Gay men receive little attention in sexual health and HIV/Aids programmes even though there is a high risk of HIV infection.
<b>REVIEW:</b> <i>Rainbow Vice: The Drugs and Sex Industries in the New South Africa</i> by Ted Leggett (Zed/David Philip).
Ted Leggett’s new book is a little like the mix between mandrax and dagga — to get up, you first have to go down, writes Charlene Smith.
Johannesburg | Wednesday THE best is yet to come at the inquiry into the rapid depreciation of the rand in 2001, SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) chief executive officer (CEO) Kevin Wakeford said on Tuesday night. Wakeford, speaking at the Johannesburg Press Club, said the commission so far had been nothing more than an education […]
Windhoek | Thursday A BIZARRE spiny-backed cricket-like insect thought to have lived and died millions of years ago has been found to be thriving on a remote peak in Namibia, scientists said on Wednesday. The find has been likened to the discovery of the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought to have become extinct along with […]
Cape Town | Wednesday INMATES of Pollsmoor Prison juvenile section on Wednesday complained to national Correctional Services commissioner Linda Mti that they were being beaten by warders. Mti was visiting the prison ahead of Human Rights Day in a bid to raise inmates’ awareness of their rights. When he asked one group of several hundred […]
London | Wednesday BRITAIN’S International Development Secretary Clare Short delayed a 10-million-pound ($14-million dollar, 16-million euro) aid payment to Tanzania over its controversial decision to buy an air traffic control system, a British daily said on Wednesday. The Department for International Development (DfID) confirmed the payment had been withheld pending a report into whether the […]
Moscow | Wednesday THE commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General Tommy Franks, said Wednesday he did not think any decision had been taken on attacking Iraq as part of the next phase of Washington’s war against terrorism. ”I don’t think that any decision has been made with respect to Iraq, and at this point […]
Jerusalem | Thursday JOINT security talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials on Wednesday ended ”without a ceasefire agreement”, but the two sides agreed to another meeting, Israel public radio reported. It was not clear when exactly the two sides would meet, the radio added. The two sides had hoped to hammer out a ceasefire agreement […]
Johannesburg | Thursday There were spontaneous outbursts of song and rapturous applause when former president Nelson Mandela arrived unexpectedly at the Sharpeville memorial precinct on Thursday. Mandela, accompanied by Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, was paying his respects to the 69 people who were killed on 21 March, 1960, when police […]
Addis Ababa | Tuesday COUNTRIES in sub-Saharan Africa lose up to two billion dollars a year because of animal diseases, Ethiopian Agriculture Minister Mulatu Teshome said on Tuesday ahead of pan-African talks this week. ”The low level of livestock production due to various endemic diseases present … not only has depressed the marketable surpluses but […]