Barry Streek If the fight against rural poverty is to be won, the government has to ensure a “national lifeline tariff” of 50 litres of clean water a person a day, the Rural Development Services Network (RDSN) said this week. Its research has shown that about 40% to 60% of rural people do not have […]
The Motley Fool began as a hoax. Now it is a serious player in investment advice Jamie Doward For a while it was a very successful company. It was the new, new thing and everyone wanted a slice of the action, despite the fact that details of what it did and where it operated were […]
FOUR UN military observers — three Britons and a New Zealander — evaded capture by rebels in Sierra Leone with a daring trek through the jungle. Britain’s defence ministry said Friday the the observers had been working with Kenyan peacekeepers in Makeni when they became aware of the “fairly heavy” presence of rebels from the […]
Children’s books must bear many re-readings Lesley Cowling The words “bedtime story” conjure up a cosy picture: mom or dad cuddled up in bed with little one, both happily absorbed in a book. The reality, of course, is quite different. The child, instead of falling off to sleep after one reading, insists on hearing the […]
Public reaction to sentencing practices has probably had the most significant impact upon the legitimacy of the judiciary. Over the past 12 months we have witnessed considerable dissatisfaction as a result of perceived lenience in the imposition of sentences for rape. For these reasons a comprehensive report authored by leading academic Dirk van Zyl Smit […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Friday 11.30am. CATS fullback Thinus Delport, fresh from a solo demolition of the Blues last week, will be looking for another big performance against the Chiefs in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Delport is currently one of the hot favourites to be selected for the Springboks against Canada and England, and another […]
Jubie Matlou Papi Nkosi (58) cuts a humble figure. He does not mind taking a seat on a concrete slab for a press interview, nor does he hesitate to draw water from a tap with the palm of his hand. Such character and personality contrast sharply with Nkosi’s recently found fortune: exporting 800 tonnes of […]
Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL Looking to a bureaucrat to stimulate entrepreneurial activity is rather like asking a journalist to forget his or her sense of superficiality. It is about as well-directed an expectation as striking to persuade your employer to create more jobs, or calling on millions to hate capitalism in order to attract […]
Julie Flint reports from Sudan’s frontline where hunger is now used as a weapon of war against the ancient Nuba tribe In a few weeks, barring miracles, the children in this region of southern Sudan will begin to die – if not from hunger, then from disease. Most families are living in the open, without […]