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Scientists have discovered that the sloth is not as lazy as popularly believed. The researchers found that sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours, compared with 16 hours for those in captivity. Read the BBC article.
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Aug 31

South Africa: Mbeki Upbeat On Zimbabwe Solution
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Mbeki also flatly rejected any action by SA that was not in the context of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mandate. ...
South Africa: Development Bank Aids Poorest of the Poor
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) in partnership with Government has partly financed two projects that will benefit the poorest within Refilwe ...
Plans to Dam the Cunene River Are Shelved Again
IPS - Italy
Namibia receives about half of its electricity supplies from South Africa, a dependency that the Windhoek government would dearly like to reduce.
New Zealand favourite to win World Cup which will expose gulf in ...
The Canadian Press - LONDON
New Zealand won the inaugural World Cup 20 years ago and South Africa captured the title on home turf in '95. A glance at the bookmakers' odds suggests they ...
Namibia: African Students to Meet Pohamba
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Twenty-five students and graduates from Southern Africa who are currently participating in the 'Go Africa' scholarship exchange programme are to pay a ...
Floods devastate Africa's Sahel
Workers World - USA
South Africa, which is experiencing the Southern Hemisphere's winter, has seen flooding, too--along with freak snowfalls heavy enough to close the border ...
Celebrated Hominid Fossil Lucy Greets Public Today in Texas
Voice of America - USA
... even as the doors open to the public at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Voice of America English to Africa's Cole Mallard reports that some of ...
South Africa: ANC Rings the Changes in Parliament
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Former chairman of the committee Godfrey Oliphant has been moved to science and technology, while Ishmail Vadi will take his place. ...
Africa: Africans in Academia - Diversity in Adversity
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
This exercise makes us understand how the concepts of knowledge and the idea of what scholarship or science is, are intrinsically linked with power and ...
Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
UNAIDS in two recently published books has "come under stinging attack" and been accused of "allowing politics to trump science in its efforts to combat" ...
APS teachers trek to "Roof of Africa"
YourHub.com - Denver, CO, USA
Three APS teachers conquered what few only dream of: climbing the highest mountain in Africa. Columbia Middle School Science Teacher Greg Justis ...
Study sparks lung disease fears
The Press Association -
The authors, led by Dr Sonia Buist of Oregon Health and Science University in the US, said: "Our estimates of the overall prevalence and staging of COPD are ...

Aug 30

South Africa: SA 'Not in a Hurry' to Sign EPA, Says EU
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
AS THE December deadline for the signing of a European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) member ...
Southern Africa: SADC to Embark On Radical Measures to Develop ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
At the 27th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Lusaka, Zambia from 16-17 August, southern African leaders expressed concern at the slow ...
Southern Africa: South Africa to Exercise Caution On Tariffs
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Government's initial response to a proposal that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) adopt a common external tariff was to advise caution...
Where to now, South Africa?
Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA, USA
By John Hughes Cape Town, South Africa - Against the magnificent background of Table Mountain, workmen on Cape Town's seafront are busy building a huge new ...
Development Bank of S.Africa funding rises 20 pct
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
PRETORIA (Reuters) - The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) increased its funding of infrastructure projects in the region by 20 percent to 3.7 ...
Southern Africa: Cross Border Crimes in the Spotlight Ahead of 2010
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Police in Southern Africa have redoubled their efforts in dealing with cross-border crimes with specific focus on crimes that may impact negatively on ...
Zimbabwe: Change the Way You Do Things!
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
At that meeting in South Africa, the SADC leaders took the view that despite the fact that Anglo-Americans had supported the apartheid regime in South ...
South Africa: Media Conference Spotlights Professionalism
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Meetings by various media associations will also take place concurrently: SA National Editors Forum (SANEF); Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF); ...
South Africa: No Stopping MTN As Revenue, Subscriber Numbers Rocket
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Nonstop action in four regions -- east, west and southern Africa and the Middle East -- means MTN now has 48,2-million subscribers, who rang up a revenue of ...
S.Africa stainless steel demand up 12 pct in H1
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Consumption of stainless steel in South Africa grew by 12 percent in the first six months of this year to a total of 111025 tonnes...
Failing Protection Of Africa's National Parks
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily -- For years, biologists in Africa have known that large mammals - including antelopes and their predators - were disappearing outside reserves ...
Concern Arises Over Proposed Pan-African IP Organisation
Intellectual Property Watch - Geneva, Switzerland
The expert said the science ministers in Cairo had hoped IP would help promote research results in Africa. The 2006 concept paper from the Cairo meeting was ...
South Africa: NRF to Honour Top Researchers
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena at the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria this evening, Thursday 30 August 2007. The NRF is South Africa's ...
African Union Holds Conference on Women in Science and Technology
Voice of America - USA
By James Butty The African Union has opened the First Conference of African Women in Science and Technology in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Science Health
The Muslim News - UK
By Rachel Kayani A new vaccine for tuberculosis, the first for 80 years, has started clinical trials in South Africa. TB vaccines have been in use for many ...

Aug 29

ICC announces partners for Twenty20 WC
Indiantelevision.com - Andheri, Mumbai,India
Four South Africa-based local sponsors were also announced: Standard Bank of South Africa - financial services, South Africa Tourism, Southern Sun Hotels ...
Who is Stransky backing to win the World Cup?
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
Former South African World Cup-winning flyhalf Joel Stransky is backing the three southern hemisphere powers as well as hosts, France, to make the biggest ...
Southern Africa customs union unlikely by 2010 - Manuel
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - High inflation and budget deficits in southern Africa are likely to block any effort to form a customs union in the ...
South Africa: Home Affairs Considers Options for Zimbabweans
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Department of Home Affairs is considering options to accommodate Zimbabweans in South Africa, in the light of the economic situation in the neighbouring ...
South Africa: AD Hoc Policy Making
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Import tariffs are not a national instrument, but an instrument of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu). In terms of the Sacu agreement of 2003...
Grant to help science project
Bowling Green Daily News - KY, United States
Since about 80 percent of South Africa's population is black, McGruder said, it's important for the representation of people in science-related fields to ...
Africa: Science, Tech Needed to Lead Continent's Development
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Deputy President was addressing the first African Union (AU) Conference of African Women in Science and Technology, underway in Sandton until Friday.
South Africa: Honours for Top SA Researchers
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... the scholars at their annual NRF Presidents Awards, which will be attended by dignitaries including Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena.
Nigeria: We're Planning Big For Science Education - Aliegba
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
In South Africa, there is restiveness but not in the education sector. What is the way out of frequent strke? Since 1992, ASUU strike has been about salary...
Lucy exhibition unveiled in Houston
Chicago Tribune - United States
Lucy will be on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science from Sept. 31 to April 20. (Frank White / August 24, 2007) By William Mullen | Tribune ...
Nigeria: FCT to Increase Education Fund
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
FCT Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar stated this while inspecting facilities at the African Institute of Science and Technology otherwise known as Nelson ...

Aug 28

South Africa: Cosatu Slams Sadc Inaction Over Zimbabwe Crisis
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has criticised what it calls the lack of any real progress at the just ended Southern African ...
Africa: Countries Stand Up to EU
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
3 to 5 in Port Louis, Mauritius, 16 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries agreed a strategy to be presented at their next ...
African needs to stand up to Mugabe - Australia
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and leaders of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been muted in their criticism of Mugabe ...
South Africa: Private Sector Gets Lead Role in R5bn Power Plan
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
But it remains to be seen to what extent this will happen as the government may not want to weaken the company that represents South African interests in ...
South Africa: 2 Killed By Gunmen in Cape Taxi Feud
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
However, Jones said that the dead men were believed to be from the Southern Cape and not from Khayelitsha. According to police sources, the George-based ...
Southern Africa: WFP Buys Over 2 Million Tons of Food on Local ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has bought more than two million tons of food on local markets in Southern Africa in the last five years - the ...
South Africa: Simeka Makes Bold Bid to Swallow Gigantic Sahara
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... revenue of R447m for the year to May is less than half the R1bn a year generated by Sahara, one of the largest hardware resellers in southern Africa.
UN spends 430 million dollars on food in southern Africa
Africasia - London, UK
The World Food Programme has spent nearly 430 million dollars (315 million euros) to feed needy people in southern Africa over the past five years...
Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily -- The African origin of early modern humans 200000--150000 years ago is now well documented, with archaeological data suggesting that a major ...
Technopole hails =A31m deal as Kendle moves into science park
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Kendle - which employs more than 3000 associates across North America, Europe, Asia/ Pacific and Latin America and Africa - is expected to add to its ...
Lucy walked upright before thinking
Houston Chronicle - United States
"I am a bit surprised about the ever-expanding popularity of Lucy, especially in light of so many other notable hominid fossil discoveries in Africa," said ...
Uganda: 14 Get EABL Scholarships
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
"The Ugandan scholarships are part of the East Africa wide EABL Scholarship programme that provides opportunities to academically bright, but financially ...
Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily -- More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path ...
South Africa: Girls Encouraged to Study Engineering
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Girls of school going age should be groomed for careers in engineering, by encouraging them to study mathematics and science, says the Deputy Minister of ...

Aug 27

Gambia: New South African Consul
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
President Tharbo Mbeki of South Africa, has officially appointed Modou SB Taal, Managing Director of Premium TV, as the South African Honorary Consul in The ...
Mugabe exit strategy a ray of hope
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria, Australia
But Mr Tsvangirai called for more pressure from southern Africa leaders to bring about democratic change in Zimbabwe. "I think they should be more vocal ...
South Africa: Tariff Cut Plan Puts Country At Odds With Neighbours
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... its recently launched industry policy framework could put SA on a collision course with its neighbours in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu).
Saving the babies: A victory in Africa
Boston Globe - United States
By John Donnelly, Globe Staff | August 27, 2007 WASHINGTON -- The southern Africa country of Botswana has reduced the rate of HIV transmission rate from ...
East Africa: Comesa Staggers in Race to Beat EU Deadline
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Over the last one year, 19 member countries of the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa countries (Comesa) have been racing to beat a deadline to ...
South Africa: AES Wins Bid to Build Power Stations
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... the National Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry, NERSA, Eskom, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and various local authorities.
Southern Africa: Country Joins SADC-EU Trade, Development Talks
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
So SA is part of trade talks that could have considerable upside, despite the fact that as part of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) SA already ...
Zimbabwe opposition wants expatriates to be allowed to vote
International Herald Tribune - France
AP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: The Zimbabwean opposition called on Monday for President Robert Mugabe's government to allow Zimbabwe citizens living in ...
Show of strength fizzles out as Scotland fail South Africa test
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Matfield, the South Africa captain, said afterwards: "We always expect Scotland to play with great heart - they always do - and this was a real hard Test ...
Kenya: African Examples
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Current volumes of Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in Medicine and Healthcare and Who is Who in Science and Engineering also cite him for his ...
'African Politics' dispels negative stereotypes of impoverished ...
Current - St. Louis, MO, USA
But wait; does Africa really even have politics? "People assume there's a policy of aid," said Ruth Iyob, associate professor of political science...
Lucy gets 1st party in 3 million years
Chicago Tribune - United States
American museums, too, are hoping for a windfall, but they also see in Lucy a chance to teach lessons about science at a time when polls show 50 percent of ...
South Africa: Fueling Social Entrepreneurs
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
As part of the campaign, Shell has formed a partnership with the Johannesburg-based Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and will be hosting a number ...
South Africa: Scientists Appeal for Science-Based Claims to Clear ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
After a two-year study, the Academy of Science of South Africa appeals for all orthodox, traditional and alternative medicines to be subjected to the same ...
Crop Engineered To Grow In Poisonous Soil
Science Daily (press release) - USA
In fact, aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land, mostly in developing countries in Africa...

Aug 26

Mugabe's hold on Africans
BBC News - UK
He may be a pariah in the capital cities of the European Union but here in the heart of southern Africa he knows he can count on a fair degree of undying ...
Zimbabwe Situation Can be Resolved, Says Former South African VP
Voice of America - USA
He admits the crisis has taken a rather long time, which he said has put pressure on surrounding countries in the southern Africa sub-region. ...
Camps are not the solution to influx of Zimbabweans in South ...
International Herald Tribune - France
"The reality is that in a very real sense the problems of Zimbabwe are our problems, in the same way that the problems of the rest of Southern Africa are ...
Mbeki heralds e-skills council
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
The establishment of a council to oversee the development of e-skills in South Africa was announced by President Thabo Mbeki at a advisory council meeting ...
'Lucy' Exhibit Worries Some Scientists
Forbes - NY, USA
Next week, the iconic set of bones will be the star of a much-hyped exhibit that is pitting the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Ethiopian ...

Aug 25

Africa: Poverty - Southern Africa's Major Challenge
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The successes which Sadcc can achieve constitute a great contribution to the struggle of the peoples of Southern Africa against oppression, exploitation and ...
Southern Africa: Mugabe Exposes SADC As Toothless
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana, Lesotho and Mozambique want Sadc to act on the Zimbabwe issue, while Angola and Namibia are backing Zimbabwe.
South Africa: Chewing Over the Research On HIV/Aids And Food
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
We have recommended to the science and technology and health departments that this absence of sound scientific research should be tackled as a priority.

Aug 24

Southern Africa: Catholic Leaders Criticize Regional Heads for ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
While "governments are more interested in their own sectional interest," the church will insist on the "common good becoming Africa's first priority," Fr ...
Zimbabwe: Martin - Man of Many Talents
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
He covered Namibia's lengthy struggle for independence, and took a leading role in exposing South African destabilisation in southern Africa in the 1980s.
EU advises southern Africa on customs union
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
The two existing bodies, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are both in the ...
Southern Africa: Free Trade Zone to Be Officially Launched in ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Free Trade Area in the Southern African Development Community will be officially launched in August 2008, announced in Maputo this Friday Mozambique's ...
Africa 'needs strict terrorism, money laundering laws'
Africasia - London, UK
... system and to the resources they need to survive and grow," said the president of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG).
Africa: Nutrition And Disease Debate Should Shift to Science
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
In South Africa, much of the coverage has, unfortunately, focused on politics and personalities. Now it should shift to science. A panel under the auspices ...
Coming attractions on TPT
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis, MN, USA
"The Science of Smell" - an hour-long documentary about how the sense of smell works and how it affects our lives. "US Army Chorus" - special celebrating ...
South Africa: Cape Concerned At Lack of Accountants
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
"The low female representation also has a lot to do with perceptions at school level, where female learners are not encouraged to study mathematics, science ...
Giant panda has evolutionary future
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full story DNA Clues To Inform Conservation In Africa (May 23, 2007) -- Tracing the evolutionary history of wildlife could improve global habitat ...
AIDS Vaccine Field Moves Toward Larger-scale Efficacy Trials ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Furthermore, we will now be able to interpret laboratory abnormalities detected during vaccine or drug clinical trials more accurately in Africa.

Aug 23

Africa: Eastern, Southern African Countries Ready for Partial ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) countries are ready to sign a partial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) by the end of this ...
Southern Africa: SA Govt Rejects Report Blaming UK for Zim Crisis
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... had been blamed for the political problems faced by South Africa's troubled northern neighbour. President Mbeki was appointed by the Southern African ...
Southern Africa: U-19 Team Leaves for Country
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
UGANDA's U-19 cricketers left early this morning in buoyant shape for the Africa Region U-19 World Cup qualifiers in Johannesburg. ...
South Africa: Credit Act 'Hampers School Fee Policy'
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... policed the payment of fees, said Dr Jane Hofmeyr , executive director of the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (Isasa), yesterday.
Southern Africa: The Bottom Line - SADC Boost
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
With OneLogix owning Vehicle Delivery Services - an established operator in cross-border transportation of vehicles into Africa, which recently entered the ...
South Africa: University Funding an Urgent Assignment for Country
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... have met some important government policy benchmarks for graduation outputs, and have also achieved appropriate proportions between science...
Brazilian companies interested in Africa to have official support
Macauhub - Macau, China
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 Aug - The president of the Brazil-Africa Commission for Science and Technology, Lindolpho Dias, has announced a credit line of 2 ...
Zimbabwe: Arthur - There is No Free Lunch
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... and a few who have pure and applied science backgrounds. The major difference is that Mutambara's field is unique to Zimbabwe and Africa, a field of ...
Biopure Announces 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results
CNNMoney.com - USA
Recent Developments The increase in Hemopure sales in South Africa, while not financially significant, reflects company-led marketing and gradually ...
South Africa: Miracle Climb From Depths of Despair
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Maria Muller, a business science student at the University of Cape Town, skips her way cheerfully with a group of friends across campus between lectures.
South Africa: New Report Confirms Nutrition No Substitute for ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
A multidisciplinary panel of 15 members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), an independent statutory body considered to be the national ...

Aug 22

Southern Africa: SADC Delegates Visit Slavery Museum
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Delegates to the 9th Conference of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Electoral Commission Forum held on August 20-21, in Luanda...
Zimbabwe: President Mourns David Martin
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
"For Southern Africa, especially for us who were involved with liberation movements, David Martin remains a symbol of journalism wedded to people's ...
Indian diamond manufactureres lured by Southern Africa
Diamond World Magazine - Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
Southern Africa seems to be attracting Indian diamond jewellery manufacturers and workers, for their own respective reasons. Manufacturers are particularly ...
Southern Africa: SADC Cannot Ignore Zimbabwe
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Before the current situation, Zimbabwe employed a number of African citizens, particularly from southern Africa. Its industry, despite constant shrinkage ...
Southern Africa: SADC Leaders 'Divided on Zimbabwe Crisis'
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC ) leaders were sharply divided at last week's tense summit in Zambia on how to deal with Zimbabwe's political ...
Southern Africa: SADC Electoral Commissions Annual Meeting Happens ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The forum of the electoral commissions of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) will hold this Wednesday in Luanda its annual meeting...
South Africa: Casino's Donation to Boost Scarce Skills Studies
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... the launch of your R5 million GrandWest Bursary Fund for Maths, Science or Technology students at tertiary institutions in the province," the MEC said.
South Africa: Nutrition No Substitute for HIV/AIDS and TB Drugs
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The detailed report by a 15-member consensus panel of the prestigious Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has been given to government and is now ...
Mass exodus of poached teachers to UK
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
The demand for them in the UK was the main reason why South Africa lost hundreds of trained teachers annually. This had not been received well by ...
Copping flak for science
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria, Australia
So, although he travelled as far afield as South Africa, California and Italy to film The Human Mind, a three-part series that begins on ABC TV next week...
Marburg virus culprit found
News24 - South Africa
It is also the first report of Marburg in this area of Africa, suggesting that the risk of further outbreaks may be higher than previously thought.
South Africa: Delicate Detective Work At the Genetic Frontier
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Rabinowitz, a winner of the South African National Science Olympiad during his final year at Redhill High in Johannesburg, studied at Wits for a ...
Africa: Women to Discuss Science, Tech
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The African Union (AU) is to host a conference for leading female scientists to discuss their role in science and technology for Africa's development.

Aug 21

Public urged to disregard old Mars hoax email
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
The Astronomical Society of Southern Africa said it had been inundated with inquiries since an old hoax email resurfaced for the fourth year in a row ...
Southern Africa: SADC First Ladies Committed to Gender Equality
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The first ladies of the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) praised the 27th summit of the organization, that took place ...
Consolidating democratic governance in Southern Africa: Zimbabwe
The Kubatana - Harare,Zimbabwe
To what degree has there been a process of democratic transition leading to democratic consolidation in Southern Africa? What are the prospects for the ...
Africa: Lobbies Want Talks On EU Trade Pacts Held Up for Three Years
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
They made these demands during a meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, that coincided with a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting.
Southern Africa: Global Outcry Over SADC Failure to Pressure Mugabe
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
A final communiqu=E9 issued Friday commended South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki for his mediation efforts, called upon the ruling party and opposition in ...
Plans needed for Zimbabwe exodus
BBC News - UK
Antonio Guterres called for increased assistance from the international community to help Southern Africa cope. He said the UNHCR estimates that there are ...
Zimbabwe: Accomplished Writer Martin Dies
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
In a statement, Cde Shamu described Martin as a true son of Southern Africa. "He has marched with us in the liberation struggle all the way from Tanzania...
South Africa: Jamaica Announces Trade Mission to SA
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... agreements in draft form between Jamaica and South Africa. The primary areas include education and culture, science and technology and visa abolition.
Spin, facts and untruths in this new season of denialism
Business Day - Johannesburg, South Africa
... in South Africa, denialism is a multifaceted attitude that purports, in the name of rigorous scientific inquiry, to "question" the science of AIDS; ...
Outwitting South Africa's tenacious honey badgers
Globe and Mail - Canada
"It's what we'd always wanted to do - apply the science," Colleen said. Many biologists spend their careers counting species populations or charting animal ...
Africa: Marburg is a Global Threat, Says WHO
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
THE deadly Marburg virus disease, which was reported in Uganda some weeks ago, is one of the biggest threats to global health security, the World Health ...
Eager to quell its own conflicts, African Union feels overstretched
Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA, USA
By Alexis Okeowo | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor Kampala, Uganda; and Johannesburg, South Africa - When it comes to peacekeeping...

Aug 20

Uganda: River Nile Agreements - No Change for Poorer Downstream ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Southern Africa Development Cooperation (SADC) boasts one of the most well defined hydro political complexes in Africa because of a high level of ...
Southern Africa: Regional Alliance Set to Harness Science for ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Regional Research Alliance, a grouping of three top scientific institutions in Southern Africa, is taking practical steps to contribute significantly to ...
Southern Africa: SADC Electoral Commissions Meeting Starts
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The ninth conference of members of the Electoral Commissions with the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) started this Monday in Luanda, to debate...
Southern Africa: SADC Peacekeeping Brigade Launched
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
At its launch, the force comprised 564 soldiers from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania...
Southern Africa: Cosy Club
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki was guarded as always, but reportedly gave "positive" and encouraging feedback on efforts to mediate between Zimbabwe's ...
Southern Africa: SADC Signs in Four Legal Instruments
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The protocol on finance and investment was also signed but only by Zambia, Namibia, Malawi and Angola, who did not sign in Oct last year in South Africa.
An athlete studies S. Africa's education system
Outsports.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Other supplies are limited, too: there are not nearly enough computers to go around, and a science lab has only two microscopes. They talked about things we ...
CBC Debuts Hi-Tech Science Series
Broadcaster - Toronto, Canada
The series imagines a world where North America and Africa are one super continent, where a mountain range the size of the Himalayas covers the Great Lakes ...
Who is an African?
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
"This is a public exercise in science and a journey through the history of South Africa," said James. The results will be out early next year.
Six Diseases of the Liver, Six Different Viruses, One Name: Hepatitis
Voice of America - USA
The World Health Organization says hepatitis A is often found in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. People who have had hepatitis A cannot get it ...
South Africa: Public Should Actively Fight Drug Abuse
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The department and the UNODC commissioned the Human Science Research Council to assess drug abuse related perceptions and behaviour among teenagers in ...

Aug 19

Southern Africa: Zambia - SADC Working to Marshal Resources
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is working to mobilise financial resources to fund regional infrastructural projects, said Thursday in ...
Norilsk to spend R4.4bn in Africa
Business Report - Johannesburg, South Africa
"It consolidates our position in Australia, while gaining exposure in Southern Africa," Morgan said. Norilsk said last Tuesday that it had acquired more ...
Tanzania will rue the cost of starting with SADC
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
... a relatively successful regional grouping in East Africa against political solidarity with Southern Africa's regional power base -- South Africa.
Southern Africa: Summit Reviews Intergration Levels
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has said the just ended 27th ordinary Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit provided member States an opportunity to ...
Physiotherapist's New Book Explores the Healing Power of Music
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia, Bulgaria
Cape Town, South Africa (PRWEB) August 9, 2007 -- Music is Healing, a new book by Dr. Frances le Roux, Ph.D., highlights the effect of music on the immune ...

Aug 18

Southern Africa: SADC - Standby Force to Be Presented Friday
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The effectives of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Standby Brigade will officially be presented this Friday, in Lusaka (Zambia)...
Southern Africa gets peace force
BBC News - UK
The Southern Africa Brigade has undergone training and is now ready to be deployed. "This is a victory to the region. We are the first to officially do this ...
Southern Africa: Lobito Corridor Among SADC Priorities
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Cabinet Council of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Thursday in Lusaka, Zambia, recommended the ongoing 27th Summit of heads of State ...
US asks southernAfrican leaders to push harder on Zimbabwe
Africasia - London,UK
The United States on Friday called on leaders from southern Africa to push harder to end a crisis in Zimbabwe, crippled by political turmoil and economic ...
Family tree branches out
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
Starting four million years ago, half a dozen species of Australopithecus lived in Africa at the same time. Experts thought that once the Homo lineage ...
Hurricane Dean: Why Storms Forming Off Coast of Africa Are Cause ...
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
Hurricane formation is basic grade-school science. Warm, moist air over the heated tropical ocean rises. In a perfect and stable environment...
'We are all settlers in SA'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
"Normally it costs R1 000 a time but this is a public exercise in scienceand a journey through the history of South Africa," said James.

Aug 17

Southern Africa: Botswana, Kenya And Zimbabwe Pass Tyrannical Bills
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
History will record that Africa's democratic journey has stumbled in Botswana and Kenya - two leading countries - in the same month that the eccentric ...
Southern Africa
Council on Foreign Relations - New York,NY,USA
... fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs, debate whether South Africa is living up to its responsibility as Africa's leader.
Southern Africa: Two Pupils Win Prizes in SADC Essay Competition
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
It brings issues that affect the youths of Southern Africa to their attention and seeks to engage them on how they can participate in solving or preventing ...
Southern Africa: Journalists Honoured at 2007 SADC Media Awards
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Several journalists have been recognised for their work and honoured as recipients of the 2007 SADC Media Awards, held at the 27th SADC Summit, ...
Southern Africa: Former SADC Chair Urges For Country Polls
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The outgoing chairman of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has urged Angola to hold elections as soon as possible.
Tav Morgan: Head of Mining, Norilsk Nickel
Moneyweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
TAV MORGAN: Well, coming from Russia, to be honest, we feel that we can operate well in southern Africa. We've got a reasonable appetite for risk; ...
Africa: Is the Continent Its Own Biggest Enemy?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... on which he had been making notes as the official opening of the Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa secretariat progressed.
Southern Africa: Sadc Stands By Country
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"Most countries in this region, with the exception of a few like South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia, have in the past gone through very ...
Southern Africa: Levy Calls for Peace in Zim
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
He said with the exception of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia most countries in the region had experienced economic upheavals.
Southern Africa: Infrastructures Are Priority For SADC Regional ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Developing transport, communications, and energy infrastructures is a priority for economic regional integration of the Southern African Development ...
Inside Heathrow's protest camp: Armed with sciencein a battle to ...
Independent - London,England,UK
One says: "If you're sitting in a drought in Africa caused by global warming, you'd find it a bit odd that we don't want to even delay Mrs Jones by a few ...
Hinsdale Central forms bond with school in Africa
Chicago Suburban News - Batavia,IL,USA
LEAP is the only privately funded maths, scienceand technology school in South Africa. Seeing an opportunity, the Hinsdale Central group began raising ...
Oil & Gas Discoveries - the Implications
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... and South Africa's Sasol which produced 1/3 of her oil needs from coal during the oil embargo. There is protection and intensification of scienceand ...
Zimbabwe: Regional Research Bodies Adopt Energy Blue-Print
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
SCIENTIFIC and research bodies from southern Africa have adopted a blue-print on ways to mitigate the current energy and water shortages in the region.
UPI NewsTrack Health and ScienceNews
United Press International - USA
"It is the government's ambition that Denmark has a leading research center that focuses on the climate issue and global environmental problems," Science...

Aug 16

Southern Africa: New SADC Chair to Prioritise Infrastructure
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Regarding the SADC Infrastructure Development Fund, Mr Mwanawasa explained that it drew its strength and support from the New Partnership for Africa's ...
Southern Africa: Angola Takes Up SADC Politics, Security Organ Chair
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Angola Thursday in Lusaka, Zambia, took up the presidency of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) politics, defence and security organ.
Ubuntu 'antidote' for Africa's political, economic woes
Business Day - Johannesburg,South Africa
"Business as usual will no longer work to meet the long-term development challenges facing Southern Africa. A new approach is required that must include all ...
Southern Africa: SADC to Discuss Regional Integration And Zimbabwe ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Regional integration and the Zimbabwean crisis are expected to be high on the agenda of the 27th Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...
Southern Africa: SADC Launches Alert Force
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Heads of state and government of the Southern African development Community (SADC) are to launch this Friday a brigade of peace maintenance as part of an ...
South Africa: Mfsa Liquidation -Board Not Responsible for Anything?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
With the publication recently of the liquidation accounts of the Marketing Federation of Southern Africa (MFSA) 18 months after it collapsed in a heap of ...
Male Elephants Get 'Photo IDs' From Scientists
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily -- Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation ...
Geneticist trades plants for politics
Checkbiotech.org (press release) - Basel,Switzerland
... staunch proponent of sowing genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa . She could now be facing her toughest challenge yet. Fedoroff is the new science...
South Africa: Widespread Condemnation of Deputy Health Minister's ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... he will leave a tragic legacy of junk scienceand unnecessary death". "Unlike other African countries, South Africa has the financial resources and the ...
Director Jeffrey Blitz, Movie Rocket Scientist
Washington Post - United States
"And I had very recently had the experience where I had gone to northern Africa to visit a friend of mine who was shooting a movie there.
Fund-raiser to scale the heights
ic Wales - United Kingdom
by Our Correspondent, Western Mail ON SUNDAY I begin a climb to the summit of Africa in order to get you to dig into your pocket and support the ...

Aug 15

Southern Africa: SADC to Launch African Standby Force for Darfur
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Mr Pahad highlighted South Africa is heavily involved in post-reconstruction development in the DRC, helping the country militarily and with international ...
Southern Africa: Informal Trade Crucial for Job Creation
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Every day a bus, usually packed to capacity, leaves Malawi for South Africa. Most of the passengers are traders, off to sell wooden curios in the main South ...
East Africa: Intra-Comesa Trade Up By 35 Per Cent
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Cross-border trade accounts for up to 35 per cent of the current value of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) formal trade.
Southern Africa: Human Rights Watch Urges SADC to Deploy Team to ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
With Zimbabwe in the spotlight at the SADC summit in Lusaka, an international human rights watchdog is urging the African Heads of State to focus on the ...
Southern Africa: President Departs for SADC Summit
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
South Africa is participating in the SADC Summit within the context of its commitment to strengthening and consolidating SADC as a sub-regional economic ...
Southern Africa: Let's Double Efforts, Levy Urges SADC
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to double its collective efforts to achieve economic development ...
Malawi, South Africa agree to promote scienceand technology
Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
Lilongwe (Malawi) Malawian and South African governments have in Lilongwe signed an agreement to work together to promote scienceand technology in the two ...
First All-African GM Crop Is Resistant To Maize Streak Virus
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Maize streak virus symptoms in a commercial maize field in Klerksdorp, NorthWest South Africa, showing chlorotic streaking and deformed cob development.
East Africa: Lake Kivu - a Time Bomb Or Source of Energy?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Scienceand Technology (Eawag) concluded that the "the introduction of Limnothrissa miodon, the first pelagic and ...
Stars of the Sahara
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Now a team of researchers from South Africa and Mali are analysing the Timbuktu manuscripts to find out what the scholars knew about science.
Geneticist trades plants for politics
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
... sowing genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa. She could now be facing her toughest challenge yet. Fedoroff is the new scienceand technology adviser ...

Aug 14

Southern Africa: MDC Ups Stakes And Urges SADC to Broaden ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Another 200 of their branch party leaders have fled the country into South Africa. Khupe, who is also the MDC MP for Makokoba in Bulawayo, said any rational ...
Southern Africa: Women Need Platforms of Opportunity - Amathila
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... will serve as a platform where women at the higher level of decision-making could share experiences and create synergy for the region and Africa at large.
Southern Africa: SADC to Discuss Comesa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Southern African Development Community (SADC) director for Trade, Industry Finance and Investment, Noko Murangi, has said the issue of dual membership for ...
Southern Africa: SADC Meeting to Put Zimbabwe High On Its Agenda
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... reduced to manageable levels, the Southern African region will perform a lot better because it has the potential to become the richest region in Africa.
FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update Aug 2007 - Number of ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
- Recently concluded National Vulnerability Assessments found that the food insecure population in the region has doubled from about 3.1 million last year ...
Southern Africa: SADC Works On Improving Food Security
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
INSTITUTIONS such as the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) are mainly regarded as political affiliations for member states. ...
UN lobbies South Africa to pass anti-human trafficking laws
Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
"In southern Africa, South Africa is a country of destination for trafficking victims and also serves as a transit point," he said.
GIA TO EXPAND ITS PRESENCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA WITH NEW GRADING LAB ...
Tacy - Ramat Gan,Israel
Southern Africa is an important location in the diamond industry with a long history and we believe the GIA should have a Laboratory presence here...
South Africa: Aids Action Relapse
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Unless he finally starts listening to sensible advice on AIDS, he will leave a tragic legacy of junk scienceand unnecessary death. ...
Malawi, SA sign sciencepact
Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
BY MACDONALD PHIRI The governments of Malawi and South Africa Monday signed an agreement that seeks to promote cooperation in scienceand technology between ...
UMES Partners with University in Africa
WBOC TV 16 - Salisbury,MD,USA
... Of Maryland Eastern Shore has signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Sciencein South Africa.
South Africa: ScienceDeputy Min to Conduct Imbizo in Upington
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
As part of Project Consolidate's practical hands-on programme to support local government, the Deputy Minister of Scienceand Technology will conduct an ...
South Africa: Funding Boost for Dinaledi Teacher Drive
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE education department has set aside R366m to fund 1500 teaching posts for the 490 Dinaledi schools, where the focus is on mathematics and science...
Where Uganda Stands As an African Oil Country
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
What will be Uganda's ranking in oil production in Africa in 2009 when its production commences at the rate of 14000 barrels a day? Nigeria is number 1...

Aug 13

South Africa: Lack of Laws Lets Human Trafficking Flourish - UN
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"Countries cannot prosecute if they do not have proper legislation dealing with trafficking in persons in place," UNODC southern Africa representative ...
Southern Africa: Gender Workshop Starts in Windhoek
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The seventh sub-regional workshop on capacity-building of the Network of African Women Ministers and Parliamentarians (NAWMP) on Advocacy, Leadership and ...
EAC states in row over EU trade deals
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
The question is whether they should negotiate with the EU as a single bloc, or as part of the Eastern and Southern Africa Group.
Southern Africa: Country Delegation Attends SADC Ministerial Meetings
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Department of Foreign Affairs said South Africa would participate in both the ministerial meeting and the summit as part of its priority to strengthen ...
Southern Africa says on track for free trade area
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
"It will be definitely in 2008," Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) head of trade, finance and investments Nokokure Murangi told a news conference ...
Southern Africa: Reasons Why SADC's Pre-Occupation Ought to Be Zim
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Southern Africa sub-region director, Jennifer Kabbo, Zimbabwe's deteriorating ...
News: Energy cover-ups, space hotel, and hot ice
Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA
Perhaps you've noticed that Earth & Sky has a new sciencenews site. It's very cool - it lets you scan the headlines of over 20 news sources and podcasts.
South Africa: UWC Answers Conservation Critics Over Building Plan
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The building, on a 2.9ha site, will destroy close to 1ha of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos one of South Africa's most critically endangered vegetation types of ...
South Africa: African Education Ministers Strategise to Guide Policy
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
It also endorsed the proposed strategy for developing a mechanism for establishing an African Education, Scienceand Technology Fund. ...

Aug 12

S Africa rejects call for Zimbabwean refugee camp
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
A summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is taking place this week in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and Zimbabwe is top on its agenda.
Southern Africa: Country to Take SADC Defence and Security Presidency
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Angola will take up the presidency of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Defence and Security organ, during the Summit of heads of State of ...
For him, good movies aren't rocket science
Boston Globe - United States
During a recent trip to Africa, his stutter began acting up. He was trying to order over the phone from a hotel menu and couldn't produce the word ...
The crucial balance between science, ideology Reflections on a ...
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
The US taxpayer-funded ABC approach (Abstinence, Be faithful, Condoms) to HIV prevention in Africa has also been replaced by abstinence-only messages.

Aug 11

Houston curator says the museum will take utmost care of the fossil
Houston Chronicle - United States
The remains are scheduled to be exhibited at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciencefrom Aug. 31 to April 20. The museum's curator of anthropology...
Frere visit sees Madlala-Routledge fired
Dispatch Online - South Africa
... "A President in denial, a ravaged nation denied hope", said Mbeki's stance on Aids had left South Africa with the world's worst HIV epidemic.
UPI Newstrack Health and ScienceNews
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full story African forests threatened by logging (June 8, 2007) -- Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an ...
Branches on the Tree
Newsweek - USA
Starting 4 million years ago, half a dozen species of Australopithecus lived in Africa at the same time. Experts thought that once the Homo lineage debuted ...
ScienceMinister says biofuels certainty is on the way
Engineering News (press release) - Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa
An announcement would soon be made followed by new legislation which would launch the biofuels industry in South Africa, Scienceand Technology Minister ...
If we don't act now, we are all doomed
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi,Kenya
The projected negative impact on Africa will be loss of snow and ice on the mountains, drying up of rivers on the water towers, change in rainfall patterns ...

Aug 10

Zimbabwe sees slight decline in HIV infections
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By SHASHANK BENGALI HARARE, Zimbabwe | In southern Africa for the past two decades, casual sex fueled the worst epidemics of HIV and AIDS in the world.
Southern Africa: SADC Must Be Wary of Deceivers
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The MDC leaders are not leaders in their own right; they are in the mould of "puppets of remote control", to use the words of the illustrious son of Africa...
Southern Africa: SADC Summit to Adopt Protocol On Gender And ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
This is especially critical because even though trafficking of women and children is addressed under various laws, no country in southern Africa yet has ...
Southern Africa: SADC Region Takes Steps to Acccelerate ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Efforts are directed at boosting southern Africa's electricity generation capacity, with almost 50 short and long term projects currently underway or ...
Southern Africa: On the Bridge of Goodbye the Story of South ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Half took their families south to settle in South Africa, the rest dispersed over northern Namibia or crept across the border into southernAngola.
Twisting Scienceto Fit the Global Warming Template
American Thinker - Berkeley,AZ,USA
This process was fully in evidence yesterday when the global news service Reuters spun a report in Sciencemagazine (which has been quietly starting to warn ...
Africa: World Rice Research Centres Unite for Continent
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... commitment to bring the best of scienceand experience in Africa, Latin America and Asia to address the major challenges faced by Africa's rice growers.
Africa: Scientists Mutate H5N1 in Vaccine Search
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The findings are reported by Yang Zhi-Yong and colleagues in the 10 August issue of Science. The H5N1 virus causes avian influenza, or 'bird flu'...

Aug 9

Southern Africa: Gender ctivists urge leaders to bite bullet
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
In a statement, the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance commended gender ministers from the region for approving one of the most far reaching ...
CIC pushes ahead with Botswana coal plan
Globe and Mail - Canada
OTTAWA -- Armed with $65-million in new equity, CIC Energy Corp. says it is moving ahead aggressively with plans to build southern Africa's largest private ...
The History of Southern Africa
Blogger News Network - USA
The lack of questions and/or comments confirms that all readers now have a firm grasp of the history of South Africa during that period. ...
South Africa: Ford appoints new vice president of marketing and sales
Automotive World (subscription) - London,UK
By Automotive World staff writer (MP) Ford of Southern Africa says it appointed Jacques Brent as both vice president of marketing and sales and as a company ...
Southern Africa: Angolan Military, Police Team in Lusaka for SADC ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The ceremony will happen on 17 August during the meeting of heads of State of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). This Stand-By Force has been ...
Swaziland: Start-Up Costs Limit Access to Power
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The initiative, Renewable and Efficient Energy for Poverty Alleviation in Southern Africa (REEPASA) aims to increase the use of renewable energy technology ...
Southern Africa: Mugabe Misled SADC About MDC Terrorism Charges
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
He threw out all the key police evidence submitted, saying they had failed to show on a map the location of a farm in South Africa where the alleged ...
A President in denial, a ravaged nation denied hope
Independent - London,England,UK
It indicates that the President still remains opposed to the science of HIV," the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa's biggest Aids advocacy group...
It ain't Africa! OMSI gets no debt relief
Willamette Week - Portland,OR,USA
But this time, instead of convicted criminals, it'sa science museum. Kulongoski, in his first veto of the legislative session, struck down Senate Bill 994.

Aug 8

South Africa: Big Easy Feels He is Coming Into PGA 'With a Bit of ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
But I played okay and these past three weeks I feel like my game has been in good shape - good enough to do well here at SouthernHills. ...
Liberty expands Africa team to drive growth
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
Charles Muyodi has been appointed director for business development in East Africa and Lanz Zulu has been promoted to managing director for southern Africa.
Southern Africa: SADC Military Organ Set for Historic Launch in Lusaka
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The long awaited regional standby military force will be launched at the 27th Summit of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and ...
On the horizon: News from the frontiers of science
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
By Peter N. Spotts Astronomers have announced that they've found a puffball of a planet (TrES-4) orbiting a star some 1400 light-years from Earth in the ...
Plants From Ancient Gondwanaland Spread By Continental Drift And ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Thus, in Africa, for example, the spectacular genus Protea is truly Gondwanan, but 250 species from other genera that occur in the 'fynbos' vegetation ...
Rise and fall of an empire
Hindu - Chennai,India
This is what scienceasks for. The Karnataka trio show that the chimpanzee question and Vijayanagara are not unrelated. Chimps spread in Africa and ...
South Africa: Govt Invests in Posts for Dinaledi Schools
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
R366 million has been set aside by government to fund 1500 new teaching posts at the 490 Dinaledi schools which focus on the maths and sciencesubjects.
Lost forest in Africa yields new species
China Daily - China
In a once-lost forest in Africa, six animal species new to sciencehave been discovered, members of a two-month expedition now reveal, including a bat...
South Africa: Making ScienceSimply Sensational
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
This museum was not nearly as well funded as Atlanta's High, but with a grant from the US government's National ScienceFoundation, she put together a ...
Pretoria and Tshwane to greet world in 2010
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Fifa has invited those interested in providing accommodation to contact the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa. Meanwhile, the massive amount of ...

Aug 7

South Africa: National School Evaluations in Grade 3 and 6
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... while the Grade 6 results will be fed into the international Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) process...
Southern Africa to launch peace-keeping brigade
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
The peacekeeping brigade, part of an Africa-wide effort to form an operational standby force by 2010, is expected to rapidly deploy in areas for a "limited ...
SADC police prepares for 2010 World Cup in South Africa
Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
Maseru (Lesotho) Lesotho's Police Chief Malejaka Letooane Tuesday told the media here that police in the Southern Africa have structures in place aimed at ...
Namibia: Fifa Admin Course in Windhoek
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Speaking at the official opening yesterday, FIFA Development Officer for Southern Africa Ashford Mamelodi said FIFA is trying to develop its own experts in ...
Southern Africa: SADC Chief Says Political Climate is Stable
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Despite instability in three of the 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states, executive secretary Tomaz Salomao says the political ...
Church Outlines Pastoral Priorities to Better Christian Life
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
A pastoral forum held on Saturday examined ways to revitalize the Catholic faith in southern Africa. The forum brought together the laity, bishops...
Southern Africa: SADC to Launch Regional Army Brigade, Early ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Southern African Development Community will launch an emergency army brigade on September 1, Tanzania Foreign Minister Bernard Membe has said.
Southern Africa: SADC Brigade to Be Launched in Lusaka
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Brigade is to be launched on August 17 in Lusaka. About 60 members of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) and ...
East Africa: Region Ministers Want Borderless Education
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Rwanda was represented by the School of Finance and Banking (SFB), the National University of Rwanda in Butare, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology...
Lost Forest in Africa Yields New Species
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience In a once-lost forest in Africa, six animal species new to sciencehave been discovered, members of a two-month ...
Origins of Europeans: Teeth tell the tale
USA Today - USA
By Randolph E. Schmid, AP WASHINGTON -- Early human-like residents of Europe may have arrived out of Asia, rather than just Africa. An international team of ...
Sunspot Abundance Linked To Heavy Rains In East Africa
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily -- A new study reveals correlations between plentiful sunspots and periods of heavy rain in East Africa. Intense rainfall in the region often ...
South Africa: University Plan Threatens Endangered Fynbos
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The University of the Western Cape has been given permission to build a new Life ScienceCenter on a piece of property containing critically endangered ...

Aug 6

Southern Africa: Geekonomics
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state have committed themselves to establishing a regional customs union by 2010.
Africa must pay heed to dangers of climate change
Kenya Times - Kenya
For example, during the 1992-93 drought episode in Southern Africa, cholera outbreaks affected every country in the Southern Africa Development community ...
SADC: think like a region
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
The Pretoria-based Emerging Market Focus (EMF), a private economic research group, recently conducted a study commissioned by the Southern Africa Trust...
South Africa: Trade Talk
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In the World Trade Organisation's Doha Round, SA has ably co-ordinated the Nama-11 Southern axis of countries, which demand the right to maintain tariff ...
Southern Africa: Namibian Troops to Form Part of SADC Force
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE Namibia Defence Force (NDF) will make soldiers available to serve in the standby force of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
South Africa: Good Questions
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
TEACHERS of public policy, political scienceand other social sciences should take a look at the document released last week by the provincial and local ...
Famous Fossil Lucy Leaves Ethiopia
Guardian Unlimited - UK
From AP By ANITA POWELL AP Writer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was ...
Sunspot abundance linked to heavy rains in East Africa
Frontline - India
... Advancement of Science, the analysis by a team of US and British researchers shows that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century ...
South Africa: First Black Drug-Trials Firm Gets R12m Lift
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
SA's first black-owned clinical research organisation was launched last week, backed by a R12m investment from the scienceand technology department.
Africa: Three Hard Truths About the World's Energy Crisis
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
It will be a huge challenge: To keep greenhouse gases in the atmosphere well below 550 parts a million, the upper most bound of where sciencetells us we ...
South Africa: The Official Line - Poland
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Also, the results of a recent visit to SA by Poland's Science and Higher Education Minister, Prof Michal Sewerynski, at the invitation of South African ...
South Africa: Govt to Invest R16 Million in Design Labs
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Speaking at the official opening of the Northern Cape Fablab on Monday, Scienceand Technology Deputy Minister Derek Hanekom said FabLabs were hands-on ...
Zimbabwe: Slate Showcasing Science, Teaching Materials At ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Slate products were exhibited at the Joint African Union -- Economic Commission of Africa Science Technology and Innovation exhibition, which took place in ...

Aug 5

Zambia: Economic Empowerment - Every Zambian's Dream
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) should come in more strongly and mount regionally based exhibitions.
Southern Africa looks forward to high growth
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
The Southern Africa Development Community expects a growth rate of seven percent in 2007, but faces challenges of high inflation.
Southern Africa: Country to Earn $2 Bn From Exports to SADC
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
He said Zambia had large exports under SADC than under the Common Market for Southernand Eastern Africa (COMESA), but stressed that it was beneficial to ...
Disaster waiting to happen in Nairobi?
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
"It is unlikely that we will experience a major earthquake here," Mr Biwott says, "The crust of the earth beneath East Africa is unlike what lies underneath ...

Aug 4

Southern Africa: Parley Urges State to Support SADC Initiatives
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Eastern and Western Africa had already established such, which he said, were advancing common values, missions and objectives of their respective ...
Senior Zim police officer found dead
Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
The officer was in Zambia to attend the Southern Africa Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation, which is held ahead of the heads of state summit ...
Science Minister Back in Luanda
AngolaPress - Angola
... to Angola after attending the meeting of Science and Technology Ministers of SADC, which happened in Pretoria, South Africa, from July 30 to August 02.
UT Health Science Center named country's No. 1 Hispanic research ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC, USA
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been ranked the top Hispanic-serving institution for attracting federal research dollars...

Aug 3

Southern Africa: BTC Willing to Help BPO Sector
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Operators in South Africa also have to grapple with Telecom SA tariffs, which are said to be among the highest in the world.
South Africa: NAVTEQ expands Southern Africa regional coverage
Tendersinfo (subscription) (press release) - Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
With the addition of these countries, NAVTEQs coverage in the southern Africa region has increased to over 450000 km of road network. ...
S.Africa's Mboweni rules Zimbabwe out of money union
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg, South Africa
... Tito Mboweni reiterated on Friday that it was "out of the question for now" for crisis-ridden Zimbabwe to join southern Africa's rand monetary union.
Southern Africa: Mogae Calls for Regional Integration
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... in the region could be addressed through regional integration and full utilisation of bodies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Southern Africa: 4 SADC Nations to Meet in Pretoria Over Ivory Sales
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The countries -- Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana -- won the right to conduct a one-off sale mainly to Japan during the Cites meeting that was ...
Uganda: The Roots of Character And Personality
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Under this momentum, haste was made to grant the remaining colonies and territories of Africa and Asia their independence. The move toward independence ...
South Africa: Growing Fuel
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
FEW would argue with Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena's insistence that we tread carefully when developing a national biofuels policy.
Africa: Is China Hoodwinking the Continent?
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... the last African Union summit in Addis Ababa. There, African presidents backed the role of science and technology in alleviating Africa's current problems.
Space-borne Sensors Help Africa Tackle Water Shortage Problems
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily -- Zambian water authorities are integrating information based on satellite imagery to alleviate water shortages. ...
Dunfanaghy man leads surgeons move to help Africa
Donegal News (subscription) - Omagh, UK
The project in Africa focuses on the basic provision of science and medical education. "The Federation has reformed its functional policy and introduced a ...
South Africa: Letter From the President - Make Poverty History ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
"For you also know what I know: that the world has the technology to cure, the science to heal, the medicine to save lives. "Past generations had the old ...

Aug 2

Southern Africa football loses lucrative sponsorship
Afrique en ligne - Angers, France
"The South Africa Breweries announced that they have declined the offer to renew their sponsorship of the annual southern African championship with the ...
Zebra(r) Card Printer Solutions Signs Southern Africa Distribution ...
MySolutionInfo (press release) - Beirut, Beirut,Lebanon
Scantec will offer value-added distribution across Southern Africa to support the growing demand for Zebra's innovative and reliable plastic card printers.
Southern Africa: Parley Rejects SADC Initiative
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
PARLIAMENT yesterday rejected a motion urging the Government to support the current regional initiatives to transform the Southern African Development ...
Southern Africa Travel, Enchanted and Delightful Safaris and Luxury
- USA
Southern Africa is truly a unique and culturally diverse country, with an eclectic mix of wilderness and metropolis, wildlife and nightlife, Old Africa and ...
Southern Africa: SADC Ministers Discuss Lesotho, DRC And Zimbabwe
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The SADC Inter-State Politics and Diplomacy Committee (ISPDC) and the Ministerial Committee of the Organ on Politics, Defence and security met in ...
Africa: UK Chief - Science 'Central to Development Strategy'
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
And he argued that wealth creation, nurtured by supportive government policies and drawing on the potential of science, technology and innovation to boost ...
Brain-drain: How new law can help
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi,Kenya
South Africa, the first African country to have a biotech law, is the first port of call. As a regional powerhouse in science and technology, Kenya should ...
Is China hoodwinking Africa?
Business Daily Africa - Nairobi,Kenya
There, African presidents backed the role of science and technology in alleviating Africa's current problems. One country, Namibia, is already taking steps ...
Liberia: Citizen in US On Unraveling of Hope for the Future of His ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
... our schools to decay to the point that our children regularly score below all others of developing countries in Western Africa in math and science.
South Africa: Science Interns Ready for the Work-Force
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Science, engineering and technology graduates in a government endorsed internship programme and are ready to enter the workforce after being handed their ...

Aug 1

Zimbabwe: WFP Launches Appeal for Emergency Funding
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The dire food shortages in Zimbabwe, once known as the breadbasket of southern Africa, are blamed on a combination of drought, lack of inputs and expertise...
Southern Africa: 31 Military Officers From Nine SADC States Graduate
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe participated in the civil military co-ordination course.
Africa: mobile phones are Africa's PC
Global Voices Online - Cambridge, MA, USA
My most recent trip to East and Southern Africa has done nothing but confirm my thoughts on the mobile platform as Africa's connectivity device.
Froth gone from Cosafa Cup
News24 - South Africa
... "but more a calculated business decision regarding the value of the event to the Castle brand in Southern Africa, with which it has been linked.
NAVTEQ Announces Expanded Southern Africa Regional Coverage ...
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA, USA
With the addition of these countries, NAVTEQ's coverage in the southern Africa region has increased to over 450000 km of road network.
Africa's HIV transmission laws based on questionable science
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
Faced with an AIDS epidemic that kills millions every year, countries in sub-Saharan Africa are contemplating a new prevention strategy: criminal charges.
Nigeria: NUC And Regulation of Cross-Border Education
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The outcome of this conference now known as the Accra Declaration on GATS and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa has been widely ...
Africa: Stuck on the Fringes of the Knowledge Economy
African Path - Minneapolis, MN, USA
It did this by creating an enabling environment characterized by a renewed emphasis on science education, particularly in engineering and computer sciences ...
Africa and climate change: Adapt, survive, thrive?
SciDev.net - UK
... challenges of climate change from within Africa. "We seek to promote African leadership in finding solutions to support both the science and practice of ...
South Africa: Radio-Quiet Zone Makes Noise
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Industry has warned the science and technology department that its plans to create a radio-quiet zone around the proposed site of the $1bn Square Kilometre ...
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