Yearly Archives: 2001

Mail & Guardian Reporter Five NGOs walked away with R50 000 each in Ashoka’s Citizen Base Initiative Awards earlier this week. The winners were the Joubert Park Neighbourhood Development Association, the Western Cape Blind Association, Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa, The Kids Care Project Trust and Agape Copeland Train. The competition is held in […]

THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in mid-January, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi said on Wednesday, saying his country would host the meeting. “There is need for continued efforts if genuine peace is to be ensured in the DRC,” Muluzi […]

Motorola’s new top-end cellphone would not look amiss in William Shatner’s hands David Shapshak Motorola’s clam shell cellphones have always reminded me of the Star Trek communicator, none more so than the latest top-end phone that features a powerful personal digital assistant (PDA). The Accompli 008, which features a Palm-like touch screen, would not look […]

David Macfarlane Thousands of schoolchildren look set to start their school year in January without textbooks but provincial education departments are refusing to admit this. And although budgeted expenditure on textbooks and stationery for the coming year is R1,1-billion an increase of about 15% questions are being raised about how much of this will actually […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni A spate of disciplinary actions against South African ambassadors abroad has sparked a major row in the Department of Foreign Affairs over the chastising of political appointees by lower-level civil service functionaries. The Foreign Affairs Department has in the past few months instituted disciplinary action against five top diplomats, including heads […]

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 […]

Barry Streek The Democratic Alliance has started picking up the pieces after the “great schism”, broadening its top leadership structure to keep New National Party members on board and make it more racially representative. The party’s national management committee decided this week to co-opt four black Democratic Party members MPs Donald Lee, Dan Maluleke and […]

Paul Kirk A favoured daughter of the African National Congress looks set to face criminal prosecution for the alleged theft of trust funds while she practised as an attorney. Police this week told the Mail & Guardian that Durban socialite and former attorney Linda Zama could also face charges involving alleged irregularities involving both tax […]

Parties involved in the asbestos legal battle have broadly agreed on a UK20-million settlement. However, Northern Cape premier Manne Dipico and his Northern Province counterpart Ngoako Ramatlhodi said on Friday there had been no settlement. ”We have come back…hopeful that the end is very near,” Ramatlhodi told reporters. He said one of the main hitches […]

THE New National Party in Gauteng on Thursday called for more appropriate sentences, including castration, for men who rape and abuse women and children. NNP leader Johan Kilian said: ”Men who rape are not men and unworthy of the God-given physical and emotional attributes associated with normal manhood. ”It is therefore appropriate that sexual offenders […]