Cedric Mason SPIRITLEVEL South Africa suffers from spiritual malnutrition. Flood and drought have sapped physical strength and produced grim pictures of starving bodies and hopeless eyes. Lack of spiritual strength causes the grim picture of crime and corruption, murder and rape, and poverty and violence that is sucking the hope out of our young nation. […]
electro-shock Heather Hogan The proposed new Mental Health Care Bill has one striking omission – it fails to deal with one of the most controversial methods of treatment, electro-shock therapy (ECT). Experts this week were sharply divided on the therapy, which is used extensively in South Africa. Those in favour claim it is a life-saver; […]
solution Khadija Magardie An average of two out of every 10 people in every workplace is likely to be HIV- positive, according to the Department of Health. Projections by Aids management consultants in various industries indicate that in the next 10 years, up to 25% of the population will be infected. The gloomy statistics paint […]
Neil Manthorp CRICKET For those with an unquenchable thirst for one-day cricket, a reliable alarm clock and a subscription to M-Net today represents nirvana. With Hansie Cronje attempting to take the five-match series against India into a deciding fifth game from 5:30am and Gauteng attempting to reach their second final of the season, fans can […]
Robert Kitson RUGBY They seem hazily distant now, those nervous pre-World Cup days when a nation’s rugby hopes lay at the fingertips of faith healer Eileen Drewery. In retrospect England’s scrum- half does seem to have enjoyed a degree of celestial turbo-thrust; sadly for the psychic profession and Kyran Bracken fans the body thrillingly suffused […]
Brian Williams CROSSFIRE In the Mail & Guardian of March 10 to 16, Mxolisi ka-Mankazana presents a thoughtful, reasoned analysis of HIV/Aids in South African and what is to be done. The article raises a number of important questions, many of which can be answered by drawing on the experience of the Mothusimpilo- Carletonville Project. […]
Napoleon’ Ivor Powell A bad time for embattled Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach, the one-time “Napoleon of Africa”, got even worse this week with the issuing of a government decree in the Democratic Republic of Congo summarily revoking Rautenbach’s lucrative mining concessions in the country. Earlier this year, Rautenbach faced the liquidation of his Botswana-based Hyundai […]
A scientist says there is no longer such a thing as a purely natural weather event Mike Hulme With the immediate crisis in Mozambique gradually receding, now is the time to address the question I have been asked most frequently over these past two weeks by journalists, friends and acquaintances and even by my own […]
The must-have accessory is a flashy Web address Martin Clark What’s in a name? On the World Wide Web, perhaps millions of rands. As e-commerce burst into the public consciousness last year, the scramble to establish a Web presence began to reach gold rush proportions. And like shovel sellers who made a fortune from the […]
The Oscars are fast approaching, and the official site at www.oscar.com or www.oscars.com, has all the nominations, while Yahoo! is providing links to further coverage at www.movies.yahoo.com/oscars/. The American Institute of Physics has assembled a fascinating and comprehensive resource worthy of a visit and exploration from anyone interested in our understanding of the nature of […]