South African National Parks denies plans to cull elephants despite documented evidence to the contrary Fiona Macleod South African National Parks (SANP) and the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism this week vociferously denied plans to resume culling elephants in the Kruger National Park, despite documentary evidence that the park proposes to cull between 400 […]
Stefaans Brmmer and Inigo Gilmore South Africa’s failure to come clean on a massacre pulled off by its paratroopers 18 months ago in Lesotho is bedevilling relations between Pretoria and the mountain kingdom’s popular royal family. Little is known about the skirmish at Katse Dam where 17 Lesotho and two South African soldiers died. Paratroopers […]
Statements questioning the cause of Aids have caused dismay among local and international scientists Khadija Magardie and David Le Page Leading international Aids scientists and researchers this week unanimously dismissed the South African government’s suggestion that the link between HIV and Aids be “re- examined”. Head of the Medical Research Council Professor Malegapuru Makgoba also […]
Paul Kirk In the week that KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali created a new department to regulate expenditure on the royal family, the province’s auditor general released extraordinary new details about the Zulu king’s high-flying lifestyle. In a report tabled in the provincial legislature, Auditor General Barry Wheeler records how the taxpayer footed the bill for […]
In a statement to the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> this week, Ronnie de Decker denied any involvement in arms smuggling and military activities.
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s volatile stock market will take its cue from Wall Street next week, although the global return to ”old-style” commodity shares should continue to support key indices, analysts said on Friday. Africa’s biggest bourse put in a disappointing performance at the end of a week coloured by a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Friday robustly defended the country’s pursuit of lower inflation and dismissed calls to toss out inflation targeting in favour of a dash for growth. Economists debating with Mboweni in a radio programme argued that employment — in a country where a third of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.00pm THE National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa’s biggest mining union, said on Friday it would organise a one-day strike at Free State gold mines next week to protest against job losses and poverty. The action scheduled for March 22 would affect about five gold companies operating in the Free […]
BEN HIRSCHLER, London | Friday 7.00pm PLATINUM and diamonds will add sparkle to Anglo American Plc profits when the mining group reports its first set of annual results as a London-listed company on March 22, industry analysts said on Friday. But coal will be a drag, reflecting severely depressed prices which have sunk to their […]
THERE is a full programme of matches in the African Cup Winners’ Cup and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Cup this weekend. Club Africain of Tunisia, last year’s beaten finalists in the Cup Winners’ Cup, are back in action again this year and have been drawn away against Mogas 90 of Benin in Cotonou […]