RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN, Aug 10 (IPS) - In 1956, twenty thousand women marched to parliament to protest discriminatory pass laws. The march, commemorated as Womens Day in South Africa on Aug. 9 each year, has become iconic of womens ...
SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN, May 14 (IPS) - Migrant farm workers in South Africa are entitled to the same workplace rights as any other employee. But the reality across the country suggests the opposite. Underpayment, long working hours, poor ...
POLITICS-SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN, Apr 24 (IPS) - As results of South Africa's fourth democratic elections held on Apr. 22 come in, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is poised to return to power in the 400 seat National Assembly. ...
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN, Mar 28 (IPS) - Women from South Africa's three Cape provinces have marched to parliament in Cape Town to denounce the country's "slow and unbalanced" land redistribution programme. The protesters said if ...
SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN, Mar 26 (IPS) - In yet another attempt to bolster food security in the country, a charity organisation has opened a food bank in Cape Town which will operate like a huge warehouse from which food is handed out to ...
ZIMBABWE: HARARE, Feb 26 (IPS) - Womens rights activists in Zimbabwe are outraged by the low representation of female politicians in the new unity government. Only four women are part of the 35-member cabinet, laughably short of the equal ...
Q&A: Davison Makanga interviews FARID ABDULKADIR, Zimbabwe head of operations, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent HARARE, Jan 23 (IPS) - Nearly 50,000 cases of cholera have been reported in Zimbabwe by the World Health ...
RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: HARARE, Nov 15 (IPS) - "I was raped by four Zanu PF militias at night, just outside their base, during the elections. They took turns to rape me, accusing me of supporting the opposition, MDC [Movement for Democratic ...
ZIMBABWE: CAPE TOWN, Oct 16 (IPS) - Zimbabwe's agricultural production has been hit by a long list of difficulties -- several rounds of severe drought, a collapsed currency that has made fertiliser and other farm inputs very expensive, ill- ...
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