”I once spoke to a journalist who had covered the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s. He said that he and his colleagues kept heading into harm’s way, because they believed that once the world knew of the horrors they had witnessed, the world would be stirred to act,” writes Jonathan Freedland.
Underdevelopment, poverty and the low status of women remained the main ”drivers” of HIV/Aids in South Africa, the Health Department said on Wednesday. An estimated 55% of those living with HIV in South Africa were women, according to the draft National Strategic Plan on HIV/Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Just when you thought you had acquired the knack of asking for a grande skim white chocolate caffé mocha or a Venti peppermint soy extra-hot sugar-free cinnamon latte, Starbucks has to go and raise the stakes. The company that turned ordering a cup of coffee into an assault course of choice has announced it is extending its Seattle savvy into the music business.
Britain called on Tuesday for a "very robust international response" against the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government for its brutal crackdown on the opposition. "The situation is appalling. I condemn last Sunday’s beatings and arrest of opposition leaders," junior Foreign Office Minister David Triesman.
In the mystically charged Grahamstown, more drama took place in the streets than on the stages and in the theatres, writes John Matshikiza.
Brett Bailey’s <i>The Prophet</i> is strange, crowd-pulling stuff. But Lauren Shantall finds it hard to be amazed yet again.
The success of the National Arts Festival is yet another demonstration of how we as South Africans can reach into the diversity of a past division and conflict, and transform it into a celebration of our richness and our unity within that diversity." It was with these words that Nelson Mandela officially opened the 25th Grahamstown festival around lunchtime today.
The Wedding is lewd, crude and honest to the bone. Alex Dodd loved it.
Alex Dodd finds herself moved to dark acts of terrorism by a display of flower-arranging set to music.
Gladwell Otieno is the executive director for the Africa Centre for Open Governance, based in Kenya. An uncompromising anti-corruption campaigner, she attended the Africa Forum on Fighting Corruption that recently took place in Johannesburg. Haydée Bangerezako spoke to her about continental anti-corruption efforts.