hard Scotch Tagwireyi South African universities are experiencing a dramatic fall in enrolment, with the viability of some campuses threatened by a drop of almost 30% in student intake between 1998 and 1999. Exceptions to this are the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, both of which claim to have stable enrolment […]

Medical aid is now a right, not a privilege, writes Sharon Gill The new Medical Schemes Act affects every resident in this country. People who have, in the past, been denied membership to medical aid schemes now effectively have access to subsidised health services. One of the objectives of the new legislation was to level […]

TANZANIAN Defence Minister Edgar Majogo left Dar es Salaam on Friday for talks in the Burundian capital Saturday on border security, Radio Tanzania reported in a broadcast monitored in Nairobi. The radio said Majogo was accompanied by top government and military officials. The team is also expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Burundi between […]

Ivor Powell Experts and activists in the fight against HIV/Aids are up in arms over the composition of the government’s new National Aids Council (NAC), unveiled last week to spearhead the fight against the pandemic. The NAC – slotted as a body that will marry efforts by the government and civil society to combat the […]

Michael Kahn Scientific literacy and its place in the curriculum is a topic whose discussion is long overdue. It is thus appropriate to see the attention given to this by the Mail and Guardian (January 14 to 20 2000). What is not clear in the article, SA Students are scientifically illiterate, is what is meant […]

Jubie Matlou The demarcation of municipal boundaries marks the conclusion of a process started during the multi-party Conference for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) talks to transform the system of local government for the country. Before the advent of democracy in 1994, there were about 1E300 municipalities throughout the country. Under the new democratic dispensation […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.30pm. NAMIBIA’S World Boxing Organisation (WBO) junior middleweight world champion Harry Simon finds himself in an enviable position. American television giant HBO and British television channel ShowTime are involved in a tug of war over where Simon’s next defence will take place. Simon is scheduled to meet former world champion […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 1.50pm. CONGO coach David Memy has an unexpected problem ahead of the African Nations Cup Group of Death clash with title favourites Nigeria at Surulere Stadium in Lagos on Friday. He is battling to raise spirits in the Red Devils camp after they came within six minutes of holding star-studded […]

THE SABC has axed the award-winning consumer series Fair Deal. According to SABC spokeswoman Marge Murray, the series, presented by Isabel Jones, has been axed due to sponsorship problems with Absa bank. The show’s producers, Paul Zwick Productions, said however that the SABC decided that the programme does not fit into the new SABC 3 […]