KAIZER Chiefs deadlocked 1-1 with Jomo Cosmos in their PSL match at the Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday night. Cosmos’ Mozambican star Manuel “Tico Tico” Bucuane played a stunning game and was the catalyst for a wonderful equaliser in the 71st minute. Chiefs drew first blood in the 42nd minute when Siyabonga Nomvete scored from the […]
SOME 63% of Zimbabweans want a change of government and 65% want President Robert Mugabe to step down, according to an opinion poll released in Harare on Friday. The poll was conducted ahead of parliamentary elections next month by Probe Market Research, which is linked to Gallup International, on behalf of South Africa’s Helen Suzman […]
Aid workers in Sierra Leone are striving to rehabilitate the country’s child soldiers Victoria Brittain Three hundred children spill out across the dusty courtyard, playing ball with homemade bundles, wrestling, running, exuberant. A month ago they were child soldiers with guns and ammunition deep in the bush of Sierra Leone, often wreaking havoc in their […]
John Young CRICKET England’s lack of a Test-class all- rounder has been the subject of more than one article during their tour of South Africa. Andrew Flintoff’s tour ended with his foot in in plaster, so we won’t know for some time whether he has learned enough during this tour to become what England need. […]
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 […]