Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, December 27, 1998
Bareng-Batho Kortjaas and S'Thembiso Msomi
THE brutal killing of an AIDS worker who was beaten to death after going public about being HIV positive has unleashed a wave of outrage. Health worker Gugu Dlamini, 36, of KwaMancinza, near Durban, died after being assaulted by a mob who accused her of degrading her neighbourhood by disclosing that she had the disease
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, December 6, 1998
Mark Gevisser
SIMON Tseko Nkoli, 41, died of an AIDS-related illness on Monday, on the eve of World AIDS Day. He did not live to see South Africa s leaders, finally, taking the epidemic seriously - something he had been raging at them about for years. But if there is tragedy in this, there is also Nkoli s sense of timing and feel fo
THE scourge of AIDS which is sweeping through KwaZulu-Natal is beginning to have a devastating effect on the Indian community, leaving over 40 people dead this year alone. Among the casualties are children younger than four. As World Aids Day was observed this week, statistics show that scores of people living in Chats
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, November 29, 1998
Sharon Hammond
AT THE age of 20, Thembi Madalane has taken on an enormous responsibility: she has to tell people they are HIV positive. Madalane was appointed by the Mpumalanga health department in August to conduct HIV tests in the Nkomazi area, south of Malelane. Of the 21 people she has tested to date, eight have been found positi
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, November 29, 1998
Laurice Taitz
SOUTH African researchers are to participate in a search for an AIDS vaccine with US scientists, the non-governmental organisation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative announced in London this week. Researchers from the University of Cape Town, under the Medical Research Council, will take part in an international HIV
SELF-confessed killer Pat Hlongwane earned notoriety for publicly threatening to kill top ANC leaders. Now he spends his time trying to save lives. The former security police informer has become a fieldworker for the National Association of People Living with AIDS - an organisation which assists victims of the killer d
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, November 18, 1998
Nkosazana Zuma
IT GLADDENS me to find the Sunday Times speaking out on behalf of the poorest and most vulnerable as it did in its editorial Don t turn your back when lives are at stake (October 11). Such a pity, then, that it had to be on an issue like that of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the efficacy of using the drug
A TEENAGER who bludgeoned his homosexual doctor lover to death because the man had infected him with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, said this week he had no regrets about killing the man who shattered his life. Minutes after Maritzburg magistrate Henry Sithole sentenced Sithembiso Prince Mbokazi to three years cor
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, November 1, 1998
Janet Heard
When Christo Greyling discovered he was HIV-positive he stopped dreaming for a while. That was 11 years ago, but for the past three years he and his wife, Liesel, have been buying vintage red wine to usher in the millennium. They plan a huge party at their newly built home, Lofdal (Praise Valley), in Stellenbosch.
A GROUP of Mpumalanga students this week told of the trauma they allegedly experienced while studying medicine in Cuba . Two of them said they were sent into isolation and made to beg for food after allegedly testing positive for HIV. The six students, who have complained that they were forced to sleep like prisoners a
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, October 25, 1998
Janet Heard
WHEN Christo Greyling discovered he was HIV positive he stopped dreaming for a while. That was 11 years ago, but for the past three years, he and his wife, Liesel, have been buying vintage red wine to usher in the millennium. They plan a huge party at their newly built home, Lofdal (Praise Valley), in Stellenbosch.
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, October 18, 1998
Lesley Mofokeng
MAKI LUFHUGU of Soweto is a normal 32-year-old woman. She looks like you and me, and dreams of a better life. She learnt that she was HIV positive in November 1995 after a dental operation. At the time that she most needed the support of her family and friends, she was ostracised and driven from her home in Orange Farm
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, October 11, 1998
Carol Paton
DOCTORS are begging Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma to reverse a policy decision that has cut a potential lifeline to thousands of unborn babies whose mother s are HIV positive. Last week, Zuma and the nine provincial health ministers decided that the government would not provide pregnant women who are HIV positive with
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, October 11, 1998
Laurice Taitz
THE last time the Free State mining town of Virginia made headlines was in February 1994, when the Merriespruit slimes dam wall collapsed, taking 80 homes and 14 people with it. At the time, residents of Merriespruit said they thought the world had ended. Now Virginia, established in the 50s after the discovery of the
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, September 6, 1998
Dina Seeger
PRECIOUS Gambushe is just 13, but she cooks, cleans and cares for her 14 orphaned sisters and cousins. She has not become their guardian by choice: AIDS has killed her parents and aunt. In the past three years the HIV virus has reached into hundreds of homes in the sprawling rural community of Izingolweni near Port She
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, August 2, 1998
Cornia Pretorius
PRUDENCE MABELE, Gabisile Khoza and Glenys van Halter didn t lie down when tragedy struck. Instead, it inspired them to fight back by devoting their lives to others who have to deal with the same pain and suffering they learnt to overcome.All three are finalists in the education category of SA s Woman of 98 and, at a g
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, August 2, 1998
Taschica Pillay
AN ALLEGED serial rapist, believed to be infected with the AIDS virus and wanted for attacking 34 young girls, has been arrested after two years on the run. Qithi Shomi Nikwe, 23, allegedly told some of his victims - aged between eight and 15 years - that he had the AIDS virus. He apparently believed he could be cured
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, July 19, 1998
Simnikiwe Xabanisa and Taschica Pillay
A NINE-year-old girl has effectively been given the death sentence after being infected with HIV during a sexual assault by her father. The 28-year-old Lamontville, Durban, man, who may not be named to protect his child s identity, was convicted in the Durban magistrate s court of attempted rape. The girl, a grade two
Sunday Times, South Africa - Sunday, June 21, 1998
Tvette Van Breda
THE truth commission is investigating whether apartheid s dirty tricks squad used the AIDS virus against its enemies.The Sunday Times has learned that, in at least one case, the Civil Co-operation Bureau is thought to have been involved in collecting infected blood - possibly from a dying double agent - to be used in a
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