While more young people are becoming increasingly concerned about making provision for their retirement, savings numbers show that they are doing very little about it. Old Mutual commissioned a retirement fund survey using a sample of 60 local retirement funds comprising a total of 92Â 000 active members and 33Â 000 pensioners.
In the war against hunger in Southern Africa, food for thought can be as powerful as food for the stomach. While food aid is an obvious short-term solution to chronic hunger, information can steer hungry people towards long-term development strategies, such as improving hygiene, preventing disease and empowering women and children.
For a gay man with little knowledge of — or if truth be told, interest in — the vagina, the recent international conference on microbicides in Cape Town represented a personal turning point. To be honest, my knowledge of the "rectal compartment" — as the arse is euphemistically referred to in scientific circles — was hardly any better.
From technology, to transformation to tabloids, there is no doubting that South Africa’s dailies have evolved in the past ten years. Carol Campbell looks at how the industry has changed and what lies ahead.
Aids activists have questioned the government’s boasts that it has the largest anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment programme in the world. Recently, Cabinet spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe said 134 473 people were on ARV treatment in the public health sector at the end of March, and an estimated additional 80 000 were on treatment provided by the private and NGO sectors.
It is an anniversary that China wants to forget. It’s been 40 years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, one of the most insane episodes of the 20th century when children turned on parents, pupils tyrannised teachers and hundreds of thousands died in the name of class war.
Legions of giant crabs clawing their way along the bottom of the Barents Sea are proving a godsend to the few fishermen authorised to catch the lucrative crustacean, but some fear the crabs are threatening the sea’s fragile ecosystem. The Kamchatka crab, was introduced into the Barents by the Soviets in the 1960s — about 30 years after a first, failed attempt by Stalin.
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For women who are victims of rape, recovery from the violation is typically arduous and draining. When they’re unable to get treatment to prevent possible HIV infection the process is even more fraught, however — something with which Kenya is grappling. Known as post-exposure prophylaxis, the anti-HIV treatment is available in just seven of the 73 government district hospitals in Kenya.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s office welcomed the findings of Parliament’s joint committee on members’ ethics which on Tuesday cleared her of breaching the MPs’ code of conduct. The committee found that the deputy president did not breach the code as she did not intend gaining financially when establishing the Lesila Burial Society.