.