Author Archive
ZOLISWA NKONYANA TRIAL RESTARTS:
The trial of the men accused of murdering lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana in Khayelitsha in 2006 is underway in the Western Cape.
HIV VACCINE FINALLY SHOWS PROMISE:
A six-year clinical trial in Thailand has yielded the first ever evidence that an AIDS vaccine can provide some protection against HIV infection.
MAMBA READS:
In our first Mamba Reads offering, Morné Malan takes a hustle through the bookstore's homo-shelf, and asks what’s in a gay book, and what makes a book gay?
SERBIAN ACTIVISTS UNDER ATTACK:
A new Amnesty International report says that Serbian human rights defenders are under attack and authorities are failing to protect them.
FILM FESTIVAL POSTERS REMOVED:
The Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival says that a number of its posters have disappeared from street poles in Cape Town.
ARV PRICES CONTINUE TO VARY:
A new study has found that some nations are paying up to three times more for the life-prolonging medicines than others.
SEX EDUCATION EFFORT RAISES STORM CLOUDS:
An attempt to help educators around the world develop sex-education programmes among young people has become bogged down in controversy.
CLIMATE AND AIDS ACTIVISTS URGED TO JOIN FORCES:
There is a move to bring players from the HIV/AIDS and Climate Change movements together to collaborate on research.
OIA OPENING GALLERY:
The annual Out In Africa gay and lesbian film festival recently launched its 16th edition at Montecasino, Joburg. Mambaonline was there to
BOOK ON TRADITIONAL CIRCUMCISION CAUSES STIR:
A new book has broken the silence over what really goes on during traditional male circumcisions in South Africa.