PLATES FIRMLY ON THE TABLE
By Jacqui Pile
The World Health Organisation (WHO) consultation on nutrition and HIV/ Aids in Africa, held in Durban this week, was clearly going to contain an element of the political. That's mainly because SA health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has appea...

STAYING ALIVE INSIDE THE TENT
By Prakash Naidoo
Should the SA Communist Party (SACP) have severed its links with the ruling ANC and tested its political strength on its own? Going it alone is certainly what the Young Communist League lobbied for ahead of the SACP special congress in Durban ...

WORST CRISIS GETS SCANT ATTENTION
By Prakash Naidoo
Heightened fighting and a cholera epidemic have turned the northeastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into the "world's worst humanitarian crisis". The UN says it surpasses even Sudan's Darfur region. UN relief co-ordi...

A NEW FRONT OPENS IN THE CULTURE WARS
By Peter Wilhelm
Culled regiments of ostriches - sadly susceptible to viruses transmissible to humans - populate the semi desert farmlands towards Oudtshoorn, host to the annual Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees. This festival of Afrikaner artistic celebration a...