Full Coverage: Southern Africa

22.12.2006 The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South.

19.12.2006 Joseph Williams is working to help reduce criminal recidivism in the United States while Caroline Casey is helping promote the contributions people with disabilities make to business in Ireland. Wayan Patut is helping conserve coral reefs in Indonesia, Abdellah Aboulharjan is fostering entrepreneurship in France's immigrant communities...the list goes on and on and on...

19.12.2006 The Botswana government's statement that it will not appeal a High Court ruling in favour of the Central Kalahari Bushmen was welcomed by Survival International today.

15.12.2006 The working conditions, the lack of basic necessities to treat people and all the dying: it is demoralising," said a nurse, 28, who asked that her name not be used. "It's not just the money - it is hard to watch people die and you are helpless to do anything about it because there are no drugs or other things [to treat them]."

14.12.2006 Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's indigenous Bushmen people have the right to live on their ancestral land, from which they had been evicted as diamond mining companies were allowed to move in.

12.12.2006 Trade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala take an indepth look into the prevailing market trends and consumer behaviour.