WHO IS … PETER DUESBERG Ivor Powell Question: If you were told tomorrow that you were HIV-positive, what would you do? Answer: I wouldn’t get worried about this, not the least bit. The speaker here is German-American scientist Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and doyen of […]

Ebrahim Harvey CROSSFIRE David Hall, director of the Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich, London, and an acknowledged authority on public services, has roundly condemned the iGoli 2002 plan as a “narrow vision and limited world view” in a booklet titled World-class Evidence against iGoli 2002. Has the management of iGoli 2002 and […]

IVOR POWELL, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. THE controversial third cellular licensing process was thrown into jeopardy this week as embattled councillors from the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority failed to reach a consensus to rubber-stamp its earlier decision to recommend the Cell C consortium. In this week’s meetings, two of the five councillors who earlier […]

Foreign governments must decide if they will continue providing help in Mozambique Chris McGreal The lakes of floodwater that consumed whole towns are trickling back into Mozambique’s rivers, but the TV cameras have gone, and with them the international attention that set off the scramble to rescue a drowning people. In the next few weeks […]

Jean Spear Bundu bashing in Sandton. Home of the Big Five: BMWs, Nokias, Nikes, Fendi Bags and ridiculously overpriced Thai cuisine. Not the place you would expect to have an interactive experience with nature, but Gautengers were shown the wild side of the suburbs at a recent demonstration survival day. The well-manicured lawns of Bush […]

THE Financial Services Board has added another 12 investigations to its insider trading list, in an attempt to clamp down on irregular share dealings. According to the Business Day, the FSB has also referred one other case, which involves trades in information technology company Bryant Technologies, for legal action. Trading in the shares of companies […]

Justin Arenstein Ousted Mpumalanga MEC for Local Government and Traffic Fish Mahlalela was axed just hours before he was scheduled to hand evidence implicating senior provincial African National Congress leaders in tender fraud to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. The evidence included documents and audio tapes allegedly proving that ANC provincial treasurer Jerry […]

Marianne Merten Cape Town is hosting South Africa’s first international jazz festival this weekend – entrenching the status of the Mother City as the country’s jazz capital and putting South Africa on the global map of annual events as the only one in the southern hemisphere. The festival is a six-year long dream come true […]

Paul Kirk The rate of HIV/Aids infection in the South African National Defence Force may be as high as 60% to 70% while in at least one military unit, 90% of the troops are infected with the virus. These extraordinary figures, leaked this week, were taken from preliminary HIV testing being conducted by the SANDF. […]

UGANDAN police said on Friday they had held a second person for questioning, following the deaths of close to 800 followers of a doomsday cult. Joseph Ssettuba Ssemande, alias “The Bishop” was arrested on Thursday in Kijjumba village in the southwestern Rakai district, deputy police spokesman John Kimera said. On Thursday, police said that had […]