Unisa now needs to act fast if it is not further to insult, degrade and humiliate Professor Margaret Orr and all the women of SA. As the country celebrates Women’s Day, we reveal that Unisa has already been paying some of the legal costs in the sexual harassment and defamation case Orr has brought.
The government’s websites are a source of constant amusement to the manne at the Dorsbult, and a rich source for material for this column. But sometimes the gems are buried. Take a tender announcement from the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology last week.
Arrogance comes naturally to many successful artists. But Vusi Kunene is different. He is modest — some may say even boring — in his mild manner. He proposes the idea that as far as his career goes he is still teething. It’s hard to believe that legions of audiences have been more than attracted to his stage presence.
The Western Cape government this week scuppered a court application that would have transferred responsibility for paying social grants from provinces to the central government. Millions of people receive social grants, which include pensions, disability grants and child support.
Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli will be well aware that the excuses have to stop on Saturday. The former Sharks coach returns to King’s Park for the Test against New Zealand with successive defeats on the road having failed to raise the ire of an unusually understanding public.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi was so late for his presentation ceremony in Manchester last week that it had to be postponed until the following day. He claimed he got stuck in traffic, something his brilliant tactical nous allowed him no chance of doing in the 800m final. His victory was brilliant in its simplicity.
Blanche Moila, who in 1983 became the first black woman athlete to be awarded the original Springbok colours, walked off with the Shoprite Checkers-SABC3 Woman of the year award for sport last week.
Before he’d even kicked a ball in international football, El Hadji Diouf received his first standing ovation.
A higher risk: A Kenyan study has found that HIV-positive men with low CD4 counts are at a higher risk of reinfection with bilharzia. Taken with other evidence, including resistance to reinfection that appears with age and after treatment that kills the flukes that cause bilharzia, researchers argue that a preventive vaccine may be possible. A study from Zimbabwe has failed to confirm previous reports that people with HIV were less likely to shed bilharzia in their urine than people without HIV. Both studies reflect a growing recognition of the importance of interactions between widespread, mostly tropical, diseases and HIV.
South Africa’s journey towards the 2003 world cup starts on Monday in one of cricket’s more exotic outposts, Morocco. It hardly needs to be said that the route to the Wanderers next March 23 will be a tortuous one, nor should anyone be under the illusion that home advantage somehow guarantees South Africa success.