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Jacklynne Hobbs
Seeds of the future
Workshops highlight pros and cons of genetically modified agriculture, writes Jacklynne Hobbs.
From anti-Blair to Auntie Blair?
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/199502/Zim_icon.GIF" align=left>Zimbabwe’s last parliamentary election, held in 2000, transfixed the attention of the international…
Men: The final frontier in sex education
It’s not as if men are conspicuous by their absence at Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All: quite a few have braved the meeting, even though it must…
Plugging the medical brain drain
The flight of nurses and doctors from South Africa — and other African states — has long been a source of concern for the governments of these countries. And, the advent of Aids…
Do water wars loom in Africa?
When water affairs ministers from countries along the Nile met recently to discuss the fate of the river, Boutros Boutros Ghali was not in the room with them. But the lingering…
‘It’s now time for the people to speak’
While the media mayhem that attended South Africa’s first two democratic elections is undoubtedly a thing of the past, there was still a blizzard of flashlights when the…