Staff Reporter

Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang responds to a Mail & Guardian report that quoted her as saying the government will not elevate HIV/Aids above other diseases by giving it priority attention

After the arrests of members of the Anti-Eviction Campaign, the police have been accused of deliberate intimidation and property damage. AEC member Max Ntanyana, who has been active in setting up the school, was among five people arrested in Mandela Park

Sixteen years of civil war, cyclic floods and severe drought have collectively caused much hardship in Mozambique. But the current drought alongside the devastating impact of the HIV/Aids epidemic, are pushing a growing number of families to the brink of survival.

Last year a rail commuter action group brought an action before the Cape High Court. The applicants sought orders to the effect that Metrorail and the South African Rail Commuter Corporation, together with government departments, failed to provide policing on commuter trains in the Western Cape

A national crop survey conducted this week by the UN’s World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation has found widespread crop failures in the most impoverished areas of Swaziland.

Security agents in the Central African Republic have arrested Socrate Bozize, the son of former army chief of staff turned rebel leader Francois Bozize.

Theo Bull’s vision had been to establish a new style of affordable housing in newly independent Zambia that would set a different trend from the usual
colonial pattern of the sprawling white bungalow and the black township hovel

I always set aside all the daylight hours on the day of the state presidential State of the Nation speech. This is both to get my mind cleansed of any intrusive critical faculties and to make sure that, when I’m wandering around in a blissful daze afterwards, I don’t tread in any dog shit

President George W Bush’s administration’s inner circle refers regularly to Saddam’s exile and amnesty for the Iraqi leadership as an alternative to war. But this is not a clear-cut issue. It might not even be a realistic option, taking into account precedents in other parts of the world

The Namibian government has threatened commercial farmers with five years behind bars after most of them failed to complete forms regarded as crucial in the determination of commercial land holding in the country.

Dialogue between Angola’s former rebel group and the government has stalled since the closure of the Joint Commission in November last year, a senior Unita official said on Wednesday.

Political tensions heightened this week in South Africa’s volatile province of KwaZulu-Natal, following threats that the provincial premier would be charged with incitement to violence.

In Africa the struggle that matters is the struggle for survival. With 14-million people in sub-Saharan Africa facing famine — and with only half of the urgently needed food aid available — today’s crisis threatens to become tomorrow’s calamity.

Zambia’s controversial privatisation programme, a key condition for donor aid, has resulted in the loss of more than 105 000 formal sector jobs over 10 years, according to a new study.

When the maid shows up late on a Monday morning, you start having those involuntary feelings of whining aggressiveness that we used to observe from afar when we watched white families in the big house take it out on our hard-working grandmothers.

Recent gains made in making HIV/Aids treatment accessible and affordable to Kenyans are being threatened by a deal currently under discussion at the World Trade Organisation, which would severely restrict access to such drugs, a group of local NGOs has warned.

South Africa has posted a 13th quarter in a row of improved efficiency in its securities settlement, rising from sixth to fifth (out of 22) in the global emerging markets settlement index table in the fourth quarter of 2002, according to Strate, the JSE’s electronic settlement company.

Demarcation of the contested border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is now due to start from the east, rather than from the west, sources told <i>Irin</i> on Monday.

Tanzania is scheduled to receive â,¬24-million ($26-million) from the EC this year to help meet the humanitarian needs of Burundian and Congolese refugees in the country, according to the EC Humanitarian Aid Office (Echo).

Public service investigators this week grilled the official in charge of the government body that regulates the electricity supply industry in South Africa over allegations of corruption, mismanagement and nepotism.

HIV/AIDS prevention programmes have had a dramatic effect on changing risky sexual behaviour, authors of a five-year study in Ethiopia said on Friday.