I was in my early 20s, a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement.
François Venter, of the HIV/AIDS research centre at Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University, says that treatment needs to be decentralised to more accessible primary health-care clinics and in many cases could be done by medical assistants, not just by doctors and nurses.
The plan is to widen Africa Check's scope to other countries south of the Sahara, while training journalism students in the art of fact checking.The website launched last October, backed by Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand and the AFP Foundation, the news agency's training arm.
Now, another manlike species has been described using more traditional evidence, from a more traditional source of ancient human remains: Africa.The new species, dubbed Australopithecus sediba, is reported in Science this week by Lee Berger and his colleagues at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg.
The headmaster, David Roussouw, proudly recalls his top performer, a girl who lived in a one-bedroom house in Soweto with her mother, who has gone on to the University of Witwatersrand to study medicine.
Initial research, led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, concluded that the species came too late in the fossil record to be the ancestor of the Homo lineage.
That he liked to sleep on a comfortable mattress is the latest.That, at least, is the conclusion of a study just published in Science by Lyn Wadley of the University of Witwatersrand and her colleagues.
STUFFY, vain and set in their ways, the men who run South Africa's gold mines are fitting heirs to Cecil Rhodes and his fellow Randlords, who discovered gold on the Witwatersrand in the late 19th century.
Sally Peberdy, a migration specialist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, recalls a Malawian who took an ice-cream-maker home to start what he thought would be Malawi's first "Mr Whippy" shop.In southern Mozambique, almost three-quarters of respondents to a SAMP survey said that a family member was working in South Africa.
Mesmerised by the vast, rich gold reef of the Witwatersrand, the big mining houses have not sought deposits elsewhere in the country.
In her 20s she moved to Johannesburg, where she spent a year at the University of the Witwatersrand, long enough to make friends with blacks and with Bram Fischer (the model for the hero of "Burger's Daughter") and George Bizos, two lawyers who represented Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial where he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964.
