Swaziland
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
New EU Plan of Action on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation
An EU ‘Action Plan’ is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2010 to further place gender at the centre of the EU's development policy, involving more coordination with the European Union’s 27 member states, says Victoria Correa, in charge of gender issues at the EC...
In Mbabane, the capital of the small Kingdom of Swaziland, the sd.com art gallery has been set up to increase the value of local artistic production, aiming to fight poverty brought about by internal migration.
Many women leave their rural villages and move to the cities, stimulated by the pull of presumably more desirable conditions and opportunities in urban areas combined with the push...
“No democracy can exist without discipline” - President Seretse Khama Ian Khama
Turning Botswana from middle to high income country is the focus of Seretse Khama Ian Khama, who continued the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) 42 years of leadership of Botswana when he became President on April 1 2008.
A Paramount chief of the Bamangwato, Botswana’s largest ethnic...
From low to middle income nation
The San people, or Baswara, were the earliest known inhabitants of Botswana. In the 17th and 18th centuries, speakers of Setswana, who also settled in South Africa, were followed in the early 19th century by some Europeans. Outside interest in the discovery of gold in Francistown in east Botswana led to one of the Batswana leaders, Khama III, seeking the...
Media and freedom of expression are increasingly a contentious issue in the Southern Africa region with most countries in the process of discussing new media laws and suppression of media rising in some countries. Southern Africa is still in the throes of developing its media and countries such as Zimbabe still have a long way to go in this area. To demonstrate the state of media in Southern...
New areas of cooperation and differences over future trade relations between South Africa and the European Union (EU) were top billing at the joint ministerial meeting between the two in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 3 June, ahead of the first ever South Africa-EU Summit in Bordeaux, France, on 25 July.
Co-chaired by South Africa’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosawana...
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
EU grounds African airlines
An EU ban on over 100 African airlines from its airspace is benefitting EU companies, says the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The latest update of the EU’s regularly revised ‘blacklist’ of international air companies that do not comply with EU regulations was published on 30 March 2010. Eleven – out...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
New EU Plan of Action on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation
An EU ‘Action Plan’ is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2010 to further place gender at the centre of the EU's development policy, involving more coordination with the European Union’s 27 member states, says Victoria Correa, in charge of gender issues at the EC...
In Mbabane, the capital of the small Kingdom of Swaziland, the sd.com art gallery has been set up to increase the value of local artistic production, aiming to fight poverty brought about by internal migration.
Many women leave their rural villages and move to the cities, stimulated by the pull of presumably more desirable conditions and opportunities in urban areas combined with the push...
“No democracy can exist without discipline” - President Seretse Khama Ian Khama
Turning Botswana from middle to high income country is the focus of Seretse Khama Ian Khama, who continued the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) 42 years of leadership of Botswana when he became President on April 1 2008.
A Paramount chief of the Bamangwato, Botswana’s largest ethnic...
From low to middle income nation
The San people, or Baswara, were the earliest known inhabitants of Botswana. In the 17th and 18th centuries, speakers of Setswana, who also settled in South Africa, were followed in the early 19th century by some Europeans. Outside interest in the discovery of gold in Francistown in east Botswana led to one of the Batswana leaders, Khama III, seeking the...
Media and freedom of expression are increasingly a contentious issue in the Southern Africa region with most countries in the process of discussing new media laws and suppression of media rising in some countries. Southern Africa is still in the throes of developing its media and countries such as Zimbabe still have a long way to go in this area. To demonstrate the state of media in Southern...
New areas of cooperation and differences over future trade relations between South Africa and the European Union (EU) were top billing at the joint ministerial meeting between the two in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 3 June, ahead of the first ever South Africa-EU Summit in Bordeaux, France, on 25 July.
Co-chaired by South Africa’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosawana...
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