There is often little connection between the importance of a constitutional decision and the uncertainty of the outcome of the actual case in which the issue is raised. Last year the Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma- controlled Department of Health behaved as expected. It botched up the introduction of the South African Medicines and Medical Devices Regulatory Authority […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER The announcement of a national soccer squad can be a pretty pedestrian act. The “hacks” gather and eye the free food and drink. The coach arrives, flanked by officials, sits down and reads out his list of lucky footballers. Then comes the media interrogation. Why was he chosen? Why was he not […]
CHARLES Mailula, who relinquished his national junior featherweight title earlier this year to pursue International honours, will be fighting for the WBU junior featherweight world title on May 5. If Mailula is successful in taking the title from Carlos Contreras, he could see himself returning to the US to make at least two defences and […]
Ellerines Furnishers have announced that they, along with TV Africa, will be sponsoring boxing tournaments in neighbouring countries; Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Botswana. This follows an initiative by Stan Christodoulou, former Executive Director of the national boxing commission to help develop professional boxing in Africa. The first tournament takes place in Swaziland on April 8. […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH I was extremely upset when I read the report by Anthony Sampson, author of the amazingly brilliant biography of Nelson Mandela, that it had been alleged in a forthcoming book that Mandela “was recruited as an ‘agent of influence’ by British intelligence”. It is also alleged that Mandela visited […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Predictions offered by the oracles of the scientific age, intended for the stupefacation of their contemporaries, are more often quoted to the merriment of their descendants. The thought is prompted by Britain’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) which has been offering its thoughts on the future of crime. They have […]
THE rand clawed its way back to R6,55 to the dollar on Friday afternoon after hitting an 18-month low of R6,58 on Thursday. Economists remain upbeat that the long-term rand forecast looks rosy — most predicting it settling at around R6,30 to the dollar. The rand has been knocked by weakness of the euro against […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I used to admire Warren Beatty, both as an accomplished actor and as a Hollywood “celebrity” a cut above the usual run of plastic idols. I now despise him, the reason being no more than his acceptance speech at last week’s Oscars. We’ve most of us seen quite a few televised Oscar […]
Bennie Visser The notion that the Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape may supersede Kruger National Park as South Africa’s premier reserve is one that very few would take seriously. Yet this is exactly what the powers that be on national level believe to be a very real possibility. They say while Addo will […]
SOUTH Africa will host a global trade union summit next week, which is expected to chart a course for the labour movement. Durban is hosting the 17th World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the world’s largest trade union body. The theme of the April 3-7 congress – which will be […]