Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech – full text

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of [...]

World AIDS Day event on 1st December 2009 at 11:00 – 13:00

The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation is a public benefit organisation doing research and service provision, in the field of TB and HIV/AIDS. It has a site based at Masiphumelele (Cape Town, South Africa) that is serving predominantly the Masiphumelele community.
Our work currently focuses on HIV prevention research and strategies in the Community. This includes community [...]

Can we trust media to look after itself?

The media has been canvassing for relaxation of regulations with regards to what it can publish and what it cannot publish. Thus far a number of these laws have been relaxed compared to apartheid era. However a lot still needs to be done by media or South African Broadcasting Complaints Commission as well as Advertising [...]

South Africa watches on as 800m Gold medalist, ‘Caster’ Semenya is being abused

I’ve been following the story of Mokgadi “Caster” Semenya the female 800 mitres’ specialist at the Berlin (German) Olympics.
 
I have to say I’m over the moon with her achievements thus far she really deserves a big, loud welcome when she lands at OR Tambo international airport. However what I find disturbing is the support she’s [...]

Dr Herb (Sicelo Shiceka) takes over where Dr Beetroot (Tshabalala-Msimang) left off (HIV/AIDS)

Sicelo Shiceka this week stuck to his controversial statements that “herbs” have an important role to play in “bringing down the viral load in HIV/AIDS”.
Still recovering from an era of AIDS denialism and quackery under former health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and then President Thabo Mbeki, South Africans read in a weekend newspaper that the [...]

Politics of ARVs in South Africa

My experience has shown me that some people are careless about their future (life) and care a little more about today. This I learnt while participating in the roll-out of ARVs.
 
People on ARVs are given about three different types of pills to take over a period of time (for life). Where these are filed or [...]

Hiding Africa’s Looted Funds: The Silence of Western Media

Quite often when you read newspapers, listen to radio and watch television in the West you learn how poor Africans are and how corrupt African leaders are. But you will never watch, read or hear anything in these media outlets about the role being played by Western banking institutions; property development and estate companies; the [...]

Does SABC appreciate the work Zikala did for it if not for SA?

I’m disappointed with the treatment Dr Snuki Zikalala has received despite his hard work which revolutionalised the SABC News from what it used to be.

 
 
I remember when he first joined SABC there was a lot of negative talk about his appointment
“The post was advertised and I went through an interviewing process about three weeks [...]

OPEN LETTER TO FORMER PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI

Dear Cde Mbeki
 
The events that came to pass in our country in the last week have left me very little
option, but to address you directly on the matters at hand.
 
I am certain that you are painfully aware that the release of the transcripts of the
conversations between Ngcuka and McCarthy, not only sent shockwaves through the
nation, [...]

Why I stopped singing “areme boere”

Spent my lunch wondering in 1987 when I got chased for a distance of about 170-200 mitres by a soldier that had jumped off a moving apartheid hippo (aka mellow yellow).
 
This is one memorable moment I wouldn’t forget, probably the highest adrenalin rush I’ve ever had too. Poor soldier had a reason to be angry [...]