A Metrobus driver was shot and killed while driving in Mooi Street in Faraday on Monday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said. Spokesperson Chief Superintendent Malcolm Midgley said the man lost control of the bus after he was shot at about 6.30am. ”The bus overturned and landed on the embankment.” Rescuers used the Jaws of Life to remove the man’s body.

Amnesty International bestowed its most prestigious honour — the Ambassador of Conscience Award 2006 — on former president Nelson Mandela.

The government should create jobs and provide education and skills development if it is serious about fighting crime, the South African Prisoners’ Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) said on Friday. ”The government has a tendency of panicking and looking for a non-existent quick-fix for crime,” said Sapohr president Golden Miles Bhudu.

A large group of South African women infected with HIV are among 150 delegates of last month’s International Aids Conference seeking refugee status in Canada, the Toronto Sun‘s website reported. The newspaper reported that the women did not return home after attending the Aids conference in Toronto last month.

HIV/Aids in Southern Africa is under-reported, the voices of those most affected are least heard and the gender dimensions of the pandemic are not well reflected. This is according to a study released by the Media Monitoring Project and Gender Links in Johannesburg on Wednesday — which is also World Press Freedom Day — at a launch of the HIV/Aids and Gender Baseline Study and Media Resource Desk.