The Mozambican government has adopted a new strategy to combat the spread of Aids, now focusing on care as well as prevention, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said on Friday.
A handful of demonstrators showed up at ”mass pickets” against American President George Bush on Friday, with 18 people attending the event in Johannesburg and nine in Pretoria.
Liberia’s besieged President Charles Taylor Friday renewed a pledge to step down, but stressed he would only leave after an international peacekeeping force is deployed to his west African nation.
A Pretoria High Court judge on Friday criticised the Tshwane metro council for ignoring court orders and legal procedures, leaving 36 families, counting amongst ”the poorest of the poor”, out in the veld in the middle of winter.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela could act as a ”facilitator” between India and Pakistan to resolve their dragging dispute over Kashmir, the state’s former chief minister said on Friday.
The government’s action plan on school financing has received cautious backing
but critics say it should go much further.
Any attempt to extract heavy minerals from the dunes along the Eastern Cape’s Pondoland coast will be massively destructive; according to one South African expert, such mining operations typically wipe out everything in their path.
Lesotho King Letsie III told Southern African leaders in Maseru on Friday that the Southern African Development Community Summit on HIV/Aids was taking place at a time when sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Southern Africa, was threatened by the ”menacing dark clouds of the killer disease”.
Thousands of participants from all sides of South Africa’s liberation war still struggle to find a place in post-apartheid society.
An article in an African National Congress publication implies that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party should have walked out of the alliance, as Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) leader Trevor Ngwane did, over their differences with the government’s economic policy.