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.
The heartbreaking reports carried elsewhere on this publication of a woman killed in Metsimotlhabe and four family members perishing near Metsimaswaana Bridge are, devastatingly, not isolated incidents. They represent the sharp, painful tip of a weekend that has seen far too many collisions, injuries, and losses on the roads. This alarming spike in fatalities is a screaming siren we cannot ignore. It compels a direct and urgent plea to every...