Full Coverage: Southern Africa

29.05.2006 South African police are targetting people they perceive to be foreigners for harassment, according to human rights bodies.

19.05.2006 Namibian advocacy groups have vowed to continue fighting for a monthly cash allowance for all citizens to help cope with poverty, despite being turned down by the government.

19.05.2006 Aung San Suu Kyi received three times as many nominations as Nelson Mandela to win the New Statesman "Heroes of Our Time" vote.
* After meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, UN envoy leaves Myanmar

15.05.2006 South Africa still suffers from "institutionalized gender oppression," says rights activist Delphine Serumaga, believing that the Jacob Zuma verdict reinforces chauvinistic attitudes toward rape as well as male privilege and power. Serumaga and four other South Africans respond to Zuma's acquittal.

11.05.2006 Gender activists are describing a new sexual offences bill, expected to be tabled in the South African parliament this week, as a step backwards in terms of rape survivors' ability to protect themselves from HIV infection

09.05.2006

Jacob Zuma © allAfrica.com

He said her skirt was an invitation. He said he showered after sex to minimize the threat of HIV infection. He was South Africa's deputy president, and after his acquittal Monday activists pledged to continue the struggle for justice in the country where a rape is committed every 26 seconds.

04.05.2006 Universal access to information and knowledge can yield positive spin-offs to help governments of the world meet the Millennium Development Goals to halve poverty and unemployment by 2015.

01.05.2006 Dr. Lindiwe N. Sisulu, daughter of African National Congress veterans Walter and Albertina Sisulu, has been South Africa's Housing Minister since 2004. She has been actively involved in her country's politics for at least three decades including working with the underground in exile. Her belief that the poorest of the poor have the right to own a house was evident as she spent a day in Mumbai visiting the homes of pavement dwellers and then handing them keys to the houses that they can call their own. Kalpana Sharma shares excerpts from a recent interview in Mumbai in The Hindu.