A PLAN to sue the government over drugs that can prevent HIV transmission from mother to child will be announced by the HIV/Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Tuesday. TAC last year threatened to sue over the government’s refusal to make the anti-retroviral Nevirapine available in state facilities, but withdrew when the Department […]
A 36-YEAR-old woman has given birth to quadruplets in Umtata, the SABC TV news reported on Tuesday. All the four babies were well and in incubators. The woman has five other children, the oldest of whom is now eighteen. She said she had never taken fertility drugs or contraceptives. Her husband was recently retrenched from […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will on Tuesday canvas members on whether to accept a Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) recommendation that could settle a 16-day-old strike in the automobile industry. On Monday, the union said the CCMA proposed to it and that Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation […]
Washington | Tuesday THE US government fully anticipated mass killings in Rwanda following the 1994 death of Rwanda’s president but still found ”insufficient justification” for retaining UN peacekeepers in the country, according to declassified documents released Monday. The documents, obtained by the National Security Archive, show that as extremist ethnic Hutu militias set up roadblocks […]
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<B>Stereophonics: Just Enough Education to Perform</b>
From homemade meals to Chinese fare, the phrase food for the soul has taken on a literal meaning in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory, writes Sean O’Connor.
If music weren’t important, none of this would matter. A Travis album wouldn’t be something to tie yourself up into knots over, pondering such vital questions as, what do we want from our pop stars? Attitude, glamour, volatile druggies whom we watch from afar, fascinated, appalled, enraptured? No thanks.
Harare | Monday A HIGH Court judge on Monday has granted conditional bail to 21 white farmers arrested two weeks ago on charges of inciting violence in northern Zimbabwe. Judge Rita Makarau granted the farmers bail of 100 000 Zimbabwe dollars (about 1 800 US), but said that 20 of the farmers could not return […]
A SECOND student from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, the university’s president Woldeab Issak told parents on Sunday. Woldeab said that the student, Yemane Tekee, who was undergoing treatment for heat stroke in the intensive care unit at Halibet Hospital, died in the early hours […]