Minority opposition parties in the National Assembly have found common ground, despite their differences Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra The oddest of couples on the opposition benches in the National Assembly have emerged as the stars of the first year of the new Parliament that has just come to a close. Politically, Mosibudi Mangena, president […]
Matlou, Connie Selebogo, Barry Streek and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni After having tracked down the whereabouts of prominent apartheid torturers enjoying life after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Mail & Guardian went in search of the former regime’s quislings. They were apartheid’s puppets – the people who ran the nominally independent, corrupt homelands […]
Robert Kirby THE BAYONET FIELD by Peter Wilhelm (Ad Donker) This collection of the short stories of Peter Wilhelm again reveals his extraordinary gifts, both as writer and as intuitive diarist of the human condition. Of Wilhelm’s output of some 70 short stories and novellas, collected here are 20. Set in the past, the present […]
HIV mutates very readily, which means it can rapidly become resistant to drugs, so patients need to be treated with a cocktail of medicines Belinda Beresford People almost never die of HIV, they die from any number of a wide selection of diseases which overwhelm immune systems ravaged by the virus. Thousands of different mutants […]
>From page 22 Moreover, the correlation between human beings eating primates and Aids is poor. As we have noted, Guinea-Bissau has sooty mangabey Aids, but no sooty mangabeys. In northern Congo the pygmies eat primates, but have no HIV. The “natural transfer” theory simply does not deserve the confidence placed in it by most scientists. […]
THE UN Security Council has approved a resolution banning trade in diamonds mined from rebel-held areas of Sierra Leone. Diamonds are the main source of revenue for the Revolutionary United Front, which had taken 500 UN peacekeepers hostage in May. Resolution 1306, proposed by Britain, passed with 14 votes and one abstention from Mali. Exempted […]
GERMANY stands accused of allegedly using under-hand tactics to secure hosting the 2006 Soccer World Cup. Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted he knew of the letters some members of Fifa received from the secretary of the German bid team, but had not reported the matter to the police. Blatter was responding to allegations by […]
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has asked that his paternity test be postponed. Mankahlana was due to undergo a test on Monday to determine whether he is the father of an eight-year-old boy whose mother is claiming child maintenance. Mankahlana said he had other commitments and will now be tested on July 17 at the Nelspruit […]
THE ruling junta in Ivory Coast says it has struck a deal to pay its mutinous soldiers, but would not give details of the agreement. Soldiers who had helped military ruler, General Robert Guei, stage a coup over Christmas, rioted in the streets of Abidjan and other cities, demanding to be paid for their help […]
THE International Monetary Fund will not impose conditions and policies on African countries, the IMF chief has said. IMF managing director Horst Koehler told a news conference at the end of a one-day visit to Mozambique late Thursday that instead it will give priority to dialogue. “The IMF is not here … to lecture, to […]