The proposed new religious policy for South African schools was adopted unanimously on Monday, Minister of Education Kader Asmal announced in Bloemfontein.
Independent Democrats (ID) leader Patricia de Lille called on Monday for an Aids truth commission, where all perpetrators of human rights abuses could appear to ”answer for their violations”.
1
A British aid flight carrying 30 tonnes of emergency supplies for Liberia has landed near the war-ravaged capital Monrovia, as the first peacekeepers made their way to the west African country.
At the end of a two-year mass trial, a court has convicted 100 people on various charges relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and sentenced 11 to death, a state prosecutor said on Monday.
Political parties expressed outrage on Monday over government’s decision to remove a clause from the draft Sexual Offences Bill that obliges it to provide rape survivors with prophylactic drugs to prevent them from contracting Aids.
In some parts of South Africa half of all pregnant women are infected with HIV, the first South African Aids conference heard in Durban on Monday.
Opposition parties have welcomed government’s reported ”mind-shift” on race quotas in professions where South Africa is experiencing a skills shortage.
HIV is overwhelmingly a disease of young people — those under the age of 24 — and women, South Africa’s national Aids conference heard on Monday.
The Burundi government and rebels from the war-torn central African state’s main Hutu rebel movement are to resume talks Tuesday on an eight-month-old ceasefire deal which exists only on paper.
In Atlanta they used to call it the Black City Hall. Not just the venue for a generous soul food lunch of fried chicken, grits and collard greens but the meeting place for the American civil rights movement, where Martin Luther King broke cornbread with other civil rights leaders during the 60s.