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ZIMBABWE: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Arrears? By Zenzele Ndebele BULAWAYO - Faced with nearly six billion dollars of external debt, Zimbabwe's national unity government is considering applying for Highly Indebted Poor Country status. MORE >>
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum HARARE - The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Dreams of Free Education Deferred By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Ten-year-old Tembuso Magagula sat outside her classroom with her shoulders hunched against the cold today, tears streaming from her eyes. Her long-awaited first day of school had turned into a nightmare. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: One Million Casualties of Land Reform By Ann Hellman JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN - The seizure of large commercial farms - almost all white-owned - has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the biggest losers. MORE >>
MAURITIUS: These Women Chose the Sea By Nasseem Ackburally PORT-LOUIS - She cannot swim, but Marie-Claite Hector is not afraid of the ocean. The 53-year-old pushes her small boat with all her strength towards the blue lagoon, starts the engine, and sets out to sea. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO - A project in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using "marginal water" to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living. MORE >>
RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: New Threats to Media Freedom By Ephraim Nsingo HARARE - Death threats allegedly made by a senior police officer to a journalist and the arrest of a photographer, all in the space of a few days, have heightened fears of a new onslaught on the country’s media. MORE >>
ZAMBIA: Scarcely Room for Women in Male-dominated Politics By Zarina Geloo LUSAKA - Charity Mwansa, a former minister and member of parliament, knows just exactly what being one of the very few female politicians in Zambia means. When she left politics it had nothing to with not being able to do the work and instead had everything to do with the mad world of male-dominated politics. MORE >>
MALAWI: Love That Dares To Speak Its Name By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - The traditional engagement ceremony of two men on Dec. 26, 2009 has created controversy in conservative Malawi. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were arrested two days after their engagement and remain in police custody, facing long jail terms. MORE >>
Q&A: Defining - and Defying - the 'Most Proper Way' to be Sexual Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MELISSA STEYN, author and professor of diversity studies CAPE TOWN - "The Prize and The Price - Shaping Sexualities in South Africa" is the first book of its kind in South Africa to unpack the ideology behind the enforcement of "acceptable" versions of sex, gender and sexuality. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Training Teachers to Cope with HIV-positive Students By Vusumuzi Sifile HARARE - Eleven-year-old Memory’s grandmother wanted her to drop out of school because she is not going to live long enough to complete her studies. And the ridicule and stigma Memory endures at school because of her HIV status does not make her education seem worthwhile. Especially since this ridicule comes from her teacher. MORE >>
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