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ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success By Violet Nakamba Mengo LUSAKA - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members. MORE >>
NAMIBIA: "If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It" By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people." MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis By Ann Hellman CAPE TOWN - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and education experts say they fear that a special focus on the advancement of girls is getting lost amidst the growing levels of poverty in the country. MORE >>
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature By Denis Gathanju DAR-ES-SALAAM - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. MORE >>
NAMIBIA: Female Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Stereotypes By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - African hip-hop prides itself on a more positive portrayal of women, but traditional cultural attitudes towards women still dominate the industry, say Namibian female rappers. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries’ health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness By Ann Hellman CAPE TOWN - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase By Zukiswa Zimela JOHANNESBURG - Twenty-two-year-old Sara Allen* uses prescription medication to get high. MORE >>
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