Gerda Dullaart The KwaZulu-Natal Conservation Service this week launched a R1,3-million strategy to combat tuberculosis in buffalo that doesn’t entail killing the animals in order to test them for the disease. The service expressed its concern about the threat of buffalo TBspreading to cattle in neighbouring areas, and from there to humans. For the past […]
Suren Pillay I came to the University of the Western Cape in the late 1980s, at the tail-end of the post-1985 generation of school-leavers. Fresh from this experience, infused with dewy-eyed Marxism, it seemed a natural progression. If an alternative society was being built, then the seeds of it were being nurtured at “the home […]
Magnus Heystek appears to have created an eyebrow-raising conflict of interest in a property deal involving a family trust of which he is a trustee. Mungo Soggot and Belinda Beresford report High-profile financial adviser Magnus Heystek engineered a questionable R1,5-million property deal in which a family trust he oversees bought into land used for his […]
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
THE Democratic Party said on Thursday that party leader Tony Leon does not appear on the voters’ roll released by the Independent Electoral Commission, despite having registered last November. DP spokesperson Jack Bloom accused the IEC of “outrageous inefficiency”. Leon will re-register on Friday morning.
Cathy Jenkins Craig Williamson’s amnesty application hearing ended in Pretoria this week after a marathon seven days of legal argument – with warring lawyers and evasive witnesses making no attempt to reconcile in the spirit intended by Truth and Reconciliation Commission. George Bizos, SC, for the families of Ruth First and Jeanette and Katryn Schoon, […]
The vacuum left by the transition from the old Medicines Control Council to the new regulator is bad news for consumers of complementary medicine. Aaron Nicodemus reports In warehouses, on loading docks and on natural food store shelves, a pitched battle is being fought over dietary supplements, vitamins and herbal remedies. The battle over “complementary […]
Jack Schofield On the Web, pornography is just a misplaced keystroke away. Last week, Brian Milburn, president of California-based Solid Oak Software, said: “Our researchers have discovered thousands of registered domain names that are extremely similar to those of major companies. We call them `typo’ sites.” The increase in such sites was “an alarming trend”, […]
MALI defeated Guinea 4-1 in a play-off match in Ghana on Wednesday to decide which team will join Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia to represent Africa in the World Under-20 football championship in Nigeria in April. Mali’s four goals were all scored in the second half of the match. The first goal came from Amadou […]
Anthony Kunda Zambia’s government has warned Lusaka residents to avoid being on the streets at night and is beefing up its armed forces, following seven bomb blasts in the city this week. The warning came in the face of mounting accusations by the Angolan government of Zambian involvement in gun-running for Jonas Savimbi’s Unita forces […]