Apartheid, Art and the singularity
Firstly: Apartheid My part in its demise Neil Aggett's funeral in 1982 Well After getting myself embroiled in the whole Aids debate I must say I really felt for Rian Malan. You know it was not that hard for him to back out of the whole debate with a disclaimer about his lack of Scientific training or something and then just go off and write about something else. Well in fact, it seems he did try to back off but the resulting hysteria it seems, forced him to give a repost and in this he has retained a certain (Afrikaner) stubborn determination not to bow to pressure, and persists in maintaining his stance about manipulation of AIDS statistics. February 2007 This is an excerpt I borrowed to give an idea of what he has had to deal with. IN an HIV/Aids conference in Toronto, treatment Action Campaign honcho Nathan Geffen informed the gathering that “a journalist by the name of Rian Malan wrote a column in noseweek arguing that the Aids statistics were ...