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 […]

The Ben Trovato Files is a book that refuses to be restrained within the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction. Instead, it ranges across a murky middle ground that, like the author, is not easily identified. These are Unabomber tactics, but here satire has replaced Semtex. Trovato is a conventional maverick who writes in a genre […]

Nawaal Deane Soaring across the sky over the Magaliesberg mountains, the Bateleurs were on a mission to get a bird’s eye-view of the impact of granite mining on these hills. Named after the majestic eagle, “The Bateleurs Flying for the Environment” is a non-earthbound NGO, providing pilots and aircraft to monitor the impact of a […]

Fiona Macleod Anita Roddick, founder of international cosmetics success The Body Shop, challenged the South African government this week to put its lip-gloss where its mouth is when it comes to supplying the country’s energy needs. She plans to make power generated by natural processes such as wind and solar energy as opposed to nuclear […]

There is also strong speculation that the deal will involve a ministerial and deputy ministerial post for the NNP at national level Marianne Merten The Western Cape African National Congress looks set to forego the provincial premiership in exchange for the majority of seats on the provincial cabinet, as part of the co-operation pact with […]

Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress’s membership figures in KwaZulu-Natal are to be audited for a second time this year, amid complaints that the recount is a side-effect of the power struggle between provincial party chairperson S’bu Ndebele and his deputy Zweli Mkhize. “There is such a feeling of distrust everybody is suspicious of each […]

The Treatment Action Campaign is seeking an order that nevirapine must be made available to all state hospitals and clinics Nawaal Deane “We see our wards full … of wasted little infants, struggling to breathe despite oxygen, refusing to feed as swallowing is too painful because of extensive candidiasis, with itchy, uncomfortable skin rashes. These […]