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”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.
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled a rebel onslaught on Sunday, is searching for a new home — and it appears that he may take up exile in South Africa. Aristide arrived in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), on Monday along with a small entourage that included his wife.
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/ 27 February 2004
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
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
<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 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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/ 26 January 2004
"We live in one world. Not in the first, second, third, fifth or sixth world," Michael Sommer, head of the Confederation of German Trade Unions, said in South Africa last week. Sommer is a member of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s official delegation, currently touring Africa with the leader.
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/ 22 November 2003
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 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.