Your article “Draft policy for GM foods” (October 5) implies that we should feel safe about this highly contentious technology as we have a genetically modified organisms (GMO) Act in place. The GMO Act came into effect on December 1 last year. But before these regulations were even in place, at least 20% of the […]

Themba Khumalo Mankosiphethe Ntuntuma is an elderly woman. She does not know her own age. She lives in the impoverished village of Qhaka, a sparsely populated village near Port St Johns, Eastern Cape. She has never been employed. Her life has always been misererable. That was until last Saturday when the Department of Water Affairs […]

Ntuthuko Maphumulo Reigning league champions Orlando Pirates were the first team from the southern tip of Africa to have won the continental champions’ league, and they will get their chance again in the next edition of the competition. Former champions Sundowns are representing South Africa for the third time in a row, but their campaign […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The president of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) has moved the offices of the black business group to the South African Chamber of Commerce (Sacob) headquarters despite claims by senior Nafcoc members that he has been ousted. Last week senior Nafcoc members who are opposed to the organisation’s […]

The best teams in South Africa are through to the Currie Cup semifinals, writes Andy Capostagno At half time in Durban on Saturday Western Province were leading the Sharks 10-9. It was at this point that an interesting conundrum was raised in the press box: should Province throw the game? For if they had beaten […]

David Macfarlane Incensed senior academics at the University of South Africa (Unisa) have now had enough of the shenanigans of their own council and are fighting back. On Thursday they sent an urgent “memorandum of concern” to Minister of Education Kader Asmal, expressing “no confidence” in the council under its present chair, advocate McCaps Motimele. […]

THERE should be strong growth in South African car assembly volumes this year, boosted primarily by growth in export volumes, according to London-based Richard Gane, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global auto industry partner. He said on Wednesday that domestic sales had grown strongly to September but cautioned that “in the mid-term” South Africa’s “fragile economic situation” could be […]

THE Federal government in Nigeria has introduced a special food programme which will cost about N6,2-billion ($45-million) in a bid to tackle a possible food crisis in the country, The Guardian reported this week. The programme was set up following the high cost of staple food and the recently released Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) […]

CHRISTOF MALETSKY, Windhoek | Wednesday THE Namibian government yesterday pumped N$6-million into the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) to avert a strike at the national broadcaster. The board, management and Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) subsequently announced salary increases of between 5,5% and 14% for the 500-odd employees and the looming strike was officially called off. […]