Shereen Usdin and Lebo Ramafoko A Second Look Try negotiating safer sex with someone who believes forced sex with your girlfriend is not rape “because she’s yours”. This attitude reflects the daily bread of many adolescents, according to research undertaken by Soul City – the Institute for Health and Development Communication. The research confirms a […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH The Kosovo crisis continues to cause great human suffering. But apart from the human casualties caused by Nato’s saturation bombing of Yugoslavia, there is another seriously injured party. Its name is the United Nations. The countries which are bombing Yugoslavia were almost all involved in drawing up the UN Charter […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube However hard they may be trying, the SABC is finding it difficult to impart a sense of fun and bravery to its election programming. While the elements of sacrilege that do exist are arousing a bit of contention, to date things haven’t gone nearly far enough. Three of the six […]
Mungo Soggot and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Mbhazima Shilowa, the cigar-puffing trade union supremo in line to steer Gauteng into the 21st century, has clocked up a string of debt judgments while sustaining a luxurious lifestyle. Local credit agencies list four judgments in favour of banks against Shilowa for amounts ranging between R18 000 and […]
Two of the world’s fastest-growing industries, cellphones and the Internet, are converging to create a new generation of wireless information devices. Jack Schofield reports Most Internet users would really like a permanent connection to the Net (one that’s “always on”) and they’d like their connection to work at a faster speed than today’s standard 56 […]
niceAnelka Amy Lawrence Sunglasses weather in St Albans. The roof of the sleek, silver convertible is down, and a friendly face waits for him to jump in and burn some rubber on the run into town. He waves casually, flashes a smile, and zooms off to enjoy a sunny afternoon at his leisure. Later that […]
Howard Barrell Six million potential voters – one in four – are excluded from voting on June 2. This leaves the way open for the African National Congress to win a two-thirds majority in Parliament with the support of just more than one-third of potential voters. These stark figures emerge from a study by the […]
HEAVY machinegun and light arms fire resumed in Bissau on Friday morning near the presidential palace and other areas.Weapons had fallen silent overnight after government and rebel forces in Guinea Bissau traded heavy artillery and light arms fire for three hours on Thursday evening breaking a truce of more than three months and endangering a […]
Name: John Sulston Institution: Sanger Centre, Cambridge Field: Mapping the human genome Above the reception desk at the Sanger Centre, John Sulston has installed an electronic display, showing the genes of humanity streaming from the sequencing machines in Sanger’s laboratories to the Medical Research Council’s computers nearby. Look at it for a few minutes and […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MARCELLO RIOS, who was ranked men’s tennis world number one last month, lost his opening match of the German Open 2-6 7-6 6-3 to a resurgent Wayne Ferreira of South Africa. The top-seeded Chilean didn’t go down without a fight, though, hurling himself and his racquet about the court in a most entertaining […]