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Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a 2019 documentary film by Danish film maker Mads Brügger.It depicts the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in the 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash and proposes a theory that a white supremacist organization attempted to spread HIV/AIDS among black Africans.
HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa. South Africa has the highest number of people afflicted with HIV of any country, and the fourth-highest adult HIV prevalence rate, according to the 2019 United Nations statistics. [1] About 8 million South Africans out of the 60 million population live with HIV. [2]
South African Airways Flight 406, also known as The Rietbok Crash, was a scheduled passenger flight on 13 March 1967 that crashed into the sea on approach to East London, South Africa. All 25 passengers and crew on board were killed. The cause of the accident was never determined.
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in South Africa (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in South Africa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
In South Africa, HIV/AIDS denialism had a significant impact on public health policy from 1999 to 2008, during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki criticized the scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS beginning shortly after his election to the presidency. In 2000, he organized a Presidential Advisory Panel regarding HIV/AIDS ...
State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein.The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks.
The aircraft, a Convair 340 registered ZS-BRV, was originally delivered to the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1954 as a C-131D. [4] It was retired from USAF service in 1987 and was stored for five years before its conversion for civilian use and operation by several companies, eventually being acquired by Rovos Air (the aviation division of South African rail operator Rovos Rail), which ...
South Africa was under an arms embargo at the time; the South African government therefore had to buy arms clandestinely. [40] He postulated that a rocket system was placed in the cargo hold and vibrations caused the ignition of unstable ammonium perchlorate, a chemical compound used in missile propellant. [better source needed]