OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Friday 11.20am SOME 40 Libyan soldiers have flown into Uganda — uninvited — in a “premature” bid to impose peace in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a Ugandan minister said on Friday. The Libyan foreign ministry announced on Thursday that “Libyan forces have arrived in Uganda to form the vanguard […]
Mauresmo enters this week’s French Open with her sexuality as much an issue as her tennis, reports Stephen Bierley `They exaggerate. You wonder what they are talking about. Complete bullshit. If I paid attention to everything that has been written since Australia, then I would be hiding in the house. I said everything then, so […]
MILITARY personnel are now allowed to join labour unions, following a Constitutional Court ruling on Wednesday, but this does not give them the right to go on strike. The Court has confirmed a 1998 Pretoria High Court ruling that an Defence Act ban on military personnel belonging to unions is unconstitutional. The South African National […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: THE Sports Ministry mooted legislation on Wednesday enabling it to intervene in sports affairs “when things go wrong”. The Sports and Recreation Department is responsible for promoting sports and recreation, but has no statutory authority to do so. In addition, the duplication of the functions of the department and those of other sports […]
Aids was a topic this week on SAfm’s morning talk show, hosted by Tim Modise. Donald G McNeil Jnr responds to some of the issues raised Dear Tim Modise, Iam the New York Times reporter who wrote the story about chimpanzees that are the source of the Aids virus being shot for the pot in […]
Transforming human tragedy into humorous – or humane – entertainment is a daunting and, some may say, dubious task. It didn’t work when Anne Frank and her family were turned into a musical. But it did when Roberto Benigni took similar anti-Semitic subject matter and turned it into a mass- appeal movie. Perhaps the success […]
Sue Williamson Art Dialogue is yet another initiative which had its germination in the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. (A point worth making to all those with cultural money to allocate who consider biennales a waste of time and money). Ralph Seippel, who shows young international artists in his Cologne gallery, came to Johannesburg for […]
South African banks are trying to cater for two opposite worlds, reports Donna Block South African banking could be called an oxymoron. It’s like two worlds colliding -the rich and the poor, the developed and the undeveloped. The country boasts a world-class banking and financial system, however, the majority of the population remains unbankable. South […]
Mike Metelits I got my first Apple Macintosh back in 1986, when men were men and one megabyte was a staggering amount of RAM. Things have come a long way since then, and ”bigger, faster” has become a mantra in computer circles. No problem. The Macintosh plays the ”bigger, faster” game well, while falling down […]
Howard Barrell The Angolan government is having difficulty finding the money to pay for a large consignment of arms it needs to mount a dry-season counter-offensive against Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebels, according to regional security sources. The government has already postponed the counter-offensive once, and looks like having to do so again because of a […]