Full Coverage: Southern Africa

12.11.2009 "You couldn’t have clearer evidence of the racism towards Bushmen in Botswana than this incident."

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
+ Where is the Church of England’s heart invested?

23.10.2009 For many Western campaigners, the collapse of apartheid was a highlight – perhaps the highlight - of their political lives. “Separate development” was so disgusting and the enemy so obdurate that success was particularly sweet.

16.10.2009 When campaigners despair of success they need only recall the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to renew their belief and optimism. But as the Behind the Rainbow declares at the end of the documentary, “South Africa is no longer the world’s greatest fairytale.”

09.10.2009 The South African Council of Churches has joined in condemnation of what it describes as "savage attacks" on poor, defenceless members of the a Durban community resisting relocation and fighting for a place to call home.
+ Democracy’s everyday death: South Africa's quiet coup

16.09.2009 Winston the carrier pigeon delivered a packet of data 60 miles in a faster time than South Africa's flagship ADSL service. BBC News

01.09.2009 How will the new South African president address the long failure of post-apartheid land reforms? His first move is to establish new ministerial responsibilities. IRIN News

31.08.2009 The characteristics of HIV/AIDS and climate change could not be more different. But there are remarkable similarities in the reluctance to change human behaviour that both crises have encountered.

17.08.2009 More news of the difficulty in lifting rates of HIV testing and treatment in South Africa. Maternal mortality figures tell the story. IRIN News

23.07.2009 The South African government will crack down on violent protests which erupted this week over delivery of basic services, it said today.

05.07.2009 Sandra Laing was black, born to white parents in apartheid South Africa. She is raised as white but while at school she was reclassified as "Coloured" and expelled. Her shocked father fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. He wins and Sandra is reclassified white. That’s a good start to a story. But there’s more to come in Skin.

02.06.2009 Violence, sexual abuse, harassment, appalling living conditions and a serious lack of access to essential healthcare define the desperate lives of thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa today, warns a new report.

27.05.2009 The London Museum has a new display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Apartheid Movement - "As an example of the power of collective action, this history still has great relevance today."

06.04.2009 I'm trying to keep an open mind on the potential role of GM technology in global food security. This case study of corporate pressure on small farmers in South Africa illustrates how not to go about it. from IPS

13.03.2009 Lesbians in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will "cure" them of their sexual orientation, says a leading development group.

24.02.2009 An appeal is to be heard next week over a groundbreaking judgment in which the Johannesburg High Court declared pre-paid water meters unconstitutional and ordered the city administration to provide an increase in free basic water allocation.

13.02.2009 Lovers buying wine for Valentine’s Day are warned that South African workers face poverty wages supplying British supermarkets.

12.01.2009 South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned a judge's ruling dismissing graft charges against ANC leader Jacob Zuma, opening the way for fresh corruption charges against him.

05.01.2009 Santu Mofokeng produces photographs that refuse to be overtly political, but nonetheless contain a fundamental political dimension. He seeks a broader story about black life in which people are portrayed as more than just urban activists locked into violence.

11.12.2008 Botswana government approval of a diamond mine on the land of the Kalahari Bushmen on condition that Gem Diamonds does not provide the Bushmen with water is slammed as "scandalous".