Tutti i temi: Africa del Sud

30.08.2005 The Botswana government's attorney has dismissed foreign financial support for the Bushmen - with whom the administration is locked in a land dispute - as "Europeans telling us what to do and what not to do...but we really don't care, and we resent their involvement in our affairs."

30.08.2005 The biggest thetha SANGONeT information communication technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society Organisations of South Africa have started in Cape Town with an opportunity for the general public to learn about the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

29.08.2005 A study conducted by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) with support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy, demonstrates that that one of the reasons why information and communication technology (ICT) projects in schools do not succeed is that principals are often not properly informed about what ICTs can or cannot do.

29.08.2005 Etelä-Afrikassa perustettiin kansanliike köyhyyttä vastaan. Keskusammattiliitto Cosatu johtaa kapinaa liittolaisensa, hallituspuolue ANC:n talouspolitiikkaa vastaan. 72 eri alojen kansalaisjärjestöä kokoontui maanantaina Kapkaupunkiin perustamaan laajan kansanliikkeen köyhyyttä ja työttömyyttä vastaan. Pitkään vireillä olleesta hankkeesta saattaa kehittyä jopa uusi poliittinen puolue.

25.08.2005 Synthesis report on 20 ICT case studies from organisations in South Asia, Southern Africa and Central America. Their activities vary from offering wireless communication equipment to tribal nomads and teaching slum children how to use a computer, to training NGOs how to build a website and online broadcasting of radio programmes.

25.08.2005 The biggest SANGONeT information communication technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society Organisations of South Africa have started in Cape Town with an opportunity for the general public to learn about the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

25.08.2005 ”Turismi on erittäin tärkeä Namibian taloudelle”, korosti Namibian suurlähettiläs Panduleni Shingenge puhuessaan suomalaisille matkanjärjestäjille ja matkailuasioista kirjoittaville toimittajille ulkoasiainministeriössä järjestetyssä matkailutilaisuudessa. Matkailun edistäminen on osa Suomen ja Namibian kaupallis-taloudellisen yhteistyön kehittämistä.

25.08.2005 THE Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has produced a series of electronic lessons that will help students studying physical science.

24.08.2005 United Nations special envoy Anna Tibaijuka’s report on Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina has continued to attract heavy media attention. But while the private media in the country have carried fairly investigative and balanced reports on the topic, the government-controlled media’s coverage is rigid, characterised by shrill defence of government’s implementation of Murambatsvina while simultaneously parading the clampdown’s mop-up successor, Operation Garikai, as a worthy programme.

24.08.2005 A massive government campaign that has forced the Gana and Gwi of Botswana from their ancestral lands is ongoing and only international support can save them, says Survival International, and asks you to join the fight for the Bushmen’s survival.

23.08.2005 The Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf), based in Lusaka, Zambia, is looking to recruit an Executive Director. The Institute was set up in 1996 under the auspices of the Panos Institute London. PSAf has since attained autonomy from the Panos Institute London, and is now governed by a board of respected citizens from several southern African countries.

20.08.2005 JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (IPS) - They are trends that show little sign of abating: the influx of refugees and economic migrants to South Africa, and the extent to which these persons become the target of xenophobia.

19.08.2005 Reilu kauppa tukee Etelä-Afrikassa tilojen omistuksen siirtymistä niiden työntekijöille. Suomessa vierailleen Luthanda Trust -tilan työntekijät omistavat jo 75 prosenttia tilastaan. Reilun kaupan lisillä on rahoitettu yhteisön työntekijöiden lukutaito-opetusta. Tulevaisuudessa lisät suunnitellaan käytettäviksi terveysaseman perustamiseen, vierailijat kertoivat.

18.08.2005 When European settlers landed in South Africa, they hardly saw the locals as cutting-edge scientists and health practitioners. In fact the indigenous people harboured a treasure trove of remedies for all kinds of diseases, knowledge of how to farm effectively and principles of good nutrition. And African women who were mostly the gatekeepers of this knowledge always had a traditional fix for life’s problems.

18.08.2005 The African Union (AU) faces a major embarrassment as President Robert Mugabe appears determined to snub an initiative by the continental body to broker a negotiated solution to Zimbabwe's long running political and economic crisis. Western governments and human rights groups have long accused the AU of standing by in the face of gross human rights abuses by Mugabe and his government.

18.08.2005 While the government purports to have acted within the confines of the law, a close examination of the relevant legislation and international human rights provisions establishes a case of noncompliance at both municipal and international levels. Fundamental principles of administrative justice such the right to be heard and to appeal were not respected. The situation is further compromised by a judiciary that is perceived as lacking in impartiality. Basic rights such as the right to life, housing, education, decent and humane treatment were disregarded in contravention of the many international human rights treaties to which the Zimbabwean government is signatory.

16.08.2005 An inflationary environment and political pressure is making Zimbabwean newspapers financially vulnerable, according to media sources.

15.08.2005 Zimbabwe’s current political and economic turmoil will be high on the agenda when the Southern African Development Community Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (SADC-CNGO) meet from 13 -16 August in Gaborone, Botswana, prior to SADC’s 25th Summit on 17 August.

11.08.2005 According to a new report, sub-Saharan Africa has lost US$272 billion over the past 20 years, which would have been enough to wipe out their debt and pay for every child to be sent to school and vaccinated. These losses have been a direct result of conditions attached to foreign aid, loans and debt relief, which have been imposed upon the countries. The report provides statistics that make it hard to justify trade liberalization, particularly if it is tied to debt relief.

10.08.2005 JOHANNESBURG, Aug 9 (IPS) - Images of skeletal children in Niger, wasted away by malnutrition, have featured prominently in the media over recent weeks. Amidst efforts to alleviate this suffering, however, there are fears that the crisis in Niger may undermine donor willingness to tackle problems elsewhere on the continent -- notably in Southern Africa.