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 […]
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 […]
Tom Cox CD OFTHEWEEK Masquerading as the best bar band in the world, The Jayhawks, for anyone who’s actually played their last three albums more than once, are in fact trail-blazing studio scientists: the most complex of all the alternative country bands. The fact that they were written off as too “straightforward” and “trad” seems […]
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 […]
Terry Kurgan This project, though in every sense a development from Family Affairs (the work for which I was selected), doesn’t use my own photographs or my own children at all. I am using found family snapshots. Mostly from the Sixties – and all in colour. They could belong to anybody. And I am printing […]
Anthony Browne The long-feared new wave of HIV infection has arrived in San Francisco, the city that first alerted the world to the epidemic 20 years ago. News that the city now has the same infection levels as sub-Saharan Africa has sparked fears across the United States and Europe that years of safe-sex education are […]
Paul Kirk and Marianne Merten The man hired by Golden Arrow buses to provide security to its besieged drivers is the KwaZulu-Natal hotel owner who allegedly offered a security guard money to withdraw a rape charge against tycoon Jonty Sandler. Norman Reeves, the managing director of the Combat Group of Companies, is a former regimental […]
Robert Kirby THE BAYONET FIELD by Peter Wilhelm (Ad Donker) This collection of the short stories of Peter Wilhelm again reveals his extraordinary gifts, both as writer and as intuitive diarist of the human condition. Of Wilhelm’s output of some 70 short stories and novellas, collected here are 20. Set in the past, the present […]
photographs Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Aids 2000 conference committee has banned photographs by an award-winning Dutch photographer on the grounds that the images provide an excessively graphic insight into the dreadfulness of the HIV/Aids epidemic. The photographer, Geert van Kesteren, from Holland, submitted an application early this year to the committee to exhibit his […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Smart television producers will by now have recognised a cash cow in the making. If nothing else, the coverage of the recent King commission hearings showed that there’s a wealth of real-life drama out there, just waiting to be exploited. The hearings had every element of a excellent tragicomedy. There was the […]