An Aids breakthrough on the other side of=20 the world puts South Africa’s hopesin=20 perspective, writes Lesley Cowling=20 AS reports of a possible cure for Aids=20 broke in South Africa last week, at the=20 other end of the world about 2 300 HIV=20 research-ers were hearing news about=20 another potent new drug that could=20 eradicate […]

Derek Hanekom said this week he was=20 piloting legislation to limit evictions of=20 rural families. But this may be too late=20 for one family, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 KATRINA WILLIAMS has lived on the farm “La=20 Verger” near Stellenbosch for 50 years,=20 working there as a domestic worker for its=20 owners for 45 years. Her loyalty […]

THE CUTTING EDGE PROFILE Marion Edmunds WHAT keeps a phenomenally intelligent,=20 internationally acclaimed, charming, A- rated scientist working and living in Cape=20 Town? “That”, says 43-year-old Professor Daya=20 Reddy, gesturing upwards to the great hulk=20 of Table Mountain whose crags loom=20 possessively over the University of Cape=20 Town’s upper campus. Reddy, who has preferred to […]

Gustav Thiel RESEARCHERS at the University of Cape Town=20 (UCT) have what they think may be at least=20 a partial solution to the problem of=20 poaching off the Cape coast: they want to=20 place some of the responsibility for=20 maintaining abalone, or perlemoen,=20 populations in the hands of the poachers=20 themselves. This unusual experiment in […]

Hazel Friedman DDAY has long passed for the release of=20 the final list of names for South Africa’s=20 National Arts Council (NAC), the=20 government-funded, independent arts council=20 established to serve as a statutory body=20 for the allocation of funds to deserving=20 cultural projects.=20 And while the art world waits with bated=20 breath for the names, […]

LIVE MUSIC: Malu van Leeuwen SOMEBODY’s got to say it: local music has a=20 dangerous anthropological fascination with=20 American music. It’s almost as if the=20 international patent has to wear off before=20 the influences can filter in and be locally=20 appropriated.=20 In its (white) rock incarnation this is the=20 curse that Cape Town band Shooting […]

AT the Dante Alighieri Society in=20 Johannesburg this week, an Italian book on=20 the new South Africa was launched. The=20 collection of10 essays, Il Nuovo Sudafrica,=20 was edited by Itala Vivan, professor of=20 literature at the University of Political=20 Science in Milan.=20 The volume contains essays about this=20 country’s transition to democracy,=20 including contributions by […]