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SOUTH AFRICA: Young, Educated and Unemployed
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis.
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DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO - Forty-year-old Thelma Dube was this month told by her long-time employer to stay home. She will be called back to work when business picks up. Her husband got the same instruction, as did hundreds of other workers at the company Textile Mills in Zimbabwe’s second largest city.
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EDUCATION-AFRICA: The Other Crisis
By Mandisi Majavu
CAPE TOWN - The World Economic Forum on Africa has just concluded in Cape Town. If government leaders and captains of industry called for an eight trillion dollar bailout for the continent’s beleaguered education system - like the one found for the world’s biggest bankers - it went unreported.
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MALAWI: Separating the ‘‘Ultra-Poor’’ from the Poor - Why?
By Pilirani Semu-Banda
LILONGWE - A group of civil society organisations in Malawi is pushing for changes to the country’s controversial social cash transfer scheme which has caused tension in communities as it attempts to separate the poor from the ‘‘very poor’’ in a country where some 65 percent of people live on less than a dollar a day.
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MADAGASCAR: Education Hampered by Lack of Clean Water
By Fanja Saholiarisoa
ANTANANARIVO - Because most schools in Madagascar have no access to running water, lack of hygiene and sanitation have become a major problem for children on the Southern African island. Many pupils fall sick regularly, are unable to attend classes and hence don’t perform well at school.
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SWAZILAND: Govt Pleads for More Time On Free Primary Education
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - "This demonstration is close to my heart because the cause we’re fighting for affects me directly," said Thabile Ngwenya, a teacher at a rural primary school teacher in central Swaziland.
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Q&A: 'Move Beyond Goodwill To Action'
Kelvin Kachingwe interviews MARSHA MOYO, United Nations MDG advocate in Zambia
LUSAKA - Efforts to free fiscal resources for social spending over the past few years have started to pay off in Zambia, where government is reporting a positive trend of poverty alleviation and social development. But progress is uneven.
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EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Communities Doing it For Themselves
By Danstan Kaunda
LUSAKA - "My mother has no job and she cannot afford the cost of educating me and my sister at the government school," says 12-year-old Muyunda Nyamba. But the little boy is one of 37,000 children from Zambia's poorest neighbourhoods beginning the new school year calendar at community-run schools.
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ZIMBABWE: Teachers' Strike Infringes Children’s Right to Education
By Stanley Kwenda
HARARE - The crisis of Zimbabwe’s education sector is deepening by the day, as the country’s schools remain closed due to the unremitting teachers strike.
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SWAZILAND: Free Education? Maybe Next Year...
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - Although the Swazi constitution stipulates free primary education from 2009, parents will have to pay school fees this year. Only three days before the start of the January term, the country's government announced it will continue to charge for primary education, contrary to the law.
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ZIMBABWE: ‘Life Is Like A Casino - We Live Each Day As It Comes’
By Stanley Kwenda
HARARE - Long lines of stalls, run by women, have sprung up next to many of Zimbabwe’s highways, selling honey, milk, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions and chickens. As prices in towns skyrocket due to unprecedented inflation levels running in the millions, people leave their towns to purchase basic commodities.
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