Nearly R20-million changed hands at Limpopo Tourism and Parks Boards’ first game auction at the weekend, according to a statement issued on Monday. The ”catalogue auction” in Polokwane, on Saturday, saw the sale of 3 600 head of antelope from 15 of Limpopo’s 17 provincial parks, raking in R19,5-million.
While most of the efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids seem to focus on education, prevention and provision of anti-retrovirals, the treatment of patients at the end of their lives is often forgotten. Palliative care is a branch of medicine that looks after people who cannot be cured, by focusing on symptom and pain relief. Yet health-care professionals rarely receive training in this capacity.
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and 18 other applicants on Thursday filed an application in the Johannesburg High Court challenging the laws that prevent two people of the same sex from entering into a legally recognised marriage. The Equality Project’s Wendy Isaacks said such acknowledgement is long overdue.
Sitting at home in Cape Town, Rob Louw received a phone call last weekend telling him that Manchester was experiencing a heatwave. But by the time Louw, the manager of South Africa’s Sevens team at the Commonwealth Games, arrived on Monday, normal service had been resumed: it was coming down like stair-rods with thunder and lightning to boot.
RUGBY Andy Capostagno With two weeks to go in the Super Eight section of the Currie Cup there are still seven teams who can make the semifinals. It stretches credulity a little to believe that the seventh-placed Bulls are still in with a chance, but this is the stage of the season when the mathematicians […]
Greer van Zyl Scientists at the largest malaria conference ever held in Africa, which took place in Durban last week, were upbeat about forming alliances to fight malaria on the continent. >From humble beginnings in Dakar two years ago, the Multinational Initiative against Malaria (MIM) has burgeoned into a global movement aimed at controlling the […]
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/ 24 December 1998
Do anthems wear out their appeal and need replacing to suit new conditions? James Ambrose Brown examines South Africa’s three anthems that tell the tale of the century For the English it was God Save the Queen, and Land of Hope and Glory. For the Afrikaners it was Die Stem van Suid Afrika. For the […]
Neil Finn: Try Whistling This (Parlophone) The erstwhile Crowded House/Split Enz singer-songwriter could, as the clich goes, sing the phone book and sound good. His eternally yearning tones set him apart from other melodic late- thirtysomethings – though he also happens to write lovely, inexplicably underrated songs. His first solo effort brims with the usual […]