Staff Reporter
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/ 5 June 2008

Warning: A shift at the Constitutional Court

After the Constitutional Court judgements in the Clicks case, in which the majority set aside regulations dealing with pricing and dispensing of medicine, legal commentators raised the question as to whether a significant minority of the court — who appeared to adopt a more pro-executive position — would influence the future direction of the court.

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/ 5 June 2008

HIV/Aids barometer; June 2008

<b>Estimated Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 498 738 at noon on June 4 </b> Nearly three-million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline to reach that figure was set by the World Health Organisation.