Secrecy is for skelms

A culture of secrecy breeds duplicity, paranoia and violence, writes the president of South African PEN.

State's 'bad administration' could force TAC to close its doors

The Treatment Action Campaign faces closure due to a lack of funds, which it claims is primarily due to bad administration at the health department.

Move to relabel 'Israeli' goods as bads

Many supermarket products currently marked "product of Israel" could soon carry new labels.

UN proposal incenses gay activists

SA's mooted resolution on sexual orientation is seen as appeasing African conservatives.

Comrade Barbara, we salute you!

Zackie Achmat and Fatima Hassan pays tribute to Barbara Hogan, as she retires from government.

Israel opera tour goes ahead, with a difference

After an uproar over Cape Town Opera's tour to Israel, opera managing director Michael Williams has written a letter of apology

Murderous welcome for refugees

Despite the death of five foreigners, provincial officials insist reintegration has been successful.

Why TAC is taking govt to court over refugees

The Treatment Action Campaign has slammed "government inaction" on deteriorating living conditions in camps for displaced foreign nationals.

TAC's Zackie Achmat gets married

South African HIV/Aids activist Zackie Achmat got married to his co-campaigner boyfriend at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests, newspapers reported on Sunday. Achmat (45), founder and chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the country's main Aids lobby, married Dalli Weyers on Saturday at a colourful occasion near Cape Town.

Aids activist urges new TB plan

African nations are failing to control tuberculosis and could be overwhelmed by drug resistant strains of the infectious lung disease, with dire implications for the war on HIV/Aids, a leading Aids activist said on Monday. "The explosion of tuberculosis on the continent is combined with the explosion and advance of the HIV epidemic," said Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign.

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