Something very odd is happening on Wall Street. As the Dow Jones powered towards the 11 000 landmark this week, applauded enthusiastically at the closing bell, Nasdaq, home of the glamorous technology and Internet stocks, has been moving in the opposite direction. The two markets are increasingly being decoupled. On some 40% of trading days […]
plastic surgeon The November 20 to 26 edition of the Mail & Guardian carried a column by Angella Johnson headlined “An about-face on plastic surgery”. Plastic surgeon Dr Siegmund Johannes, who was featured in the article, laid a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Ed Linington. This is his judgment. Angella Johnson, who writes a column […]
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 […]
The Ministry of Health says it needs proof of the effectiveness of AZT before it can accept discount offers for the drug. Aaron Nicodemus reports The Ministry of Health has so far refused to accept Glaxo Wellcome’s offer of a reduced price for anti-retroviral drugs, and maintains that there is not enough proof that anti-retroviral […]
The Teacher, a sister publication of the Mail & Guardian, was this week recognised for its coverage of women in education. The monthly newspaper, which goes out free to all schools in the country, scooped one of three prizes in the Forum for African Women Educationalists (Fawe) Media Excellence awards. The judges praised The Teacher […]
NIGERIA’S highest ruling body has approved a new constitution ahead of the May 29 handover to an elected civilian president, a member of the body said late on Tuesday.Major General Abdul Sarki Muktar told reporters in Abuja that the new document was approved by the Provisional Ruling Council after two days of deliberations.The constitution, which […]
THE Auckland Blues appear close to self-destruction ahead of their match with the neutered Northern Bulls. Coach Jed Rowlands denies that his players are rebelling against his tactics and leadership, but reports from New Zealand indicate otherwise. The Herald reported that players met in secret for the third time on Sunday, and called in team […]
SAMUEL Matsoso of Goldfields Striders ran to a resounding victory in the annual Bloem ultra-marathon in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Matsoso clocked four hours, five minutes 26 seconds for the 64km run in ideal weather conditions. Veteran Buti Mochesane (Bloem Achilles), who finished second in 4:21:12, was 15:46 behind the winner. Isaac Moreki (Alberton) filled third […]
SOUTH African James Kingston scored an improbable victory in the Maekyung Daks Open on Sunday after beating Myanmar’s Kyi Hla Han in a sudden-death play-off. Kingston, who also won the Thailand Open last year in extra time, holed a 12-foot birdie putt to defeat Han on the fourth play-off hole, after the diminutive Myanmar golfer […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S development has been “retarded by three generations of land mines”, President Joaquim Chissano said at the opening of a five day conference in Maputo this week of countries that have signed the Ottawa landmine-ban treaty. Chissano said it would take Mozambique 160 years to clear the estimated two million mines strewn across the country. […]