Belinda Beresford Free anti-fungal drugs widely needed by people with HIV/Aids may be distributed within a few weeks, in line with an agreement signed two months ago by the Department of Health and the donor, drug company Pfizer. The Medicines Control Council has said it will decide next week whether to register the anti-fungal agent […]

Jubie Matlou Schmidtsdrift lies in the middle of nowhere, tucked away in thorny acacia bush about 80km south of Kimberley. The route to the tent township, as the area is commonly known, is not signposted, save for roadside signs warning of roaming game kudu, guinea fowl and donkeys. However remote it may be, Schmidtsdrift was […]

Suzan Chala South Africa is soon to get its first Aids village the second country after Botswana to provide a space for people with the deadly disease to live out the rest of their lives as productive people. Construction will start this month in Roodepoort outside Johannesburg on land donated to an interdenominational ministry, Sparrow […]

David Macfarlane Staff at Vista University, who are withholding their identities for fear of victimisation, have sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Minister of Education Kader Asmal and Parliament’s public accounts committee detailing a horrific history of mismanagement, embezzlement of funds, abuse of power and nepotism at the university. The letter recalls the hopes […]

Maureen Freely Body Language Do you ever look at your husband when he’s fast asleep and wish he were someone else? If you answered yes, Laura Doyle, America’s new self-help queen, has some bad news for you. The person you should be blaming is yourself. The biggest mistake you ever made was throwing away your […]

Guy Willoughby theatre Continuing the buoyant spirit of the festive season, the Cape revels in a new batch of intriguing new home-brewed shows that foster, in different forms, the unfolding cusp-millennial local genius. Most curious is the odd congruence of two dance-theatre explorations, Tango del Fuego (just ended at the Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch) and Sex, […]

Dave Simpson CD OFTHEWEEK Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has made a career out of dividing people. For the eight million fans who bought his band’s two albums, he is an iconic spokesperson of post-millennial alienation. For the rest, Limp Bizkit are social pariahs in bad shorts, whose on-stage behaviour was widely blamed for last year’s […]

Phumla Mthala Crossfire Rehana Rossouw questions the South African Human Rights Commission’s recommendation that the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions should consider a prosecution of Shane McCallaghan, the alleged producer of a racist CD (“Have we lost our sense of humour?”, February 2 to 8). While the commission recognises McCallaghan’s right to freedom of expression, […]