Countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s most vulnerable to “shocks to food supplies.” “‘Of 50 nations most at risk, 36 are located in Africa,’ according to Fiona Place, an environmental analyst at British-based consultancy Maplecroft, which compiled the 163-nation food security risk index.”
Eusebius McKaiser, a political analyst and an associate at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Centre for Ethics, has the best assessment I have seen yet of the pending Democratic Alliance-Independent Democrat merger.
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You can’t have it both ways, right? One of the downsize of publicizing articles on facebook account is that people have the tendency to respond there instead of here. Facebook is increasingly becoming a valuable tool for citizenry engagement. Despite the reality that computers are out of reach for many people, mobile phones are making […]
The potential showdown between the media (and advocates of media freedom) and the South African government (which at least in this case means the ANC) continues to resonate and worry observers of the country’s political scene. It seems to me that the government would want to err on the side of avoiding being lumped in […]
Oh, Southern African Development Community (SADC) you little scamps! Robert Mugabe’s government (and for all intents and purposes it is still Mugabe’s government) got crushed in a regional court that ruled against government “land reform” and in favor of white farmers. Mugabe blatantly ignored the court. There is little gray area here — both the […]
Forget about all the talk about political repression, human rights violations, and economic suffering in Zimbabwe. The real excitement on Facebook is Mugabe’s speech, at the just-concluded Windhoek SADC summit in Namibia, that people are talking about. Mugabe was the summit’s keynote speaker, a summit that also saw former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda deliver an […]
This is just a quick update about the SADC summit underway in Windhoek, Namibia. The chairperson of the Namibia Non-governmental Organisations Forum (Nangof) Trust, and fellow trustees have asked the Windhoek High Court to declare both the SADC demonstration ban and section 2 of the Public Gatherings Proclamation, AG 23 of 1989 unconstitutional. Nangof Trust’s […]
WHILE SADC heads of state and government meet in Windhoek this week, civil society organisations from the region are also holding a two-day meeting in Windhoek called ‘The SADC People’s Summit’. The two-day event started yesterday and is organized by the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN). Read more at http://allafrica.com/stories/201008170634.html
The Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are meeting in Namibia’s capital city Windhoek for SADC’s 30th Summit yesterday August 16 and today August 17, 2010. Apparently, high on the summit agenda is the organization’s pledge to address the region’s “hotspots” such as Lesotho, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and the east […]
Just a few stories from South Africa, with brief commentary as appropriate: Public sector employees in South Africa went on strike last week. They were asking for a wage hike and increased housing allowances. Expect heightened labor activity across South Africa in the weeks and months to come. South Africa was able to avert potentially […]
The long-discussed merger of Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance (DA) and Patricia De Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) is another step closer to happening as the DA has signed a “memorandum of understanding” that is supposed to lead to a full merger by 2014. Four years is a forever in South African politics (think of how things […]
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