Yearly Archives: 2001

OVER 140 inmates die in Ugandan prisons every year due to poor conditions, a situation aggravated by the country’s HIV/Aids epidemic, a prisons official said on Thursday. Prison representative Mary Kaddu told reporters at a conference on conditions in African prisons, including human rights, that a report compiled by the prison department showed that over […]

PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday President Thabo Mbeki’s ministerial committee that oversaw the Government’s 66-billion arms acquisition intervened to set conditions for the arms investigation after Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota initially gave investigators carte blanche. The Mail & Guardian reported earlier that the executive invoked sections of the apartheid-era Special Defence Account Act to […]

Washington | Thursday BUNDLES of humanitarian relief supplies dropped over Afghanistan by a US military aircraft hit a house, killing a woman and child, the US military said on Wednesday. It was the first known mishap involving air drops of food and other supplies to refugees inside Afghanistan. “A woman and a child were killed […]

ANALYSIS Firoz Osman It is becoming more apparent that the war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban or the World Trade Centre. Realpolitik, the need and greed for oil and gas are, once again, the source of misery and tragedy. This time it is happening in central Asia, […]

Jo Nel Anatomy of dark: collected poems of arthur nortje edited by Dirk Klopper (Unisa) In 1972, exiled South African critic Lewis Nkosi wrote in The Will to Die: “Time, frustration and despair, with their attendant drugs alcohol and suicide are taking a toll on South African writers. Nat Nakasa. Ingrid Jonker. Now Can Themba […]

JAMES MEEK | Friday WITH only a few weeks left before the peak of the opium poppy planting season in Afghanistan, time is running out for Western agencies to offer alternatives to farmers who are planning to harvest the drug next year. United States anti-narcotics officials spoke this week of the need to give aid […]

A KwaZulu-Natal man is writing to the president asking him to visit and bring hope to Aids sufferers Jaspreet Kindra Arthur Jokweni (20) wants to take President Thabo Mbeki to rural KwaZulu-Natal where HIV/Aids is “killing the community”. He wants to show Mbeki the face of Aids in areas where people have to travel more […]

Comment Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at Fort Hare will lay nothing to rest. The president’s latest conspiracy theory on the Aids issue that Aids statistics have more to do with derogatory views (that “we” are “promiscuous carriers of germs” with an “unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust”) than sexual behaviour comes at […]

Magnus Heystek has sustained a final kick in the teeth over allegations that he abused a family trust. Mungo Soggot reports Magnus Heystek, the financial guru and former darling of the media, has paid a “very large” out-of-court settlement to two young boys after being accused of mismanaging and profiting from their family trust. Heystek’s […]

Belinda Beresford Sitting alone behind his lawyers, hands frequently over his face, the director general of health often cut a forlorn figure in court this week. As the most senior civil servant in the Department of Health, Ayanda Ntsaluba had the unenviable task of being the front-line trooper in defending government policy that he did […]