NIGERIA said the devastating toll from malaria and Aids in Africa called for a total writeoff of the continent’s foreign debt to free resources to combat the twin scourges. “The gravity of the malaria problem with all its ramifications, provides a strong case for the forgiveness of all African debts,” Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told […]
MANAGING Director of Boland PKS Riaan Stassen and its financial director Andre du Plessis have resigned, the Business Day reports. Their resignations are being linked to clashes between executives from Boland and from holding company BoE. According to the paper the differences relate to future stategies for Boland PKS and an enquiry by BoE into […]
Heather Hogan LIFESTYLE Weed lovers, now you can legally grow marijuana in your own homes without fear – the virtual kind that is! Slick Software has produced an amazing marijuana-type Tamagoshi package known as HighGrow Legal Marijuana Growing. You have to see it to believe it. You can select three seeds out of 24 options […]
Hip-hop woman What? What? talks about her name and coming home this weekend to roost Ben Joseph A telephone rings in Manhattan. The answer service. Hang up. Try again. A tired, uncharacteristically small voice answers on the second ring. “Hello, this is What? What?” What? What?, who is now calling herself Jean Grae, but was […]
Alan Finlay Benefit and retirement funds for low-income earners – like domestic workers and taxi drivers – are catching on in South Africa. But while a group like Fedsure Life Assurance receives as many as 150 applications a day, others are battling to keep in the running. There are three main players in the industry […]
Blade Nzimande May Day 2000 takes place in the wake of continued job losses and against the background of unprecedented mass mobilisation and action by the workers to defend their jobs. Despite negative and silent coverage by the bosses’ media, the workers’ struggles have focused the attention of the country on the urgency to stem […]
Mercedes Sayagues The government of Zimbabwe has a peculiarly selective way of reading the press. Usually, the Mail & Guardian is lumped among the foreign media engaged in a conspiracy to tarnish Zimbabwe’s image and bring down President Robert Mugabe. The many speeches where Mugabe says so inflame his followers and account no doubt for […]
Mercedes Sayagues Kariba, Tuesday mid-morning: A gang of 35 men kidnaps four supporters of the Zimbabwe opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), from their homes, and one from his office at the public power utility. They are paraded through town and beaten up so badly that one dies on the spot and one aEwhile […]
THE price of petrol is set to increase by 1c per litre on May 3, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Wednesday. In a statement the department said the price of diesel will remain the same, while illuminating paraffin will increase by 3c per litre. The statement said the increase is attributed to […]
STARVING Angolans have been reduced to eating grass and worms in a desperate attempt to survive, according to a report compiled by the United Nations humanitarian office in Angola. The report, due for release in Luanda on Wednesday, describes Angola’s humanitarian situation as alarming, and in certain cases, on the brink of disaster. It is […]