SOUTH Africa is to host the biggest aerospace and defence exhibition ever to be staged in Africa in early September, the SA Air Force said on Friday. SAAF chief Lieutenant-General Roelf Beukes said the show at Waterkloof air base near Pretoria would feature about 250 exhibitors from all over the world. Briefing reporters at the […]
to how the votes will fall Nawaal Deane Voting to decide the host of the 2006 soccer World Cup will take place in three rounds through a process of elimination, with the country receiving the fewest votes falling out of the bidding after each round. All executive members of the Federation of International Football Association […]
The South African cricket team goes to Sri Lanka on its first tour since the Hansie Cronje scandal broke Peter Robinson Not so much the man who would be king as the man who had to be king, Shaun Pollock will carry a fair bit of excess baggage in his coffin when he flies off […]
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The run-up to the International Aids 2000 conference starting in Durban on July 9 has been dogged by controversy Timothy Trengove-Jones If asked to name a single issue that drew into unambiguous focus the most pressing dilemmas facing this country today, one would have to answer HIV/Aids. But, immediately upon giving that answer, one would […]
Steve Whiting CRICKET The “back from the brink” one-wicket win over England at Canterbury last Sunday gave South Africa’s women cricketers more than a glimmer of hope in a five-match series that seemed to be slipping into oblivion after they lost the first two – it also gave them a hope of being taken seriously […]
Howard Barrell The new opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), is likely to win at least one out of every five town council seats in the forthcoming local government elections. It has a realistic chance of taking control of Cape Town and, if the African National Congress has difficulty in getting its vote to the […]
THE UN Security Council debated on Thursday a British proposal to ban trade in diamonds mined from rebel-held areas of Sierra Leone. Diamonds are the major source of revenue for the Revolutionary United Front rebels, who in May took 500 UN peacekeepers hostage. The proposed resolution says that “all states shall take the necessary measures […]
More than 80% of the proposed 17E000ha of the Coega industrial development zone is in private hands Peter Dickson With six months to go before builders begin clearing the land for the proposed R1,6-billion deepwater port at Coega outside Port Elizabeth, one man’s mine stands in the way of the Eastern Cape’s much-vaunted “economic miracle”. […]
Anthropolgists looking at the dawn of the 21st century may surmise that we were schizophrenic: a society that idealised childhood, but demonised problematic, sexualised adolescents. New research suggests that the first dark signs of adolescence – menstrual blood and pubic hair – are now often occurring in children as young as eight or nine. Whither […]