Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s blocking of a R720-million grant to fight Aids in KwaZulu-Natal is causing major ructions between the government, on one hand, and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the province and international donor agencies, on the other.
The number of children orphaned by HIV/Aids has risen three-fold in six years to reach an all-time high of 13,4-million. Many are growing old before their years, looking after younger siblings, working to earn money and sometimes living on the streets, a major international report revealed on Wednesday.
When an increase in adolescent suicides in one rural community is thought to bear some relation to difficulties in paying school fees, a stark failure of government policy becomes visible.
Disgruntled Mpumalanga farm workers are pooling their meagre earnings to take legal action against their equity partner for allegedly refusing to divulge the performance of a R16-million export farm they co-own.
Boasting about their crime led to the apprehension of two boys who stole a computer from their school in the Cape Flats. The boys seemed destined to join the thousands of juveniles awaiting trial at prisons throughout South Africa, but an innovative and carefully mediated community court saved them their enrolment at the local "university of crime".
Kaizer Chiefs have an opportunity to keep the kudu horn Vodacom Challenge trophy by winning it for the third consecutive time.
Unisa management is monitoring staff phone calls, e-mails and faxes to ascertain who is communicating with the media, the <i>Mail&Guardian</i> has learnt.
Dick Cheney, the United States Vice-President, was on Wednesday sued for alleged accounting fraud while he was a director of the oil firm Halliburton, further undermining the Bush administration’s attempt to take a firm grip on the scandals shaking corporate America.
European and Asian shares fell sharply in early trading on Thursday after Wall Street slumped to levels not seen since 1997 amid renewed concern about United States accounting methods.
HIV/Aids activist Zackie Achmat is no stranger to struggle — but he has come face to face with one of his biggest challenges: to take the drugs that can keep him healthy, or to put his life at risk because of his moral convictions.