LOOKING BACK

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES 50 YEARS AGO

Jenny Kee, an unmarried mother of two young daughters, this week claimed she was engaged to Phillip Carter, 24, the man who last week said he had given up his White citizenship to marry a Coloured cabaret star, Linda Kavanagh. Jenny said the two children, Tracey, 3, and Monica, 17 months, were Phillip’s children. She said: “Phillip and I have been engaged for four years.” Phillip admitted he was involved with Jenny for three years before moving in with Linda last October. But, he said: “She’ll have to prove I’m the father of her children. I was not her only boyfriend.” Jenny said she was to have married Phillip after the first baby, but Phillip’s birth had never been registered. He was about to be registered and then they were to marry - “but he disappeared”. Phillip said it was true his birth had not been registered. “Then I decided I wanted to be a Coloured and marry Linda. I registered myself as Coloured six months ago.” April 14 1974

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES 25 YEARS AGO

AIDS activists are enraged by an announcement by the Minister of Health Dr Nkosazana Zuma that people who are HIV positive are to be forced by law to disclose their status to close relatives and sexual partners. Plans to make AIDS a notifiable disease were announced by Zuma on Friday. After a joint briefing with health ministers from Namibia and Zimbabwe, Zuma said: “We cannot afford to be dictated to by AIDS activists. We want to know who is dying of AIDS and relatives and partners must be notified. It’s time we treated AIDS as a public health issue, like TB. We don’t go about treating that with secrecy.” April 18 1999 —