THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
My favorite commentator did it again……. He must be the ANC’s worst nightmare. The article made me think of the constant battle between good and evil. Evil is evil, but when is evil unsurpassed? Apartheid? Aids in South Africa? Heaven knows. In 1994 we, the people of South Africa – after a long period of struggle against an unjust, oppressive and cruel Apartheid, which resulted...
Progress on South Africa's New Stance on AIDS? Ten years ago, former South African president Thabo Mbeki told the National Council of Provinces that it would be "irresponsible" for the state to endorse antiretroviral drugs, noting some "large volume of scientific literature" that attested to the toxicity of ARV...
ANC Youth League chief Julius Malema has rallied in defence of former president Thabo Mbeki after a scathing verbal attack by the national secretary of the Young Communist League.
Asserts the Ugandan-born, pro-capitalist moderate columnist in Kenya : "Africa Essence was launched in Nairobi last Wednesday. Sounds like a perfume or a clothing line? Yes, but it is not. Africa Essence is a magazine of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI). The founder chairman of ALI East Africa is Ali Mufuruki, CEO of the Dar es Salaam-based Infotech Investments Group. The real reason we...
From BBC News 20:14 GMT, Sunday, 15 November 2009: 'Africa must think big to thrive' Mo Ibrahim was speaking at a two-day forum in Dar es Salaam Many African states are too small to continue to exist independently, Sudan-born magnate Mo Ibrahim has told a conference in Tanzania. Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US...
My first You Tube effort. More an experiment than anything else. Dobes, thanks for that software link, it did the trick. There have been a lot of You Tube video's on the May 2008 unrest in Southern Africa that left 62 dead. Somehow, it seems to have all been swept under the carpet. Why is it that Bob Mugabe has been allowed to get away, literally, with murder? Why is it that Thabo Mbeki, who aided...
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki says the African continent must remain informed of the pros and cons of strategic partnerships with developed nations.
South Africa's death rate doubled over the last decade due to the spread of AIDS, the health minister said on Tuesday, blaming the crisis on government policies under former president Thabo Mbeki. "In 11 years -- from 1997 to 2008 -- the rate of death has doubled in South Africa. That is obviously something that cannot but worry a person," Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told reporters...