Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Fidelis Zvomuya RAFFINGORA, Zimbabwe, Aug 14 (IPS) – Mavis Muchena sits on the veranda of her mud hut, a middle-aged single mother of four with a face worn beyond her years and hands creased from working the soil. She should represent the future of a renewed farming boom [...]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Removing Barriers to Trade
August 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Charles Mpaka* BLANTYRE, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) – Cecilia Gondwe waits in the shade of a tree at the Mwanza Border Post between Malawi and Mozambique. Somewhere inside, a clearing agent is completing elaborate paperwork on her behalf. The agent will deal with customs officials, going over [...]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Benefits of Working Together on Water
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Terna Gyuse GABORONE, Apr 20 (IPS) – The river basin organisation people are gathered in Botswana again: the theme this year is ”benefit-sharing”, an approach to allocating water that, it is promised, will accomplish nothing less than to make more water. As a region, Southern Africa faces water scarcity [...]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
March 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 17 (IPS) – Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national [...]
AFRICA: We Are the Government
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jessie Boylan LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique, Nov 6 (IPS) – As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other [...]
Q&A: Regional Prescriptions for Water Management
September 18, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Patrick Burnett interviews LENKA THAMAE, executive secretary of the Orange-Senqu River Commission MASERU, Sep 18 (IPS) – The Orange-Senqu River has a one million square kilometre basin that covers Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The water it provides is crucial to industry in South Africa, but is also [...]
SWAZILAND: Educating Angels
September 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mantoe Phakathi BULEMBU, Swaziland, Sep 17 (IPS) – It is not a typical classroom setup where pupils sit in rows facing the front with a teacher lecturing before them. Instead, Angel Hlatshwayo (13), like the rest of her colleagues, sits in an individual cubicle concentrating on the work before [...]
POLITICS-AFRICA: Zimbabweans Rubbish SADC’s Sanctions Call
September 9, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Sept. 09 (IPS) – Southern African leaders have once again failed the people of Zimbabwe by making a show of support for the country’s long-serving dictator. The unresolved issues plaguing Zimbabwe’s coalition government is set to drag on after southern African leaders once again failed to [...]
SOUTHERN AFRICA: ”Women Can Be More Than Small-Scale Farmers”
September 8, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda HARARE, Sep 8 (IPS) – ”Government must lead in breaking down the stereotypes of women as tuck-shop owners, candle-makers, peasant farmers, teachers and nurses and create the reality in which they become hoteliers, large-scale commercial farmers, miners and proprietors of retail chains.” These were the words of [...]
WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Managing An Unpredictable Environment
September 4, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Hanson Tamfu interviews AMY SULLIVAN, Limpopo Basin Focal Project MAPUTO, Sep 4 (IPS) – The water available in the Limpopo River basin, which stretches across Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is both in great demand and highly variable. Managing it effectively and to the satisfaction of all [...]
