It would cost billions of rands to establish a mass production facility in South Africa for an Aids vaccine, the director of the South African Aids Vaccine Initiative Dr Tim Tucker said on Tuesday.
Mopane worms could aid nutrition
Scorpions investigators interviewed Durban businessman Schabir Shaik for almost seven hours on Tuesday regarding his alleged involvement in a reported R500 000 bribe from a French arms firm.
Ogilvy & Mather will be the African National Congress’s advertising agency for the 2004 general election, the ruling party announced on Tuesday.
Declaring that it is ”absolutely essential” to accelerate the deployment of an international force to Liberia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan offered on Tuesday to transport a Nigerian battalion and spelled out plans to quickly bring in reinforcements.
Mopane worms, edible stinkbugs and other indigenous insects could be an important dietary supplement for poor people living with Aids, delegates to a symposium on the role of nutrition and traditional medicines in managing the disease heard in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The responsibility for good race relations in Africa now lies not with whites, but with black Africans. If SA fails to understand this during this race debate, the country will be condemned to follow Zimbabwe’s current path.
The SA National Parks (SANParks) Board has put on hold plans to remove the statue of former Transvaal president Paul Kruger from the Kruger National Park, SABC TV news reported on Tuesday.
The South African government has officially asked a US court to dismiss apartheid reparations litigation before it. In a strongly-worded letter from Minister Penuell Maduna to United States District Judge John E Sprizzo, the South African minister asked Sprizzo, a federal judge, to dismiss two apartheid reparations lawsuits.
The government of Zimbabwe on Tuesday announced that it would abolish the highest denomination of the country’s currency in circulation within 60 days as one way to curb the current cash shortage that has hit the country.
Ariel Sharon yesterday shrugged off President Bush’s requests to halt construction on a security fence through the West Bank, vowing that work on the controversial wall would continue.