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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.

Victory for women’s rights in southern Africa as Botswana Court of Appeal finds women can inherit under customary law

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GABORONE – The fight for women’s rights in Botswana took a major step forward today when the Court of Appeal in Ramantele v Mmusi and Others upheld the right of four sisters to inherit their family homestead, rejecting the argument that under Ngwaketse customary law only sons were allowed to inherit it. Read More

Improving Pre_trail Justice in Malawi thorugh Training Programmes

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Lilongwe, 27 August – While Malawi has strengthened its judicial policies in recent years, it still struggles to implement and enforce them efficiently and effectively – which is why around 100 Malawian justice officials, including magistrates and prosecutors, are currently undergoing specialised legal training focussed on improving the administration of pre-trial justice. Read More

SADC Summit Ends With Call to End Regoinal Political Turmoil

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LILONGWE, MALAWI — A Southern African Development Community heads of state summit has ended in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, with a call for finding ways to end the volatile political situation facing people in the region and Africa as a whole. In her remarks at the close of the two-day gathering, the new chairperson of the regional bloc, President Joyce Banda of… Read More

President dos Santos is “missing”

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President Jose Eduardo dos Santos left Angola on June 26th for a private visit to Barcelona in Spain, where he is reported to have travelled in the past for medical attention. With his stay overseas now exceeding 44 days, more than the duration of any previous visit, his absence has come under scrutiny in Angola. While he may well reappear… Read More

Zimbabwe: Women forced to flee their homes for refusing to reveal their vote

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Women political activists in rural Zimbabwe told Amnesty International they have been threatened with violence and forced to flee with their children for refusing to reveal their vote to supporters of Robert Mugabe’s party during harmonized elections.  The women said they resisted instructions from Zanu-PF supporters to feign illiteracy, blindness or physical injury, which would have meant someone else marking… Read More

Zimbabwe’s MDC considers protests against Mugabe landslide

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Tsvangirai calls Zimbabwe election “huge farce” (01:30) By Ed Cropley HARARE | Fri Aug 2, 2013 10:49am EDT (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s victory in elections it rejects as a farce and which face skepticism from the West. No results of the presidential vote on July 31… Read More

Insults to President Joyce Banda merit a fine and conviction

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Blantyre, Malawi, july 24 (Raphael Tenthani/MaraviPost) _ A court in the northern Malawi city of Mzuzu has convicted a 37-year-old man for calling President Joyce Banda "stupid" and a "failure". Japhet Chirwa, who was arrested on Tuesday, pleaded guilty to the single charge of 'conduct likely to cause breach of the peace', a misdemeanour under Section 182 of the Penal... Read More

MALAWI PRES JOYCE BANDA CHALLENGES CRITICS TO PROBE HER

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Written by YAMIKANI SIMUTOWE   Joyce Banda BLANTYRE (MaraPost)—Malawi President Joyce Banda says she ascended to presidency not to enrich herself but serve the interests of all Malawians regardless of their political affiliation.    President Banda has since challenged her critics to probe her should they think she is accumulating wealth from the public confers.   Banda was speaking in… Read More
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