So imagine waking up to discover on breakfast television that Jay Naidoo is off on a rally across the African continent with none other than Bobby Brown. Shucks, does this mean that doe-eyed Whitney Houston will be popping up to croon loving words of encouragement to her man at every pit stop between Tunis and […]
Aaron Nicodemus A leading Y2K expert says South Africa’s public hospitals are woefully unprepared for the January 1 2000 computer glitches that may disrupt the flow of medical supplies and cause life-support systems to malfunction. Private hospitals are only doing slightly better, says Mohammed Madhi, CEO of Cyberknowledge Systems and a national expert on Y2K. […]
A 39-year-old Nyanga resident appeared in court on Thursday on firearms charges following an attack on Malizole Diko, the Western Cape secretary of the United Democratic Movement. Diko claimed he was shot at while returning home to the KTC informal settlement after attending a political meeting on Wednesday. He returned fire before reporting the incident […]
people. This is our story’ Last week Charlene Smith was raped and left tied up in her own bathroom. But that was just the beginning of her ordeal. By telling the story of that painful night, she hopes to raise awareness of the way rape `victims’ are treated Every 26 seconds in South Africa a […]
A NEW media award for women has been launched by the Forum for African Women Educationalists of South Africa, for the honouring of women journalists who work to highlight education and development issues for women. It will be called the Fawe Award for Media Excellence. The first award ceremony will be held in Cape Town […]
Once peopled by white males, expeditions to the wild places south of us are increasingly taking on black and female adventurers, writes Charl de Villiers No island, no matter how remote, is immune to South Africa’s “rainbow revolution”. The administrators of the South African National Antarctic Programme (Sanap) have just fielded the first black woman […]
ELEMENTS of separatist rebels in Senegal’s Casamance region have begun disarming, 16 years after a bloody war of independence broke out, the Sud Quotidien newspaper reported in Dakar on Wednesday. The Democratic Movement of Casamance Forces (MFDC), led by Augustin Diamacoune, began disarming as part of a restructuring exercise, the paper said. Hopes for peace […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 6.00pm. DOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Penny Heyns swam her second fastest 200m breaststroke ever in 2:25,84 at the national swimming championships in Durban on Friday, just missing her Olympic and African mark of 2:25,41. Free State’s Ryk Neethling broke the African record in the men’s 100m freestyle, dramatically coming from […]
AFRICAN leaders were to meet in Luanda on Wednesday to review widening wars in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angolan state radio said. The radio quoted senior officials as saying Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and President Sam Nujoma of […]
ANGOLAN authorities are opposed to setting up humanitarian corridors for civilians affected by the civil war, government sources said on Wednesday. The United Nations World Food Programme supports such measures in order to ensure essential food can be distributed. But the government believes the current military situation precludes the setting up of the corridors. The […]