A NEW drug combination developed in London offers hope to chronic malaria sufferers who have built up immunity to existing treatments, researchers said. It may also prove an effective initial treatment for the mosquito-borne disease that kills up to three million people each year.

Jack Schofield Science has finally solved the problem of the old shoebox in the cupboard under the stairs stuffed with half-forgotten photographs. Now you can put your prize snaps on the Web where friends and family will be able to look at them immediately, no matter where in the world they are. There are already […]

Medical aids are going to have to come to terms with picking up the bills for members’ HIV/Aids treatments, reports Sarah Bullen The medical aid industry by its own admission does not have a proud record of being proactive in addressing the costs of HIV/Aids. With South Africa boasting the highest HIV infection rate in […]

Eddie Webster and Glenn Adler A Second Look There is an increasingly widespread view in business circles and among conservative columnists in the press that trade unions are the main obstacle to job creation, foreign investment and a new growth path. Some even evoke the labour-repressive Chilean or South Korean options to clear the way […]

Fiachra Gibbons Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel laureate, won the Whitbread book of the year award this week when his ancient warrior Beowulf slew the upstart young wizard Harry Potter. It is the fourth year in a row that a poet has won the 22E000 prize. Heaney’s translation of the ancient Anglo- Saxon epic poem […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Boardroom back-stabbings and committee politics are as much a part of sport as scrotal rash and bad feet, so while the country’s “thinking sports fan” ponders whether Hansie Cronje’s team is distracted by the forced resignation of United Cricket Board (UCB) president Ray White, Cronje’s men are “just playing cricket”. Wednesday’s remarkable […]

THE president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has “surprised” bank officials by winning Z$100000 in a promotional draw carried out by Zimbank for its clients. Zimbabwe Banking Corporation (Zimbank) said Mugabe’s name emerged from the promotional draw on Wednesday out of thousands of qualifying account holders who participated in the promotion. “Master of ceremonies Fallot Chawawa […]

Is the death of the NSO the symptom of a deeper malaise in South Africa: the demise of arts and culture? Belinda Beresford reports The death rattle of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) began with the triumphant blast of the national anthem at the start of the second-last performance the orchestra is ever to give. […]

Ivor Powell It was one of those acts of Sod, the unavoidable pitfalls of journalistic deadlines: the day that everything changed in South Africa fell on a Friday, the day of the then Weekly Mail’s publication. So we had to wait another week before The Weekly Mail could respond to the drama that unfolded as […]

Channel vision Last week I was harping on about how television delivers up its little shock tactics. Some crafty incubus waits until the audience is deep in mindless acceptance mode, then slips in a dart so sharp as to horrify. Last Saturday this happened in the middle of an SABC3 news bulletin. The effect was […]