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/ 9 February 2001
Barry Streek ‘Political tourism” provides huge economic benefits to the Cape Town region and Parliament is worth about R870-million a year to the local economy, according to the chief executive officer of Cape Metropolitan Tourism, Rick Taylor. The presence of Parliament in Cape Town ensures there is a steady flow of political tourism to the […]
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/ 9 February 2001
Belinda Beresford Free anti-fungal drugs widely needed by people with HIV/Aids may be distributed within a few weeks, in line with an agreement signed two months ago by the Department of Health and the donor, drug company Pfizer. The Medicines Control Council has said it will decide next week whether to register the anti-fungal agent […]
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/ 9 February 2001
Jubie Matlou Schmidtsdrift lies in the middle of nowhere, tucked away in thorny acacia bush about 80km south of Kimberley. The route to the tent township, as the area is commonly known, is not signposted, save for roadside signs warning of roaming game kudu, guinea fowl and donkeys. However remote it may be, Schmidtsdrift was […]
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/ 9 February 2001
Suzan Chala South Africa is soon to get its first Aids village the second country after Botswana to provide a space for people with the deadly disease to live out the rest of their lives as productive people. Construction will start this month in Roodepoort outside Johannesburg on land donated to an interdenominational ministry, Sparrow […]
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/ 9 February 2001
David Macfarlane Staff at Vista University, who are withholding their identities for fear of victimisation, have sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Minister of Education Kader Asmal and Parliament’s public accounts committee detailing a horrific history of mismanagement, embezzlement of funds, abuse of power and nepotism at the university. The letter recalls the hopes […]
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/ 9 February 2001
Maureen Freely Body Language Do you ever look at your husband when he’s fast asleep and wish he were someone else? If you answered yes, Laura Doyle, America’s new self-help queen, has some bad news for you. The person you should be blaming is yourself. The biggest mistake you ever made was throwing away your […]
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/ 9 February 2001
A second responsibility of public, or government-funded, universities is research.
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/ 9 February 2001
A PARYS farmer, Chris van Zyl, was this week fined R19 000 for brutally assaulting two Eskom workers by tying them to a motorbike, dragging them around naked, shooting at them and saying, ?I will show you how I will kill kaffirs.? However, magistrate Johan Visagie this week refused to declare Van Zyl unfit to […]
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/ 9 February 2001
A ruling to reinstate workers has stirred debate over the Labour Relations Act Glenda Daniels The controversial Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) arbitration ruling to reinstate 1300 workers who went on an illegal strike a year ago is exposing serious flaws in labour legislation. It also reinforces a disturbing trend in which courts are failing to […]
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/ 9 February 2001
Fiona Macleod South African hunters are allegedly smuggling ivory into the country from Zimbabwe, in an attempt to win credits in hunting trophy competitions. High-ranking members of South Africa’s largest hunting association and one of Zimbabwe’s oldest professional hunting outfits are implicated in the smuggling scam, which allegedly involves the illegal hunting of state-owned elephants […]