On 12 August this year, SADC youths joined the world’s diverse youths to celebrate the International Youth Day (IYD) under the theme, ‘Dialogue and Mutual Understanding’.

The revelation by SADC Gender Programme’s head Ms Magdeline Mathiba-Madibela at a press briefing in Windhoek this week ahead of the SADC Heads of States Summit, that HIV and AIDS disproportionately affects Southern African women and girls as a result of sexually-related violence and unequal gender relations is not only worrying but a great challenge to the sub-region’s governments and human development efforts.

The joy of writing this column manifests in the responses and feedback it always generates. But usually such responses are from males, both old and young.

As I was concluding my week on Friday afternoon last week, I had neither the intentions nor plans to interact with a bunch of street prostitutes and 250 youths on Saturday morning until I entered the office of a dynamic female executive I had never met before.

As if humanity is not faced with enough health challenges, one more has yet again hit.

During the closing weeks of the year, this column dedicated itself to the role of positive leaders as agents of change at various levels of society, from community mobilisers to civic and church leaders.

One mid morning last week my husband and I received a very strange visit. The day before, a male stranger had phoned and solicited us to meet him and his wife.

A few days ago, representatives of 17 community-based child protection-focused organisations from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho, South African Namibia and Zimbabwe gathered in Africa’s...

First, allow me to take this opportunity to register my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all those good people who are following my tracking of the corporate and individual efforts towards finding solutions to the HIV and AIDS pandemic through both treatment or vaccines by research and shared knowledge of their various medicines.

For sub-Saharan Africa, which is the epicenter for the now three-decade raging HIV/AIDS pandemic that has and is continuing to leave each and every one of our households dreadfully hurting and changing our entire demographic landscape,