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Perspectives on KwaZulu-Natal

Perspectives on KwaZulu-Natal was published by Profile KwaZulu-Natal in 2001 and 2002. At the time of publication Perspectives was available to subscribers only, but back issues are now available free of charge

Volume Two – Number Four – June 2002

• Education access for children by Aids
• La Mercy airport development to be operational in four years
• The local government and traditional leadership debate
• South African should mobilise against crime says former national police commissioner
• Educators remain committed despite facing daunting odds
• Receiving supplementary services through urban improvement precincts
• A study that attempts to understand the day to day realities of mothers dying of HIV/Aids

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Volume Two – Number Three – April 2002

• Community based crime prevention in the southern Drakensberg
•  DA and IFP emphasise their working relationship at local government level
• Bringing the eThekwini municipality closer to the people
• Parliamentary task team on sexual abuse hears from the children
• Research recommends transracial adoptions continue under certain conditions
•  Transport budget covers rural road development, job creation, empowerment

Volume Two – Number Two – March 2002

District municipalities in court battle with national government
The basic income grant: benefiting the poor, not only those who are already wealthy
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali’s state of the province address
Task team to address nutrition for people living with Aids

A Fullbright senior lecturer and his wife detail their experiences in KwaZulu-Natal

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Volume Two – Number One – February 2002

• A survey on the impact on households of adult illness and death and the taking in of orphans
• Information on measures taken towards the realisation of rights in the Bill of Rights
• Cranes offer a potential in South Africa for landowners to get something back from their land
• Brutal behaviour in the form of the rape of babies
• The roll out of Aids drugs in KwaZulu-Natal

Volume One – Number Ten – December 2001

• The Treatment Action Campaign in KwaZulu-Natal
• Hearing the children talk about conflict and violence towards girls and young women
• Changing the customary law of succession
• Working with young soccer players to raise awareness on topics related to Aids
• Italian government supports KwaZulu-Natal’s health department
• A few thousand volunteers to transform a plot of land in Durban by building 100 houses

Volume One – Number Nine – November 2001

• Finding unity of purpose in Durban’s unicity
• Findings of rhino monitoring programme
• The relationship between rural arts and HIV/Aids education
• KwaZulu-Natal Ministers present their mid-year reports
• Italian government supports KwaZulu-Natal’s health department
• The Civil Society Initiative’s KwaZulu-Natal forum

Volume One – Number Eight – October 2001

• Forensic nurses trained in KwaZulu-Natal, but no crime kits for forensic tests
• Discrimination in special education facilities
• Auditor-general releases report on RDP projects
• Human Rights Watch reports on violence on South African farms
• HIV/Aids: Impact on women in South Africa
• Transformation and the South African Broadcasting Corporation

Volume One – Number Seven – September 2001

• Life insurance fraud rampant in KwaZulu-Natal
• Working to end racism at Durban’s international conference
• Local government in transition since the December 2000 elections
• Upgrading Durban’s port
• Warwick Junction: a multi-agency approach to crime and violence
• Disseminating messages of gender equality in schools

Volume One – Number Six – August 2001

Racism on South Africa’s beaches: then and now
Business must be proactive in the fight against HIV/Aids
Youth and their experiences of crime
Gender inequalities in South African society
Ethical considerations in HIV/Aids vaccine trials
Investigating human rights abuses in the farming community

Volume One – Number Five – July 2001

• Department of Economic Development and Tourism head Mel Clark on new challenges
• Meeting the needs of Aids orphans
• Children write about how their lives are affected by Aids
• Refugees struggle to make a living in South Africa
• The social and viral origins of HIV/Aids
• Transitions to adulthood in the context of Aids in South Africa

Volume One -Number Four – June 2001

• The state of KwaZulu-Natal, according to political scientist Professor Adam Habib
• The first black director of the Association for Rural Advancement, Siphesihle Mkhize on land reform
•  KwaZulu-Natal’s peace committee is to be shut down by the end of the year
• MEC found not guilty of being in possession of a KwaZulu Government shotgun
• Durban’s Street Children Forum is working to make Durban a child-friendly city
• Results of a victim survey in Cato Manor, Durban

Volume One – Number Three – May 2001

• Rural communities face immense difficulties in learning English as a second language
• South Africa and the Czech Republic face similar challenges
• Africa’s most advanced research institute will be based in KwaZulu-Natal
• The Heifer Project in South Africa is addressing poverty
• Police make progress in the assassination of an ANC politician
• A ‘green revolution’ for KwaZulu-Natal over the next 20 years

Volume One – Number Two – April 2001

KwaZulu-Natal government suspends peace education project after spending millions
Sexual violence in rampant in South Africa’s schools, according to Human Rights Watch
Facts, figures and promises from the KwaZulu-Natal budget
Learning about HIV/Aids at schools
Taxi boss Thula Sithole assassinated two weeks after being acquitted on murder charges
Hospice provides home-based care for Aids patients and their families
Assassins of a Richmond politician are convicted

Volume One – Number One – March 2001

• Shamila Batohi, the KwaZulu-Natal head of the Directorate of Special Operations
• KwaZulu-Natal’s taxi Commission of Inquiry
• Local government elections in December 2000
• South Africa’s witness protection programme
• Provincial procurement and audit legislation
• Malaria cases drop in KwaZulu-Natal with the use of DDT