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/ 29 November 2005
Picture yourself as an HIV-positive teenager who logs on to the loveLife website for advice. Firstly, you would find the devastating (and untrue) information that after 10 years of anti-retroviral treatment "you will eventually die from Aids-related causes or the side effects of the drugs".
The African National Congress’s new discussion document is just that: a statement of ideas as a basis for contestation. As such, it provides a welcome opening for discussion of development strategies across the democratic movement. Unfortunately, the business press in particular has rushed to welcome selected proposals as a done deal.