Paul Kagame has been elected leader of Rwanda by an overwhelming majority in Parliament Gregory Mthembu-Salter Major-General Paul Kagame was elected president of Rwanda on Monday by 86 people. Kagame received 81 votes and his rival, secretary general of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Charles Murigande, the remaining five. The electorate was the Cabinet […]

Larry Elliott The timing could not have been better. Everybody, but everybody, from the global financial community was in town for the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and what happens? Shares go crashing on Wall Street. For someone who has long argued that the United States has been […]

they can take it from me’ Chris McGreal Gladman T waited for a week after the first squatters moved in before he fashioned a dozen wooden stakes, walked to a far corner of the farm he has worked on for most of his adult life, and pegged out a claim to a small piece of […]

Khadija Magardie A series of pamphlets on HIV/Aids have been written with specific commercial and industrial sectors in mind. The briefs are the result of a joint project by the University of Natal’s health economics and HIV/Aids research division (Heard) and UNAids. A set of 28, the pamphlets outline projections on the impact that HIV/Aids […]

Mark Espiner Calgary Bay. Fine white sand and clear aquamarine water. A biting wind coming in off the Atlantic. A remote and beautiful spot on Scotland’s western isle of Mull. Isolated. I sat in the car parked up on the beach, looked out to America and read the decaying and rusting sign planted boldly above […]

Dalene Matthee’s new novel deal with the first interracial family at the Cape under the Dutch Jane Rosenthal Dalene Matthee, who is rather smaller than one would expect from the authority and stature of her novels, appeared promptly for a hotel breakfast interview. She applied herself politely and diligently and with increasing eloquence to a […]

In an international scoop, we have obtained the authentic transcript of the telephone conversation between Hansie Cronje and the London bookmaker that resulted in Cronje receiving $8 200 for match “forecasting”. Shan: Hello, Hansie? Shan here, calling from London. Did Joe tell you I’d be calling? Hansie: Hello Shan, nice to meet you. Yes, Joe […]

Neil Thomas What a start to the millennium! Investment professionals’ forecasts have basically been wrong, but unit trust investors who stuck to their own views have largely been well rewarded. So scratch up one point for individual investors, nil for the investment industry. Late last year, among much nervousness about Y2K and an accompanying shift […]

Is Crawford a school for nobs or a great leap forward in progressive education? Nawaal Deane investigates Growing up in government schools – school uniforms, a bleak and boring landscape seen through grimy windows, lunch bought over the fence – doesn’t prepare you for Crawford. Visiting a Crawford College is like landing on another planet. […]

Ebrahim Harvey LEFT FIELD The dramatic mass demonstrations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference in Seattle and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a few months ago, and that which took place last week at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Washington, has starkly spelled out the kind of […]