Nawaal Deane If you have HIV and cannot afford a private clinic for the treatment of opportunistic diseases, where in Gauteng would you go? Peter Foxcrost, an HIV patient, thought the best place would be Johannesburg hospital, but he was shocked to discover that its HIV clinic is closed to all new patients. The clinic, […]
Letters to the best man Chez Uhuru 228 Musgrave Road iThekwini To: Dr Essop Pahad The Presidency Union Buildings Tshwane Dear Dr Pahad, I was shocked on Sunday night to view, in the security of my own home, a television news report that Tokyo Sexwale has now been appointed as an Honorary Colonel in the […]
About 30 employees have already completed an adult literacy programme at Hilton College and another 32 are attending classes Jubie Matlou Gladys Dlamini (34) is a mother of two and works as a cleaner at Hilton College for Boys, the famous and exclusive private school outside Pietermaritzburg. Her working day starts at 7am and continues […]
Belinda Anderson Inthebag, the Woolworths/ Wooltru joint-venture online shopping portal, aims to be profitable by January 2003 and, according to chief executive officer Jessica Knight, is burning less cash than it had expected to in the first year. By June R66-million will have been spent, about R22-million less than the R88-million it had projected. Wooltru […]
David Beresford Another Country I’ve made an application to Grenoble, France, for the brain operation to deal with my Parkinson’s. Whether I will be accepted, despite being a known admirer of that scourge of Napoleonic France, Lord “‘Oratio” Hornblower, is another matter. I must also confess to a certain anxiety as to whether my schoolboy […]
Charlene Smith crossfire The list of conspirators against President Thabo Mbeki grows ever longer. On Monday I returned home from lending support to a young rape survivor, took out a thick wad of letters from people with HIV in my letter box, and downloaded e-mails to discover that I was leading a right-wing media conspiracy […]
Peter Robinson cricket There_s no getting away from the record: since a hiccup in Nairobi in October, South Africa have swept aside any and all opposition placed before them. Other than achieving a perfect, 100% success rate, very little more could have been asked of, or provided by, Shaun Pollock and his South African team. […]
Ken Gooding The World Gold Council (WGC) can’t be particularly pleased with the findings of the report it commissioned from the London Business School (LBS) on the impact of derivatives on the gold market. For the study flies in the face of perceived wisdom and shows that hedging had only a marginal impact on the […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo In the space of two months, Africa has experienced four soccer tragedies. The latest occurred in Ghana on Wednesday, when more than 130 soccer fans were killed in a stampede at the Accra stadium. Five minutes before the end of the match between Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko, with Hearts leading […]
Glenda Daniels The Commission for Gender Equality has 11 new commissioners who aim to create a new vision for women in the millennium, starting with a national gender summit in August. The new full-time commissioners are theologian Bafana Khumalo, academic Sheila Meintjes, rural expert Nombulelo Siqwana-Ndulo and Gertrude Fester, a Western Cape gender specialist. They […]