A WOODCUTTER found the torso of a teenage girl in a shallow grave near the town of Atlantis, about 50 km north of Cape Town, police said on Friday. The girl’s head and limbs had been cut off and were still missing, police spokesman Riaan Poole said. Forensic experts estimated the girl died about five […]
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Nelson Mandela ended the 13thInternational Aids Conference by urging delegates to rise above their differences Tim Trengrove-Jones The 13th International Aids Conference began with exasperation and ended in muted hope. The exasperation sprang from the opening address given by President Thabo Mbeki. The hope came from the careful, principled closing address of his predecessor, Nelson […]
Despite equity plans, poorer pupils are still being taught by teachers less qualified than those of their wealthier peers Russell Wildeman When the education landscape was transformed from 19 racially based education departments to nine provincial departments, large inequalities were found between provinces. Redress was initially driven by redistributing funds between provincial education departments and […]
Martin Whiting Gerald Durrell: the Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting (HarperCollins) Douglas Botting, author of three other biographies including that of Gavin Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water), now provides a detailed account of the life of Gerald Durrell – conservationist, educator, writer and champion of endangered species and animals the world over. Best known for […]
sector cannot be avoided Claude van Cuyck Investors may be wary of the TMT (technology, media and telecoms) sector following Nasdaq volatility in the past six months, but it continues to be the fastest growing sector in the world and investors who ignore it will miss out. Sectors geared to the superhighway (TMT and electronics) […]
Neal Collins The very first helmet camera to hit British television screens belonged to Richard Johnson, a Grand National jockey, in 1998. Sadly, Johnson, riding a horse called Banjo, fell at the first fence. Though it was a spectacular crash where we saw turf, fence, sky and turf again, we were given no further glimpses […]
David Le Page The extremely cold weather that has hit the country this week may feel aberrant to most of us, but meteorologists and climate modellers are adamant that it’s nothing unusual. A cold front, or large and unpleasantly cold mass of moist air, moved across the Western Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Preceding it, along […]
Deregulation of the unit trust industry means that the small investor may have to pay more to management companies Sarah Bullen Earlier this year the unit trust industry was given the flexibility to restructure its products into different classes. As part of the deregulation of the industry, the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) and the […]
The recent icy weather has added another danger to the many already faced by circumcision initiates Khadija Magardie Police in the Free State town of Bethlehem have opened a murder docket after three boys attending a circumcision school at nearby Frisgewag farm died of exposure. Temperatures in the area have plummeted during the recent spell […]