Claire Keeton

Two-thirds of the 10-million people with HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa are women and girls between the ages of 15 and 24 who are going to die, says United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, Stephen Lewis, reviewing the latest figures on HIV/Aids by the UN and the World Health Organisation.

Wrapped in a tattered blue blanket, Antonia Manuel (9) and Rui Maguassa (10) lie down for the night in a doorway in Beira, on the Mozambican coast. The pair, forced to leave home as their parents can no longer feed them, visit their family regularly.

A peace pact signed between the leaders of the DRC and Rwanda to end four years of warfare is a positive step, but finding peace will be a long, arduous process.

SOUTH Africa is having second thoughts about legalised gambling, with the poor spending their last coins on dreams of instant wealth. “I wonder whether it is not time to have another look at our policies on gambling, especially casinos,” Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya told parliament earlier this month, a call that has won backing […]

The Pan Africanist Congress leadership is facing an open revolt among its Transkei PAC branches over the suspension of the armed struggle.

In pursuit of a place in the elections the PAC is choosing strange bedfellows, writes Vuyo Mvoko.