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South African surgeon Jonathan Kaplan’s experiences around the world have added up to a fascinating book. Jane Rosenthal met him in Cape Town.
This year’s Oppikoppi Tuned festival, from August 9 to 12, is gearing up to be the biggest to date — thousands of music lovers are expected to descend on an unsuspecting Pretoria, writes Valentine Cascarino.
They sound like James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone, but they’re French and they’ll be at Oppikoppi, writes Valentine Cascarino.
SOUTH Africa’s Metorex group has been granted mining rights in Burkina Faso’s Perkoa region, where one of the world’s biggest zinc reserves is located, a government statement said Friday. Minister of Mines Kader Cisse said the group would be allowed mining rights for 15 years, with annual production pegged at 120_000 tons. The project entails […]
AN angry mob has hounded the entire family of a suspected muti-killer from their Northern Province village and threatened to kill anyone who returns. The mob of hundreds of Marishane villagers descended on the suspected murderers Nebo homestead at the weekend after police found the partially gutted body of six-year-old Curtis Puwane in his rondavel […]
THE United Democratic Front (UDF) has, through various functionaries last week confirmed that President Bakili Muluzi will stand as presidential candidate again in 2004 after indicating that he has proved to be the only leader capable of obtaining, for the UDF a successive 3rd term in government. According to UDF Regional Governor for the Centre, […]
TWO seriously ill weathermen were airlifted by helicopter off the remote Marion island early on Sunday to the South African Navy icebreaker the Outeniqua, and are in a stable condition, the SABC reported. The men, one suffering a bleeding stomach ulcer and the other from a heart condition, are not likely to need an operation […]
“FIRST lady” Zanele Mbeki on Sunday proposed a special development fund for women to give the struggle for gender equality more weight. Opening a four-day national gender conference in Johannesburg, Mbeki also suggested the consolidation of the country’s three institutions that deal with gender issues. She said progress in gender equality did not seem to […]
Harare | Monday The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has continued to baffle investors with the key industrial index reaching 50 152.52 points on July 20, an increase of 183,6% since the beginning of the year. It had risen by 245,99% over the past 12 months. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was ranked first among the emerging markets […]