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Community Media Trust have moved to new offices in Rondebosch You can now mail us at: Suite 06EB, East Block Tannery Park 23A Belmont Road Rondebosch

Popular TV show Siyayinqoba Beat It! is back on air from 3 November! The show will be broadcast on Thursdays at 1:30 pm on SABC 1. Siyayinqoba Beat It! is a weekly TV show for everyone living with HIV and … Continue reading →

Community Media Trust mourns the lost of AIDS Activist Winstone Zulu. Winstone spoke out strongly against Mbeki’s denialism, after initially being convinced to stop his ARVs and then finding himself getting very ill.

By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen. An expensive gift has cast new shadows over the Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Health’s controversial decision to purchase and use an unsafe circumcision device called the Tara KLamp. In addition, a promised assessment of … Continue reading →

The Community Media Trust’s Siyayinqoba Outreach Programme is hosting an Open Day event in the Eastern Cape Province on Friday, the 12th August 2011. Starting from 9am, the Engcobo community is invited to the Manzana Community Hall in Engcobo to … Continue reading →

Equal Education (EE) has been staging a sleep-in outside Parliament since 12 July 2011. They were given permission to remain outside Parliament until July 13th, 2011 at 4pm. Yesterday afternoon at 4pm, the police asked them to remove the tents … Continue reading →

“Among the 877 couples in the delayed ART group, 27 HIV transmissions occurred. This was in contrast to only one (1) transmission that occurred in the immediate ART group. This difference was highly statistically significant. The viruses transmitted in these … Continue reading →

Due to live events being broadcast on SABC 1 on Sunday 24th April and Sunday 1st May, Siyayinqoba Beat It! will not be broadcast. Be sure to join us at 12:30pm Sunday 8th May when we return on SABC 1.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and its sister organisation focused on rights, SECTION27, will be launching an ‘activist handbook’ before the elections, to explain how local government works and why ordinary people have more power than they think they do.

Community Media Trust’s community journalists attended the MSF press conference in Cape Town for the roll-out of the new TB testing methods to quickly diagnose TB and drug resistant TB.