Zimbabwe has declared a six-month national emergency and suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat HIV/Aids.
Patent busting: Zimbabwe has declared a six-month national emergency and suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat HIV/Aids. The move, published on Monday by the Ministry of Justice, will allow cheaper generic drugs to be imported without being submitted to the normal testing and registration regime. It is estimated that a quarter of Zimbabwean adults are infected and that 7 000 new infections occur every day. Life expectancy has fallen to 40 from 60 over the past decade.
It was one of those steamy, Graham Greene-ish days in a nameless West African country. The conference was winding down, and six of the delegates, including myself, had been invited to pay a courtesy call on the president.
My unbridled admiration for the <i>Sunday Independent</i> took a giant leap sideways last weekend. This was not only because I couldn’t find John Battersby’s byline anywhere in last Sunday’s edition.
Something is wrong. The disruption of schools by the Congress of South African Students (Cosas), and its defiance of authorities, should not be happening. Cosas is, after all, a junior partner of the ruling party, and it enjoys support from the ANC.
This week the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> carries an apology to Leigh Day & Company over a report in our last edition on the financial award to asbestos miners formerly employed by Cape plc. Our report contained errors – our policy is not to conceal mistakes.
Not so long ago Oom Krisjan was ruminating about why the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has become involved with the Miss South Africa contest. No reasonable answer has yet been heard in the confines of the Dorsbult Bar…
A court bid by the Gauteng education department to have Congress of SA Students leaders suspended from school, has been postponed to Thursday.
White starts first in chess, but in South Africa black is king. The highest-ranked chess player in the country is Watu Kobese. He is also the only chess professional in the country, eschewing a more secure career for battle on the chequered board.
United States Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and rock singer Bono this week arrived in Addis Ababa on the last leg of their 11-day tour of four sub-Saharan African countries. They had already seen some of the best and worst of the continent.