Carolize Jansen There have been 176E069 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) in the United Kingdom up to the end of last year. The consumption of BSE-infected meat is widely accepted as the cause of a strain of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD), a human brain condition. There have been sporadic outbreaks […]
Brenda Atkinson REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Just three months after finding a home and willing financial midwives, Johannesburg’s inaugural urban culturefest Artichoke got off to an uneven but promising start on Saturday April 8 at the Sandton Civic Gallery. The quarterly cultural event – initiated by dancer/performer Jeannette Ginslov and organised by herself, Kathryn Smith and Bie […]
Sarah Bullen Selling unit trusts and selling chocolate differs only in the product. In both instances there is a product and a company that will make money when the product is purchased. In both instances the product is aggressively marketed to the consumer. And in both instances, buying the product will give the consumer a […]
Shaun de Waal THE ABOMINATION by Paul Golding (Picador) ‘High summer in a sweltering London club, and I’m getting into my drunken stride after midnight, rubbing sweat with the shoulders that pass by, and thinking vaguely about another drink, or about cruising the pissoirs, or about peeling off my vest and closing my eyes and […]
The second-leg match against Lesotho gives coach Trott Moloto a rare chance to experiment with his squad Andrew Muchineripi It might seem odd to suggest Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto faces a difficult mission on Saturday, given that South Africa are two goals ahead of Lesotho and have home advantage entering the second leg of […]
for fun’ Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILLION Hansie Cronje is a driven man. In my experience as coach of his wonderful team for five years, one motivation and one motivation alone drove him. His desire was to take on to the pitch the best South African team regardless of skin colour and win the game […]
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 […]