THE public would have to wait another 12 months to know if the Eastern Cape government would provide Nevirapine to all HIV-positive pregnant women, acting health MEC Max Mamase said in Bisho on Wednesday afternoon. This follows last week’s call by the Treatment Action Campaign for the authorities to provide Nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women […]

Harare | Monday THE offices of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily and those of a company that printed opposition election campaign material were petrol bombed early on Monday in the country’s second largest city. The incident occurred amid an increasingly tense run-up to presidential polls on March 9-10. A security guard who witnessed the bombing around […]

Mdantsane, East London | Sunday Eleven people are dead and seven are in a critical condition in hospital after a man went on a shooting rampage in Mdantsane, East London. Police representative Inspector Stephen Marais said the suspect had a fight with his girlfriend on Saturday night. He shot his girlfriend at her house, then […]

Johannesburg | Sunday SAAMBOU’S curator, John Louw, will begin assessing the situation at the troubled top-ten bank. The Registrar of Banks at the Reserve Bank placed Saambou in curatorship at 1pm on Saturday. This means that Saambou account holders can no longer withdraw their money from the institution. Louw, of the KPMG auditing firm, told […]

Cape Town | Friday INTERNATIONAL best-selling author Wilbur Smith has led a double life for years under the name of Steven Bisset Lawrence in what his stepson believes is an attempt to hide his money from his former wives and children, according to papers before the Cape High Court. These claims by the stepson, American […]

Justin Arenstein Tacit approval isn’t enough for Mpumalanga. The province will not provide nevirapine or any other anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive women until it receives direct orders to do so from the government. Outspoken provincial MEC for Health Sibongile Manana is on record saying that all anti-retrovirals are “poison” and a plot to undermine the […]

KwaZulu-Natal is rolling out the provision of nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women, but other provinces aren’t following suit Jaspreet Kindra The Eastern Cape and Free State health MECs indicated this week they would not roll out nevirapine provision to HIV-infected women, further highlighting the weakness of last week’s “tacit” deal between Minister of Health Manto […]

Khadija Magardie The controversial MEC for Health in the Northern Cape, Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, has no plans to follow KwaZulu-Natal’s example in rolling out the provision of the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women. The office of the MEC said this week that local health authorities were “not yet convinced” the province had the […]

A village of pink-painted domes will open officially on Valentine’s Day next week in Roodepoort, outside Johannesburg, designed to house a population of 450 people, including children, living with Aids Suzan Chala South Africa’s first Aids village Sparrow Rainbow Village was designed by builder David van der Berg to reflect traditional building styles. The dome, […]