Full Coverage: Southern Africa

26.10.2007 A police officer In South Africa manhandled and confiscated equipment belonging to The Star photographer Matthews Baloyi while chief photographer Chris Collingridge was arrested for talking down the registration number of a private car used by a police officer. He was later released.

23.10.2007 Following Thursday's violent murder of music superstar and social justice advocate Lucky Dube, former OneWorld editor Alison Raphael comments on the crime that has become endemic in South Africa.

19.10.2007 "Maybe we were only fighting the past government because it was a white government. But that's not the case with me," said Lucky Dube in a 2000 interview. "I was just fighting the system. It's the same now. If there's injustice or any sort of nonsense toward the people, I sing about that."
From: BuaNews (South Africa)

19.10.2007 Innovative service programs in North America, Pakistan, India, and South Africa are helping young people push for the advancement of their communities as well as their own personal development.

16.10.2007 The Swazi media faces a new threat following a call by Parliament for government to pilot the contentious Media Council Bill within eight weeks.

11.10.2007 HIV-positive South Africans are finding love through an online dating service specifically designed for them, which helps to break the social stigmas associated with AIDS.

11.10.2007 Over 180 participants attended the National ICT Policy Launch and Expo 2007 in Swaziland at the Royal Swazi Spa Convention Centre.

05.10.2007 All the 3,200 miners trapped at an underground site near Johannesburg have now been brought to the surface after a pipe broke and cut an electricity cable connected to the gold mine's elevator shaft.

02.10.2007 In the face of climate change-driven agricultural decline, a farming method called "conservation agriculture" multiplied one Tanzanian maize farmer's harvest by eight tons over a ten-year period.

01.10.2007 This fourth South African ICT Sector Performance Review (SPR) seeks to measure and assess some of these market developments against national policy objectives such as access to services, cost of usage and competitiveness.