”Rena Singer’s article (‘Is loveLife making them love life?’) is unbalanced and factually flawed, but the most unfortunate part about it is that it promotes cynicism about the efficacy of South Africa’s largest HIV- prevention effort”, writes loveLife’s CEO David Harrison.
The role of South Africa as a mediator in the lead-up to the planned October 30 elections in the Côte d’Ivoire has been successful so far, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. Pahad said Defence Minister Mosioua Lekota would report to the United Nations on Wednesday on the current state of mediation.
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Refugees attending a Parliamentary session on Wednesday urged the government to recognise their talents and use them to develop the country. ”Give these people a chance to use their skills to help build this country and teach South Africa how to walk,” said Ami Bomoka, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Absa Bank is to finance the biggest black economic (BEE) empowerment property deal in South Africa to date, the bank announced on Tuesday. It involves a consortium of three BEE groups having acquired 14% of Growthpoint Properties Limited shares and debentures and a similar stake in the company’s property management contract.
Up to 80 people could have been killed by Hurricane Katrina in one Mississippi county alone, local authorities said on Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports said the death toll in Harrison county has reached 80, with that number likely to rise. Earlier on Tuesday, at least 55 people were reported to have been killed by the storm.
Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to drug possession, has been charged again after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in his car, New York state police said on Tuesday. Garfunkel was pulled over by a trooper on Sunday after failing to halt at a stop sign not far from Woodstock in upstate New York.
The electricity pylons that could mean the difference between life and death for Ennas al-Atrash are dotted a few hundred metres from the little girl’s village in Israel’s Negev desert. But the residents of Sawa are Bedouin Arabs whose village is deemed ”unrecognised” by the state, and so they are deprived of the basic services.
All future advertising from vitamin entrepeneur Matthias Rath’s foundation and its allied organisations have to be vetted by the Association for Communication and Advertising, according to an Advertising Standards Authority ruling. Rath has been lobbying against the use of anti-retroviral medicines, saying that the drugs are toxic.
Zimbabwe’s Parliament on Tuesday approved a widely condemned Bill that stops white farmers from challenging land grabs in court and curtails the travel and voting rights of those without full citizenship. The Bill was passed by 103 votes against 29 in the 150-member house where President Robert Mugabe’s party has 107 parliamentarians.