Reaching out to humanity Matthew Krouse The grooviest album of the week, and at a nice price, is Just My Humanity, a local compilation of tracks from the mythical German !K7 label. This is the first time the label has let out such a range of its finery to an outside agent. In this instance […]
The headline “The ANC’s uncompromising street fighter” (March 28) bears reference. Firstly, it is not true that there are disenfranchised MECs in the African National Congress and that they might appear to be vocal Ndaweni Mahlangu supporters. All MECs and premiers are automatically ex-officio members of the provincial executive committee (PEC). Secondly, one of those […]
As computers become more pervasive, the scenarios of science fiction are not that far-fetched, writes David Shapshak I am typing this article using an innovative new keyboard for my Palm hand-held computer, which has no keys. It is not even of the usual plastic that most keyboards are made from. This ingenious keyboard by Logitech […]
As someone concerned primarily with the rights and welfare of people with disabilities, I nonetheless make it my business to keep abreast of issues of social equity in the broad sense. I have to admit to being deeply concerned by the trends that are emerging from many private and/or state sponsored equity programmes. South Africa […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday A DEFICIT in South Africa’s broad balance of payments (BBOP) over the past few years was the underlying cause of the rand’s sharp depreciation in 2001, the Johannesburg-based commission investigating the currency’s decline heard on Wednesday. Global head of economic research at Goldman Sachs, Jim O’Neill, told the commission that if South […]
ANTHONY MORLAND, Nairobi | Wednesday JUST weeks before they were due to reach asylum in Australia after years of flight, two children related to a slain Rwandan president were murdered in Nairobi last week while in the protection of the UN refugee agency, UN, police and other sources said on Tuesday. The lives of the […]
NIVASHNI NAIR, Johannesburg | Thursday ZIMBABWE, Zambia and Malawi were experiencing a humanitarian crisis and were struggling to survive because of food shortages, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) regional director Judith Lewis said on Thursday. Addressing journalists in Johannesburg on her visit to those three countries and Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland, Lewis said the […]
Pretoria | Friday FOREIGN Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in her capacity as chairwoman of the ministerial meeting of the co-ordinating bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), has called on Israel to withdraw its troops from Palestinian cities. She also said the siege on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat should come to an end. ”The chairwoman stated […]
Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s tortuous trek to telecoms liberalisation took another bad turn on Thursday with reports that President Thabo Mbeki has had to intervene in a battle between the regulator and the government. The Business Day newspaper reported that Mbeki had to step into a standoff between the Department of Communications and the […]
Maputo | Wednesday THE Mozambican army has surrendered its remaining landmine stocks for destruction by the National Demining Commission, in line with an international mine ban treaty, a senior government official said on Wednesday. At least 2 500 mines have already been destroyed, from a total of about 40 000, the head of the commission, […]