Analysis Ewen MacAskill U nited States President George W Bush, who referred initially to the war on terrorism as a “crusade”, would do well to learn from the actions of the Arab warrior, Saladin, rather than the Christian crusaders. In 1099, when the Christian crusaders took Jerusalem, they slaughtered every Muslim and Jew men, women […]
October is dubbed welfare month and this year’s theme is the plight of the elderly. Pule waga Mabe visited a senior citizens’ centre in Soweto Thandisiwe Radebe (65) is still trying to settle down and make friends at the Ephraim Zulu Senior Citizens’ Centre in Soweto. She was admitted to the retirement home about four […]
Nigel Bruce If there is any area of agreement between business and labour in this country it is that the government’s macroeconomic policy, Gear, is not working. The growth, employment and redistribution strategy has produced some favourable and essential financial ratios (such as a low deficit before borrowing) and forced greater efficiencies by removing protection, […]
Mungo Soggot and David Macfarlane Health authorities in Tanzania have not approved controversial tests of an alleged new HIV/Aids treatment that South African researchers are conducting on Tanzanian soldiers. It has also emerged that the coal-based substance, oxihumate-K, that has been administered to HIV-positive Tanzanian soldiers for the past 18 months is used in the […]
You suggest you are “starting to feel sorry” for Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi, for the delayed enactment of the Immigration Bill (September 28). It is probably true to say that no piece of legislation has come under more intense public scrutiny and stonewalling tactics in the history of the new democratic dispensation. While […]
Glenda Daniels Congress of South African Trade Unions affiliates in the public service have accused the government of flouting bargaining procedures by making an improved pay offer to non-Cosatu unions outside the official bargaining forum. As a strike by potentially 500 000 public servants loomed, state officials hotly denied this, accusing Cosatu of having missed […]
Many Americans are blaming new technology for aiding terrorism, writes Duncan Campbell As United States forces converge on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone has not been cut off. But calls to his satphone relayed via an Inmarsat satellite 40 000km over the Indian Ocean are going unanswered. His number 00873 682505331 was disclosed during […]
Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra The HIV/Aids epidemic has taken on “shattering dimensions” and now accounts for one-in-four of all deaths, according to the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) report into the virus that has been suppressed by the government. The report, in the opinion of many the most authoritative of its kind into the effects […]
Trainer Mike de Kock has an exciting filly on his hands in Brazilian import Velvet Green, and even carrying top weight from the worst draw she looks like the one to beat in the R200000 grade 2 Spring Challenge for fillies and mares over 1600m at Gosforth Park on Saturday. Punters who allowed the four-year-old […]
CRICKET Peter Robinson If you hadn’t heard of the Summer Spice Series, fear not: you’re about to hear an awful lot about it over the next few weeks. This is the name dreamed up mainly to cover India’s travels around South Africa for the next two months but which also encompasses Kenya’s visit to this […]