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/ 8 September 2003
Assuming the world’s least-developed countries will be able to come up with the resources to pay for and conserve fragile ecosystems is not sensible. This is the opinion of Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa, who spoke at a briefing ahead of the opening of the fifth World Parks Congress.
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/ 4 September 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal expressed outrage on Wednesday at the ruling of the Speaker of the provincial legislature, an Inkatha Freedom Party member, who ”abruptly” adjourned the sitting of the House on Tuesday to an undecided date.
Despite promising on Monday that he would announce a plan of action before the end of the week, Deputy President Jacob Zuma seems to be nowhere nearer doing that.
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The skeletons of another four supposed victims of a Durban serial killer were found over the weekend, a police spokesperson reported on Sunday.
New evidence of interference in the selection process for South Africa’s controversial arms deal has emerged from documents recently obtained under access to information legislation.
The leadership of South Africa’s Catholic Church on Wednesday welcomed the government’s undertaking to mount an anti-retroviral HIV/Aids treatment programme, but warned that logistical problems should not slow down the programme’s roll-out.
The glaring absence of President Thabo Mbeki from the first South African Aids Conference, and the health minister’s ongoing sidelining of science in favour of politics, took much of the gloss off the conference’s undoubted achievements.
An obstacle course for women
Confusion still reigns over the degree of government commitment to providing treatment for rape survivors. And where such treatment exists it remains difficult to access.
A pack of dogs was found eating a new-born baby girl in bushes by the roadside at Ntuzuma location near Kwa-Mashu on Thursday in the second incident of its kind this week, police said.
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) played with semantics at the South African Aids conference on Wednesday when it said it would not ban nevirapine — except, perhaps, for use in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
South Africa, with the highest rate of Aids infected babies in the world, is the only country — of 72 using nevirapine — to consider delisting the drug which is used to prevent HIV in infants.
People being infected with more than one strain of HIV is becoming increasingly common, the South African Aids conference in Durban heard on Tuesday.
If South Africa does not implement a large scale Aids treatment plan soon, five million South Africans will die from Aids in the next eight to 10 years.
Child-headed households find it impossible to access help from community members or government, the South African Aids Conference in Durban heard on Tuesday.
A professor of microbiology at George Washington University in the US capital said on Monday he lost ”priceless” work on an Aids vaccine when he was mugged at knife-point while attending an Aids conference in South Africa.
In some parts of South Africa half of all pregnant women are infected with HIV, the first South African Aids conference heard in Durban on Monday.
HIV is overwhelmingly a disease of young people — those under the age of 24 — and women, South Africa’s national Aids conference heard on Monday.
HIV-positive judge Edwin Cameron is to lead a delegation of people living with HIV on Monday when they protest their exclusion from key events at the South African Aids Conference in Durban.
Outrage at new block on Aids drug
A US congressional staff delegation, led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, would visit South Africa in the next month to focus on HIV/Aids, US ambassador to South Africa Cameron R Hume said in Durban on Tuesday.
The Scorpions have served a new summons on embattled Durban businessman Schabir Shaik to answer questions relating to their investigation of his relationship with former transport minister Mac Maharaj.
It’s back to the drawingboard for paper giant Mondi after a Durban judge ruled on Wednesday it could not build an incinerator to burn waste and generate steam at its south Durban plant.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday handed out certificates to party members in KwaZulu-Natal who remained loyal to him during the floor-crossing window earlier this year.
Two small KwaZulu-Natal communities, including South Africa’s smallest minority group, received the title deeds to their properties, worth about R13,5-million.
African political and business leaders took a small step this week to move the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) off the drawing board, agreeing a shared responsibility to put its bold policies into action.
The Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) has called on African leaders to adopt child-centered standards as the primary measure for gauging progress under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad).
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was upbeat on Thursday on the progress achieved in making Nepad a reality, saying its fledgling peer review was a world first.
Zimbabwe’s government and opposition should sit down and solve their differences, taking a lesson from the way South Africa eased its way out of the apartheid era, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s ‘self defeating repression’
Political leaders attending the World Economic Forum’s Africa summit on Wednesday warned that global powers, such as the United States, would ignore Africa to their own detriment.