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 […]
Philippa Garson class struggle It would appear that the battle for the soul of the country’s curriculum is far from over. When Minister of Education Kader Asmal took the decision to subject the African National Congress’s flagship education policy, Curriculum 2005, to independent scrutiny in February this year by appointing a review committee to look […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Charles Mailula’s attempt at becoming South Africa’s fourth successive boxer in recent times to win a junior featherweight world title has been postponed due to an administrative problem. “There was a problem in getting his United States visa in time,” says publicist Terry Pettifer. Mailula was to have challenged Carlos Contreras for […]
THE ruling junta in Ivory Coast says it has struck a deal to pay its mutinous soldiers, but would not give details of the agreement. Soldiers who had helped military ruler, General Robert Guei, stage a coup over Christmas, rioted in the streets of Abidjan and other cities, demanding to be paid for their help […]
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 […]
Some members of the NNP have expressed doubts about the DP’s approach to opposition Jaspreet Kindra Senior New National Party leader Renier Schoeman is on a roadshow in KwaZulu-Natal this week trying to quell the fears of members who remain sceptical of the alliance with the Democratic Party. Sources say Schoeman, executive director of the […]
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 […]
Sierra Leone’s diamond trade may be banned in an attempt to cut off the cash flow financing the civil war David Le Page The United Nations Security Council this week took its most decisive step yet in stopping the trade in “conflict diamonds” when it announced plans to suspend all trade in gems from the […]