Archive for June, 2008

Zimbabwe faces crunch week as election looms and MDC withdraws

23Jun08

We are less than a month away from former President Nelson Mandela’s birthday on 18 July. But enroute to that day, in which South Africans and the world will get to celebrate the life of a truly great man, stands the date of 27 June. On that day voting is scheduled to begin in the [...]


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this moment of opportunity

05Jun08

Trey Smith, a researcher from South Carolina, is currently interning at DEVELOPMENT WORKS and shares his views on the news of Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee…

I can remember sitting in history class and hearing the common refrain from teachers and professors; “This was a watershed moment in the history of humankind.”
Watershed moments [...]


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