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/ 25 February 2003
What the London Agreement exposes clearly is that the Third World debt trap is an instrument of deliberate policy. At the stroke of a First World pen, things could be very different. A contemporary London Agreement would go a long way towards freeing the Third World from its debt bondage
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/ 20 February 2003
So what is ultra-leftism? The label has been used without pausing to provide a serious analysis or substantive definition of social movements and ”ultra-leftism”. Ultra-leftism tends not to understand the struggle as process. Everything is immediate, all-or-nothing, victory or sell-out
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/ 10 February 2003
An out-of-court settlement between Gencor and asbestos victims last week does not cover cleaning up places where people live and children play.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.
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/ 26 September 2002
Three million Aids deaths can be averted and more than 2,5-million HIV infections prevented by 2015 through voluntary testing.
A newspaper quoted Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as saying that drugs used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child are poisonous.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
Statistics South Africa is conducting a mortality study into ‘secondary’ causes of death in an attempt to assess the true impact of HIV/Aids.
More than 40 000 of 350 000 South African teachers are living with HIV/Aids, says a World Bank report.
SA was still faced with the problem of an unpatriotic press whose focus on the crime problem was deterring investors, according to Nelson Mandela.
The health minister is to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court.
The late presidential spokesperson Parks Mankahlana did die of an Aids-related ailment, says a document that is being sent out by the ANC.
Gay men receive little attention in sexual health and HIV/Aids programmes even though there is a high risk of HIV infection.
The trucking industry, whose rates in the spread of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa are among the worst, is being targeted.
Former President Nelson Mandela is being careful not to offend the Thabo Mbeki with his comments on Aids.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Thursday praised Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa for his stance on the provision of an anti-Aids drug.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday proposed a radical challenge to South Africa’s Aids policy.
Nelson Mandela refused to make a public plea for the safety of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> correspondent Daniel Pearl.
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/ 28 February 2002
The UN International Narcotics Control Board says that the number of people injecting heroin in SA has risen by 40% over the past three years.
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/ 21 February 2002
An integrated HIV/Aids research entity has been proposed by Wits, which will bring together all the research work being undertaken at the university.
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/ 31 January 2002
The TAC has called on the Eastern Cape to administer ARV drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers.
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/ 24 January 2002
The minister of health was sruprised by KZN Premier Lionel Mtshali’s announcement that ARV nevirapine would be administered as an emergency measure.
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/ 10 January 2002
SA will not meet the targeted 80% to 85% TB cure rate set by the World Health Organisation because of Aids.
A United States government aid agency has given South Africa a R200-million grant for building 100 000 low-cost homes, says Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele.
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 6 December 2001
The Medical Research Council said South Africa’s first HIV/Aids vaccine trials may start as early as February next year.
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/ 15 November 2001
Badges costing R5 will be sold at Absa branches to raise money for children affected by HIV/Aids.
Excluding HIV-positive pupils from school is unlawful and unconstitutional, Minister of Education Kader Asmal has said.
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/ 27 September 2001
Hundreds of Capetonians last Saturday bade farewell to five-year-old Sibongile Mazeka.
Irvin Khoza’s troubles extend beyond the R66-million tax probe directed at him.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (83) has prostate cancer and will receive radio therapy for seven weeks.
Bryan Rostron The devil continues to have a fine run in South Africa. Hansie Cronje, by his own admission, accepted Satan’s silver. When that cheesy old horror film The Exorcist was recently rereleased, earnest churchmen begged us not to watch in case we were lured by the celluloid wiles of Beelzebub. Two weeks ago in […]