Our public health-care sector is decaying as a lack of funding and an exodus of professionals take their toll. Port St Johns is a typical rural town in the Eastern Cape and many of the 60 000 residents rely on public health care.
I cannot believe it. That was the reaction of many people when I told them of the appointment of Chris Stals as one of the six eminent persons who will oversee the crucial African Peer Review Mechanism.
The only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all. President George W Bush seems to be preparing to destroy the WTO at the next world trade talks in September, not because its rules are unjust, but because they are not unjust enough.
They’ve just done another one of those surveys in which men and women are asked how many sexual partners they’ve had. The women, all twentysomethings, confessed to having succumbed to an average — or more properly, mode — of seven lovers.
On reading the searing race debate last week between official opposition leader Tony Leon and President Thabo Mbeki, who rebutted so angrily, I wondered what had become of non-racialism.
The cream of Belgium stand in the way of another Williams show at Wimbledon as defending champion Serena Williams prepares to see off Justine Henin-Hardenne and former winner Venus sets out to end the campaign of Kim Clijsters.
The poor weather affecting the north of England prevented the Standard Bank South African ODI Squad from training in Manchester on Tuesday ahead of Thursday’s NatWest Series match against England at Old Trafford.
Passing Khayelitsha on the right and Delft on the left, it was not an average road trip out of Cape Town’s southern suburbs. It was dark and rain splattered the car windscreen.
Flanker George Smith failed a fitness test on Wednesday and will be
sidelined for Australia’s opening Tri-Nations rugby union international against South Africa at Cape Town.
A year ago Australia’s Ian Thorpe was without question the world’s best swimmer.
With 13 individual world records, eight world titles and three Olympic gold medals he was the biggest thing in the pool.