The world out there is not part of it any more. There’s just me, the car, the open road and the radio. I never listen to the radio unless I’m driving. It’s a shame, because there’s a lot going on on the wireless. At this moment, driving through sheep- farming country in the middle of […]
South Africa’s gold producers are pooh- poohing the effects of the IMF’s proposed gold sale, but such a sale would set a dangerous precedent. Donna Block reports The proposed sale of 10% of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF)gold reserves to fund debt relief for poor developing countries is by no means a foregone conclusion. In […]
Women make up two-fifths of the Internet audience. Yet very few Web businesses target them. It’s a lost opportunity, argues Azeem Azhar Why don’t women like the Web? Nearly four million of Britain’s 10-million Web users are women, and they are joining at a faster rate than men: four years ago women represented only 30% […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby In his triumphant world television publicity scoop last week the Reverend Jesse Jackson caused some serious ancillary damage. One would like to think that Jackson’s spectacular intercession in the Balkans tragedy was merely because he could simply no longer contain his Samaritan instincts. But it rather tempts logic not to consider […]
Howard Barrell Six million potential voters – one in four – are excluded from voting on June 2. This leaves the way open for the African National Congress to win a two-thirds majority in Parliament with the support of just more than one-third of potential voters. These stark figures emerge from a study by the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Thursday 9.20pm A RISING standoff between residents of the Dukuduku forest in northern KwaZulu-Natal and the provincial nature conservation service exploded on Thursday afternoon when police exchanged gunfire with residents. SABC1 news said eyewitnesses said the forest residents fired at the police, who retaliated. Three residents were arrested and the others […]
Alex Sudheim Though it only turned 10 this year, Splashy Fen is in the advanced stages of a mid-life crisis. As a person approaching their twilight years often chooses between growing old gracefully or disgracefully, so must one of South Africa’s largest music festivals decide whether to embrace the recklessness of youth or the quiet […]
THE International Monetary Fund and Ghana on Monday signed a $209-million dollar-year loan program, with a first tranche of $30-million available immediately, the Fund said. The 1999-2001 program aims to reach economic growth of 6% from 5,6% in 1998, and to beat down inflation to 5% by 2001 from 19,3% last year, the Fund said […]
Philippa Garson Class Struggle A strange thing happened last week. The Teacher was paid a visit by two people from an education organisation who came to discuss partnership opportunities. Suddenly one of the visitors, who shall remain anonymous, discarded the benign “education NGO-type” hat he had walked in with, and donned another – that of […]
The Teacher, a sister publication of the Mail & Guardian, was this week recognised for its coverage of women in education. The monthly newspaper, which goes out free to all schools in the country, scooped one of three prizes in the Forum for African Women Educationalists (Fawe) Media Excellence awards. The judges praised The Teacher […]