An indigent burial support programme was needed to cope with the rising number of HIV/Aids deaths in South Africa, a researcher said on Thursday. Shirley Ngwenya, a public health researcher in Johannesburg, was addressing a Gauteng Aids conference at Gallagher Estate.
There is a steady increase in HIV prevalence in South Africa, a professor from the University of KwaZulu-Natal said at the opening of the Gauteng Aids Council conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. The life expectancy in the country would soon plummet from 63 years to 46, Professor Alan Whiteside said.
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/ 26 September 2005
About 4 000 delegates from around the world gathered at the Coca-Cola Dome in Northgate, Johannesburg, on Sunday night to attend the opening of the 18th World Petroleum Congress. The red carpet was rolled out and guests were entertained by drummers, dancers and singers in-between welcome speeches and meals.
The Springbok rugby team joined former president Nelson Mandela to see off the 46664 vehicle.
New information and pictures of former president Nelson Mandela, his life and his time in prison will be available to South Africa from November.
The bodies of all four workers trapped under a tonne of sand in a foundation trench outside a water-sport shop in Randburg were excavated on Wednesday. Emergency personnel were at the site early on Wednesday, trying to locate the workers who had been trapped under the sand since Tuesday.
The Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday that it was awaiting the outcome of an investigation by the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa into claims that former Pelindaba nuclear workers had contracted serious diseases, possibly caused by radiation.