Belinda Beresford Holding a telecommunications conference in Nigeria was a fitting act since the country encapsulates the problems and the lure of telecommunications in Africa. Last week’s Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) conference was being held in Africa’s most populous nation and one laden with natural resources. Yet the country’s infrastructure is collapsing. Seventeen companies […]
drums Paul Kirk Rural communities in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands may be slowly poisoning themselves by using metal drums stolen from a highly controversial chemical factory. Thor Chemicals, the plant in Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal, that was the subject of a judicial commission of inquiry after two of its workers died from mercury poisoning, has admitted that […]
Kelwyn Sole SONG TRIALS by Mxolisi Nyezwa (Gecko) For a number of years now, Mxolisi Nyezwa’s poems have appeared in local and international journals, as well as forming part of the 1992 collection Essential Things. In addition, he is editor of one of the most innovative literary journals published at the moment, Kotaz. Nyezwa is […]
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 […]
Four farm labourers claimed at the hearing that they were sacked for joining unions, unproven theft and protesting against being assaulted.
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 […]