Khadija Magardie Somewhere in an airport storage facility in South Africa a shiny container waits. Inside are six tons of medical supplies, cartons of milk powder and baby formula. Their destination: Iraq, where a humanitarian disaster of horrific proportions continues to spiral, following more than a decade of international sanctions. A recent report by the […]
The duty-free export of quality products from South Africa is expected to create an economic boom in the country Glenda Daniels The watershed African Growth and Opportunities Act (Agoa) passed last year by the United States Congress is about to bear fruit in South Africa, signalling new hope for wealth and prosperity through trade and […]
The latest round of appointments by the Judicial Service Commission in many ways confirms trends set by the commission over the past few years. The commission has made it clear that race is the most important factor determining appointments to the bench, and there is little doubt it has succeeded in making our courts more […]
Martin Gillingham Disgraced Springbok prop Cobus Visagie has apologised to the distributors of a controversial food supplement for blaming it for the positive drugs test that led to his banning from the sport. Soon after the story of Visagie’s drugs failure broke in October last year he blamed the food supplement ZMA and the South […]
A PIONEERING deal between South Africa’s National Botanical Institute (NBI) and a US horticultural company which ?sells off the country?s botanical heritage? will be scrutinised by the environmental department. Environmental Affairs and Tourism Director General Crispian Olver said the department’s legal advisers would re-examine the deal, which allows Ball Horticultural Company of Chicago, Illinois, access […]
PUBLIC Protector Selby Baqwa, Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, Judge Fikile Bam of the Constitutional Court and various senior members of the ANC were privy to a secret meeting at which ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni admitted that he had money in his bank which he could not account for, according to a report […]
Khadija Magardie As the Netherlands Parliament this week became the first in the world to legalise euthanasia the South African government says it has shelved discussion on the subject at least for the time being. The South African Law Commission (SALC) released a report on the subject in mid-1999, but it is currently gathering dust […]
Best-performing South African unit trust, quarter: Futuregrowth Pure Equity, 15,22% (sell-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s winner: Sage Global, 16,23% Best-performing South African unit trust, one year: Liberty Resources R, 55,98% (sell-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s winner: Sage Global, 51,91% Best-performing South African unit trust, three year: Liberty Resources R, 230,7% (buy-sell, income reinvested) Last quarter’s […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION The tyranny of television stations can and may soon be “tamed”, to use the expression of a commentator in the New York Times. Cracking the metaphorical whip will be a new piece of technology, a telly-top box already in production in the United States and the United Kingdom. It’s called a digital […]
Funeral pyres, decomposing corpses, conspiracy theories, xenophobia: the similarities between the plagues of medieval Europe and Britain’s current foot and mouth epidemic are marked, writes John Vidal Each day, many thousands died. The land was empty, the villages were silent. Fires smouldered for weeks, the acrid palls of smoke drifting over the hills and valleys. […]