Barry Streek The government has saved R45- million in rationalising and reducing the use of energy in some government buildings in Pretoria and Cape Town, says Deputy Minister of Public Works Buyi Nzimande. In some buildings savings of more than 25% of energy costs had been achieved, she said in Parliament during the discussions of […]
Antony Barnett, James Meikle and John Vidal A zoologist has found evidence that genes used to modify crops can jump the species barrier and cause bacteria to mutate. A four-year study by Professor Hans- Hinrich Kaatz found that the alien gene used to modify oilseed rape had transferred to bacteria living in the guts of […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY It is now time to acknowledge that all of us have been guilty of damning the Super 12 champions of the past three years with faint praise. The Crusaders entered all three finals as rank outsiders and then beat the Blues (20-13), the Highlanders (24-19) and now the Brumbies (20-19). By which […]
Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS I’m not too sure where or how the phrase “nothing ventured, nothing gained” originated, but if I met someone now who’d somehow never heard that well-worn saying before, I could probably go some way to convincing him that it was coined for Colleen Orsmond and Helen Fleming. It could well have been […]
Angus Begg Born – October 4 1918, died – April 4 1994, Gregg Simons was one of the Riemvasmakers trucked in 1970, against his will, from his home in the northern Cape to the red and rocky hills of Damaraland in the former South West Africa. As far as family graveyards go, his resting place […]
Connie Selebogo The youth development club in Moutse, Mpumalanga, has developed a new literacy campaign consisting of a computer project on maths and science called Computer Aided Maths Instructions (Cami). However, the project is stalled for a while for lack of computer equipment. A pilot Cami project has been implemented in one of the local […]
Can Tolkien’s classic be read as an allegory about the dark forces of globalisation? Larry Elliot It’s what a generation of superannuated hippies have been waiting for – the big- screen version of The Lord of the Rings. With Sir Ian McKellen as the wizard Gandalf, JRR Tolkien’s epic is being filmed in some of […]
Heather Hogan A Dutch Reformed minister’s son was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Johannesburg High Court this week for the hijack and murder of the bodyguard of Joe Nhlanhla, the former minister of intelligence. Pule Mokoena (26) appeared in court along with three other men, all of whom were facing charges of murder, robbery […]
Glenda Daniels If the newly formed Millennium Council, a bilateral between labour and business, modelled on the successful Irish model, works, it would be great for South Africa. Now all we need is the economic growth that followed the formation of the Irish counterpart. The Irish bilateral, where social dialogue between business and labour yielded […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER The goal was pure Sundowns. Calculated midfield passing, a sudden change of direction and pace, a quality cross and substitute Papi Mbele was in front of his marker like a flash to provide the clinical finish. It arrived after 67 minutes on a crisp, cool midweek evening at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria, […]