dollar Liesl Gerntholtz and Shireen Motara RIGHT TO REPLY During the past year there has been an intensified debate in the media about rape. Whether this is because rape has reached such proportions that we can no longer ignore it, or because the media has become more responsive to the issue, is not clear. Whatever […]

David Robbins The central premise in the size and shape debate is that the apartheid inheritance has caused distortions in tertiary education that now need correcting. The size of the sector – in student numbers – and the shape of it – the types of institutions it contains, and the proportion of universities to technikons […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLAND’s hopes of making further inroads into the Combined Northerns/Gauteng batting order was halted by bad light at Centurion Park on Friday. Replying to England’s 303, after most of the morning session had been washed out by rain, the Combined XI reached 85 for three when the umpires […]

E-COMMERCE, or buying and selling things over the Internet, has got a boost from Absa Bank, Boland PKS, First National Bank and Nedcor, in alliance with MasterCard and Visa, all of whom have elected to support the Secure Electronic Transaction standard (Set). The standard will allow consumers to make purchases by credit card over the […]

THE Democratic Party on Wednesday won two by-election seats from the National Party in the Eastern Cape. The party won by-elections Middelburg and Ward 5 in Port Elizabeth The DP won 55,2% of the vote in Middelburg and 86,2% in Port Elizabeth’s Ward 5.

THE Democractic Party on Wednesday demanded a meeting with visiting Chinese parliament chairman Li Peng over his country’s human rights record. DP spokesman Colin Eglin said in a statement the party wants to talk to Li about Chinese-occupied Tibet, the country’s crackdown on religious dissidents, as well as progress towards multi-party democracy. Li, China’s second […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. SUNDOWNS increased their Castle Premiership lead to seven points with a 3-1 victory over Jomo Cosmos at Loftus Stadium while traditional rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs faltered in midweek matches. Pirates drew 0-0 with Hellenic at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town while Chiefs slumped to a shock 2-1 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.00pm. THE Tunisian club assault on Africa continues this weekend in Cote d’Ivoire when Club Africain play local side Africa Sports in the first leg of the Cup Winners Cup final. Etoile du Sahel built a one-goal advantage over Moroccan visitors Wydad Casablanca last weekend in the CAF Cup final […]

AN average of 1600 people are killed in road accidents in Tanzania each year, the Tanzania Roads Association said. The TARA chairman Immanuel Kimambo said on Wednesday that an estimated 6400 people have been killed in road accidents during the past four years. Most of the accidents occur due to human error, he said, and […]

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell has declared another force majeure in Nigeria, the seventh in recent months due to unrest in the Niger Delta region, a company official said Thursday. In recent months, amid ethnic clashes in which dozens of people have died, the company has suffered operational stoppages that have forced it to declare force […]