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/ 26 November 2000
TANZANIAN President Benjamin Mkapa retained most of his key ministers except the finance minister in a new cabinet unveiled this week. Mkapa, whose Chama Cha Mapinduzi party won last month’s disputed polls, named former 1980s trade minister Basil Mramba the new Minister of Finance, in place of Daniel Yona, who took charge of poverty eradication. […]
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/ 26 November 2000
SOUTH Africa has extended the terms of reference of its investigation into a deal between the state’s oil trading arm, the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), and traders High Beam International and Trafigura. Auditors would investigate any transaction between SFF and any company that participated in the sale of crude oil from SFF’s Ogies mine storage […]
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/ 25 November 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday DOCTORS said on Friday they had found an “abnormality” in the blood of 82-year-old Nelson Mandela, but that it presented no threat to his life. Mandela himself, frail, but beaming, said: “I feel good … I know that I’m not going to die tonight.” Doctors Michael Kew and Michael Plit […]
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/ 25 November 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee says it can find no evidence that white policemen with black-smeared faces and balaclavas took part in the massacre of 45 ANC supporters in Boipatong in 1992, according to a report in Afrikaans daily Beeld. This finding is made in the committee’s report […]
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/ 24 November 2000
One of the first things to be shown on South African television after its inauguration in the mid-Seventies was <i>Charlie’s Angels</i> – the post-Farrah Fawcett-Majors version, though I’m sure I recall that, too, from earlier shorts shown along with home movies. What I definitely do remember is that every opportunity was taken in that programme to get the girls doing karate-style kicks while wearing bikinis.
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/ 24 November 2000
James Meek One hot day in September 1893, at the sound of the starting guns, the rich prairie soil of the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma was darkened by a flowing wave of humanity, horses and wagons. The United States government was giving away 33000km2 of Indian territory to any settler able to race fast enough […]
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/ 24 November 2000
Statistics show an increase in job creation over the past four years, but the real story is not so rosy Jeremy Baskin Perhaps, like me, you thought the economy was shedding jobs. Well, think again and take a close look at the figures in the table below. According to Statistics SA (in statistical release P0317) […]
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/ 24 November 2000
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Ever wondered how much your better half spends on the phone? Or why you are only told and not shown the bill at the end of each month? Easy. Try the telecommunications company’s newest innovation, Telkom online. By dialing 10210 and following a few easy instructions, you can access even your biggest foe’s […]
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/ 24 November 2000
The founding father of African writing in English, he challenged the perspective of colonialist white writers and fell foul of successive regimes in Nigeria. Just turned 70 and living in the US, he returns to his troubled homeland in a new volume of essays. Maya Jaggi reports While Nelson Mandela was serving 27 years in […]
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/ 24 November 2000
If you were in flood-ravaged KwaZulu-Natal or Mozambique this week, you would have seen the effects of global warning first hand. Sea-level rise and more frequent extreme weather are no longer theory but reality. Most climate scientists now agree that human activity is the main cause of global warming. Millions of people across the world […]