South African women still have scant choices when it comes to avoiding HIV/Aids Khadija Magardie Women have unequal power in society, resulting in less control of their lives, particularly their sexual health choices. This has had dire consequences for their susceptibility to HIV/Aids infection. According to the latest UNAids report on the global status of […]

South African/Saudi arms deals could be jeopardised by the debacle surrounding the Cell-C cellular licence bid Ivor Powell As the government seeks to contain the damage, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has been dropped from a Cabinet subcommittee appointed to assess the fallout from the third cellular debacle on a package of oil and weapons deals […]

Andrew Muchineripi soccer After winning the Castle Premiership for three consecutive seasons, Sundowns Football Club have decided the time has arrived to raise their sights a little bit higher. The natural progression from being champions of a country is to become champions of a continent and that is what the Pretoria-based club has set its […]

Colleen Lowe Morna South AfricaOs WomenOs Budget Initiative (WBI) is receiving more accolades abroad than commitment at home. Launched in government three years ago as part of a high-profile, two-year pilot project on gender and economic policy supported by the Commonwealth secretariat, the gender implications of public expenditure received extensive commentary in the 1998 and […]

Investigators at the Independent Complaints Directorate this week began fitting together the pieces of the puzzle around Bheki MkhizeOs death Paul Kirk and Niki Moore African National Congress MP Bheki Mkhize, killed in a police raid on his home at Mahlabathini, near Ulundi, was shot through his open palm an indication, say the provincial ANC […]

ZimbabweOs political and economic stability is in danger as President Robert Mugabe pushes ahead with plans to expropriate white-owned land Chris McGreal in Harare Zimbabwe is mobilising its army to rapidly resettle several million black peasants on expropriated farms after a government announcement that it will now seize about two-thirds of all white-owned land. And […]

Hennie Bester, the new Western Cape safety MEC, has brought a new attitude to his portfolio Marianne Merten OIOm not sure whether I must accept congratulations or sympathy,O smiled Western Cape MEC for Community Safety Hennie Bester after his first media conference. He and MEC for Transport Piet Meyer had just announced that Khayelitsha the […]

GM war Jaspreet Kindra The real political contest today is between the Opower of people and the power of corporationsO, pronounces Dr Vandana Shiva, the fiery activist from India. Shiva, one of the stalwarts of the anti- biotech movement launched over a decade ago, is here to help kick-start the South African campaign against genetically […]