Yearly Archives: 2001

The government has unveiled plans to bring information and communication technologies into rural areas Ngwako Modjadji After a rocky piloting programme, multi-purpose community centres have received a boost recently after the goverment unveiled its business plan for the centres. Fourteen information technology centres were introduced a few years ago; however, many experienced problems related to […]

analysis Nicholas Taitz and John Kuhn The South African government’s policy against providing free anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids may amount to a crime against humanity. The legal concept of “crimes against humanity” was introduced after World War II to hold Nazi leaders accountable for their crimes in the Holocaust. At the Nuremberg […]

Offshore listings, speculators and the situation in Zimbabwe have handed the currency a thrashing Mungo Soggot Shocking figures released by the Reserve Bank this week show that an annualised R45-billion left South Africa in the third quarter because of the major local companies that have listed offshore, exacerbating the collapse of the rand. The figures, […]

Group B, made up of South Africa, seeded team Spain, Paraguay and Slovenia will be based in Korea. Korea is a peninsular country, with rugged mountains, that dangles from the south-east corner of Asia. What the Koreans lack in natural resources such as oil and other minerals they make up for in technology and business. […]

Richard Williams The key words were these: “They regard him as a kindred spirit, someone who takes on all-comers and does things his way …” His way. It was impossible to miss the significance of that particular phrase. It appeared in Sunday’s Observer, as part of a piece speculating on the possibility that the members […]

Barry Streek Chinese explorers travelled to Southern Africa 150 years before their European counterparts were able to find a sea route to East Asia, National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala told a conference in Japan this week. The Chinese connection has been demonstrated by a map drawn by Ming cartographer Ch’uan Chin in 1402 at the […]

Immigration legislation needs to be passed urgently to facilitate the flow of finance managers, IT personnel and engineers into the country Glenda Daniels Over the past year South Africa lost more professionals than during any similar period in the past 60 years, according to the South African Institute of Race Relation’s latest report on the […]

Senegal are drawn to play the opening game against France Simon Kuper We can already predict most of the next World Cup: the vilification of the coaches, footballers disgruntled at missing their summer holiday, and one of the five usual suspects winning the trophy. In fact, it will be such a familiar event that we […]

John Young “The days of going into games maybe 10 years ago without a game-plan are gone,” Shaun Pollock told SA Sports Illustrated in September. The curriculum of the national academy obviously does not include South Africa’s 1952/53 tour of Australia. If it did, Pollock would know that one of the biggest cricketing upsets of […]

Marianne Merten The new African National Congress-New National Party Western Cape government could find its hands tied on poverty alleviation and service delivery next year, as the 2002/2003 budget is scheduled for finalisation on Friday. Concern has been expressed that the new government has been installed very late in the budgetary process. It is understood […]