The economic modelling unit is the brains behind the Reserve Bank’s inflation targeting policy David Le Page To each age, its anathema. Idolatry, witchcraft and the plague have been succeeded by inflation and so, deep within the glass monolith of the Reserve Bank and many floors up, we have an economic modelling unit. Theirs is […]
Up to 25-million people are infected with Aids in Africa, according to the United Nations Aids Programme Khadija Magardie The continent with the highest number of people with Aids was chosen to host the 13th International Aids Conference. Altogether, there are now 16 countries in Africa in which more than one-tenth of the adult population […]
Gavin Foster MOTORCYCLING Five-time world motorcycle champion Joey Dunlop was killed during an international race at Tallinn in Estonia last week. The 48-year-old Dunlop died instantly when he slid off the rain-drenched track and hit a tree while leading during the second lap of the 125cc race on his works Honda. Dunlop was untouchable on […]
Margaret Court has no time to practise now she’s preaching Jon Henderson Margaret Court, one of the great Wimbledon campaigners, stepped back on to Centre Court last week for the first time since her playing days. Or, to be more precise, it was the Reverend Margaret Court who returned to the world’s most pampered patch […]
The National Arts Festival faces loss of sponsorship, while several productions on show this year investigate what it means to be male Matthew Krouse Grahamstown could do with a big cracker up its bum. One that’ll send its complacent residents scampering for answers to some pressing questions. The fact that the National Arts Festival appears […]
David Macfarlane Chronic internal conflicts, and destructive and dictatorial management styles, in the national Department of Education could seriously hinder delivery on core features of education provision at school level. The Ministry of Education has been receiving flak on policy grounds, in particular its ditching of Curriculum 2005 following the recommendations of a ministerially appointed […]
Merryman Kunene The resignation of Clemens Westerhof as Zimbabwe coach has by design or accident disrupted the country’s preparation for the World Cup qualifier against South Africa. That’s not to say caretaker coach Meshack Marimo is not up to the task. Problems for the Warriors go deeper than just replacing a temperamental coach. That’s the […]
GERMANY stands accused of allegedly using under-hand tactics to secure hosting the 2006 Soccer World Cup. Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted he knew of the letters some members of Fifa received from the secretary of the German bid team, but had not reported the matter to the police. Blatter was responding to allegations by […]
free’ in the Eastern Cape Peter Dickson The Port Elizabeth metropole, described by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete last month as “the rape capital of South Africa”, is to be the target of a top-level police research project into why less than 10% of the area’s rapists are caught and jailed. >From January […]
Guy Willoughby ‘I saw this medieval woodcut of Adam and Eve at the tree of knowledge. Beneath the tree there’s an ape picking up an apple, a windfall, wanting to eat of the tree as well … Is this inexcusable, or ghastly and bizarre? That is the moment in which our play takes shape.” Basil […]