Table of Contents

From the Editor

Available ONLINE
Priorities Upsided-Down: The Doctors case
Bibilical Perspective on Peace and Popular Participation
The God of Peace and Compasion: A Christian Meditation on AIDS
Torture in Zambia's Police Cells
Debt and the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility
JCTR Update: People and Activities

Available in print
I Believe in Africa
The Zimbawean Referendum
NGOs and Constitutinal Reform in Afirca
Celebacy and Priesthood: A layman's Point of View
Letters to the Editor
Why Marry?
Marriage and the Informed Conscience
Tough Teaching!
A Personal View on Natural Family Planning

 Dear Readers of the JCTR Bulletin:
This is the first issue of the Bulletin in this year. As we celebrate the dawn of the new millennium we are glad to present to you a wide range of substantive articles discussing a number of pertinent issues not only in Zambia and Malawi but also on the continent of Africa. The issues discussed in this edition do provide a grain of hope to the people in Africa as we journey into the new era. Taking a cue from the Editorial of Africa 2000, we would like to say that Africa does have a good number of reasons to hope for a better existence in every respect. In its first issue of the year 2000, the New African magazine reminds us all of the need to ask ourselves in Africa about why we are where we are; and what we can, and should do, in the new millennium.

Africa's journey through history has not been an easy one. It has been marked by slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism; all of these have seen the continent being pillaged of its resources. The continent continues to suffer immensely from ruthless imperialism at the hands of very powerful international institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation. A good example of this ruthlessness is the refusal of the Bretton Woods institutions to cancel Mozambique's debt. Mozambique has experienced immemorable floods. This has left Mozambique with a tremendous loss of lives, livelihood systems, infrastructures, and large numbers of displaced people. These financial institutions expect Mozambique to continue servicing her debt in the same breath that she cries for help from the world. Complete letter

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