Marion Edmunds The government is considering taking disciplinary action against an Eastern Cape public health specialist who last year suspended the use of a cheap Korean hepatitis B vaccine in 14 East London clinics because he doubted its efficacy. The head of the department of public health at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, Dr Costa Gazi, said […]
He’s a white Californian with an internationalist musical style. Janet Smith speaks to guitarist Ry Cooder about his Cuban recordings An old man is dressed for the superb Havana afternoon: dazzling white shoes like ice- creams peeking out from his trouser bottoms; shimmering white hat slithered low over his brows. He lifts his hand to […]
“White Witchdoctor” in the hot seat Although his appointment as South Africa’s national soccer team’s full-time coach was greeted with mixed feelings by the football fraternity, Frenchman Philippe Troussier is adamant that he can do a good job. Troussier was appointed last Saturday as the man to succeed Clive Barker and lead Bafana Bafana to […]
Marion Edmunds The mystery surrounding Cape Town gardener Bennet Sibaya’s relationship with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission deepened this week, after he denied providing commission investigators with evidence that he was involved in police “dirty tricks” operations. Sibaya has refuted suggestions, made in a Sunday newspaper, that he told the commission he had been a […]
Dan Atkinson and Larry Elliott When the Iraqi tanks of Saddam Hussein rumbled into Kuwait in August 1990, economic pundits declared that the oil price could hit $60 a barrel within months. Early this week, a barrel of Brent crude was changing hands at less than $16. It was not only oil that was tipped […]
Anglo American and its associated companies are facing a $3-billion lawsuit in the United States after allegations that it “interfered” in a tender already awarded to another mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s fabulously rich copper belt. On Wednesday, the Arkansas-based junior mining company America Mineral Fields (AMF) filed the damages suit against […]
Neil Manthorp : Cricket Mike Rutherford of the music band Mike and the Mechanics wrote a moving tribute to his late father called The Living Years. It became a hit in most of the world, including South Africa. Hansie Cronje, the South African cricket captain, enjoys the song very much indeed and has included the […]
wilderness Nicky Barker Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Kader Asmal applied this week for a court order to evict a community illegally living in a proclaimed wilderness area in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The land in question is the Ntendeka Wilderness Area in Ngome Forest, 5 230ha of mixed coastal forest 70km east of Vryheid. It […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended Friday 1% down amid continuing fears that Asian markets have not yet seen the end of their financial crisis. Dealers said sentiment was bearish, not only in South Africa, but on around the world, as investors are getting to grips with the impact on corporate earnings of the […]
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer After the carefully selected, diplomatically correct words of Clive Barker, new Bafana Bafana coach Jomo Sono has hit the scene like a bolt of lightning from the blue. Sono resembles those gunslingers we worshipped as children at the bioscope. He walks with the same self-belief and is ready to let rip […]