South African actuaries and academics have cast doubt on relatively upbeat HIV/Aids statistics released last month by the Department of Health, while the United Nations has warned that the Aids epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is still in its infancy.

Unprotected sex, multiple partners, wild parties and boozing are characteristics of student life that could lead to a high prevalence of HIV — but not for students at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU).

The reparations bandwagon is leaving South African shores, gearing itself up to take on international companies for their role in prolonging the former apartheid regime.

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has stirred a hornet’s nest with its latest attempt to resuscitate the draft Bill that will change the face of how road accident victims will receive their claims. Law experts have slammed the Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill 2002.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has called off a boycott of classes in the Eastern Cape to give the Eastern Cape Department of Education a chance to deliver outstanding stationery supplies.

THE government’s revised version of the Mineral Development Bill, tabled in Parliament this week, makes black economic empowerment a compulsory criterion when granting mining and prospecting permits to private companies

JOURNALISTS demand answers from union at special congress

HIV deaths are rising and has become one of the major underlying causes of death in South Africa, according to the latest Statistics South Africa report on deaths between 1997 and 2001.