Positive news from South Africa
Hope Lives in South Africa AIDS ClinicElandsdoorn, South Africa - Four women emaciated by AIDS, perilously close to death and abandoned by the state health care system, cling tenaciously to life at a remote clinic where doctors give them one last fighting chance. |
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Pumpkin power for phone networks in AfricaAmsterdam - Palm and pumpkin seed oil could soon be generating electricity to help power mobile phone networks across Africa under a plan to replace fossil fuels with sustainable biofuels made from crops grown by local farmers. |
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South Africa: Government Calls for Rededication to Women’s RightsJohannesburg, South Africa - Government called on all South Africans to rededicate themselves to ensuring that all women enjoy the rights and opportunities of freedom. |
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AIDS Rates Stabilizing in South AfricaAfrica - The AIDS infection rate among pregnant women in South Africa stayed at about 30 percent last year, according to a government report Friday that said the infection rate was stabilizing. |
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Pill ‘reverses’ vegetative stateSouth Africa - A sleeping pill can temporarily revive people in a permanent vegetative state to the point where they can have conversations, a study finds. |
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Relic of ancient asteroid foundMorokweng crater, South Africa - A large fragment of an asteroid that punched 160km-wide (100 miles) hole in the Earth's surface has been found. |
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South Africa Wants To Clamp Down On HuntingDe Wildt, South Africa - South Africa on Tuesday proposed a ban on "canned hunting", in which captive animals are killed, as well as hunting with bows, traps and dogs, in an effort to clean up the lucrative business. |
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African sisters win royalties to ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’Johannesburg, South Africa - Three impoverished South African women, whose father wrote The Lion Sleeps Tonight, have won a six-year battle for royalties in a landmark case that could affect musicians worldwide. |
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Ancient Taung death mystery solvedJohannesburg, South Africa - After more than 80 years of debate and scientific investigation, an eagle was found to have been the killer of the Taung child almost two million years ago, a conference at the University of the Witwatersrand heard on Thursday. |
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South African Farmers Trade Livestock for WildlifeAmakhala Game Reserve, South Africa - Squinting into his binoculars, William Fowlds scans a vast, grassy plane where a busy dairy once stood. |
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News from Africa
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
- Fighting cancer with cell phones
- New monkey species discovered in Africa
- Madagascar Gets Biggest Lemur Park
- Libya election: High turnout in historic vote
- 10,000 sq mi of Congo rainforest declared World Heritage site
- Cashing in the American dream to help AIDS orphans, those who raise them
- Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account
- A small human rights victory as Egypt’s state of emergency ends
- Egyptians vote in landmark presidential election