David Macfarlane Former Rhodes University academic Dr Robert Shell has lost his appeal against his summary dismissal in February on a disciplinary charge. Academics are aghast at how Shell has been treated during the two-year saga, and suggest the fallout from the conflict enshrouds not only Shell and Rhodes, but every academic in the country. […]
SOUTH Africa’s longest surviving HIV-positive born child, Nkosi Johnson, has died in his Melville, Johannesburg home. His foster mother, Gail Johnson was at his bedside when he died on Friday morning. Johnson will be remembered as the Aids activist who challenged the government’s Aids policies and united millions of South Africans in the fight against […]
Bruce Whitfield Investec’s chief investment strategist Piet Viljoen makes some astounding observations with regard to world markets. Did you know, for example, that Zimbabwe’s stock market was the world’s top performing market between March last year and March this year? Not only that, but investors in carefully chosen South African shares would have outperformed many […]
Nelson Mandela stopped to shake the hand of a young boy and asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
boys’ movie of the week You gotta laugh. In the press release for Pearl Harbor, the new mega-budget flick about the surprise Japanese attack that destroyed the United States Pacific Fleet in 1941 and brought the US into World War II, there is a profile of producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He is described as “a film-maker […]
Timothy Wood American notes Stocks have likely seen their lows for the year and are showing value again. That’s the view of Morgan Stanley as it tracks the fastest money supply growth in 20 years even faster than the artificial increase engineered for Y2K. The research is startling because it was taken for granted that […]
Barry Streek The government has allocated R40-million to build sport facilities in disadvantaged communities, Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour announced in Parliament this week. This amount, Balfour says, will treble over the next three years. The programme will target all provinces and use labour-intensive methods that will create employment. According to the Department […]
We note that after the Press Ombudsman conveyed my complaint to the Mail & Guardian, the M&G afforded me an opportunity to answer an article in the M&G of April 26 to May 3 2001 under the heading: “Bogoshi still not charged after 10- year fraud investigation”. Before I lodged my complaint with the Press […]
Barry Streek The government this week promised immediate and tough action to promote greater and quicker integration of South African schools. Minister of Education Kader Asmal said the government would, in particular, enforce its “language in education” policy to accelerate integration and it would be examining the composition of teaching bodies. After seven years of […]
Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe stay in regular contact, but the government is also strengthening ties with Zimbabwe’s opposition Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress has adopted a more benevolent attitude towards Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). MDC secretary general Welshman Ncube told the Mail & Guardian this week that […]