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/ 25 February 2004
Three critical pieces of health legislation are about to be signed into law or are being drafted for future legislation. These are the regulations relating to a transparent pricing system for medicines and scheduled substances, social health insurance and the certificate of need.
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/ 25 February 2004
When Lodi Gyari Rinpoche set foot on South African soil earlier this month as a delegate to the third World Conference on Democracy in Durban, he must have been struck by the historical parallels between this southern corner of Africa and his faraway spiritual home. This special envoy of the Dalai Lama believes South Africa has a moral responsibility to speak out against the situation in Tibet.
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/ 25 February 2004
Last August when President Thabo Mbeki visited what his imbizo programme called a "land reform project" in Ceres, he was perhaps unaware of the Deo Volenti farm’s looming ruin and tattered relations between farm workers, shareholders and the trust’s chairperson. But without enough seed, equipment or support,
a land reform dream in the Ceres Valley has become a nightmare.
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/ 25 February 2004
The growth of information technology, however, that has been identified as possibly the biggest factor behind the 419 email scams’ expansion. It’s estimated that the public is duped into sending them hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with the United States and Western Europe worst affected. But despite these efforts, it appears the scam is going from strength to strength.
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/ 25 February 2004
In the first three months of the United Nations’s 2003 Iraq appeal, donor governments raised nearly $2-billion — $74 for every person in the country. In comparison, the Democratic Republic of Congo — where an estimated three million people have lost their lives in years of conflict — has received only $17 a person.
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/ 25 February 2004
Grace Matnanga is a happy woman. She is about as poor as you can be, earning the equivalent of R75 a month selling shoes from a tiny market stall. In the past year something fundamental has changed. One doctor’s act of kindness has led
to a lifeline for the HIV-positive in stricken Malawi.
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/ 25 February 2004
Perhaps you thought there could be nothing new in affairs of the heart. Think again. ”Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love.” So declares Aaron Ben-Ze’ev in Love Online: Emotions on the Internet,a study of online amorousness published on Valentine’s Day.
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/ 25 February 2004
Trainer Benny Pailman confirmed on Wednesday that his charge Baldwin Tshiakale had lodged a formal challenge with Boxing South Africa to fight Earl Morais. If approved the two will be meeting for the second time after having met at the Wembley Arena, south of Johannesburg, in August last year.
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/ 25 February 2004
Jacques Rudolph and Nicky Boje fired up South Africa in polar conditions in Dunedin, New Zealand, on Wednesday as the tourists posted 259 for seven in
the fourth one-day international against New Zealand.
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/ 25 February 2004
Jacques Rudolph and Nicky Boje fired up South Africa in polar conditions on Wednesday as the tourists posted 259 for seven in the fourth one-day international against New Zealand in Dunedin.