Thank you for your letter of 12 May 2001 enclosing ten rand. I would be very happy to see you on Thursday 24 May but I will only be free from 2pm, as we have a parents’ function at the school in the morning. I look forward to meeting you at 2pm on that day.

THE World Bank announced on Wednesday it has granted Niger a $70-million public expenditure adjustment credit with a 40-year maturity date and 10-year grace period. The project will build upon the achievements of previous credits — the Public Finance Reform Credit and the Public Finance Recovery Credit — by continuing to support the governments budgetary […]

Launches, feuds, withdrawals, hi-tech gadgets and future predictions were just some of the highlights David Shapshak A week may be a long time in politics and it can also be a very busy time for the information technology industry. Last week as Africa’s telecommunications came under the spotlight at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecoms […]

The controversial arms procurement chief helped shape the initial arms report, favouring his brother Paul Kirk Chippy Shaik, the suspended Department of Defence procurement chief, was allowed to make significant changes to the September 2000 arms report the auditor general submitted to Parliament. One alteration relating to the contract to supply corvette components clearly served […]

Woolworths Dear Sir, I am utterly alarmed. I sent my wife, Brenda, to the shops this morning to purchase something to go with my tea … when Brenda brought me my tea, I noticed that the snack was a small doughy affair covered in what appeared to be cheese. When I inquired further, she told […]

Barry Streek Despite the Swissair setback, the government is determined to press ahead with the “restructuring” of SAA by acquiring another strategic equity partner or even selling part of it to the public through share offer. But official sources warned this was most unlikely in the near future because of the weak position of the […]

I am pleased that you are finally rid of the pests that bothered you and your family. We have a very difficult time trying to keep these elements from our country but it is an impossible task since we have a border which is more than 7000 kilometres. These people are destroying our young people […]

Glenda Daniels Jacqui Brown, CEO of the Civil Society Secretariat of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, has been reinstated. She was controversially suspended by the Rural Services Development Network three weeks ago for poor management. However, an internal inquiry uncovered no wrongdoing. Brown’s suspension had been puzzling to many within the NGO sector but […]

Richard Evans in Sydney The threat of anti-climax hung over Lleyton Hewitt’s head all last weekend. After the euphoria of becoming the youngest world number one when he beat Patrick Rafter on Friday night, the 20-year-old South Australian was heading for two more matches fraught with danger. Mentally elated but struggling physically, it would have […]

Niki Moore It’s a chance for tourists to get high in Eshowe, and it’s quite legal. In fact, it’s encouraged and cheap. For the cost of R20, anyone can sit in the treetops and watch the birds go by, courtesy of Southern Africa’s first aerial boardwalk in Eshowe’s Dlinza forest. The boardwalk is an elevated […]