Full Coverage: Southern Africa

29.11.2006 Translate.org.za wins African ICT Achiever 2006 Award for its efforts in bridging the digital divide in Africa. The organisation has done the translation of computer software into 11 official languages of South Africa by using a local translator and creating the first South African keyboard.

20.11.2006 Nearly 115 million school-aged children will not be in school on Universal Children's Day today--and not because it's a holiday. To help combat this, the Centre for Development and Population Activities has launched community-based non-formal education programs in three southern African countries.

16.11.2006 "Never again shall a South African be discriminated against on the basis of color, creed, culture, and sex," said a top government official, reacting to the country's legislative approval of gay marriage this week.

09.11.2006 When a culture is destroyed in the name of progress, it is not progress. It is a loss for the world," says Archbishop Desmond Tutu about the Botswana government's treatment of its indigenous people.

01.11.2006 JOHANNESBURG, Nov 1 (IPS) - "I was arrested a dozen times," notes Tapera Kapuya, a student leader at the University of Zimbabwe between 2001 and 2002, who says he was the target of both police and the Southern African country's intelligence agents.