unit 8

DRUGS OR GUNS

To me, this article is too hard to be understood. After read the text a few times and got the explanation by friends, it be more easily to catch up the text.

In the article, it is focuses on the South African Government that faces two legal cases challenging its priorities which is drugs and guns. Thabo Mbeki and his teams were locked in a battle with a nongovernmental arms- reduction organization because of the cancellation of a $6 billion weapons- acquisition deal. At the same, a national AIDS activist group is trying to force the government into making anti-retroviral drugs freely available to all HIV positive pregnant women in the country.

The article aims to inform the readers about the crisis that had happened in South Africa. Readers are informed about the issues which are in dealing between Mbeki’s government- battles for a weapon-acquisition deal, with a national AIDS activist group – trying to force government into making the antiretroviral drugs to all HIV positive. The writer is comments the Thabo Mbeki’s performance as South Africa’s President and commenting on the arms purchase.

The readers are likely to be aware and concern about AIDS that can harm us. We are needed to avoid such things that can give us bad consequences.