declining Your articles (November 19 to 25) about the problems in tertiary education should have mentioned the declining standards in the quality of people who are being appointed as professors in our universities, and the lack of any professional body that can punish them for misconduct. A case in point occurred recently in Pietermaritzburg. An […]

Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot A Johannesburg-based German businessman recently named in the British press and in local intelligence reports as an arms dealer with pariah states says he is the victim of a plot by old-guard intelligence operatives. Rudolph Heinrich Wollenhaupt says that for several years he has been the target of an orchestrated […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday 6.00pm SOUTH Africa’s current account deficit unexpectedly narrowed in the third quarter of 1999, the Reserve Bank said in its quarterly economic bulletin, released on Thursday. Seasonally adjusted and annualised, the third quarter’s deficit came in at R2,5 billion, from R3,6-billion in the second quarter, revised from an originally reported […]

John Henley BODY LANGUAGE The entrance is discreet, dimly lit. At the foot of a nondescript modern block in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, a door opens. A well-coiffed woman in late middle age inspects the new arrivals: smart casual dress only, and sorry sir, no unaccompanied men tonight. That’ll be R300 a couple, please. […]

While top executives at the SABC attack the media for biased reporting, its own house in not in order, report Ivor Powell, Wally Mbhele and Jubie Matlou New irregularities have come to light involving the SABC managers named in the forensic audit by accounting firm KPMG – the basis for an investigation announced last week […]

SOUTH Africa picked up from a tentative start to beat Lesotho 4-1 in a Cosafa Cup Group A under-20 soccer match at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday. Lesotho took the fight to the South Africans early on and the locals had to defend mightily to avoid conceding a goal early on. The South African […]

AS part of a comprehensive restructuring process, the former Department of Constitutional Development has now been renamed the Department of Provincial and Local Government. The Department, together with its Ministry created in June, will concentrate on key programmes pertaining to the development of provincial and local government and intergovernmental relations. The function “constitutional development” is […]

JACQUES Kallis has again been ruled out of bowling in South Africa’s second Test against England in Port Elizabeth next weekend. Kallis has been ruled out of taking the leather after being advised by Cape Town specialist “Spike” Erasmus that his knee tendon should be rested a while longer. “And we accept that diagnosis,” said […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Sun City | Thursday 1.30pm. WITH South African sport from rugby to cricket being dragged kicking and screaming into the new millennium, the only hangover of the apartheid days is the Million Dollar Challenge. The tournament was created in 1981 as an attempt to popularise Sol Kerzner’s new casino complex, something which it […]

The United States said it supports the appointment of former president Nelson Mandela to be the new mediator in Burundi.