The government’s reluctance to allow release of the Medical Research Council (MRC) report on Aids deaths in South Africa continues its policy of shooting the messengers rather than supporting the research needed to understand and control the HIV/Aids epidemic. This reluctance has some disturbing wider implications. First, the collection and summary of vital statistics, that […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Thursday BANKS in South Africa last year dismissed 926 of their employee contingent of 120 000 due to fraud, Absa Bank said on Thursday. Enterprise wide risk management general manager Maadian Botha of Absa’s forensic services department, was addressing a group of Durban business people on Thursday on fraud risk management […]

London | Friday FOLLOWING are excerpts from a 20-page file published by the British government that cites evidence against Osama bin Laden over the September 11 terrorist atrocities in the United States. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda – Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organisation with ties to a global network which has been in existence for […]

Washington | Monday THE US and British air strikes are only the opening shot of a sustained military campaign aimed at ousting Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and destroying terror networks operating in the country, US defence officials said. Acting first to seize command of the skies, US and British forces hit airfields, air defence sites and […]

KEVIN O’FLYNN in Moscow, SUZANNE GOLDENBERG in Tel Aviv and OWEN BOWCOTT | Friday A RUSSIAN airliner that exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Black Sea, killing all 78 passengers and crew, may have been brought down accidentally by Ukrainian ground-to-air missiles fired during military exercises, American defence officials suggested yesterday. Ukrainian officials denied […]

Brazzaville | Thursday MORE than 60% of African women are illiterate, and discrimination is the cause, an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) official said on this week. “The discrimination, of which the women are the victims, concerns access to education,” said Julienne Ondziel, rapporteur on women rights for both the OAU and the African Commission […]

Johannesburg | Thursday THE Medical Research Council said on Thursday it will release its long awaited HIV/Aids report — entitled ”The Impact HIV/Aids has on Mortality in South Africa” — in Cape Town next week. MRC representative Merle May said the report would be made public on Tuesday. The MRC delayed the release of the […]

Christchurch | Thursday AN SA born psychiatrist accused of slowly murdering his wife with poison allegedly tried to get his secret mistress involved in her care, the High Court in Christchurch heard on Thursday. Colin Bouwer’s alleged affair with fellow Dunedin psychiatrist Anne Walsh is claimed by the Crown to have been a reason why […]