(December 16th, 2004)
MASERU, 16 December 2004 (PlusNews) – The office of the Lesotho’s HIV/AIDS Directorate, on the 6th floor of an office building in downtown Maseru, the capital, has almost none of the amenities of a modern bureaucracy. The few computers cannot access the Internet; the bathrooms have no toilet paper, soap, or paper towels. Since this [...]
(December 16th, 2004)
LUSIKISIKI, 16 December 2004 (PlusNews) – When Anoria Samka’s brothers discovered she was HIV positive, they shunned her. But now, when she tells her community that the drugs she takes can stem the progress of the disease, no one ridicules her and no one turns her out. Instead, they listen. Addressing a hundred men, women [...]
(December 16th, 2004)
JOHANNESBURG, 16 December 2004 (PlusNews) – South Africa’s Western Cape region, in theory, provides free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all who need it. But in the Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town, more than 500 people who qualify for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs remain on waiting lists because there are simply not enough doctors and nurses to [...]
(November 22nd, 2004)
For three young men fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Africa was supposed to be a haven. Instead, it was a detention centre — a dirt-floored pen made of chain-link fencing and razor wire, with no roof, toilets or running water. Manga Mmbyula, Kiza Djuma, and Shebani Celeste are asylum-seekers from [...]
(November 15th, 2004)
MUSINA, 15 November 2004 (IRIN) – Labourers from the fertile farms of South Africa’s northernmost province regularly bring their grievances to a modest office in Musina’s Nancefield township, just south of the Zimbabwe border. John Mashaba and Dorah Ncupe, officials in the Legal Advice Centre, listen to workers’ accounts – in the hope of eventually [...]
(November 8th, 2004)
MUSINA, 8 November 2004 (IRIN) – In the South African border town of Musina, authorities regularly detain dozens of undocumented immigrants, sometimes for days on end, in an outdoor facility without toilets or running water. Men, women and children, including those seeking refugee status in South Africa, are held behind a chain-link fence and razor [...]
