PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki added his voice on Friday to calls for a restoration of democracy in Côte d’Ivoire. “We are very happy to follow the leadership of Ecowas (the Economic Community of West African States) on this isuse in support of the process towards the democratisation of Cote d’Ivoire,” Mbeki said in Pretoria after meeting […]
AFRICAN Wanderers found themselves on the receiving end of a 4-1 drubbing as Bush Bucks found some relief from a dogged battle with relegation at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Wednesday. Bucks were in no mood to fool about and attacked from the word go — scoring their first goal through Wilfred Mugeyi in […]
Fiona Macleod An elderly woman who long ago mastered the intricate art of a crochet needle struggles to come to terms with using a pen. Gently she is coached to hold it in her right hand and draw lines on a clean sheet of paper. Beside her a middle-aged woman is engrossed in sketching a […]
John Matshikiza ‘We go anywhere in South Africa where there is a railway line,” says Lynette Coetzee, senior manager of Transnet’s Phelophepa health-care train project. “In fact, we sometimes even go where there is no railway line. One time, when we were going to Qamata [in the Eastern Cape] it turned out that the line […]
Jaspreet Kindra and Sapa Afrikaner Weerstands- beweging (AWB) leader Eugene Terre’Blanche arrived at the Potchefstroom Regional Court on Thursday, dressed in black denim pants, a black shirt and a khaki hat. He sat in front of the court building on the horse, waving at the crowd. He shook hands with black people in the crowd. […]
Thousands of taxi commuters were stranded on the East Rand on Friday, following a seven days suspension of the Faraday Taxi Association’s licence by the government. The suspension is due to complaints received by Gauteng transport MEC Khabisi Mosonkutu of tension amongst taxi operators and the ill-treatment of communters. Buses are reported to be fuller […]
Ivor Powell The controversial third cellular licensing process was thrown into jeopardy this week as embattled councillors from the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra)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 reached a “unanimous” decision […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY The Super 12 reaches the halfway point this weekend with all four South African teams occupying the bottom half of the log. Thus far the thrilling rugby has come from the Hurricanes, Highlanders and Brumbies, while the Crusaders, champions of the past two years, have been ultra-professional and, at this distance at […]
THE Nigerian health minister said on Thursday that the government has increased almost by threefold its budget on verification of HIV/Aids cure claims, moving it from $2,8-million to $7,8-million. The decision to increase the budget is based on the recommendation of the World Bank and UNAIDS. The minister, however, said that all recent local claims […]
Paul Kirk and Jaspreet Kindra The National Intelligence Agency official responsible for recruiting Sifiso Nkabinde’s killer, Bruce Mhlongo, into the intelligence fold is Andre Pruis, a senior operative who works from the agency’s offices in Pietermaritzburg. This is one of several details of Mhlongo’s relationship with NIA that the Mail & Guardian established this week […]