Yearly Archives: 2001

Kaizer Chiefs are aiming to win their fourth trophy this weekend and we’re not halfway through the season yet Ntuthuko Maphumulo There’s never been a better time to be a Kaizer Chiefs supporter. The newly crowned Coca-Cola Cup champions seek a clean sweep of all the trophies on offer this season, with their next target […]

I had of late started to lose enthusiasm for buying and reading the Mail & Guardian, what with that obnoxious man Sipho Seepe blathering all over my weekly read. I am told he also goes under the pretext of being a professor but I think he can safely be referred to as a palooka. But […]

report rise in Aids cases Belinda Beresford Full-blown Aids cases are remorselessly rising at three of Gauteng’s premier teaching hospitals, suggesting that the huge levels of HIV infection are steadily translating into terminal illness. The University of the Witwatersrand revealed this week that the level of medical admissions to Helen Joseph hospital due to full-blown […]

Comment Shyaka Kanuma As a foreigner, and one who’s been to a number of places, I will say you’ve got a beautiful country here, folks, and one with many prospects. South Africa continues to get recognition as the destination of choice for the world’s indabas. And tourists continue to show much faith in the country […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Charlene Smith Traditional leaders and healers are moving rapidly to amend custom and tradition, and to use herbal remedies in some of the most effective battles against the ravages of Aids. The Medical Research Council (MRC)recently opened a research centre at Delft in Cape Town where traditional healers purvey their craft, and where they can […]

Unions say the government is pushing ahead with job cuts despite the fact that a framework agreement is not yet in place Glenda Daniels The government has told 7 274 public servants that their jobs are redundant and they face retrenchment, according to a survey of members carried out by public service trade unions. This […]

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 […]