PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has reached an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with the disgruntled mother of one of his two alleged children. His attorney, Moroampholo Tsoka, said on Monday that EC Wallace had promised to withdrawn her Nelspruit Maintenance Court suit after Mankahlana agreed to increase his R300 per month contribution towards their child. Mankahlana would […]
THE 19-year-old son of a Lynnwood Glen, Pretoria, couple charged with the murder of his parents and brother, was on Monday referred for 30 days psychiatric observation at the Weskoppies hospital by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Karl Gustav Greyvenstein was not asked to plead when he appeared briefly before Magistrate C Khoza. He will appear […]
THE expected big influx of additional crude supplies from Saudi Arabia and other leading producers pushed prices down some 8% in the last two days. Intermediate crude for August delivery fell 68 cents to US$ 29.99 a barrel and a major plunge in price is expected early next week if the Saudis do raise daily […]
NEW Zealand Soccer (NZS) will apologise for Charlie Dempsey’s failure to vote in the deciding ballot for the 2006 World Cup, with a ”special” apology for South Africa. ”We will write, today, to all countries associated with FIFA, explaining New Zealand Soccer’s position because I think New Zealand Soccer’s taken too much of the brunt […]
An operation to separate a pair of eight-month-old conjoined Tanzanian twins is to be performed at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital this week, the hospital said on Monday. Hospital spokeswoman Diana Ross said the operation on Stella and Esther Alphonce had been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday but this date still had to be confirmed. This […]
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 […]
HIV mutates very readily, which means it can rapidly become resistant to drugs, so patients need to be treated with a cocktail of medicines Belinda Beresford People almost never die of HIV, they die from any number of a wide selection of diseases which overwhelm immune systems ravaged by the virus. Thousands of different mutants […]
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 […]