Evolution of Humankind Geophysics building, University of the Witwatersrand August 18 The Institute for the Study of Mankind in Africa is holding a symposium entitled Evolution of Humankind on Saturday August 18. Speakers include Dr Samuel Asala, head of morphological anatomy at Wits; Professor Trefor Jenkins of the department of human genetics at Wits; Kevin […]
In Europe, they call it ethnic cleansing; according to Zimbabwe government apologists, it is settlement of the land question. Whichever view we take on the situation in Zimbabwe, there are facts in common to each. People are being chased off land to which they have legal title because of the colour of their skin. Those […]
Jubie Matlou reviews new telecommunication technology Wireless Telephony Technologies l Second-generation technology: Global System for Mobile Telephony (GSM) current technology for mobile telephony. Based on digital technology with voice and limited text/fax provisions. l Third-generation technology: Basically upgrades a cellphone into a personal computer, compatible with satellite signals that enable a consumer to make or […]
About 98% of the Cape Town Opera choir is black, writes Barry Streek Opera in South Africa, especially in the “racist” Western Cape, has suddenly gone black. In the process, the image of opera as elite, Eurocentric art and entertainment has all but disappeared. Today 98% of the Cape Town Opera choir is black, as […]
President Robert Mugabe’s speech on Saturday made it quite clear that he is becoming increasingly willing to resort to anarchy and violence in order to gain political popularity and retain power. His warning to farmers that they must not retaliate or expect police protection when confronted with violence by axe-wielding mobs of thugs bent on […]
The Zimbabwean army is to be deployed on white-owned farms to “speed up” redistribution of land and to “protect” black settlers from violent farmers, says the government. Land Minister Joseph Made told the state-owned Herald newspaper that the military is being called in because the pace of farm seizures is too slow. Harare is portraying […]
Barry Streek The minister of agriculture and land affairs is to be given sweeping powers to intervene if she believes any new land use application “prejudicially affects the national interest”. The Land Use Management Bill, published recently in the Government Gazette, gives Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza the right to overturn decisions […]
The government says it is working on a strategy to improve the delivery of much-needed systems Barry Streek Minister of Education Kader Asmal has disclosed in Parliament that two-thirds of South African schools (17907 schools) are without adequate sanitation and 11,7% (3188 schools) do not have any sanitation at all. There were 27148 schools in […]
The South African Women’s Arts Festival could have done with a little more humour and less exclusivity Thebe Mabanga It was not so much art with feminine chic but rather art with feminine grit as vain plain Janes, poets and prancers came out to play at the fifth offering of the South African Women’s Arts […]
Paul Kirk From June 1 last year to July 4 this year, 106 police were dismissed from the South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal. Seven of them were convicted of murder. These figures were released last week by the minister of safety and security in response to a question in Parliament about how many police […]