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1.	South Africa: Justice Edwin Cameron appointed to the Constitutional Court
	Author: Zackie Achmat	Date Written: 25 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Treatment Action Campaign
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL:
	Key Words: South Africa, Constitutional Court, Justice Cameron,
	Summary & Comment: Justice Edwin Cameron has been appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa by President Kgalema Mothlanthe - an affirmation of the Bill of Rights, the rule of law and non-racialism. DN
2.	COSATU’s New Year message, 22 December 2008
	Author: COSATU Media alert	Date Written: 22 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Congress of South African Trade Unions
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.cosatu.org.za
	Key Words: COSATU, New Year message, 2008,
	Summary & Comment: Here is COSATU’s New Year message. "Polokwane, and the Policy Conference that preceded it have enabled us to have an open and frank discussion on the best way to tackle problems of poverty and unemployment." Jay Nair
3.	South Africa: Reflection from the Institute for Healing of Memories
	Author: Fr. Michael Lapsley SSM	Date Written: 15 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Institute for Healing of Memories
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: South Africa, the Institute for Healing of Memories, Lapsley,
	Summary & Comment: "There are two strong feelings which human beings share - anger against injustice and hope for a better world". The Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories reflects on the Institute’s past year and plans for the future. DN
4.	South Africa: Post Abahlali baseMjondolo AGM speech by S’bu Zikode
	Author: S’bu Zikode	Date Written: 14 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 431
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/
	Key Words: South Africa, Abahlali baseMjondolo, AGM, Zikode,
	Summary & Comment: S’bu Zikode had originally declined to stand for re-election as president of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement. After all of the more than 200 delegates at the AGM unanimously voted in a secret ballot for his return to that position, S’bu took a few weeks to reconsider his decision. S’bu delivered the following speech to Abahlali in which he accep . . . [expand]
5.	Botswana: President tells Bushmen their way of life is an archaic fantasy
	Author: various	Date Written: 13 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Survival International
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.survival-international.org
	Key Words: Botswana, President, Bushmen, way of life,
	Summary & Comment: Botswana’s High Court has affirmed that the government’s eviction of the Bushmen was unlawful and unconstitutional and that they have the right to live on their ancestral land inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve with the right to hunt and gather there. Two years after the ruling the government has not issued the Bushmen a single licence to hun . . . [expand]
6.	Madagascar: China and the great global landgrab
	Author: Stephen Marks	Date Written: 11 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 411
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org/en
	Key Words: China, landgrab, Madagascar, Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, FAO,
	Summary & Comment: China has signed lease agreements with many African countries for agricultural production. What this trend means in terms of food security and access to arable land by local populations is being debated. Some evensay there is no rapid land grab going on. DN
7.	South Africa: Book Review - From Freedom Charter to Polokwane
	Author: Book Review, Ben Turok	Date Written: 5 December 2008
	Primary Category: Southern Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 410; Mail & Guardian
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org/en
	Key Words: South Africa, Freedom Charter, Polokwane, ANC, economic policies,
	Summary & Comment: This book traces the economic debates in the ANC from the Freedom Charter to Morogoro, to the RDP, and to the present. It shows that the shift to macro-economic stabilisation in the transition to democracy in 1994 was due to international pressure and how that changed the trajectory of ANC policies. DN

News from Additional Sources

IPS Inter Press Service - Southern Africa

1. SOUTH AFRICA: Community Gardens Contribute to Food Security
   CAPE TOWN, Dec 29 (IPS) - A few years ago 66-year-old grandmother Regina Fhiceka and her family of five ate vegetables only once a week. They would survive on maize and bread the rest of the time -- the cheapest food available in the poor township of Philippi, just 15 minutes from the affluent business district of Cape Town.
2. ZIMBABWE: Holy Water Is Serious Business
   HARARE, Dec 27 (IPS) - "I am making much more profit selling seawater than I used to get from selling groceries and small household goods," Carlos Marufu, a holy water dealer based in Harare told IPS.
3. SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods
   LILONGWE, Dec 26 (IPS) - Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods, drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives and livelihoods all along the river’s length.
4. GENDER-SOUTH AFRICA: 'A Real Man Does Provide Care'
   MTHATHA, South Africa, Dec 25 (IPS) - Sonwabo Qathula puts on his apron and starts peeling a pile of butternuts, while a pot of rice boils on the stove next to him. The 50-year-old is preparing lunch for poor and orphaned children who attend a rural school in the Eastern Cape.
5. ZIMBABWE: Cholera Drowns Christmas Spirit
   HARARE, Dec 25 (IPS) - On Christmas Day, Robson Nzuza and his family usually drive to their village in Silobela, in the Midlands Province, to spend a week with members of the extended family and throw a big party.