THURSDAY, 5.00PM ZIMBABWEAN Congress of Trade Unions president Gibson Sibanda has castigated the government for high budget deficit, saying it is a major contributor to workers’ suffering through high interest rates and inflation levels. “The biggest problem in this country is the budget deficit, which is causing high inflation, which is the worker’s enemy number […]
Jonathan Freedland in London SO, soon a man will be able to love another man from the day he turns sweet 16 – trouble is, neither will be allowed to have a cigarette afterwards. The British government’s recent dual announcements – one proposing a lowering of the homosexual age of consent to 16, the other […]
FRIDAY, 2.00PM A COURT case in the Thabazimbi Magistarate’s Court in Northern Province on Friday may hold the key to the recent spae of assinations of National Union of Mineworkers officials at Anglo American Planinum Mines in the Northern and North-West provinces. Twenty-two suspects arrested by police in the past fortnight at Amplats’ Amandelbult mine […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM KENYAN police fired shots in the air four times on Thursday to disperse youths armed with whips and knives who were fighting outside parliament and attacking MPs. In the parliamentary chamber, opposition members accused Nairobi MP Fred Gumo, a member of the ruling Kenya African National Union (Kanu), of organising the “thugs” to […]
The meeting between President Nelson Mandela and East Timorese Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta has been shrouded in secrecy.
educates … is illegal Focus on drugs: Be it dagga or cocaine, from KwaZulu-Natal to Colombia the only way poor rural communities survive is by growing illegal crops Eddie Koch and Enoch Mthembu THE lives of three people who live in different places along the banks of the Tugela, a majestic river that dissects some […]
Cycling:William Fotheringham THE young German Jan Ullrich has shown such power and assurance in the Pyrenean stages of the Tour de France that he is unlikely to be threatened by his Danish team-mate, last year’s winner Bjarne Riis. Ullrich’s rise has been spectacularly fast. Last year he won the final time-trial stage and finished second […]
ATHLETICS: Julian Drew DESPITE all the criticism which has been levelled at Okkert Brits for failing to deliver when it really counts, he still remains South Africa’s best chance for a gold medal at the world athletics champ- ionships which begin in Athens next week. And with the legendary Czar of the Vault Sergei Bubka […]
Double standards: The British government has proposed changing the laws on sex between men under 18. Back home in South Africa, the anomalies remain unchanged Zackie Achmat THE unequal age of sexual consent in South Africa (16 for hetero-sexuals, 19 for lesbian and gay youths) places unjust, irrational and arbitrary burdens on lesbian and gay […]
*Kolya: Czechs and balances EASTERN Europe produced some terrific films in the days when directors had to skilfully weave their way around the state censor. Yet, since the fall of communism, the former Eastern Bloc has virtually become a cinematic wasteland. The reason is clear – state subsidies dried up. This only emphasises what the […]