Towards the end of last year Lerato Thapi interviewed David Krut for the DSTV breakfast programme, Africa Awakes. While the feature focussed on David’s involvement with the Body Maps Project – the current show at David Krut Projects – conversation soon led to the TAXI Art Books series, print workshop, art outreach activity and the [...]

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BACKGROUND – LONG LIFE In 2002, only 25,000 of the 4.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa had access to life-saving medications. Six hundred people were dying of AIDS every day. In 2002, the Memory Box Project at the University of Cape Town began to run Memory Box workshops in Khayelitsha. [...]

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Current: December 1 2007- February 2008 David Krut Projects 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Johannesburg 011 4470627 Lucy@davidkrut.com CUNY College Brooklyn, New York, for World AIDS day December 1 2007

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In his book, Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron tells a ghastly story about Botswana . Knowing that up to a third of its population had HIV or AIDS, and that about 100 000 people were in urgent need of drugs, in 2001 Botswana’s government began to offer free anti-retroviral treatment to every citizen with AIDS. Yet, by late 2003, only 15 000 people had appeared at public health facilities for free medication. Why?

“Stigma,” is Cameron’s answer. “People are too scared — too ashamed — to come forward and claim what their government is now affording them: the right to stay alive.” Indeed, he says, “in some horrifically constrained sense, they are ‘choosing’ to die, rather than face the stigma of AIDS and find treatment”.

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By Luiz DeBarros
Originally published July 20, 2006 on http://www.mambaonline.com/

I remember writer and journalist Adam Levin in the late nineties. We weren’t friends, but he was often out and about on the Joburg gay scene and I briefly worked with him on a documentary in 1996. Then he disappeared.

I heard gossip that he was sick with Aids. When I briefly spotted him at party a few years later, I couldn’t reconcile the frail looking man with the person I remembered. Soon after, I heard that he was at death’s door.

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This book shines a light behind the grim statistics to illuminate the human face of HIV/AIDS in Cape Town’s largest township. Thirteen remarkable women step out of the shadows to tell their personal stories, in words, paintings and photographs, with frankness and humour. Woven between these thirteen tales is

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Author: Jonathan Morgan, Kylie Thomas, English, Multimedia , Softcover, 184 Pages, Full colour, 28x20.6cm, ISBN: 1-919930-35-3,
Price: (ZA)R OUT OF PRINT