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SWAZILAND: Thembe Manana: "Even without HIV, life would be very hard"

MBABANE Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Thembe Manana, 40, left her job as a domestic worker in South Africa and returned to her village in Swaziland 10 years ago to care for her mother and children. She talked to IRIN/PlusNews about her struggle with HIV and surviving in a country stricken by drought and poverty. "I was healthy when I came back to Swaziland. When I had my son the test showed I was HIV negative, but some years went by and my body developed pains; it was hard for me to...

Unity is strength, division weakness

The vibrant call made by Vice-President Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy for the formation of a national women’s federation in The Gambia is an important move, as a building is made strong by the proper interlocking of its bricks. It is a well-known fact that President Yahya Jammeh has always championed the cause of women through a genuine empowerment process. He has gone further to appoint them to key positions. As such, Gambian women are ipso facto given the opportunity to take part in the decision...

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY CELEBRATION 10Th JUNE, 2008

The Role of Political Leaders during the Liberation Struggle Mr./Madam Chairperson, This is a very important subject and I wish to start my deliberation by quoting a Ghanaian Professor who in a conversation with me, said that African elders don’t present papers per se in the western sense of the word. He said because of the range and depth of their experience, combining what have been derived from sources of western education with indigenous knowledge, and what they themselves have...

The echoes of a unified Africa

Great minds conceive great ideas. A blend of great ideas has the potential to make a great nation. So the greatest asset of every nation is its gift of ideological differences. These differences must not be taken as a course for permanent, destructive division. Rather it should be seen as part of the beauty of our diverseness: ‘unity in diversity’. This fact extends beyond the boundaries of the individual countries that make up the African continent. It is high time we as Africans embraced it,...