The Health Department plans to reduce the rate of new HIV/Aids infections by 50% by the year 2011, acting health minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday. ”To achieve this, we need to intensify the implementation of prevention interventions aimed at changing behaviour and reduce sexual transmission,” Radebe said.
Several hundred protesters dressed in pink tops and jeans in sympathy with the family of murdered seven-year-old Sheldean Human dispersed peacefully from outside the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Earlier in the day, the case of the man suspected of murdering the girl was postponed in the court.
Elinor Sisulu reviews Elizabeth Maxwell and Alice Mogwe’s <i>In the Shadow of the Noose</i>.
Lloyd Gedye talks to Sweden’s Marching Band, who recently toured South Africa.
Lloyd Gedye chats to Harris Tweed about their upcoming international showcase in Texas.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Not only does <i>Bunny Chow</i> have laughs, it has youth, energy and style, writes Shaun de Waal.
It took years for Femi Kuti to win over fans of his father, the Afrobeat legend Fela, writes Maya Jaggi.
A vicious circle of poverty and disease is placing a huge burden on development in Africa, the African Union commissioner for social affairs said on Friday. Bience Gawanas was speaking at a meeting of the national health council in Sandton. She said a vicious circle existed in which poverty drove up the burden of diseases while ill-health contributed to poverty.
A wave of attacks on cash machines by gangs armed with dynamite has struck further fear into South Africans already dealing with sky-high crime rates, authorities said on Friday. Robbers who blew their way into an Absa ATM in the latest attack on Thursday near Johannesburg made off with thousands of rands in the 69th such raid on ATMs this year.
Zimbabwe’s national intelligence agency on Monday began deploying its secret agents within the army and police to purge officers suspected of backing opposition plans to revolt against the government. Central Intelligence Organisation Director General Happyton Bonyongwe expressed concern over the leakage of sensitive information to the opposition.