SW Radio Africa has won the award for International Radio Station of the Year from the AIB, the Association for International Broadcasting. Other winners included the BBC World Service.
Mandisa Mundawarara was highly commended in the award category, International Radio Presenter of the Year.
These non commercial awards offer peer review of output, personalities and technology - they are the only awards that celebrate excellence in international cross-border broadcasting. The 2006 awards have been judged by an international panel of broadcasting experts, including professional TV and radio critics from leading newspapers.
See links:
http://www.aib.org.uk/
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/221106/bbc_and_sky_win_broadcast_awards
Friday, November 24, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Who is marching from Norwood?
ANGRY ABOUT CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA
Hi all South Africans
My name is Lorraine, In April 2006 one of my best friends Richard Bloom and his best friend Brett Goldin were murdered in Cape Town. As a South African I have decided to make a difference and March to give a memorandum to our president. Please help me to make this a success. If we all don’t stand together, nothing will ever be done. March with me – let’s be seen and heard
70 people are murdered in South Africa every day. This number excludes the other evils of crime such as rape, robbery and hijacking.
South Africa is at war. Crime is out of control, Now, more than ever before in our history, the people of South Africa need to stop doing nothing. We need to prevent the evil of crime from spreading any further.
Do you feel safe in your own home? Is your family safe? Have you personally experienced the evil of crime in South Africa? Are you satisfied that your President cares about your safety and well-being? Are you angry about crime?
On 24th November 2006, at 10.30 am the people of South Africa will come together to say to our President that we are angry about crime and we want action. No more talking, no more denial, we want action and we want it now.
If you believe in South Africa and want to live a long and happy life in this beautiful country of ours, take time out for yourself and the ones you love and let us march together from Wits University Empire Road entrance and gather outside the SABC to deliver a message to our President that all is not okay. We are angry about crime and demand action now.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY .
March on the 24th NOVEMBER 2006 at 11.00pm
Bring lots of water and sun block
No littering
Hi all South Africans
My name is Lorraine, In April 2006 one of my best friends Richard Bloom and his best friend Brett Goldin were murdered in Cape Town. As a South African I have decided to make a difference and March to give a memorandum to our president. Please help me to make this a success. If we all don’t stand together, nothing will ever be done. March with me – let’s be seen and heard
70 people are murdered in South Africa every day. This number excludes the other evils of crime such as rape, robbery and hijacking.
South Africa is at war. Crime is out of control, Now, more than ever before in our history, the people of South Africa need to stop doing nothing. We need to prevent the evil of crime from spreading any further.
Do you feel safe in your own home? Is your family safe? Have you personally experienced the evil of crime in South Africa? Are you satisfied that your President cares about your safety and well-being? Are you angry about crime?
On 24th November 2006, at 10.30 am the people of South Africa will come together to say to our President that we are angry about crime and we want action. No more talking, no more denial, we want action and we want it now.
If you believe in South Africa and want to live a long and happy life in this beautiful country of ours, take time out for yourself and the ones you love and let us march together from Wits University Empire Road entrance and gather outside the SABC to deliver a message to our President that all is not okay. We are angry about crime and demand action now.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY .
March on the 24th NOVEMBER 2006 at 11.00pm
Bring lots of water and sun block
No littering
Saturday, November 11, 2006
ZIMBABWE: Doctors protest condition of health system
BULAWAYO, 10 November (PLUSNEWS) - Doctors in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, have gone on strike to protest against deteriorating health services characterised by widespread shortages of drugs, food and equipment.
The stayaway, which started on Monday, is expected to spread to other parts of the country during the course of the week.
"It has become very difficult to work with basically nothing to use in all departments; it is disappointing to watch patients deteriorating in a hospital, as no help can be given to them," medical practitioners at the city's two main referral centres, Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals, said in a statement.
"Doctors took an oath to save lives, and do not want to continue lying to patients that they can do something for them when they know very well there is nothing they can do, as the hospitals can no longer function."
The striking doctors said there was virtually nothing to administer to patients at the two hospitals, and the situation was the same in government-owned health institutions across the country.
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, an NGO, indicated in a recent statement that the country's health facilities had "in fact become death traps, as patients continue to die unnecessarily due to drug shortages." In some instances hospitals had no running water.
Officials have acknowledged shortages of key drugs in the recent past.
The health delivery system has virtually collapsed in the last seven years due to lack of foreign exchange to purchase medical requirements and a shortage of qualified personnel, who have fled low pay and poor working conditions for greener pastures in other countries.
Zimbabwe is going through a severe economic crisis, with serious fuel and food shortages brought on by recurring droughts and the government's fast-track land redistribution programme, which have disrupted agricultural production and slashed export earnings.
Doctors in the Bulawayo hospitals were also concerned about the quality and quantity of food being given to patients, and claimed that malnutrition was rampant in government health institutions. At least five patients at the Ingutsheni Hospital for the mentally challenged in Bulawayo died last month after allegedly being diagnosed with malnutrition.
The Zimbabwean deputy health minister, Edwin Muguti, confirmed the five deaths at the hospital, but said the authorities had yet to establish the cause.
"There is basically no food to feed the sick, yet it is only natural that patients need to eat for their conditions to improve. This is worrying us so much, and we demand that government sets its priorities right and starts working towards rebuilding the health sector," the doctors said.
There was no comment from the Zimbabwe Doctors Association, which officially represents the country's medical practitioners.
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The stayaway, which started on Monday, is expected to spread to other parts of the country during the course of the week.
"It has become very difficult to work with basically nothing to use in all departments; it is disappointing to watch patients deteriorating in a hospital, as no help can be given to them," medical practitioners at the city's two main referral centres, Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals, said in a statement.
"Doctors took an oath to save lives, and do not want to continue lying to patients that they can do something for them when they know very well there is nothing they can do, as the hospitals can no longer function."
The striking doctors said there was virtually nothing to administer to patients at the two hospitals, and the situation was the same in government-owned health institutions across the country.
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, an NGO, indicated in a recent statement that the country's health facilities had "in fact become death traps, as patients continue to die unnecessarily due to drug shortages." In some instances hospitals had no running water.
Officials have acknowledged shortages of key drugs in the recent past.
The health delivery system has virtually collapsed in the last seven years due to lack of foreign exchange to purchase medical requirements and a shortage of qualified personnel, who have fled low pay and poor working conditions for greener pastures in other countries.
Zimbabwe is going through a severe economic crisis, with serious fuel and food shortages brought on by recurring droughts and the government's fast-track land redistribution programme, which have disrupted agricultural production and slashed export earnings.
Doctors in the Bulawayo hospitals were also concerned about the quality and quantity of food being given to patients, and claimed that malnutrition was rampant in government health institutions. At least five patients at the Ingutsheni Hospital for the mentally challenged in Bulawayo died last month after allegedly being diagnosed with malnutrition.
The Zimbabwean deputy health minister, Edwin Muguti, confirmed the five deaths at the hospital, but said the authorities had yet to establish the cause.
"There is basically no food to feed the sick, yet it is only natural that patients need to eat for their conditions to improve. This is worrying us so much, and we demand that government sets its priorities right and starts working towards rebuilding the health sector," the doctors said.
There was no comment from the Zimbabwe Doctors Association, which officially represents the country's medical practitioners.
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