Barry Streek The allocation of medical graduates to one year of community service has helped to reduce the shortage of doctors and had a positive impact on the staffing of hospitals, according to Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. She said in reply to a question tabled in the National Council of Provinces by Phillipus Nel […]
Chatsworth police station is the subject of a police internal investigation unit probe Paul Kirk Four policemen from Chatsworth, KwaZulu- Natal, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of beating a destitute deaf mute man to death. The policemen, who remain on duty, allegedly bludgeoned Clive Michael with a variety of blunt […]
Recent guerrilla attacks are affecting the burgeoning tourism industry in northern Namibia Angus Begg Since the killing of three French tourist children and a number of medical aid workers in separate incidents on January 3, the tourist industry in one of Southern Africa’s fastest-growing, exclusive wilderness lodge destinations, Namibia’s Caprivi Strip, has taken a hammering. […]
NETWATCH The world is filling with computers at a rate unmatched by the proliferation of touch typists. Which, along with poor office furniture, Ricoffy and fluorescent lighting, can add to the discomfort of work. If you’re still a keyboard two-finger hunter and pecker, advance your interaction with computers and finally master the keyboard. There are […]
The tragic story of an 11-year-old girl whose leg was mangled by a tractor has spotlighted the use of child labour on South African farms Marianne Merten ‘Sometimes I forget the leg is gone,” says 11-year-old Waronice van Wyk. “I am unhappy, but I’m getting used to it.” She lost half her right leg in […]
Jubie Matlou More than two million South Africans will observe Water Week 2000 next week without adequate access to clean water and sanitation because of the extensive flood damage to water works infrastructure in Mpumalanga, the Northern Province and the North-West. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry estimates the damage to infrastructure to be […]
Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga’s “prince of the dodgy deal” and suspended parks chief, Alan Gray, has been forced to sell his personalised M3 BMW and Land Rover after pleading poverty in the Nelspruit regional court. Gray’s attorney, Pieter Swanepoel, said this week Gray had been forced to “downscale” to a BMW 318i to help pay escalating […]
Members of Lesotho’s government have been implicated in the 1982 cross-border raid that claimed the lives of nine people Jubie Matlou Former police commissioner Johan van der Merwe is claiming personal responsibility for the December 1985 raid into Lesotho which resulted in the massacre of six underground African National Congress operatives and three Lesotho nationals. […]
Ivor Powell Shareholder agreements for the consortium that the South African Telecommunications Authority (Satra) has recommended for the third cellular license could make a mockery of the bid’s claims to promote black empowerment. Analysis of the agreements and founding documentation submitted by the Cell C consortium in support of its bid shows that the bid’s […]
Gregory Mthembu-Salter Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma concluded a four day visit to Burundi on Monday, rounding off a remarkable two weeks of intense South African involvement in efforts to stop this tiny Central African nation’s long-running civil war. The week before Dlamini-Zuma’s visit, former president Nelson Mandela had been in action in Arusha, […]