Yearly Archives: 1999

Gavin Foster explains why we should welcome the third cellphone operator with open arms Two’s company, but three’s a crowd. That’s the line taken by cellphone giants MTN and Vodacom, who both believe that the soon-to- be-announced third player in the cellular game will have a long, hard slog ahead before realising profits. But it’s […]

Robert Kirby Channel Vision Whether e.tv is going to survive is, of course, anybody’s guess. A lot of people think it should, usually on the grounds that e.tv is a necessary evil, an independent entity against which the SABC and M-Net may be assessed. This is nonsense. The one thing SABC television has never lacked […]

As a teenager in an English new town, Gary Younge felt an affinity with the Deep South of America and a fascination for the civil rights pioneers of the 1960s. As a grown-up, he set off on a journey to explore the myth that had helped form him I was born and raised in the […]

viruses Tim Radford NEW SCIENCE Bright idea A new, man-made material could make lights that will last for 100 000 hours and cut energy costs by 80%. The material is already being tested in a set of traffic lights in Whitehall. It produces the same light output as an electric bulb but uses only one-fifth […]

Charlene Smith The teacher alleged to have raped at least one child at a Johannesburg high school had similar allegations levelled against him at a primary school five years ago. Last week the Mail & Guardian reported that Queens High School is refusing to suspend the teacher who has been accused of raping a 14-year-old […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby World Cup Those of a cynical bent may have smelt a rat when the opening game of the 1999 World Cup was announced as Wales vs Argentina, instead of the expected Wales vs South Africa. It was ”traditional”, they said, for the opening game of a World Cup to pit the hosts […]

TWO men who allegedly poisoned more than 50 wild animals and birds last month appeared briefly in the Messina Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Simon Mutavhatsindi, (34) and Andries Ndou, (40) were not asked to plead to charges of poisoning animals. Mutavhatsindi and Ndou are being held at Messina police station after they failed to raise […]

SOUTH Africa lost 2-0 to Australia in the World Team Championship played in Cairo. The second-seeded Australians beat the team of Glenn Whittaker and Rodney Durbach, despite Whittaker beating his number-two Australian counterpart Dan Jenson. The South Africans made a good fight of the first two ties, particularly the tie between the number-ones, with Durbach […]

THE banking sector loses about R4-billion every year to fraud, a banking official told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. Last year, the industry also lost about R1,1-billion to robbery, Banking Council of South Africa chief executive Bob Tucker told the safety and security committee in a briefing. This was despite a 22% cut in bank […]