Mozambique: Twin storms leave 25 dead
By Sarah | January 25, 2012
IRIN Africa, 25 January 2012
Two tropical storms in quick succession in Mozambique in recent days have left at least 25 dead, tens of thousands affected by flooding, and communications infrastructure damaged. Read the rest of this entry »
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Zimbabwe suspends state workers’ strike
By admin | January 24, 2012
Mail & Guardian Online, 24 January 2012
Zimbabwe union leaders on Tuesday suspended a strike that shuttered the nation’s schools as civil servants demanded a doubling of basic wages, on the eve of talks with the government, a spokesperson said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: Government ready for 2013 elections
By Sarah | January 20, 2012
Swazi Observer, 19 January 2012
GOVERNMENT is more than ready to conduct the national elections next year. This was revealed by Minister of Justice Chief Mgwagwa Gamedze.
He was speaking during a courtesy visit to the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) offices yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: the students’ president is still in jail
By Sarah | January 20, 2012
NUS Connect, 19 January 2012
Blog by Sibusiso Magnificent Nhlabatsi
Maxwell Dlamini, President of the Swaziland National Union of Students was arrested on April 2011. He was charged under the Explosives Act in that he was suspected to have had explosives. He made bail application at the Manzini Magistrate Court where the court refused to grant him bail. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique and SA’s Kruger park hit by deadly floods
By Sarah | January 19, 2012
BBC News, 19 January 2012
Four people have died and more than 4,000 others are without shelter after torrential rains in Mozambique.
Three days of storms and high winds have hit water and power supplies and destroyed farm animals and cash crops. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lesotho: Ban on women chiefs must end
By Sarah | January 17, 2012
AllAfrica.com, 17 January 2012
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing submissions in a landmark case that is due before the country’s Constitutional Court next month. Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa and Swaziland to build $2 bln rail line
By Sarah | January 12, 2012
Reuters Africa, 12 January 2012
“That should take our capacity on the coal line beyond 91 million tonnes, closer to 100 million tonnes,” he said.
Construction of South Africa’s first new rail line in several decades and upgrades will begin next year and are expected to be completed by 2016.
A large portion of the costs, up to 12 billion rand, would be covered by South Africa and the remainder by Swaziland. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nelson Mandela mini-series planned for TV
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
BBC, 9 January 2012
A mini-series based on the life of Nelson Mandela is in the pipeline, with producers including the former South African president’s grandson.
Writers attached to the project include Nigel Williams, who wrote the 2005 Helen Mirren mini-series, Elizabeth I. Read the rest of this entry »
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Floods leave Angolan returnees stranded
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
IRIN News, 6 January 2012
Several thousand Angolan returnees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded by floods in northeastern Angola. They are among the first casualties of what promises to be a very wet rainy season in parts of southern Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: HIV+ patients in a dilemma
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
Times of Swaziland, 10 January 2012
Many HIV positive patients in the country cannot have their CD4 count checked as there are still no analyser machine reagents in the country’s hospitals.
This is because government lacaks E7 million to purchase them, it has since been gathered. Read the rest of this entry »
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