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/ 9 November 2001
Jaspreet Kindra Men in rural KwaZulu-Natal constantly said they did not need to change their sexual behaviour because “the big man” President Thabo Mbeki believed sex and HIV/Aids were not linked, according to an Anglican bishop. “That is the message that is destroying human lives across this country, and for which President Mbeki is being […]
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/ 9 November 2001
The former head of the presidential investigative unit ‘was offered bribes’ to take the rap Zenzile Khoisan Senior police officials are probing detailed claims of an attempt by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to cover up damaging evidence in the trial of a top policeman and save face for former safety and security minister Sydney […]
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/ 9 November 2001
The Cape summer season gathers momentum with the R125 000 grade 2 Odessa Stud Fillies Championship for three-year-olds over 1 400m at Kenilworth on Saturday, and the scene could be set for settling a couple of old scores. Mike Azzie has engaged Jeff Lloyd to ride his promising filly Bridal Paths and the Highveld-based trainer […]
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/ 9 November 2001
Barry Streek Chaos in the payment of social grants by South Africa’s nine provincial governments resulted in overspending of R570-million in the 1999/2000 financial year and payments of R28,7-million to corpses, salaried people, non-citizens and other illegal beneficiaries. This was disclosed in a report to Parliament by Auditor General Shauket Fakie, based on an audit […]
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/ 9 November 2001
There were 443 exhibitors from 38 countries, including 18 national pavilions 88 South African companies exhibited Exhibition space was 16 567m2 Other participants: 51 government ministers 181 delegates from administrations 36 directors general 24 ambassadors 183 chief executive officers 1 092 forum participants (including speakers) from 101 countries 295 speakers from 81 countries 251 accredited […]
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/ 9 November 2001
The software-maker is facing staunch competition as rivals launch their own e-book programs David Shapshak The recent launch of Windows XP has overshadowed the other tussles in the software world. One of these is the fight for “reading” software that will be key to another technology revolution: the e-book. E-books were all the rage last […]
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/ 9 November 2001
Jubie Matlou “The next Bill Gates will come from Africa.” These were the words of former communications minister Jay Naidoo at the opening of the previous International Telecommunication Union event in South Africa Africa Telecom 1998. An initiative SchoolNetAfrica hopes to achieve that goal by connecting thousands of the continent’s schools to the Internet. SchoolNetAfrica’s […]
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/ 9 November 2001
The gang rape of a nine-month old baby in Upington has thrown a harsh light on two South African realities the extraordinarily high levels of sexual violence and the cruel and perverse nature of much violent crime. Teenage hijackers kill motorists for no discernible reason; housebreakers terrorise and torture hapless residents; and men, often in […]
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/ 9 November 2001
The retirement of legendary lock John Eales leaves the captaincy of the Wallabies in George Gregan’s capable hands, writes Jim White George Gregan has just returned from training, hobbling in behind the rest of the Australian rugby union squad as they troop back to their hotel. Strapped to his right ankle is a complicated arrangement […]
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/ 9 November 2001
An audit this week reveals the gangrene of immorality eating away at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, writes Belinda Beresford Vulnerable and in pain they may be, but patients at the world’s largest hospital have no guarantee they will even have sheets to cover themselves when they finally make it past the chaos of admissions into […]