The David Gleason Column The arrival in South Africa of a major North American gold company gives further emphasis to the extraordinary changes which have taken place in this country’s mining industry in the past five years. After months of negotiation, it was announced this week that Vancouver- based Placer Dome, already among the world’s […]

Andrew Hawks Enna Kayopa has never heard of the new drugs that are offering a future for so many Aids patients in Europe and North America. She lives in a village in rural Zambia, in Southern Africa. She will be dead before triple combination therapy is available through the public health care system here. After […]

World Aids day came and went this week with a big show of concern. President Nelson Mandela spoke out about the silence around Aids and everywhere people were wearing red ribbons. There is clearly a new public awareness trail that has been blazed by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. But impressive though the awareness campaign has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.45am. BORDER’s opening batting pair of Brad White and Craig Sugden put their team in the healthy position of 103 without loss at lunch on the opening day of their three day fixture against the West Indies at Buffalo Park in East London. Border earlier won the toss and elected […]

DENIS BARNETT , Sun City | Thursday 9.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN Nick Price, chasing his third million dollar prize here, mastered the blustery conditions to lead the Million Dollar challenge in Sun City by two shots overnight. Price’s first round 67 took him clear of the chasing pack of Mark O’Meara, Justin Leonard, and Bernhard Langer — […]

us) Douglas Rushkoff: ONLINE As millions in America sat down to their Thanksgiving turkey dinners last week, we celebrated a shamelessly mythologised reconstruction of our continent’s history. According to the well-ingrained but now-disputed legend, the pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving was communal in spirit, a demonstration of the debt they owed the native Americans who taught them […]

Andy Capostagno Cricket South Africa’s selectors may be justified in believing that the first and most difficult hurdle has been surmounted. The four-wicket win against the West Indies at the Wanderers will have settled a lot of butterflies in a lot of stomachs. If there was going to be a fast pitch in this series […]

My department and I were disturbed by the leader story in your last week’s edition entitled “Trade Officials Solicit R10 000 for `Free’ Dinner”. The article suggests that some untoward activity and abuse of funds has been practised by DTI officials. Even facts in the story don’t substantiate the allegations. The facts are: l The […]

Peter Dickson Early next year, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty committee will ask a feared ex-security policeman if guns smuggled from Mozambique were used to kill hundreds of people in the Transkei killing fields of Tsolo and Qumbu. TRC spokesperson Vuyani Green said controversial Superintendent Frans “Lappies” Labuschagne, withdrawn from the Robert McBride […]

Ferial Haffajee Veteran journalist Allister Sparks will leave the SABC at the end of December. He announced his departure to staff this week – a move which will leave SABC’s new 24-hour news channel without a leader just two weeks after its launch. Television CEO Molefe Mokgatle on Monday sent a letter to Sparks informing […]