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SOUTH AFRICA: Arms Deal Triggers ‘Worst Post-Apartheid Crisis’
A 3.9-billion-dollar arms deal between South Africa and several European multinationals has plunged the country into its worst post-apartheid political crisis, with President Thabo Mbeki announcing an inquiry into allegations that the chief investigator of alleged corruption in the deal was an apartheid spy.TRADE: Arms Deal Plunges South Africa Into Its Worst Post-Apartheid Crisis
An arms deal worth about 3.9 billion U.S. dollars concluded between South Africa and several European multinationals has plunged South Africa into its worst post-apartheid political crisis./ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE/SOUTH AFRICA: A Legacy of Apartheid
India has the Gandhi memorial park in Delhi, the United States has its Vietnam memorial in Washington and the French have the Eiffel Tower, now South Africa is seized with how it will remember apartheid and establish a legacy project that speaks quintessentially of the country and its history.TRADE-AFRICA: Growth Depends on Access to Market, Not Aid
As the next round of trade talks gets underway in Cancun, Mexico next month, it has emerged that Africa would benefit far more from the better access to the European Union and the United States markets than it does from aid.POLITICS: New AU Chief, Konare, is Africa’s Alpha
The big men of Africa, its heads of state, dominated Mozambique's port city of Maputo last week as their cavalcades careened through the small city's roads.POPULATION: African Union Courts Africans in Diaspora
Through the centuries, Africa's story has been one of outward migration - from the era of slavery to the present era of migration where hardship and a lack of opportunity have seen many people from the continent seek their better lives elsewhere.TRADE-AFRICA: Bush Calls for More Access to U.S. Market
When it comes to the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, the United States' preferential trade pact with 36 countries in Africa, the glass is half-empty or half-full depending on who you talk to.POLITICS-AFRICA: Gender Dinosaurs At AU Conference
-Womens rights in Africa took several leaps forward when the African Union's executive council insisted that equal gender representation to its governing structure would not be diluted.POLITICS-AFRICA: Angry Protestors Target Bush Trip
Protestors in three African nations are gearing for marches to coincide with the visit to five countries by U.S. President George W. Bush.ECONOMY: Ten Years After the End of Apartheid, Blacks Still Own Nothing
What does political power matter if it is not matched by economic power? This is the rationale gripping South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid.ECONOMY: Ten Years After the End of Apartheid, Blacks Still Own Nothing
What does political power matter if it is not matched by economic power? This is the rationale gripping South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid.POLITICS: South Africa’s First Female-Led Party Launched
South Africa's first significant female-led political party was launched in South Africa by Patricia de Lille, a former trade unionist and leader of the Pan Africanist Congress.RIGHTS: AIDS – the Latest Challenge to Face South Africa’s Poor children
"My father died a long time ago," says an 11-year old girl from South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.EDUCATION-SOUTH AFRICA: Shattering Gender Stereotyping
If her school blazer is anything to go by, 17-year-old Charmaine Mahaya is an achiever. Her blazer is decorated from the lapel to the bottom seam with a series of badges symbolising academic and sporting success at her Johannesburg semi-public school.HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Gov’t, AIDS Group Heading for A Winter of Discontent
Government and the AIDS movement are heading for another winter of discontent in South Africa as attempts to forge a national deal on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment fell apart at the weekend.POLITICS-SOUTH AFRICA: Anti-War Protesters Join Millions Around the Globe
At least 40,000 protesters in South Africa took to the tarmac in Cape Town and Johannesburg with a ringing anti-war message at the weekend, joining millions around the globe.POLITICS: South Africa Urges Majority UN Members to Try to Prevent War in Iraq
South Africa is marshalling developing countries in the United Nations to try and prevent war between Iraq and the United States rather than letting the US ride roughshod over the will of the majority of members of the international organisation.POLITICS-SOUTH AFRICA: Renewed Calls to Tighten Private Party Funding
Another corruption scandal involving company donations to political parties in South Africa has led to renewed calls for the regulation of the private funding of parties.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: The Axes of Global Plenty and Global Need
Two major world meetings now underway, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, represent the axes of global plenty and global need.POLITICS: African Countries Getting Ready to Deploy Troops in Burundi
African countries are getting ready to deploy troops to Burundi in an effort to enforce a peace agreement between rebel movements and the government - just in case increased diplomatic efforts to end the civil war fail.POLITICS-SOUTH AFRICA: New Party May Become A Viable Opposition
South Africa's youngest political party, the United Democratic Movement (UDM), is set to hold its first national conference and unveil its official policies this weekend.
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