HIV causes Aids, but creating an epidemic on the scale of SA’s needed fuel in the form of poverty, gender inequality and ignorance. Stopping the epidemic means not only stopping infection but also improving the wellbeing and environment of those most affected and at risk.

The Limpopo government has called in agricultural experts to help resurrect a string of ailing black-owned farms regained through the state’s land redistribution programme.

Oxfam has launched a campaign to publicise the plight of coffee farmers in poor countries. It was right to do so. Giant international retailing firms are banking huge profits while small-scale growers face economic ruin.

The Springbok and Sharks lock has quit South African rugby and is likely to play overseas, the Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Nineteen South Africans have been reported missing following Saturday’s bomb blast at the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, the foreign affairs department said on Monday afternoon.