Full Coverage: Southern Africa

30.09.2005 Four South Africans have set up a social networking website to connect South Africans from all over the world.

29.09.2005 Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, the Kalahari Bushmen today learnt that their organisation, First People of the Kalahari, had won the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for "resolute resistance against eviction from their ancestral lands, and for upholding the right to their traditional way of life."
The organisation shares the Right Livelihood Award with activists from Canada, Malaysia and Mexico.

29.09.2005 Activists from Botswana, Canada, Malaysia and Mexico have won this year's Right Livelihood Award - the "alternative Nobel Peace Prize".

29.09.2005 Four representatives of a grassroots organisation fighting for the rights of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen to return to their ancestral homeland have allegedly been beaten in custody since their arrest on 24 September.

29.09.2005 The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has launched a mobile summons printing and warrant faxing system that will enable traffic officers to re-issue summonses and produce warrant copies to traffic offenders on the road.

27.09.2005 The leaders of a group of 28 Bushmen, which included seven children, have been arrested by Botswana police as they tried to enter their ancestral homeland, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

26.09.2005 Deputy minister of communications, Roy Padayachie of S.Africa has recently launched a telecentre at the Qalabotjha multi-purpose community centre (MPCC) in the Free State.

23.09.2005 The Bushmen of Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve are being starved from their homes by wildlife officers, according to a Bushman who was arrested inside the reserve after he tried to stop 19 armed wildlife officers entering his hut without a search warrant.

16.09.2005 The digital divide between rich and poor is slowly becoming a divide between African countries and the rest of the world, said Rudolph Muller, lecturer at the department of business IT at the University of Johannesburg and founder of the broadband Web site, MyADSL.

15.09.2005 The Bushmen of Botswana have been fighting a lengthy court battle for their ancesteral homeland; the government wants the land to be used by international diamond mining companies. The standoff took an ugly turn earlier this week.

12.09.2005 MTN and Thinta Thinta Telecoms (T3) have launched multimedia centres in two schools in the Ugu region in KwaZulu-Natal as part of the MTN Foundation's Schools Connectivity Programme.

08.09.2005 Severe food shortages are beginning to hit southern Africa, with Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe worst affected.

07.09.2005 On 11 September, Amnesty International South Africa and CVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, will launch a powerful documentary film at the TRI Continental Film Festival, as part of their continuing efforts to encourage Southern African solidarity against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly in Zimbabwe.

07.09.2005 Wildlife guards have entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and are threatening Bushmen at gunpoint in an attempt to force them to abandon their homes.

06.09.2005 South Africa has clear and measurable ICT targets, the presidential international advisory council on information society and development said at a council which convened its annual meeting in Zeerust in the Northwest.

06.09.2005 At the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) conference in Gaborone, the "Gaborone Declaration" proposal was adopted, which will be presented to the UNESCO general assembly.

05.09.2005 As the technological world perpetually evolves, Namibians are equally becoming more involved in sophisticated yet skillful ways of enhancing their communications.Testimony to this is the introduction of Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that entails making a normal call via the internet connection.

05.09.2005 Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is being used successfully to collect data at conferences, exhibitions and other events in South Africa.

02.09.2005 African libraries are discovering new roles in society being centres of community relevance where the youth can learn the habits of good citizenship.

02.09.2005 In a surprise move cash-strapped Zimbabwe has paid off a substantial part of its arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but economists are raising questions over the government's capacity to import enough maize to feed up to 4 million people facing food shortages.