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Florence Radull
  • Cervical Cancer: A survivor�s tale

    Odiseng and her fiancée had followed the correct procedures after they met by both testing for HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) before they started engaging in unprotected sex two years previously. As far as she was...

  • �Silencing the silent killer�

    A case in point is the lesser known but more deadly Cervical Cancer which was launched on the last day of July this year and is ‘celebrated’ annually in the month of August. The Cancer Association of Botswana (CAB) organised weekly...

  • In the Molapo bush

    He advises me to leave all my valuables in the car before we quickly leave the Molapo Crossing car park and head in a westerly direction on foot. We turn off the main road that leads to Mogoditshane and head into the bush behind the mall. In the far...

  • When Africa came to town

    You would be giddy with anticipation and restlessness, barely able to contain yourself until the guests arrived. Those are the same feelings that washed over many of us as the long awaited opening ceremony of the much anticipated African Youth Games...

  • Terror in Nairobi

    “My South African fiancée works for the United Nations and he was recently transferred to Nairobi. Since we didn’t manage to spend the Easter break together, he suggested I visit him at his new posting,” says the 34-year-old...

  • 'International women's what?'

    The wording ‘woke up to find’ suggested to me that the person in question was neither previously aware of the day nor its significance to women’s rights but just stumbled upon the information quite by accident. A quick survey in...

  • �Chasing� mountains

      It is a balmy afternoon as we leave the comfort of our Morogoro hotel in Eastern Tanzania and join the Great North Road towards our destination, further north-west towards Kenya. Against the backdrop of this agricultural town are the first of...

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