The Health Department plans to reduce the rate of new HIV/Aids infections by 50% by the year 2011, acting health minister Jeff Radebe said on Friday. ”To achieve this, we need to intensify the implementation of prevention interventions aimed at changing behaviour and reduce sexual transmission,” Radebe said.
Several hundred protesters dressed in pink tops and jeans in sympathy with the family of murdered seven-year-old Sheldean Human dispersed peacefully from outside the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Earlier in the day, the case of the man suspected of murdering the girl was postponed in the court.
Elinor Sisulu reviews Elizabeth Maxwell and Alice Mogwe’s <i>In the Shadow of the Noose</i>.
Lloyd Gedye talks to Sweden’s Marching Band, who recently toured South Africa.
Lloyd Gedye chats to Harris Tweed about their upcoming international showcase in Texas.
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A vicious circle of poverty and disease is placing a huge burden on development in Africa, the African Union commissioner for social affairs said on Friday. Bience Gawanas was speaking at a meeting of the national health council in Sandton. She said a vicious circle existed in which poverty drove up the burden of diseases while ill-health contributed to poverty.
Zimbabwe’s national intelligence agency on Monday began deploying its secret agents within the army and police to purge officers suspected of backing opposition plans to revolt against the government. Central Intelligence Organisation Director General Happyton Bonyongwe expressed concern over the leakage of sensitive information to the opposition.
The FBI improperly obtained credit reports and other information on individuals through errors in using its power to investigate terrorism or espionage suspects, the Washington Post reported. The findings prompted an ”incensed” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to order the FBI to place new safeguards over its use of so-called national-security letters
Skipper Stirling Mortlock inspired the ACT Brumbies to a much-improved 26-13 Super 14 rugby win over South Africa’s Western Stormers in Canberra on Friday. Mortlock, returning to the game after a succession of head knocks, contributed 16 points as the Brumbies won their first home match of the season by three tries to one.