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/ 21 February 2008
All three main candidates in Zimbab-we’s presidential race launch their campaigns this Saturday, taking the race into top gear. But the excitement in the campaign contrasts sharply with the massive administrative chaos that is dogging preparations for the elections.
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/ 11 February 2008
Simba Makoni chose a five-star hotel to announce his candidacy for Zimbabwe’s presidency recently, but he will have to get down in the trenches if he is to pose a serious threat to President Robert Mugabe. His announcement whipped up a great deal of enthusiasm among a Zimbabwean electorate demoralised by the opposition’s failure at the weekend to agree on a united front against Mugabe.
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/ 8 February 2008
Bucket toilets will remain part of the South African landscape, despite promises by President Thabo Mbeki, premiers and provincial ministers that this dehumanising system will be eradicated shortly. Last year in his State of the Nation address Mbeki promised that by the end of 2007 all South Africans would have access to sanitation.
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/ 28 January 2008
The Southern African region is at risk of not meeting the millennium development goal on poverty eradication, as power outages become a daily occurrence. Countries including Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa experience regular electricity cuts, leading to outages at clinics and schools — key public facilities essential to meeting the goals.
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/ 11 January 2008
Scores of Kenyans living in South Africa handed a petition to the Kenyan High Commission in Pretoria this week demanding that President Mwai Kibaki stand down. <i>M&G</i> reporters Warren Foster, Nosimilo Ndlovu, Zodidi Mhlana and Surika van Schalkwyk spoke to some of the petitioners to get views.
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/ 21 December 2007
”Can a condom protect your heart? Can a condom protect your mind? Can a condom protect your virginity?” asks a crew member from Silver Ring Thing, an international purity organisation. It is a Saturday night in Eldorado Park and the community hall is packed with young people who have come to see the Silver Ring Thing show.
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/ 21 December 2007
You sense an overwhelming feeling of anticipation as you pass the rooms in the maternity ward. Tumi Gaoaketse’s excitement is contagious as she leads us to her baby’s bed. Onthatile was born on December 6 at the hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto. His mother describes him as a gift from God; the baby boy she gave birth to a year ago died shortly after he was born.
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/ 7 December 2007
All copies of a new book that notorious apartheid murderer Eugene de Kock believes defames him and harms both his dignity and his reputation are being withdrawn from bookshops. This follows a Pretoria High Court interim order two weeks ago after De Kock applied to the court to halt further sales of the book, White Power and the Rise and Fall of the National Party.
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/ 29 November 2007
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Poor leadership in the national executive committee of the ANC Women’s League as well as a surge of ”careerism” in its ranks are to blame for the 11th-hour switch in the league’s allegiance to support ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma, ANC insiders said. Although the NEC was convinced it could unite the league’s vote behind President Thabo Mbeki, it did not do the necessary work to convince the provinces to follow its lead.
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/ 19 November 2007
The people of Delmas are suffering from an epidemic that does not officially exist. Despite the death of an infant and the treatment of 690 people in Botleng for diarrhoea in the past two weeks, authorities say they can find no cure for the illness sweeping the area. Residents fear this is a recurrence of an outbreak of typhoid in 2005, which was caused by municipal water being contaminated with human faeces.