Kaizer Chiefs are aiming to win their fourth trophy this weekend and we’re not halfway through the season yet Ntuthuko Maphumulo There’s never been a better time to be a Kaizer Chiefs supporter. The newly crowned Coca-Cola Cup champions seek a clean sweep of all the trophies on offer this season, with their next target […]

Latest figures estimate that by the end of the year there will 28-million people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa Belinda Beresford Knowing the enemy has failed to help in the battle against HIV. Two decades after the disease was identified, HIV/Aids continues to rampage its way across the world. The long incubation period of […]

Having bagged a 1-2 in the Summer Cup, the richest race on the continent with Ingleside and Badger’s Coast, and the Dingaans with stardom-bound Flight Alert, Mike de Kock has shot into a R2-million lead over reigning champion David Ferraris in the drive for this season’s trainers’ title. There’s a long way to go before […]

report rise in Aids cases Belinda Beresford Full-blown Aids cases are remorselessly rising at three of Gauteng’s premier teaching hospitals, suggesting that the huge levels of HIV infection are steadily translating into terminal illness. The University of the Witwatersrand revealed this week that the level of medical admissions to Helen Joseph hospital due to full-blown […]

Bongani Majola “Condoms! Condoms!” shouts Vusi Fahla (28) as he distributes condoms to the passing taxis. Words such as HIV/Aids, condoms and AZT are an inseparable part of his life. He is the project manager for Friends for Life, an NGO that provides life skills to HIV-infected people, home-based care for patients and pre-test, post-test […]

Jack Schofield The Tablet PC was the highlight of the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas for the second year running and it could be another year before anyone can buy one. Last year Microsoft chairman Bill Gates showed a “concept” version of the device. This year he showed a range of prototypes from […]

Thebe Mabanga Paris is the world’s sexiest city, depressingly few people worry about catching HIV, and Americans claim to be the most rampant nation. People prefer to have sex on the beach (a possible explanation for the popularity of the cocktail with the same name), the back seat of the car loses out to the […]

Barry Streek The government has scrapped plans to impose a levy on the advertising industry to finance the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency, which will now be funded by the media industry and government. The print and broadcast media have agreed to provide one-third of the agency’s five-year budget of R256-million R85-million over five […]

Comment Shyaka Kanuma As a foreigner, and one who’s been to a number of places, I will say you’ve got a beautiful country here, folks, and one with many prospects. South Africa continues to get recognition as the destination of choice for the world’s indabas. And tourists continue to show much faith in the country […]

I think I have a solution for our high-in-the-sky American Heroes. Let them bomb everyone in Afghanistan Taliban, Tadjiks, Pashtun, Uzbeks and other factions who might in future treacherously and thanklessly turn against their American liberators. It could financially be very beneficial to the US military-industrial complex and, as an added bonus, it would save […]