Yearly Archives: 2001

An inconsistent match referee highlights the need for common sense in cricket rules Peter Robinson Cricket likes to refer to the rules and regulations that govern the game as “The Laws of Cricket”. It’s a harmless enough conceit, but the events of the past few days do make you wonder whether it wouldn’t be a […]

Richard Evans in Sydney The threat of anti-climax hung over Lleyton Hewitt’s head all last weekend. After the euphoria of becoming the youngest world number one when he beat Patrick Rafter on Friday night, the 20-year-old South Australian was heading for two more matches fraught with danger. Mentally elated but struggling physically, it would have […]

Ngwako Modjadji Athletics, canoeing, cycling, rowing and swimming have been identified as the sports in which South Africa is most likely to perform well at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Speaking at the National Olympic Committee of South Africa’s annual banquet in Midrand this week, president Sam Ramsamy said Nocsa would harmonise sport and bring […]

Stefaans Brmmer Two of the main contracts in South Africa’s R66-billion arms deal submarines and corvettes from German consortia are open to challenge: they were awarded largely on the strength of pie-in-the-sky investment promises. The joint investigation report on the arms deal released to Parliament last week points to serious procedural and technical irregularities in […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will issue new coins and notes next year to ease the process of making payments and take account of years of inflation, officials said on Wednesday. After two decades of falls in the value of the national currency, the naira, the highest denominated note in circulation in 1999 was […]

Nawaal Deane Soaring across the sky over the Magaliesberg mountains, the Bateleurs were on a mission to get a bird’s eye-view of the impact of granite mining on these hills. Named after the majestic eagle, “The Bateleurs Flying for the Environment” is a non-earthbound NGO, providing pilots and aircraft to monitor the impact of a […]

The west stereotypes Asian men as weak, subservient, effeminate. No wonder they’re fighting back BODY LANGUAGE Tania Branigan ‘Hitler has only got one ball, Goering has two but very small. Himmler is very sim’lar, and Goebbels has no balls at all.” When World War II troops sang that ditty, the words were tongue- in-cheek. Sixty […]

Barry Streek and Drew Forrest Twelve public service trade unions representing half-a-million workers declared a dispute with the government on Thursday, claiming departments were pushing ahead with restructuring despite ongoing talks on a framework for such measures. Much depends on these delicate negotiations in the public service bargaining council. The government wants union acceptance of […]

Glenda Daniels Jacqui Brown, CEO of the Civil Society Secretariat of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, has been reinstated. She was controversially suspended by the Rural Services Development Network three weeks ago for poor management. However, an internal inquiry uncovered no wrongdoing. Brown’s suspension had been puzzling to many within the NGO sector but […]

Barry Streek Telkom’s decision to implement an average 5,5% tariff hike for services without the approval of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has raised questions about the ability of “regulators” to effectively police parastatals as they are privatised. Apart from ensuring that state monopolies do not abuse their position, regulatory bodies are government’s […]