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/ 13 October 2006
Female deaths due to HIV/Aids quadrupled from 1997 to 2004, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Friday. Speaking at the Gauteng Aids summit in Boksburg, Dr Hester Phillips of Stats SA said the very sharp increase in death rate due to HIV and related diseases is of great concern. ”There is also a huge increase in mortality in women in prime ages of reproduction,” she said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Title-holder Retief Goosen turned on the style at the Volkswagen Masters-China on Friday, rattling in a clutch of birdies and eagling the last to take a three-shot halfway lead. The world number seven, who has had a modest year by his standards, fired seven-under-par 65 for a two-day total of 129 at the Yalong Bay Golf Club.
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/ 13 October 2006
To write good non-fiction requires more than facts — it takes a degree of well-disciplined artifice, argues John Burnside.
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/ 13 October 2006
Zuluboy’s new album is easily the most unashamedly Zulu hip-hop album to be released on a national scale, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 13 October 2006
South Africans are angry about growing corruption, and that the politically well-connected seem to be the main beneficiaries of democracy, researchers said on Friday. ”It is a season of grievance,” the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation’s Susan Brown said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Former president PW Botha was admitted to the George Medi-Clinic on Friday, hospital manager George Schutte has confirmed. He is to be discharged from the George Medi-Clinic on Saturday morning after undergoing what the hospital says are routine checks. ”Mr Botha will be kept overnight for routine tests to be run and will be discharged tomorrow morning,” a statement said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Ugandan rebels have violated a truce with the government by leaving an agreed assembly point, the head of an independent monitoring team said on Friday, in a blow to efforts to end one of Africa’s longest conflicts. ”We did not find them there … Because they were supposed to be there, it is automatically a violation,” Major General Wilson Deng Kuoirot told the media.
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/ 13 October 2006
Brett Murray’s latest show combines whimsy and craft, writes Chris Roper.
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/ 13 October 2006
ZA@Play reviews some of the latest releases on the shelves.
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/ 13 October 2006
At first Davis Guggenheim was sceptical about making <i>An Inconvenient Truth</i>. Then he went to see to Al Gore’s ‘slideshow’, writes Renaye D Menasseh.