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Category: Southern Africa

Southern Africa, southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Malawi Caregivers Malawi OP-ED 

Passion and caring for other people leads to 800+ Malawian trained caregivers

Global Author,
By Janet Karim 30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a… Read More
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South Africans vote in crucial general election

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , , ,
South Africans have been voting on Wednesday in a general election that has been considered very crucial in the country’s history. Voting has been progressing smoothly across the country on Wednesday with special voting already held on Monday for selected voters. Wednesday’s voting is coming thirty years after the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule. Voting is… Read More
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South Africa holds early voting ahead of Wednesday’s main vote

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , ,
South Africa has held early voting for some special group of voters on Monday ahead of the main vote in the general elections on Wednesday. The special voting was meant for registered voters who are unable to travel to a voting station because of physical challenges such as disability, pregnancy or advanced age. In many retirement homes, voters were able… Read More
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South Africa’s top court bars Zuma from contesting election

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , ,
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma cannot run in this month’s general elections after the country’s top court ruled to bar him. Zuma, who resigned as president in 2018, fell out with the governing African National Congress (ANC). He has been campaigning for a new party called uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) named after the ANC’s formed armed wing. Zuma was… Read More
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South Africa: Rescue efforts end at collapsed building

Elwin Mandowa, , , , , , ,
South Africa has announced an end to rescue efforts at the site of a building collapse in George. At least 33 construction workers died from the disaster with 19 people still unaccounted for when the five-storey luxury apartment building collapsed on May 6. 29 survivors were pulled from the debris though and most of them receiving medical treatment. The rescue… Read More
Kamuzu Banda Malawi OP-ED 

I remember Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda…. BOMA lathu!

Janet Karim, , ,
By Janet Karim 17 ‘In the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. — Acts 2:17-18 This week, I come… Read More
Human Rights Malawi 

Is Malawi’s No vote in Human Rights resolution sacrificing rights of children and parents?

Janet Karim,
By Janet Karim God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” — Gen. 1:28a The decisions we make when we vote have effects on society beyond us,… Read More
Malawi OP-ED 

Sadness about the Sad Story of Malawi: A response to the Pastoral Letter 2024

Janet Karim,
By Janet Karim You come to me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defiled. — 1 Samuel 17:45 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde The reactions to the Pastoral Lenten Letter by the Catholic… Read More