<b>Project Manager: Water Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Environmentek</b>
In matric, Mapule applied to the CSIR for a bursary to do a BSc in biochemistry. She went on to do honours in pharmacology and an MSc in water resources management.
Zanu-PF bigwigs are at loggerheads over the eviction of more than 400 families, including war veterans, from 22 farms they occupied during the land grabs that accompanied Zimbabwe’s last parliamentary elections. Police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena said the people ”illegally settled themselves” on the farms and the government was now ”regularising the land reform”.
For better or worse, come January 2005, South Africa’s higher education landscape will be so altered as to be unrecognisable. Some institutions will have vanished, others will be merged and rebranded, and a new breed of mega-varsities called comprehensives will have been established. Once the mergers are completed next year, what then?
”They [European Muslims] don’t know what terrorism did to Afghanis. They don’t know what Osama [bin Laden] and his buddies did in the destruction of Afghanistan. They don’t know how many mosques were destroyed by these people. They don’t know how many children were killed.” Jean-Jacques Cornish speaks to Afghanistan’s urbane transitional president ahead of this weekend’s elections.
World champions Australia took charge of the first cricket Test against India after battering the hosts with both bat and ball on the second day here on Thursday. Debutant Michael Clarke hit 151 and captain Adam Gilchrist smashed 104 off 109 balls as Australia took their overnight score of 316-5 to 474 before being all out midway through the post-lunch session.
Mindful of the terrible disruptions caused to the Mother of Parliaments (the one in Westminster, not Frene Ginwala) by fox-hunting supporters, and no doubt spurred into action since that old gossip Hogarth pointed out weaknesses, security at our own seat of government has been tightened up. At least that’s the sort of spin that’s likely to be put on events in the visdorpie on Monday.
Debutant Michael Clarke and captain Adam Gilchrist hit sparkling centuries as world champions Australia sent India on a leather hunt in the first cricket Test here on Thursday. The overnight pair batted until the last over of the morning session of the second day to lift the world champions to 423-6 in their first innings by lunch at the Chinnaswamy stadium.
Manchester United, the world’s richest football club, has launched a roadshow in Southeast Asia to find new corporate sponsors, officials said on Thursday. The club’s commercial director, Andy Anson, met executives from electronics companies, airlines and a telecommunications firm founded by the Thai prime minister during the show’s stop in Bangkok.
Bafana Bafana are confident of tearing lesser-known Uganda to pieces during their World Cup qualifying match at Mandela Stadium in Kampala on Sunday. Speaking after Wednesday’s training session at Johannesburg Stadium, South African captain Aaron Mokoena said they were ready to embarrass The Cranes in their own backyard.
Sasol announced on Wednesday that it has increased production at the Etame oil field off the southern coast of Gabon and has discovered two new oil fields nearby. The company said it has increased production in the Etame field from 15 000 to 22 000 barrels a day by completing a new well and finding the two nearby oil fields.