Andrew Muchineripi The often-criticised South African Football Association (Safa) has finally made a move on the Bafana Bafana coaching front and it could pave the way for a brighter future. Much-maligned coach Trott Moloto takes one step down the ladder to senior assistant coach and Carlos Alberto Parreira or Clemens Westerhof takes charge under the […]
It would take decades and cost billions to map the human genome, they said. Tim Radford tells how it was done Scientists have just finished deciphering the genome – the book of human life. Their DNAblueprint will change everything. The once undreamed-of knowledge has already begun to alter agriculture, forensic science, archaeology, biology and medicine. […]
Casinos are gambling on making a cool R2- billion a year – but they’ve had to go to the ends of the earth to get people there Mary Dover The race is on for five of the six licensed casinos in Gauteng to be complete in all their glory. It’s official: kitsch, glitz and glamour […]
The applications of biotechnology have provoked debate about its ethics. Richard Holloway looks at some of the issues One way to classify people is by the tumbler test: pessimists say it is half empty, optimists half full. In most of the great debates about human nature people place themselves somewhere on the continuum between these […]
SIXTY people were killed when their bus was swept away in floods caused by torrential rains. Police said the bus, travelling from the capital to Harar in the east, was caught in floodwaters near Wollenchiti, 125 km south of Addis Ababa. The bus was carrying 66 people. The bodies of 60, including three children and […]
history Maggie O’Kane in Belfast When Cyril Ramaphosa arrived at his office in Johannesburg at 11.30am on Tuesday June 27, he ended a seven-day journey that took him across the world and into Ireland’s history books. He is a witness to what may finally be the end of 30 years of violence, human loss and […]
Howard Barrell and Barry Streek How do you react to the perception that both parties are ganging up against blacks? That is nothing new. They have been saying that about us and about the DP [Democratic Party] for as long as I can remember. The problem with the ANC [African National Congress] is that they […]
Connie Selebogo Anita Manyike (16) battles to hold a pen firmly to write out her schoolwork. Access to a computer – a government grant from the Department of Communications to her school – could not have come at a better time. For the past six years Manyike’s handwriting has deteriorated as a result of her […]
Peter Eaton NOT THE ART MOVIE OFTHEWEEK ‘It’s an epic. It’s a big, big movie,” claims writer and director Tim Robbins of his Cradle Will Rock. Actually, it’s so huge that it hurts and just doesn’t to know what to do with itself for a its 132-minute length. Purporting to be “a (mostly) true story”, […]
Barry Streek The large-scale firing and retrenchment of workers on Western Cape fruit farms will cause huge damage to rural civil society and to the quality of life in the province but it won’t make the industry productive and internationally competitive, two University of Western Cape (UWC) researchers have concluded. They also dismiss claims that […]