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/ 16 January 2004
Leading psychologists are enraged at the appointment of Saths Cooper, formerly the controversial vice-chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW), to the newly formed board of the psychologists’ council. This took place despite Cooper’s failure to be democratically elected, they say.
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/ 16 January 2004
When the elephants fight, tusk to tusk, it is the grass — the ordinary people — that gets trampled. But where did the elephants get their tusks? In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the elephants now sup at the same table. Since July a government of national unity, agreed during talks at Sun City, reigns over an uneasy, fractional peace.
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/ 16 January 2004
The deaths of two journalists in an attack by an American tank and troops on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad were the result of ”criminal negligence”, for which Washington must bear at least some responsibility, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said on Thursday.
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/ 16 January 2004
The US was accused on Thursday of trying to scupper the World Health Organisation’s guidelines designed to curb the rising epidemic of obesity and disease, which could be damaging to its food and drink corporations.
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/ 16 January 2004
South Africa will have to import up to two million tonnes of maize this year to feed its population, largely as a result of drought, said Bully Botma, chairperson of Grain South Africa. South Africans consume five million tonnes of maize a year. Last year the country produced a surplus of 2,2-million tonnes of the grain.
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/ 16 January 2004
Every time I visit England I’m delighted at how much further English popular taste has degraded. It’s most encouraging to see the “dumbing down” of England is keeping to schedule, that the pandering to what the producers and proprietors no doubt believe is the generalised bog-level intelligence of their viewers, listeners and readers is kept on target.
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/ 16 January 2004
The misfiring West Indians, rattling through South Africa with alternating bangs and splutters, beg the question over what constitutes genuine recovery in cricket. At what point do struggling teams stop chasing their tails and set a course in the right direction? And what ingredients need to be present for that to happen?
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/ 16 January 2004
My point of reference on South Africa’s transformation is the Freedom Charter. I am, of course, aware that as an embodiment of the social, political and philosophical aspirations of South Africa, the Freedom Charter’s entrenchment will be as daunting a task as the defeat of apartheid.
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/ 16 January 2004
As scabby-kneed kids, Calisto Tanzi and Fausto Tonna sat on the same schoolroom bench in the small town of Collecchio, outside Parma. Decades later they were running a booming dairy firm, first dominating the Italian market and eventually building the company into a multinational dairy business, Parmalat.
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/ 16 January 2004
This year is shaping up as the year of prison reform in Swaziland, and Aids is the catalyst. ”It would be wrong to suggest that prisons are inhumane in Swaziland, but there is much room for improvement to make them safe from HIV infection, inmate abuse and other ills that are more or less endemic to African prisons,” said an officer with the Correctional Services.