TOBACCO giant British American Tobacco SA on Tuesday launched a company website which includes tips on how to “reduce risk levels” of smoking and even quit. Batsa describes the site, with over 500 pages, as South Africa’s “most comprehensive, one-stop-shop on tobacco issues”. The site is part of a Batsa initiative to position itself as […]
JASPREET KINDRA, Johannesburg | Friday FORMER president Nelson Mandela’s apparent zig-zags on HIV/Aids policy stem from his sensitivity to fears in President Thabo Mbeki’s camp that he is out to undermine Mbeki in the run-up to the ruling party’s national conference later this year. This is the assessment of senior party insiders. They were commenting […]
Mail & Guardian reporters Zimbabwe was on a razor-edge on the eve of presidential elections this weekend that promise a violent outcome whether the incumbent Robert Mugabe or opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai emerges victorious. Tension rose as opinion surveys showed majority support for Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, and Mugabe’s government tinkered […]
Sarah Duguid Humans have long known the healing properties of different plant species. From pounding roots and berries into cures, to using plant extracts in powerful pharmaceuticals, we have harnessed the power of nature to our own advantage. We are, some of us neurotically, aware of what we put into our bodies and how we […]
BODY LANGUAGE Catherine Bennett With characteristic determination, Mary Archer has exempted herself from the Orwellian rule to the effect that everyone, at 50, “has the face he deserves”. At the age of 57, Archer would seem to have, instead, the face she has bought. After 36 years as Jeffrey Archer’s helpmeet, an experience that might […]
Andrew Taynton of the Safe Food Coalition refers to NEWSWISEAfrica as the “biotech industry’s media PR company”(Letters, February 15), We do not have one biotechnology client and we are not a “PR company”; we are media liaison agents in greater Africa and we operate as journalists. Farmers’ Monthly is a non-profit endeavour and one of […]
Three lead headlines involving names have coerced this letter: “Big Brother Gatsha, he’s gonna watch ya” (February 22) disgusting at the most; “The muzzling of Madiba” March 1 endearing; “King of cockroaches” [King Goodwill Zwelithini), January 2001 terrible! I note that it has become an acceptable habit for the M&G to “nothingfy” what is of […]
Seventy years after the first two-way radio was fitted in a Chicago police car, a revolutionary new system is linking Cape Town’s emergency services David Shapshak The City of Cape Town last week launched the first digital public radio system in Africa, which seamlessly connects all public safety departments into one secure, high-speed network. Bringing […]
With reference to Andrew Feinstein’s piece on Gavin Woods and the neutralisation of Scopa, “The last rites have been read” (March 1), I have never felt sadder about the state of affairs in South Africa. Thousands of individuals who have tested the party line while diligently applying themselves to rebuilding the social fabric of our […]
Dumisane Lubisi Human rights researchers are appalled at a spate of what appear to be racially motivated killings in Mpumalanga. In February three black men were shot execution-style on rural back roads, another was beaten to death in a suburban street and a third narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed in a mine hostel. […]