South Africa: Helping hands

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Oct 24, 2002

Tukani and 14 others bought their 216ha farm, Isidingo, in December 2000. The 15 partners each raised R16 000 in government subsidies. The R240 000 in their pool enabled them to borrow another R230 000 from the Land Bank to buy Isidingo. The R470 000 price included a few implements.Credit also goes to the National Development Agency (NDA), which has funded the association since its inception, and to the Department of Agriculture, which paid the mentors.

South Africa

Ghana: GHACEM Assist GJA With ¢18m

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Oct 24, 2002

GHACEM Limited has stated its corporate willingness to assist develop the media to a point where it can truly and vigorously hold the nation's politicians and all other citizens accountable for their actions.This was made known by Mr. George Dawson-Ahmoah, marketing director of Ghacem, when he handed over a free allocation of 500 bags of cement to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in Accra last Friday.

Ghana

Gambia: PADEF Donates to the Independent

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Oct 24, 2002

The French Technical Assistance, represented in The Gambia by Le project d'Appui pour la diffusion et l'Emseignement du François, known as PADEF, last week donated a brand new computer, with a French keyboard and a UPS to The Independent to aid its weekly French publication.

Gambia

malawi: down and out - the situation of orphans

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Oct 24, 2002

What does it mean to be a young orphan? Why and how are numbers burgeoning? Why are orphans socially excluded and how might education support their inclusion? This study investigates the lives of orphans in an area of Malawi, suggests why the numbers of orphans are exploding and indicates how the social unrest that may follow could be avoided.

Malawi

africa: Catastrophe or controllable crisis? The impact of the AIDS epidemic on schooling in Africa

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Oct 24, 2002

It is widely believed that children who are directly affected by AIDS are greatly disadvantaged at school and that teachers are a high risk group for HIV infection. Research in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda suggests that the situation is much more complex.

kenya: compromise deal ends teachers' strike

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Oct 24, 2002

Kenya's estimated 240,000 public school teachers at the weekend called off their nationwide strike, much to the relief of the country’s education sector, which had been plunged into crisis for four weeks.

Kenya

south africa: US donates R220m for Aids research in South Africa

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Oct 24, 2002

Three South African universities received R220 million from the United States National Institute for Health to be used in HIV-Aids research projects, officials said.

South Africa

uganda: Paper is freed...but at a price

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Oct 24, 2002

Ogen John Kevin Aliro of the banned Ugandan independent daily The Monitor reports on the end of the state's siege of the paper. The paper returned to the streets on October 18, but only at high cost to the paper's freedoms and leaving the threat of jail and enforced dismissal hanging over its journalists.

Uganda

zimbabwe: Teachers' Union Says Strike to Continue

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Oct 24, 2002

The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said the on-going teachers' strike would only stop when teachers are granted better pay and working conditions. The union said the strike would go "a gear up" this week. Takavafira Zhou, the PTUZ president, said neither the arrests, torture and incarceration of the union's leaders nor the dismissal of some teachers in Harare and Bulawayo would intimidate striking teachers from pressing their "legitimate demands."

Zimbabwe

namibia: Illegal Immigrants Expelled

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Oct 24, 2002

Over 400 illegal immigrants, most of them Angolan nationals, appeared before an Immigration Tribunal at Ohangwena in the North last Friday. The tribunal, chaired by Namibian Police Commissioner Sebastian Ndeitunga, granted immigration officials the authority to deport them to their countries of origin.

Namibia

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