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Learning from progressive attempts at ending AIDS by 2030
South Africa is part of excellent and uncelebrated contributions and initiatives to end AIDS by 2030. Many international conversations credit South African scientist for coming up with the suggestion of putting all the infected on treatment in order to end new infections and deaths due to AIDS by 2030. The brilliant thinking is apparently behind […]
Lockdown – relaxation and litigation
The lockdown, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and the subsequent regulations for the lockdown are most certainly going to precipitate litigation in the Courts in relation to their legality and constitutionality. In this legal contestation in the Courts, instituted by, inter alia, political parties, such as the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Freedom Front (FF), […]
Surrender aspects of national sovereignty and embrace global solidarity
In April 1994, the heinous apartheid regime in my country, South Africa, came to an end as its citizens celebrated its first democratic elections. April 1994 was also the beginning of the Rwandan genocide with almost a million Tutsis killed – a stark reminder of the dangers of ethnocentric nationalism. The demise of apartheid South […]
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Learning from progressive attempts at ending AIDS by 2030
South Africa is part of excellent and uncelebrated contributions and initiatives to end AIDS by 2030. Many international conversations credit South African scientist for coming up with the suggestion of putting all the infected on treatment in order to end new infections and deaths due to AIDS by 2030. The brilliant thinking is apparently behind […]
International solidarity for Covid-19
China has an almost folksy way of describing what its intentions are in the maelstrom of complex international affairs – half a decade ago it was “people to people co-operation” and “win-win co-operation”. And for all its platitudinal soap-boxing at times, the People’s Republic puts its money and resources where its mouth is. Departed Chinese […]
A crises within a crises
The United States, currently the world’s epicentre of the deadly Coronavirus, with over 100 000 deaths to date, has been plunged into a “crisis within a crisis”. The alleged murder of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis has changed the picture of the “most powerful country […]
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Is 5G transmitting large amounts of data, harmful to human health...
In the midst of the virus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) outbreak, a third of the world’s population currently has limited freedom of movement due to the...
EDUCATION
Our souls too must be fed!
Attending a Catholic primary school, we were encouraged from that age already to partake in Holy Mass during the week as well. It was...
ECONOMICS
Lockdown – relaxation and litigation
The lockdown, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and the subsequent regulations for the lockdown are most certainly going to precipitate litigation in the...
