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/ 30 November 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>The advances of Aids treatment in South Africa currently are groundbreaking. This must continue, expand and reach every person who needs drugs. A good starting point would be a seven-point prevention plan, to counter the seven people that become infected for every antiretroviral treatment.
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/ 30 November 2006
A student who robbed a supermarket at knifepoint blamed the 11 cans of Red Bull he’d drunk. So what exactly do energy drinks do to you? By Time Dowling.
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/ 30 November 2006
According to ANC Youth League President Fikile Mbalula in his latest online oration, there is a ”despot next door” trying to enhance his ”dictatorship”. Before readers choke on their moerkoffie and think that the ANC has finally decided to start considering possible discussions about a hypothetical veiled and allusive criticism of Robert Mugabe, the Oom should point out that Mbalula is referring to King Mswati of Swaziland.
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/ 30 November 2006
A Cape Town-based jeweller wants to give R20 000 worth of custom-made bling to South Africa’s first legally married same-sex couple. The jeweller plans to present handcrafted and designed wedding bands in person at the couple’s wedding ceremony, Uwe Koetter Jewellers chief designer and director Johan Louw said on Thursday.
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/ 30 November 2006
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Businesses, and consequently South Africa’s economy, lose big money each year to HIV/Aids. A study commissioned by AIC Insurance last year showed that South Africa lost about R12-billion a year because of workplace absenteeism, of which between R1,8-billion and R2,2-billion could be attributed to HIV/Aids.
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/ 29 November 2006
South African lesbians Franci Schoeman and Bianca Berrios got ”married” two years ago but are now primed for the real thing as same-sex unions become legal for the first time on the continent. The Anglican pastor who risked earning the church’s wrath by solemnising their union in a ceremony not recognised by law said he would be happy to perform the rites all over again.
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/ 29 November 2006
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is ”deeply disturbed” by a traditional healer’s claim that 500 HIV-positive people have been cured with African herbs, the SACC said on Wednesday. ”Herbs may play an important role in treating opportunistic infections, but to make claims of curing Aids without hard scientific evidence is irresponsible,” the SACC said.
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/ 29 November 2006
A ruling on Botswana’s longest-running and most expensive legal battle brought by Kalahari Bushmen against the government will be made next month, Survival International said on Wednesday. The case was filed after the Botswana government evicted the Bushmen from land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2002, said spokesperson Miriam Ross.