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/ 5 December 2007
Captain Zakhele Zwane likes to think of himself as an officer who does more than just his job. "It’s the only thing I’ve known for the past 20 years. I didn’t know anything about police work before I joined the force. As far as fighting crime was concerned, I knew I could make a difference," he says.
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/ 5 November 2007
While the United Nations Millennium Development Goals aim to empower women and eradicate poverty, Southern African inheritance practices are having the opposite effect — leaving widows impoverished, maligned and separated from their own children, says a recent study out of Mozambique.
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/ 26 October 2007
In Africa it is sometimes difficult to balance conservation and development adequately. But a conservation programme — described as innovative and science-based with a landscape-level approach to conservation — is showing how these two goals can be reached without one compromising the other. The African Wildlife Foundation’s Heartland Programme includes both conservation and development goals.
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/ 25 October 2007
Taking inspiration from the seasons, Metropolitan Holdings has developed an innovative strategy to battle HIV/Aids at grassroots level. Using the Doyle model — an actuarial tool developed by MD Peter Doyle to project the demographic effect of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa — Metropolitan has created "seasonal" scenarios that predict South Africa’s HIV/Aids future.
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/ 25 October 2007
Three groundbreaking studies by organisations such as the United Nations Global Compact and Goldman Sachs presented this year at the Global Compact Leaders Summit show that an increasing number of business leaders see corporate responsibility as a way to compete successfully and to build trust with stakeholders — and that sustainability front-runners in a range of industries can generate higher stock prices.
Warren Foster speaks to the creators of a new production about the floundering art of physical theatre.
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/ 25 September 2007
A year ago, the Mail & Guardian reported how the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link was raising property values in areas near planned stations. Set to revolutionise how Gautengers travel, the single line transecting major suburbs could get commuters off the roads, and to their destinations much faster.
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/ 11 September 2007
A new report on South Africa’s energy future warns that if the nation does not rethink its development strategy it could herald ruin for local farmers and the poor. It calls for a long, hard look at the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa. The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s South African chapter released its report on the country’s energy future last month.
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/ 23 February 2007
The issue of lesbian and gay Africans’ human rights again came to the fore recently as Anglican Church leaders met in Tanzania amid the continuing row over the consecration of a gay United States bishop in 2003. An ultimatum was sent from the conference in Dar es Salaam to US bishops to make a commitment that same-sex unions would not be blessed.
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/ 3 November 2004
A R10-million provincial cash injection for equipment at the East Rand’s ailing Natalspruit hospital could be too little, too late, Democratic Alliance health spokesperson Jack Bloom said on Wednesday. Blaming provincial inaction for the hospital’s woes, he said prevention would have been better than cure.