Category Archives: How To

Crooks, a Swazi DJ, on why he has only one love

May 13, 2009 – 8:02 am

Listen to an audio tape of Crooks, a Swazi DJ, as he explains why he is faithful to his wife and she is faithful to him. Crooks is one of the role models of the OneLove Campaign in Swaziland.

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Understand your partner’s vision of what love is

May 6, 2009 – 10:48 am

It’s easy enough to blame the partner who is having multiple concurrent partnerships by saying “she didn’t love me” or “he lied to me when he said he loved me.”

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No Sugar-Daddy For My Girl (BONA)

April 21, 2009 – 10:00 am

Mbali Mlotshwa and her mother Bongi share more than a mother and daughter relationship. They are also co-stars on Soul City. Mbali plays Lulu, the HIV positive young girl with a sugar-daddy and Bongi is Lihle, Tefo’s wife. “Although we haven’t shared a single scene on screen!” laughs the 40-year old actress. Read the full [...]

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Help me teach our youth (reader letter)

April 20, 2009 – 10:30 am

A letter from Pretty Sithole touches on so many important issues about love, sexually transmitted infections  and HIV that I thought I should share it here with everyone. The response may also provide some guidance to many of you who would like to do something to help your community to fight against HIV, but you [...]

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Do long-distance relationships work?

April 15, 2009 – 7:28 am

During our research on multiple concurrent partnerships in Namibia,  most of the people that we interviewed said that long-distance relationships do not work. What do you think?

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Reality Check, Take 6

April 8, 2009 – 7:59 am

Moagisi’s weekly posts on her blog, Bringing Good TV Back, are as fascinating at the developments on the Soul City series 9, the TV drama that she blogs about. Here’s a sample of her take on Monday’s episode. The post is titled Reality Check, Take 6:

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Download A Free Handbook On MCP & Culture (For Journalists & Bloggers)

April 6, 2009 – 11:45 am

Do you write articles and blogs about love, sex, relationships and HIV in Southern Africa?  If you do, then “Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partners: What’s Culture Got To Do With It,” is for you. This 26-page handbook helps journalists write stories that go beyond press releases, announcements and activities and to go for sustained coverage of [...]

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