Paul Kirk A controversial medication that is a form of legalised dagga has been withdrawn from the market, avoiding a court battle that would have challenged the illegality of dagga in South Africa.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 […]

Brenda Atkinson unpicks the curatorial pitfalls in the current Liberated Voices exhibition in New York In an article on an exhibition of new South African ”visual languages” held in Zurich (”Dialogue lost in transit”, September 17 to 22), I wrote that exhibitions which prioritise the national ”identity” of the production they frame ”[touch] sides with […]

KING Mswati III appointed Mbabane lawyer Phesheya Dlamini as Swaziland’s Attorney General on Thursday, with Mzwandile Fakudze as his deputy. The under-secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Noreen Maphalala, has been appointed Auditor General. The Attorney General’s post became vacant two months ago when the contract of Ghanaian Martin Dwamena expired, leaving the government without […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 6.50pm. NEW boys Andrew Flintoff and Chris Adams prevented England suffering another embarrassing batting collapse to steer the tourists into a comfortable position against a Combined Free State/Griqualand West XI. England, put in to bat in good batting conditions, were hopeful their top order would respond by spending useful […]

THE public service commission has warned government to end its system of allowing public servants to accumulate leave over years after public servants accrued vacation leave payment of R11,6-billion in the 1998/99 year. They were paid nearly R1-billion for over-time work during the 1997/98 financial year, Business Day reports that the commission warned that costs […]

AUSTRALIAN gold miner Acacia Resources has formally recommended that its shareholders accept a takeover bid from the world’s largest gold producer, AngloGold. AngloGold has offered 3,5 of its shares for every 100 Acacia shares, a 24% premium to the share price before the bid and a 41% premium on the price before fellow Australian gold […]

AVID hikers can explore six new hiking trails that will be opened to celebrate the festive season in the Kruger National Park. Called the Millenium Trails, the six routes will operate only over Christmas, from December 23 to 26, and over New Year, from December 30 to January 2. Head of the Kruger Park Trails […]

A CONTINGENT of 10 Malawian soldiers left for the Zambian capital of Lusaka on Wednesday to begin training for peace-keeping duties in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Malawian contingent is part of an Organisation of African Unity peace-keeping initiative. Army spokesmen stressed that the Malawian soldiers are merely monitors and will not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00am. JUDGE Willem Heath was named Newsmaker of the Year by the Johannesburg Press Club on Wednesday. Heath’s Special Investigating Uni has recovered over R1,5 billion in state assets and money since it was launched last year by former president Nelson Mandela last year, himself a former recipients of the […]