Mark Heywood
latest news & developments
HIV made him expect to die at 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron asks: Who’s planning for our ageing survivors?
At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…
Risk of water crisis looms – UN
Citizen activists have warned that the water situation in South Africa is ‘dire and precarious’
Self-reflections of an activist
Mark Heywood’s book avoids plain history. Instead it encourages its readers to reflect.
[LISTEN] What can the fight against corruption learn from the Aids struggle?
Those most at risk of HIV are still fighting to be heard. But there’s a lot we can learn from the fight against HIV.
Mark Heywood: ‘I was pitched against the very government I had fought for’
Activists litigated to force government to give HIV-positive people antiretrovirals. Mia Malan talks to Mark Heywood about the political consequences
Health MEC’s deadly PR parade
As Benny Malakoane showed off progress in Free State, 317 patients were left in the dark over their cancer status.
Analysis: Tempers flare at Dr Death hearing
A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.
We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe
An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe
Drug trove expiring in clinic fiasco
Rent arrears have shut a clinic’s doors – just 500m from the Free State health MEC’s office.
Health services too sick to mention
Activists says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan misrepresented the true state of the country’s health in his budget speech.
Wits’s Habib: Divide and conquer the elite
Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib warned during a discussion about his book that the elite will not give up power to the poor unless they are coerced.
Civil society unapologetic over conference
The ANC’s reaction to a civil society conference was "reminiscent of the paranoia of the Mbeki era", the conference co-hosts said on Wednesday.
Army agrees HIV discrimination unlawful
HIV-positive people will be able to join the South African National Defence Force after it admitted in the Pretoria High Court on Friday that its policies preventing HIV-positive…
Aids activists dismayed by ANC leadership race
The battle to lead the African National Congress (ANC) pits an Aids dissident against a rival who took a shower as a form of safe sex, in a country that has the world’s highest…
Sanac adopts strategic plan to combat HIV/Aids
The South African National Aids Council (Sanac) has adopted a strategic plan to respond to HIV/Aids challenges in the country, it said on Tuesday. This was announced at a Sanac…