Moyiga Nduru
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/ 10 March 2004

Violence, poverty focus of election campaign

”Campaigning for South Africa’s general elections, to be held next month, has moved into top gear — with politicians scrambling for an endorsement from the country’s 20,7-million registered voters. ”The parties are now in full-swing campaign mood,” says Khabele Matlosa of the Johannesburg-based Electoral Institute of Southern Africa.

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/ 27 February 2004

‘The situation is very grim’

A delegation from Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change is in South Africa to draw attention to the plight of Zimbabwe. They are, yet again, calling for pressure to be brought on the government of President Robert Mugabe, which has presided over a political and economic crisis in the country.

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/ 12 February 2004

Aids, plight of San key issues at Botswana meeting

More than 600 civil society activists from around the world will meet in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, next month to exchange information and ideas about development in Africa and elsewhere. The gathering, under the theme Acting Together for a Just World, is the biennial World Assembly of the World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

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/ 11 February 2004

Race a defining issue in the upcoming election

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The announcement on Monday that South Africa will go to the polls on April 14 for its third democratic election has opened the way for political parties to start campaigning in earnest. But, analysts are already predicting that the ruling African National Congress will be returned to power with a sweeping majority.

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/ 7 February 2004

Sudan’s peace process could still collapse

Sudan’s peace process will collapse if Khartoum and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army refuse to involve others in the talks that are under way in Kenya, political commentators have warned. A number of south Sudanese who are living in South Africa expressed impatience with the Darfur regional conflict.

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/ 22 November 2003

Angola on the move

Angola is literally a country on the move. To date 67 000 refugees have returned home from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Namibia. Angola’s repatriation and reintegration programme is, however, beset with challenges and constraints — for example, the 11-million landmines in that country.

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/ 13 November 2003

Rebels scour Africa in search of support

Rebels in south Sudan have launched a diplomatic offensive in Africa, ahead of November 30 peace talks in Kenya, as part of efforts to end Sudan’s 20-year civil war. More than two million people, most of them civilians, have died in Sudan since the fighting between rebels and the Islamic government in the north resumed in 1983.