Tutti i temi: Africa del Sud

29.01.2008 Afrikkaa mainitaan tukin koskaan, kun puhutaan kansainvälisestä kaupasta. "Seuraavaksi on Afrikan vuoro", sanoo kuitenkin Anneli Virtanen, Suomen vientiä edistävän Finpron Etelä-Afrikan toimiston johtaja.

25.01.2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, calls for all charges against Lesotho journalist Thabo Thakalekoala to be dropped. These charges include High Treason, a charge that carries the death penalty

21.01.2008 One of the main problems facing government and its partners today is that they are often running blind: many of today’s computer systems are discrete islands of information that exist in isolation and do not communicate with each other.

21.01.2008 Yhdelle mahdollisuus menetetyn maan takaisin saamiseen voi tuoda elinkeinon, toiselle se aiheuttaa entistä pahempia kiistoja viranomaisten kanssa. Vuoden 1994 jälkeen jätetyistä lähes 80 000 palautusvaatimuksesta viitisen prosenttia odottaa vielä käsittelyään.

17.01.2008 On December 11 2007, Communications Minister Mothetjoa Metsing ordered the closure of the People’s Choice (PC FM) radio station. Metsing accused the radio of promoting disorder in the country.

17.01.2008 Mineral wealth has distorted the economy for generations. Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of South Africa's president, on why people want jobs not handouts.
From New Statesman

16.01.2008 a prominent businessman and ruling Botswana Democratic Party councillor, Robert Muzila, is alleged to have verbally harassed "Mmegi" newspaper journalist Oarabile Mosikare.

15.01.2008 Around the edges of Cape Town, older women are leading the fight against hunger, disempowerment, and disease by planting organic community gardens.

14.01.2008 South African scientists are using nanotechnology to develop new and cheap diagnostic tests, advanced materials and energy technologies at the country’s first two nanotechnology research centres.

14.01.2008 About 60,000 Mozambicans have been affected by the flooding of the Zambezi river following unexpectedly heavy rains.

08.01.2008 The unfolding political tragedy in Kenya casts fresh light on the Jacob Zuma "tsunami" and on South Africa's wider political compromise, says Roger Southall.
From openDemocracy
+ OneWorld Guide to South AfricA