OSISA Journal Edition 4 Issue 3

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:47:17 -0500

Constitutions and constitutionalism: protecting the rights of all citizens (November 2004)

If, hypothetically, civic and human rights educators were forced to stop all the programmes they currently work on, and were asked to elect only to support the wide dissemination among the region's citizens, of a piece of writing that contains no more than forty words, we would hope that the first part of Article 144 of the Namibian Constitution would take such pride of place. It states:

“Unless otherwise provided for by this Constitution or Act of Parliament, the general rules of public international law and international agreements binding upon Namibia under this Constitution shall form part of the law of Namibia.”

OSISA Journal Edition 3 Issue 2

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:38:39 -0400

The new liberation struggle for Southern Africa (June 2004)

As AIDS ravages the Southern African socialscape, we ought to take ourselves out of the currently prevailing sense of having such "little confidence in the future" that clear-sighted leadership is not emerging to champion an emergency response of the magnitude that the scale of the pandemic itself begs.

In April and May 2004, Malawian and Zimbabwean media reports suggested the possibility that some abuse of resources for HIV and AIDS has been taking place. A number of the region's political leaders—some even responsible for health delivery in their own countries—are still in the practice of leaving behind crumbling and under-funded health infrastructure and, exploiting their own mobility and wherewithal, buckling up in aeroplanes to take themselves and their own for treatment in South Africa or abroad.

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OSISA Journal Edition 4 Issue 3

Constitutions and constitutionalism: protecting the rights of all citizens (November 2004)

OSISA Journal Edition 3 Issue 2

The new liberation struggle for Southern Africa (June 2004)