Yearly Archives: 2001

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Until November last year, Keith Kunene enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of South Africa’s leading businessmen. He heads one of the country’s largest, multimillion-rand black family empires, the Kunene Brothers. His business achievements have earned him accolades and rave reviews in the country’s glossy magazines. By all accounts, Kunene is […]

There is a growing sense of outrage around the world as the effects of globalisation are felt Ben Turok The international political order is exhibiting a new divide which could replace earlier confrontations. The new divisions are not based on opposing groups of states but on a horizontal division between civil society organisations across the […]

Developing countries in Africa and on other continents will be keeping a close watch on a trial set to start in SA in March Sarah Boseley Across Africa and the developing world millions will die of diseases that are treatable in the West, such as diarrhoea, meningitis, malaria, TB and Aids. The hospitals do what […]

Quills can’t be treated as fact, writes Neil Schaeffer, biographer of the marquis The Marquis de Sade spent almost 30 years of his life in various prisons, and what got him there had almost nothing to do with his writing. His mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil, having offered up her wealthy daughter to obtain De Sade’s […]

Andy Capostagno golf There was a time when driving through Carolina and crossing the border from South Africa into Swaziland was the equivalent of pulling the string on a very large party popper. For years the Royal Swazi Sun was?the venue of the end-of-tour party a party that just happened to have a golf tournament […]

THE World Food Programme (WFP) is on alert to evacuate thousands of people in central Mozambique after the Pungoe river burst its banks, flooding local farming villages. At least 19 people have died in the flooding centred on the central Mozambican provinces of Zambezia, Sofala and Tete. Authorities had warned people at high risk to […]

SOUTH Africa’s Iscor says Australian Ticor, in which it has a 41% share, has approved the acquisition of 40% of Iscor’s heavy minerals operations for R820m. Iscor said the amount would be realised over the next two years. It said 95% of Ticor shareholders approved the deal, adding that as a related party Iscor did […]

THE HIV and Aids infection rate in Cameroon has increased more than 20-fold over the past decade and would most likely rise further, the World Bank said this week. ”The current rate of infection is 11%, which is very high, and we think it will continue to rise,” said Robert Calderisi, the Bank’s country director […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH Africa and other poor countries are being frustrated by pharmaceutical companies’ delays in announcing what price cuts they are prepared to offer on anti-Aids drugs, says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. “We are just wallowing in a sea of uncertainty not knowing what the pharmaceutical companies are offering, and […]