receive their rewards Awhopping R700 000 is on offer for organisations which deliver innovative poverty reduction programmes, writes Barry Streek A programme to recognise and reward innovative poverty reduction projects for government delivery programmes with R700 000 to 15 different projects has provoked huge interest from both the government and NGOs. In a rush to […]

FOSSIL remains of two new types of herbivorous dinosaur dating back more than 100-million years have been discovered in Niger, nearly intact. The largest of the two dinosaurs, named Jobaria tiguidensis, unknown until its recent discovery by an international team, is 17 meters long and had spatula-like teeth which enabled it to munch on small […]

If any proof were needed that the SABC’s management and governing board has failed in its duty to the South African public, that was forthcoming during interviews for a new board in Cape Town this week. Reluctantly, both outgoing board chair Professor Paulus Zulu and finance subcommittee members Paul Davis and Litha Nyonyha finally admitted […]

Iden Wetherell As Commonwealth leaders meet in Durban this weekend, relations between Harare and London, which have been plummeting since the election of Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1997, are at a new low. Calls for Zimbabwe to be expelled from the association of former British colonies for human rights abuses are mounting. The two […]

socks Kevin Mitchell It was going to be the last big fight of the century, a chance to bring a hundred years of chaos and unmatchable drama to something of a dignified close. And, before a new outbreak of shenanigans last week, we had every reason to believe that the fighters involved – Lennox Lewis […]

Robyn Hofmeyr was part of a small team which set out to make a film about women in war. They visited four regions: South Africa, Uganda, Israel and Palestine, and Bosnia. These are the survivors’ stories Our journey began in the Nkomanzi district of Mpumalanga where we heard the stories of displaced Mozambican women and […]

Heather Hogan >From the dawn of Christianity there have been accounts of “witches” and “fortune- tellers” being stoned to death or burnt at the stake. At times churches even considered playing cards the devil’s tools and tarot card readers his disciples. Following this week’s launch of the SoulTidings Truth Cards, tarot cards based on the […]

Though fairly new to South Africa, the eco-village concept has been around for about 70 years, reports Jacqui Pile James Shepard is a man with a plan. As an ecologist working at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre in Roodepoort, he has dreams of turning most of the centre’s 18ha of land into a working example of how […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, is likely to oust vice- chancellors at two prominent universities and appoint administrators to run the institutions in line with recommendations contained in a new Bill soon to be finalised by Parliament. According to reliable sources close to Asmal, the universities of the North and […]

Paul Kirk A controversial medication that is a form of legalised dagga has been withdrawn from the market, avoiding a court battle that would have challenged the illegality of dagga in South Africa. Elevat is the trade name for medication that contains the active ingredient dronabinol. Hailed as a wonder drug for the alleviation of […]