As a cheese-eating, toyi-toying teenage ”activist”, I remember chanting ”Nonsexism! Nonracism!” And a third chant of ”Nonhomophobia”, which was a lot harder to get my tongue around, and even harder to argue to my sometimes socially conservative comrades.
Under the African Charter and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, patients are entitled to a reasonable standard of health care, safe practice, dignity and respect. Where is the evidence that these currently exist in South African government hospitals?
How does our press cover homosexual issues? Sandra Gordon delves into the archives and finds that despite our rainbow constitution old prejudices remain prevalent.
Australia’s media was accused of being ”ruthless” on Wednesday after a disgraced politician apparently tried to commit suicide over allegations of racism and sexism. But the publisher of one of the newspapers under fire hit back by revealing that the devastating stories about the politician came from within his own Liberal Party.
”Rena Singer’s article (‘Is loveLife making them love life?’) is unbalanced and factually flawed, but the most unfortunate part about it is that it promotes cynicism about the efficacy of South Africa’s largest HIV- prevention effort”, writes loveLife’s CEO David Harrison.
The role of South Africa as a mediator in the lead-up to the planned October 30 elections in the Côte d’Ivoire has been successful so far, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. Pahad said Defence Minister Mosioua Lekota would report to the United Nations on Wednesday on the current state of mediation.
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Refugees attending a Parliamentary session on Wednesday urged the government to recognise their talents and use them to develop the country. ”Give these people a chance to use their skills to help build this country and teach South Africa how to walk,” said Ami Bomoka, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Absa Bank is to finance the biggest black economic (BEE) empowerment property deal in South Africa to date, the bank announced on Tuesday. It involves a consortium of three BEE groups having acquired 14% of Growthpoint Properties Limited shares and debentures and a similar stake in the company’s property management contract.
Up to 80 people could have been killed by Hurricane Katrina in one Mississippi county alone, local authorities said on Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports said the death toll in Harrison county has reached 80, with that number likely to rise. Earlier on Tuesday, at least 55 people were reported to have been killed by the storm.