The government maintained on Wednesday antiretrovirals should not be used in what was termed ”a populist manner” to treat people with HIV/Aids.
Chinese Aids experts have said they believe people with Aids are less vulnerable to severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).
Whatever happened to convicted Pretoria bus murderer De Wet Kritzinger, who admitted he has ”great respect for Osama bin Laden”, would make not make her life easier, the mother of one of his victims said.
Workers who participated in last week’s three-day strike have experienced a backlash in Zimbabwe, according to reports of mass dismissals and beatings which emerged on Tuesday.
South African exports soared by 29,6% in US dollar terms in the first quarter of 2003 to $8,4-billion, while last year, exports rose by only 1,5% to $29,9-billion.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Securities Exchange South Africa and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have entered into a joint venture to establish a South African Women’s Enterprise Network (Sawen).
Presidential power passed on Wednesday from a member of Burundi’s Tutsi minority to Domitien Ndayizeye of the Hutu majority in a ceremony intended to demonstrate that the peace process to end the central African nation’s nine-and-a -half-year civil war is on track.
Opposition parties have condemned an incident on an international flight during which Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang allegedly became abusive and swore at a fellow passenger.
Ten years into an ethnic civil war that has claimed 300 000 lives, Burundi is set for a political turning point this Wednesday, when Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya hands over power to his Hutu deputy, Domitien Ndayizeye.
To the Americans it was justified self-defence, to most residents it was murder. What is beyond dispute is that 14 Iraqis were dead and 70 wounded lay in the main hospital, surrounded by angry family members, after US troops fired on a crowd of demonstrators.