human life It all started in the mid-1980s when an excited gleam appeared in the eyes of a number of molecular biologists and biochemists. This was the outward sign of a dream that one day the entire human genome (the 70 to 100 000 genes that add up to a blueprint for a complete human) […]
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 […]
ESKOM and the operators of Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam are seeking international arbitration over a tariff dispute, a spokesman for the operating company said Tuesday. Portugal’s Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), wants to increase a 1988 tariff of two US cents per watt, but Eskom does not agree. HCB insists that the tariff is […]
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 […]
Jon Henderson Rugby Fritz van Heerden, Leicester’s Springbok lock, has taken to English life. He starts each working day with the 10km drive in from Little Stretton, a tiny village to the east of London where he is a regular church-goer. “I like it there very much,” he says. “It’s so quiet and peaceful.” Having […]
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 […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer South African soccer is once again hanging its dirty washing out in public as Bafana Bafana prepare to play Jamaica on Sunday in the final match of a whirlwind Caribbean tour. The problem revolves around the old club- versus-country issue. However, instead of the national association fighting for the release of some […]
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 […]
Ivor Powell If Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has a message for voters outside the political hothouse of KwaZulu-Natal, it was largely lost on the electorate of Reiger Park near Boksburg this week. At the end of proceedings, a youth with a knife scar across his throat, where somebody had evidently tried to slit […]
screen Norman King Oliver Reed began his film acting career through friends he made drinking in pubs, and has died at the age of 61 while out drinking with friends in Valetta, Malta. But while in front of the camera, he was a professional whose distinctive looks and fine speaking voice made him a striking […]