Rehana Rossouw DRUG addicts and dirty needles go together like love and marriage used to in the old lyrics but, in Cape Town, where drugs are smoked rather than mainlined, a zealous doctor is using (clean) needles to cure addicts of their curse. In his comfortable Rondebosch acupuncture clinic, Dr Won H Lee launches passionately […]
President Nelson Mandela is considering the early release of former Cabinet minister Pietie du Plessis. It would be a mistake for him to grant it.
Despite being implicated in the cover-up of two police killings, a policeman is still on duty, reports Ann Eveleth A POLICE investigating officer twice implicated in cover- ups protecting colleagues involved in Third Force-style murders in KwaZulu/Natal is now “investigating” crime as a member of the Internal Investigation Unit at Soweto’s Kliptown station. Major Joseph […]
This week’s Orkney mine accident comes on the eve of the report of a judicial commission on mine safety, reports Eddie Koch The accident at the Vaal Reefs Mine near Orkney, which killed up to 100 workers on Wednesday night — the biggest underground disaster in more than a decade — is set to push […]
South African firms will have to go global, but do our=20 company directors understand how to operate across=20 international borders? Jacques Magliolo reports International competition is rapidly becoming a way of life=20 in South Africa; however, the ability of local directors to=20 understand how the new global village will function in the=20 immediate future is […]
Residents of Cape Town’s gangster-ridden communities are making a determined effort to stem the spiral of crime and violence, reports Rehana Rossouw RASHIED and Rashaad Staggie are household names on the Cape Flats. The identical-twin brothers are referred to admiringly as “the untouchables” and “Cape Town’s Kray The Staggies are role models to an estimated […]
# Nature’s own cull more efficient Daphne Sheldrick THERE is mounting public awareness of the nature of elephants. That they are sentient, caring beings comparable emotionally to ourselves is generally accepted. Parallel to humankind in development and lifespan, they have a strong sense of family and are concious of death, and they have a memory […]
International drugmaking companies Eli Lilly of=20 Indianapolis and Glaxo-Wellcome of London announced this=20 week that they have agreed to buy South Africa’s largest=20 private drug benefits manager, Medikredit. =20 Medikredit processes prescriptions for more than half the=20 country’s 190 private health plans and virtually all 3 000=20 retail pharmacies.=20 The acquisition follows Lilly’s purchase of […]
shareholders is a source of disagreement among JSE=20 analysts, reports Jacques Magliolo The reorganisation and unbundling of Johannesburg=20 Consolidated Investments (JCI), which comes into effect on=20 Monday with the splitting of JCI into three new companies,=20 has aroused scepticism among Johannesburg Stock Exchange=20 From=20next week shareholders will own three JCI shares=20 instead of only one. […]
A SERIES of spats between officials of the Northern and Eastern Transvaal governments over who has the right to administer the Bushbuckridge area, a tract of land that straddles the two provinces, could escalate into a mini- border war involving two strong ANC regions. The premiers of each province agreed last year that the territory […]