19th April 2002.

This monograph first appeared during an early 2002 summit of the political parties that form the South African government.

The "Castro Hlongwane" document was prepared and circulated by a group of party intellectuals, reputed to include Peter Mokaba and President Thabo Mbeki.

Read about the racial discrimination
in the original Castro Hlongwane incident:
News Report 1   News Report 2

PRELUDE

" And Conrad's stand-in, Marlow, (in Heart of Darkness), muses on how 'the conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

(King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild,
Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1998.)

" All the human race loves a lord - that is, it loves to look upon or to be noticed by the possessor of Power or Conspicuousness; and sometimes animals, born to better things and higher ideals, descend to man's level in this matter. In the Jardin des Plantes I have seen a cat that was so vain of being the personal friend of an elephant that I was ashamed of her."

(Does the Race of Man love a Lord?,
by Mark Twain, April 1902: Mark Twain,
The Library of America, 1976.)

" The failure of American AIDS to 'explode' into the general population led the authorities to look for the phenomenon elsewhere. New AIDS cases in the U.S. began falling before the introduction of 'protease inhibitor' therapy, and from 1997 to 1998 dropped from about 60, 000 to 48, 000. Of teenagers diagnosed in 1998, only 68 were classified as 'heterosexual contact.' Among women, AIDS diagnoses fell from 13, 000 in 1997 to 11, 000 in 1998.If the very high AIDS spending by the U.S. government is to be sustained, the emergency would have to be drummed up elsewhere.so Africa beckoned."

(Inventing an Epidemic,
The American Spectator, 2000,
by Tom Bethell, Washington Editor.)

" In money terms, first there is the pharmaceutical industry. If AIDS in Africa is now a national security threat, as President Clinton has declared, American money will be appropriated for the very expensive drugs to spend in Africa - billions of dollars of potential profits. If Washington doesn't appropriate funds, there's the fear that African nations might buy generic, foreign-made copies of U.S. drugs. Then there is the public health establishment. More billions can go for salaries, offices, staffing, travel and long reports. The World Health Organisation budget has skyrocketed along with African AIDS statistics. Many public health officials are well meaning, seeing AIDS fears as the only way to get money to help the misery afflicting so much of Africa. In America, government AIDS money is spreading far and wide. Federal spending now tops $10 billion and is increasing yearly even as case loads fall."

(AIDS Hype in Africa?
No HIV Test Required, Disease Defined Differently Than in U.S.,
by Jon Basil Utley, Robert A. Taft Fellow at the Ludwig
von Mises Institute, USA, April 30, 2000.)

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"Africa Can't Just Take a Pill for AIDS"; New York Times (www.nytimes.com) (07/06/00) P. A27; Goldyn, Lawrence.

"Lawrence Goldyn, a doctor who treats HIV-positive patients, writes in an editorial that South African President Thabo Mbeki has frustrated AIDS researchers with his decision not to promote the use of the drug AZT and his consideration that HIV may not cause AIDS. However, in the light of the country's poor infrastructure, these decisions are rational. South Africa lacks the resources and pharmaceuticals to treat its growing HIV-infected population. Cocktail drugs cost up to $15,000 a year, not affordable for most, and unavailable without the social, economic, and medical structures needed to administer drug therapies. The complicated treatments for HIV require full adherence and stability, and getting South Africans to follow a drug schedule could be impossible, based on the past failure of tuberculosis treatments. Transmission of HIV to newborns is also an issue, but in a country where breast-feeding is the only option, the infection rate is 30 per cent for infants born to an infected mother. The best solution is an AIDS vaccine, but without research funds that turn profits, it is years away. Mbeki is right to say that the Western way of fighting AIDS will not transfer to Africa."

Current TB News: Week of July 10, 2000:
Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research.

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"As my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, (in which a number of people were murdered, others killed with experimental drugs, and governments and universities corrupted), I came to realise that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard."

"The Constant Gardener" by John le Carre.
(Author's Note): Coronet Books,
Hodder and Stoughton, London. 2001.