NEW Zealand Soccer (NZS) will apologise for Charlie Dempsey’s failure to vote in the deciding ballot for the 2006 World Cup, with a ”special” apology for South Africa. ”We will write, today, to all countries associated with FIFA, explaining New Zealand Soccer’s position because I think New Zealand Soccer’s taken too much of the brunt […]
Peter Dickson With most of the land still in private hands and R40-million spent on the development model for the Coega industrial development zone, Portnet and the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) are using a worldwide study tour for a costly, last- minute rethink on the Eastern Cape’s “economic miracle”. Meanwhile, back home, South Africa’s leading […]
Taban lo Liyong In the February 4 issue of the science journal Nature it is reported that HIV probably originated from chimpanzees and that the virus was transferred from these primates to humans. Chimpanzees in Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea are supposedly the culprits. But if HIV originated from chimpanzees, how was it transferred to […]
>From page 22 Moreover, the correlation between human beings eating primates and Aids is poor. As we have noted, Guinea-Bissau has sooty mangabey Aids, but no sooty mangabeys. In northern Congo the pygmies eat primates, but have no HIV. The “natural transfer” theory simply does not deserve the confidence placed in it by most scientists. […]
THE Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Thursday ordered that suspended Civil Aviation Authority chief Trevor Abrahams be given back his pilot licence, passport and other personal documents. CAA spokeswoman Merle O’Brien said the documents were returned to Abrahams after the prosecutor initially failed to provide a basis for the charges of fraud, corruption, defeating […]
Haidar Eid THE END OF THE ‘PEACE PROCESS’: OSLO AND AFTER by Edward Said (Pantheon) The difficulty, albeit necessity, of addressing the current situation in Palestine emanates from the euphoria of the mainstream media accompanying the signing of the Oslo Accords in 199. The mainstream media avoided the agreement’s denial of Palestinian rights, endorsing the […]
Jeremy Cronin Crossfire The newly launched Democratic Alliance (DA), dominated as it is by Tony Leon’s party, represents two not entirely converging impulses found in the Democratic Party. On the one hand there is the electoral juggernaut that quite shamelessly stirs the racial phobias of minority constituencies. On the other, there is the DP’s Thatcherite […]
Mail & Guardian reporters Breaking the silence surrounding the realities of Aids is the theme of Aids 2000, the international Aids conference to be held in Durban this week. But it is likely that Aids 2000 will be remembered more for the “Durban declaration”: a document signed by 5E000 people testifying in their belief that […]
HIV mutates very readily, which means it can rapidly become resistant to drugs, so patients need to be treated with a cocktail of medicines Belinda Beresford People almost never die of HIV, they die from any number of a wide selection of diseases which overwhelm immune systems ravaged by the virus. Thousands of different mutants […]
Thuli Nhlapo The Durban Aids 2000 conference will not have any delegates from organisations for disabled persons nor will there be disabled presenters – in spite of the fact that 15E000 scholarships were awarded to a number of delegates to enable their participation. According to one of the organisers, Fakazile Myeza, presenters submitted abstracts of […]