Hilary Footitt Suddenly, after September 11, we hear commentators noting with shock that only 10% of the CIA’s Middle Eastern desk could actually speak Arabic. Academics express concern that British expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies is dangerously low and cannot provide us with the sort of guidance we may need to influence the […]
2 Rollout will continue: The govern-ment said it would continue with its roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs in state hospitals regardless of the outcome of the Constitutional Court. The minister of health’s representative, Sibani Mngadi, said the government was not challenging the roll-out of nevirapine, but “the powers of a judge to decide on how government […]
Alex Sudheim 330, 330 Point Road. The hardest, fastest club in the country continues to prove that it still has what it takes to push the pleasure buttons of Durban’s hardcore party freaks and seduce every hedonist in town on a Saturday night. Since it opened in 1988, Durban’s first and perennially foremost rave repository […]
How can higher education policies be shaped to support Nepad, asks Richard A Fehnel Two recent news items cause one to ask whether South African higher education is missing “the big picture” which, from one perspective, is how to deal with the future of Africa. African leaders came to an agreement last year that the […]
In a statement released on April 17 Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon declares that his party has shown “tremendous growth in Alex”, achieving a “substantial increase in support in Alexandra” when their candidate in the by-election managed to obtain 15,2% of the vote, “up from 4,2% in 2000”. What Mr Leon fails to mention is […]
Thabo Mohlala The University of the North West is offering courses in conflict resolution and the preservation of indigenous knowledge systems Conflicts and wars occur with such regularity in Africa that the continent urgently needs innovative methods and mechanisms to improve its chances of stemming a rampant culture of self-annihilation. Angolans have been tearing one […]
New technology may signal the end of computer screens as we know them, writes David Shapshak When Apple boss Steve Jobs introduced the new iMac, which has a built-on flat panel monitor, he used an interesting phrase: “The death of the CRT.” The CRT, or cathode ray tube, is the technology that has powered our […]
Adventure walk. The Great Autumn Adventure Walk will take place at the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden in Poortview, Roodepoort, on May 4 at 8am. Tickets cost R20 for adults and R10 for pensioners and students. Tel: (011) 958 1750 or e-mail: [email protected]. Autumn carnival. A carnival to raise funds for the establishment of a trauma […]
Dr Frank Vreede, a molecular genetics expert, is now in Europe. He is specialising in controlling gene expression by manipulating animal responses to vaccination to optimise immunity. Dr Mandy Bastos, a molecular epidemiologist, specialising in foot and mouth disease. She had played a large part for tracing the origin of the disease. Dr Kelly Brayton, […]
A MANHUNT is underway in sugar cane fields near the Mtunzini toll plaza along the N2 highway in KwaZulu-Natal for a gang of robbers who attacked and robbed a security guard vehicle on Friday morning, police said.