THE strike in Nigeria over recent fuel price increases entered its second day on on Friday, paralysing business activities, as well as international and domestic flights. “Our offices in Lagos are closed and we are not likely to operate on Saturday the Lagos-Nairobi flight. On Tuesday we did not fly into Lagos as scheduled because […]
The Springboks ease into the 2000 rugby season with a Test against Canada and some not-so-new faces in the team Andy Capostagno If we are to believe the coaching staff the Springboks intend to run the Maple Leaf ragged in the opening international of the season at the newly named Waverley Park in East London […]
A new book lifts the lid on a slug-fest involving some of the country’s most distinguished scientists Ellen Bartlett Palaeoanthropology researchers at Wits University – renowned the world over for their scientific work – have become such a fractious bunch internally that the university’s management has had to separate the opposing factions, placing them at […]
Paul Kirk The Pietermaritzburg Regional Court heard sensational evidence this week about the involvement of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) operatives in political violence in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. The head of the NIA in KwaZulu-Natal, Desiree Vasloo, testified after a number of her agents admitted to involvement in irregular activities linked to violence in the Midlands […]
Guy Willoughby REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Andr Stander: policeman, bankrobber, escape artist, master of disguise, mere mortal, potent myth. The man who 20 years ago kept South Africans enthralled with his larger-than-life criminal exploits was all of these – and thus a more than fitting subject for maverick playwright Charles Fourie, whose one-man, multimedia exploration Stander opened […]
From semi-arid regions to thick mists and lush forests, the Soutpansberg area has it all Bridget Hilton-Barber No one can accuse the Soutpansberg of being namby-pamby. Out here, in the north of the Northern Province, the spaces are big, the scenery dramatic and the history suitably torrid. There are still unspoiled wilderness areas, the destinations […]
M-WEB announced major growth exceeding expectations on Thursday, in both its revenue and subscriber base. Year-end saw the subscriber base nearing the landmark quarter-million figure and revenues increased by 96% to R227,3-million. In addition, unique monthly visitors to M-Web owned portals now exceeds 700000 – nearly three times the subscriber base. In line with expectations, […]
Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL Our children’s shoes lived in the car, put on going to school and kicked off on the way home. That changed when we went into exile and walked the frozen earth of London. But in the spring our youngest scandalised the neighbours by running down the street kaalvoet, saying: “I want […]
The government’s attempts to airbrush President Thabo Mbeki’s recent blunders in HIV/Aids policy leave a nasty stain on the political and social canvas. The fact that the president flirted with, or even bought into, the dissident position on HIV/Aids, is his business and his business alone. The fact that he left the marks of his […]
show ‘reform’ Nawaal Deane Sex, gangsters and robberies are the main focus of articles in the Boksburg Progressive Press, with drawings of dismal prison cells reflecting the gloomy life of a prisoner. The newspaper, introduced as a rehabilitation programme in the Department of Correctional Services’s Boksburg prison, may not interest Rupert Murdoch or Tony O’Reilly, […]