Charlene Smith and Aaron Nicodemus The company that produced the controversial Aids drug Virodene has conducted more human trials without the approval of the Medicines Control Council (MCC), according to papers filed before the Pretoria High Court. In 1997 the MCC suspended human trials of the drug. The documents reveal that despite no apparent financial […]
Emeka Nwandiko There is something strange about the cars parked outside the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides building at Delta Park. Its occupants dressed in shirt and ties get out and look around furtively before they start walking. Some just sit in their flashy cars and wait. Equally strange are the large black capital letters […]
The Mail & Guardian cleaned up at South Africa’s first Science and Technology Journalism Awards presented in Pretoria last weekend. The newspaper walked off with the overall prize as well as winning both national newspaper categories. The strength of the M&G’s science and technology coverage was demonstrated in the features category, where it provided not […]
NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital […]
A BROOKLYN, Pretoria policeman and a Ugandan doctor were arrested on Thursday night in connection with the smuggling of two elephant tusks. The endangered species protection unit said Inspector Malose Malakomme (32) and Ugandan doctor Oli Kawesi (35) will appear in the Pretoria Regional Court on May 31.
A newspaper report that half of the low- cost houses already built by order of the government are substandard seems to have been inaccurate. Charlene Smith reports Every three minutes and 10 seconds a new Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)house is erected in Gauteng – and the government has enacted tough legislation to ensure that […]
Review of : the week Nicholas Dawes Southern Born is Myer Taub’s first play, and it has the considerable advantages of a strong cast and an experienced director in Mark Graham. Given the parlous condition of serious theatre in the Western Cape, one approaches it with every hope that the script will be strong enough […]
Vanessa Farr : CROSSFIRE I was perplexed and frustrated, not to mention angered, by Cameron Duodu’s ”Viagra’s here, so let the clit be” (March 12 to 18). What a contradictory article this is: ostensibly, Duodu is attempting to express his support for International Women’s Day, an event which, he grudgingly admits, ”does have its serious […]
AUSTRIAN journalist Peter Cvetko was shot dead after his car broke down in Houghton Drive, Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. Cvetko (39) was a temporary resident in South Africa. Police spokesperson Inspector Mark Reynolds said he was on his way home from visiting friends in Hillbrow when the car broke down. He called the Automobile Association […]
A TWO-DAY summit called by the Organisation of African Unity and slated for March 30-31 has been cancelled, Burkina Faso’s presidential office said on Wednesday. Burkina Faso, current holder of the OAU’s rotating presidency, called the summit, which was to have been held in its capital Ougadougou, to “examine initiatives and mediation efforts under way […]