Roll on the roll-out

AS HE buried his younger brother last weekend, a Johannesburg radio presenter, Lawrence Dube, called for a “war against AIDS”. “People are dropping like flies,” he said. “This is the biggest challenge since creation.” Other mourners talked of their own experiences of the disease—about condoms, safe sex, early death and politicians' refusal to face the problem. “The reality hits ordinary people when they attend a funeral every weekend,” Mr Dube sighed. “But President [Thabo] Mbeki still denies he knows anyone who has died of AIDS.”