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, […]

The case is that the trade is necessary because of dwindling government subsidies for the protection of wildlife Fiona Macleod South Africa is suggesting that the world regulatory body on trade in endangered species investigate allowing the buying and selling of white rhinoceros horn. In proposals strongly supported by the country’s private game ranchers it […]

Belinda Beresford South Africa is steadily clocking up trade surpluses with the European Union two years after the deal that concluded the long and winding battle of its trade agreement with the northern bloc. In the first 10 months of last year South Africa recorded a R25-billion trade surplus with the EU, up from R6-billion […]

An initiative by KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife and the Wildlands Trust aims at involving locals in conservation development for economic gain Niki Moore The Lake St Lucia World Heritage Site in Zululand might have one of the world’s most valuable wetland systems, but the rural women living nearby who have to walk 2km every day to fetch […]

Jaspreet Kindra The government has given the go-ahead for the sale of the Durban airport site and the airport’s relocation to La Mercy, outside the city. Relocation to a site 30km north of Durban will cost R980-million, according to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism. The decision comes after years of negotiation between […]

Argwings Odera and Fiona Macleod South Africa does not have a national strategy for sustainable development and does not plan to have one before hosting the giant World Summit on Sustainable Development in early September. The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has notified other local players involved in the summit that “meaningful process” towards […]

Wireless technologies are sweeping across the world, changing the way that people work David Shapshak Europe is a great place for revolutions. After centuries and decades of political and social upheavals, revolutions are part of the landscape. Right now there is a quiet revolution going on. It has no leaders, no charter of demands, in […]

Khadija Magardie Ahmed Ebrahim Ali appears to have a permanently pained expression on his face when he speaks. Though the teenager who fled war-ravaged Somalia in December last year is “on safe soil”, his eyes do little to mask his fear. Suffering with severe gastric ulcers, he is afraid to leave his tiny room in […]