WHEN she was born human cloning seemed only a matter of time. But six years on Dolly is sick and copying humans remains a distant prospect. So is this the end of the road?
The first lesson of the French political crisis provoked by Jean-Marie le Pen’s first-round poll success in the presidential election is that if you treat your politics as farce they can all too easily turn into tragedy
ELEPHANTS in Kenya are under threat from a fresh spate of poaching. They killed the matriarch first, forcing her daughters into a huddle. Then, with two semi-automatic rifles, they picked off each elephant with a single shot to the brain.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was expected to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York, despite a travel ban imposed by the White House that forbids him to enter the US
Ruling Zanu-PF MP and Zimbabwe?s former ambassador to Yugoslavia Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri has forcibly taken control of a tobacco farm in Marondera, near Harare.
Trade union and communist delegates to the weekend "alliance summit" believe they may have won a major concession from the government on economic policy, involving a shift in emphasis from foreign to "inward" investment
ACKNOWLEDGING that your child is turning into a sexual being is, for parents, one of the greatest challenges of adolescence – especially when it seems to come so fast on the heels of childhood
BLACK empowerment must submit to the harsh rules of the market. From the lofty heights of 1998, when BusinessMap described it as a "moving experience", black economic empowerment has attained a tinge of sober pragmatism…
It is a time-honoured South African tradition ? as established as pap and boerewors. Appoint a commission of inquiry in order to seem to be doing something, and then hope the problem will go away.
THE proposed renaming of Northern Province as Limpopo seems to have got the rightwingers of the verrenoord very hot under the collar. When Oom Krisjan received his copy of the Zoutpansberger of February 8, he was surprised to see the extent of the problem facing whites in that region…