"Yes, I get the ARVs, but I cannot afford to put a simple meal on the table," says Wa Kimani. "This is why I had to register at two treatment sites, so that I could get ARVs [anti-retroviral drugs] twice: utilise one set from one site, then sell the other batch from the second site, so that I can get something small to put in my stomach."
With warm tropical waters, white beaches, bright shirts, snorkelling, cocktails and surfing, Hawaii seems to be the perfect escape from one of the hottest seats in South African business. It’s no wonder that Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane raves about the place. "It is relaxing and serene and the people are fantastic," says Molotsane.
That they have not seen his film is no impediment. That it has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes only quickens their desire for reprisals. Ken Loach has been placed in preventive detention and is having his fingernails pulled out. In the London Times, critic Tim Luckhurst compares him — unfavourably — to Leni Riefenstahl.
It is to Alan Birchenall, a former Leicester City player, that we must turn for an incisive analysis of how the courtship rituals and mate selection of top-ranking football players conform to strictly Darwinian principles. ”You see lots of ugly footballers,” he said. ”But you never see any ugly footballers’ wives.”
For the past seven months the home affairs ministry has persistently misled the court and the country by maintaining that Khalid Mahmood Rashid was lawfully deported to Pakistan. In sworn affidavits to the court, the ministry stuck to this claim right up to the time that the South African Air Force spilled the beans, writes Zehir Omar.
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France and Switzerland opened their World Cup campaigns with a goalless draw high on endeavour but short on flair on Tuesday. France, the 1998 champions, were out to erase the nightmare they endured at the last World Cup when they never recovered from a first-match defeat to Senegal.
A high-ranking diplomat from South Africa’s High Commission in Zimbabwe was shot dead outside a house he had recently bought near Midrand, police said on Tuesday. North Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said Kingsley Sithole, a counsellor at the office in Harare, was attacked by unidentified people late on Monday night.
Aids-treatment programmes need to expand dramatically in Africa, an expert said on Tuesday, suggesting nurses do some of the work of doctors and more people be trained as counsellors in order to meet the enormous need. ”We need to expand four- or fivefold from where we are now,” said Dr Mark Dybul, the United States State Department’s deputy global Aids coordinator.
Sex between teachers and pupils is inexcusable, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Tuesday. There could be no excuse for ”inappropriate behaviour” between teachers on school premises, said Sadtu general secretary Thulas Nxesi. Equally unacceptable are the exploitative and predatory activities of some male teachers towards female pupils.