STAYING AHEAD
Friday, August 03, 2007
I do not however think that the organisers will execute me if I let you know about the HIV/AIDS issue. If what the learned men predict - and they are well learned -e turns out to be true - we will have to dig deep into our national coffers to help our fellow compatriots stay alive.
The figures bandied by experts involve real money.
These large sums of money - tuning into millions - got me thinking not only about the obvious damage that HIV/Aids does to the economy. I started to think about the way the fight against AIDS is being waged.
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...