Updated: 8am GMT -- 2004/06/23
Features
The highest mountain
February 1997 TRANSKEI VILLAGE TUBERCULOSIS is a fact of life in this region but Aids is an alien invader from another world. TB is the cloth that hides the Aids, like keeping one's head under the blanket. When I first met Nokwanda at the small Tra...
Fast facts
You get Aids: 1.By having unprotected sex with a person who has HIV or Aids. 2. By the blood of a person who has HIV or Aids going into your blood, such as by sharing hypodermic needles, razors, or circumcision instruments. 3. By receiving a tran...
Clinton: Lewinsky scandal was a 'living nightmare'
By Giles Hewitt in New York BILL Clinton suffered a "living nightmare" over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, as he found himself caught inside a self-made web of deceit that took in his family, friends and the American people. "What I regret the ...
UFH community projects boosted
TWO Fort Hare community projects - the Wearable Blanket and Small-scale Vegetable production projects - have received R350 000 from the Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation. "Fresh Footprints - promoting Excellence in Entrepreneurship" is a new Fuch...
'Love gene' keeps couples together
Romance is not dead, it is locked within a "love gene" in the brain, according to findings by American scientists. Researchers played cupid by shooting the gene into normally promiscuous meadow voles. The lovestruck animals immediately gave up ...
Americans rate Reagan as superior
MOST Americans say Ronald Reagan, who died earlier this month, will be remembered as a better president than Bill Clinton, who is trying to improve his image with a new autobiography, according to an Associated Press poll. Seven in 10 say hist...
Hang on to your space suit...
GOVERNMENT monopoly on space flight may have been tested by the sub-orbital loop by the pioneering craft SpaceShipOne, but would-be tourist groups should not start packing their bags straight away. Supporters of the world's first privately-fi...
Get your tickets before it's too late!
By Andrea Jonker-Bryce BEHIND THE scenes of this year's Daily Dispatch and Spargs Superspar Wine Fair are a whole bunch of people currently up the scaffolds. Overall organisers are Tri-Skye PR, who have been piecing the Wine Fair together for some y...
