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/ 21 October 2007
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Pride and politics mixed on Sunday as South Africans celebrated their Rugby World Cup final win over England. Festivities continued through the night as South Africans packed fan parks and restaurants and filled the streets with honking cars draped with the national flag.
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/ 11 October 2007
The international scientific community is trying to inject new urgency and unity into the elusive hunt for an HIV/Aids vaccine, just weeks after trials with the most promising candidate to date were halted. At a conference in Cape Town, Alan Bernstein was named on Thursday as the first executive director of the Global HIV-Vaccine Enterprise, an alliance of researchers and funders.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Tuesday defended South Africa’s quiet diplomacy toward Zimbabwe, saying that foreign intervention to bring about a regime change risked unleashing turmoil like in Iraq. He told lawmakers that South Africa — the top regional powerbroker — was not in a position to dictate political and economic policy to Zimbabwe.
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Southern African leaders to send monitors to Zimbabwe to investigate the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement. On the eve of a key Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit , leading Zimbabwean human rights groups said they held a four-hour meeting with South African mediators.
As the wife of the United States president tours Africa, she will be shining a spotlight on malaria as well as Aids. While the former does not grab the same headlines, it far outstrips Aids as the continent’s biggest child killer, claiming one young life every 30 seconds.
Business and political leaders attending an annual conference meant to focus entrepreneurial attention on Africa hailed China’s and India’s huge appetite for raw materials as a powerful driving force to move the African economy up a gear. But the discussion at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference on Africa was tinged with anxiety.
Simon Gungqa and dozens of other hopefuls stand at a busy intersection, their eyes watchful, appealing to motorists to hire them for a few hours’ casual labour in a country scarred by extreme unemployment, coupled with a crippling shortage of skills.
United States talk-show host Oprah Winfrey on Saturday promised to give free Aids testing, counselling and — if necessary — treatment to the 152 girls chosen for her new school in South Africa. Hoping to encourage more openness about the disease underwent an HIV test herself to persuade the new pupils at her new Leadership Academy for Girls to follow suit.
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/ 20 December 2006
Robben Island’s rocky, windswept shores and the Atlantic’s expanses were intimidating for a penguin after weeks of pens and pools. So, when dozens of the birds abandoned as chicks by their parents and raised by humans were released back into the wild on Wednesday, most at first huddled nervously together in the frigid waters.
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/ 17 November 2006
The budding South African film industry should draw from the country’s own rich and painful experience of the apartheid era and not try to emulate Hollywood’s big-budget movies, veteran actor Morgan Freeman said on Thursday as he appeared at Cape Town’s Sithengi film festival.