ANDY COLUHOUN, Cape Town | Saturday 4.00pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett says rugby should introduce two referees to marshall a sport that he believes is becoming increasingly difficult to handle. Mallett outlined his idea at a news conference on Saturday to unveil South Africa’s plans for the defence of their World Cup title in Europe […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Boys may be about to lose the battle of the sexes, even in cyberspace. Up to now, evidence has mounted that boys are slipping behind girls in basic literacy, but show a natural talent with computers. However, academics at the Open, Bournemouth and Hertfordshire universities, Britain, who studied the way 120 […]
ABOUT 25000 civil servants are redundant, Public Service and Administration director-general Paseka Ncholo said on Wednesday. These officials will be retrained to be employed either in the private sector or elsewhere in the public service, he told reporters after the cabinet’s fortnightly meeting in Pretoria. He said a skills audit of the public service in […]
A REGIONAL leader of the National Union of Mineworkers in Carletonville was killed on Thursday by a group of miners in the town. SABC Radio News reported that Selby Mayisha was addressing about a thousand mineworkers at the West Driefontein mine about benefit payments. He suggested that they opt for benefit payment over a period […]
The David Gleason Column Gold, the precious metal most commonly associated with South Africa, is in the way of taking yet a further beating after the United Kingdom’s Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced last week that Britain is to sell off about 415 tons over the next three years. An extraordinary aspect of the British announcement […]
THREE editors of Uganda’s independent Monitor newspaper were charged in a Kampala magistrate’s court with sedition and publishing false news that could create “fear and alarm” on Thursday. The charges follow publication in the daily on Tuesday of a photograph of a naked woman having her pubic hair cut with scissors by a group of […]
Cyborgs have feelings too. When California neurosurgeon Gary Heit activated one of the implants he had just put into a human brain, the man burst into tears. Heit’s patient at Stanford university neurosurgery clinic was crying because, for the first time in 15 years, he was able to button up his own shirt. A debilitating […]
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union on Friday added its weight to the campaign to have Mpumalanga education MEC David Mabuza held personally accountable for the province’s matric exam scandal on Thursday. Sadtu’s provincial general council said in a statement that Mabuza had acted negligently and should be held personally accountable. The council added that […]
John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF They say nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. But it’s worse than that. In most cases we can’t even remember what we used to be nostalgic about. It was that kind of feeling in the Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown last Sunday, May 9. The occasion was […]
When Sanlam listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange at the end of November, about 2,2- million policyholders became shareholders. Some of these sold their free shares immediately and are probably glad they did – Sanlam’s share performance has not been inspiring since, and getting cash near the listing price of R6 was not a bad […]