Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring herpes with someone who understands.
After two decades of drought the urgent prayers in Swaziland's annual incwala ceremony, a month-long ritual in which ancestral spirits are petitioned for good rains, have been answered with weeks of torrential downpours. Floods now threaten food security.
Mamaleshoae Nkhahle is a mother of four who works as an expert patient at the Likotsi health clinic in Lesotho's capital, Maseru. She helps people newly diagnosed with HIV to come to grips with the stigma of the disease, and diminishes the effects of such attitudes by talking openly about her own experiences of living with the virus.
President Mugabe yesterday met the visiting South African mediation team to the inter-party political talks amid revelations that more "outstanding issues" have arisen to the Global Political Agreement.
Much praise has poured in from various quarters for President Jacob Zuma, following the changes he announced on Tuesday to the country's HIV and AIDS policies.
In the scorching heat of the midday summer sun, a teenage boy's sharp voice can be heard vividly as he continuously summons his cattle. Glad in his shabby-looking rag that used to be a blanket and black gumboots, the only thing that occupies his mind is his herd, his everyday companions, nothing else.
It is World AIDS Day today. Our country has been lauded for its effective and visionary handling of the HIV/AIDS problem.
State-sponsored AIDS denialism is finally a thing of the past, after years of obfuscation on one of SA's most pressing challenges. Almost 10 years to the day after former president Thabo Mbeki told the National Council of Provinces it would be irresponsible for the government to provide AIDS drugs because they were supposedly toxic, his successor, Jacob Zuma , frankly admitted the scale of the ...
THE observer mission of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has declared Namibia's national and presidential elections free and fair, its leader, Mozambican Diplomatic Affairs Minister Francisco Madeira, said yesterday.
South Africa’s Academy Award winner Charlize Theron will be the guest presenter assisting FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke during the Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Friday, 4 December 2009 (19.00 local time/CET+1).
Selebi-Phikwe and its surrounding areas have been experiencing erratic water supply since the beginning of September, prompting the introduction of rationing and other remedial measures to restore stability.
Parliament has deferred a motion by Kweneng South East Member of Parliament (MP), Edward Raletobana, calling on the government to revise eligibility for land allocation from 21 to 18 years.
Service in some of the commercial banks in the country is really disgusting and something needs to be done urgently.
Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has failed to fully take advantage of exporting beef to the European Union (EU) duty-free and exploiting the opportunity created by the suspension of Brazil from the market as the global recession forced consumers to look for cheaper sources of protein.
The numbers surrounding the 2010 Fifa World Cup draw to be held here on Friday are both record-breaking and staggering.
THE Public Service Commission (PSC), the Ginwala inquiry and former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla were all in the firing line yesterday as Justice Minister Jeff Radebe defended the appointment of Menzi Simelane as national director of public prosecutions.
POWER utility Eskom has caved in to pressure and reduced its tariff increase application from an initial 45% to 35%.
THE opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said yesterday it was "absolutely crystal clear" that Menzi Simelane did not recognise the constitutional guarantee of prosecutorial independence.
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are set to implement the contents of an outstanding Memorandum of Understanding on trade and economic affairs that was signed months ago in the New Year.
ZIMBABWE and Brazil are seeking to remove double taxation for business transactions between the two countries and explore more areas of co-operation that include rehabilitation of water, road infrastructure and electricity generation.
THERE is no justification at all to call for evil, ruinous and illegal sanctions against a people who have chosen to own what rightfully belongs to them, a people who have chosen to recover what was stolen from them. There is no justification in punishing a people for refusing to land Tsvangirai and his MDC T a job they were/are not qualified for and do not deserve. A job where one has to work for ...
A FRESH dispute has emerged in the inclusive Government over the appointment of new ambassadors to South Africa and Brussels, Belgium, with MDC-T eyeing both diplomatic postings for its own members.
The appointment of Advocate Menzi Simelane as the National Director of Public Prosecutions has elicited various responses and heated up the country's polity.
For millions of South Africans infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, this year's World AIDS Day will signify a wave of change.
ZIMBABWE is entering its rainy season, a time that most welcome but also the time when cholera bacteria that have managed to survive the dry seasons are washed into rivers, puddles and wells and are able to start breeding again.
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