PLANS to re-export hundreds of tonnes of obsolete but highly toxic pesticides from Mozambique will cost the impoverished country at least US$600000. The pesticides, currently stored in the country’s southern city of Matola, were originally meant to be incinerated in a local cement factory. The plan, funded by Denmark, was spiked following outrage by local […]
SOFTBALL SA will be holding national trials for men and women in Bloemfontein on July 31 and August 1 1999 at the Rocklands stadium in order to select teams to participate in the Africa Cup scheduled for September 13-17 in Johannesburg. For the men there is the additional incentive of travelling to Hong Kong to […]
THE Nigerian government has decided to boost its oil production to 2,035-million barrels per day (bpd) from the current level of 1,82-million bpd, Information Minister Dapo Sarumi said on Wednesday. The decision follows the rise in the world price of crude oil to around 18 dollars, Sarumi said. Sarumi, speaking to reporters after a cabinet […]
THE embattled speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Ibrahim Salisu Buhari, was arrested on Thursday shortly after being forced by public pressure to resign from his post over allegations of age and certificate forgery. A police spokesman confirmed the speaker’s arrest in the interest of justice and tranquility, adding that the criminal investigation department was […]
CHANGES in Western Province’s backline ahead of their Currie Cup battle with Free State at the Cheetahs’ home ground in Bloemfontein are causing comment. Breyton Paulse will start at fullback and Bobby Skinstad will warm the bench on Saturday. The South African Rugby Football Union gave WP permission to use three of their Springboks, and […]
Shaun de Waal Movie of the week Many years ago, I had a film lecturer who relied heavily on the binary oppositions that are or were the primary tools of structuralist analysis – you know, self/other, white/black, appearance/reality, personal/political, and so on. Whenever he was trying to explore what a particular movie might be about, […]
Ebrahim Harvey The strikes, threats and demonstrations in the public and private sectors over the past few weeks have again placed the public spotlight on the government’s growth, employment and redistribution (Gear) policies. South Africa has paid a terribly heavy price for Gear. Whether it goes by the name of commercialisation, privatisation or restructuring, the […]
Wally Mbhele President Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Correctional Services Ben Skosana have been asked to intervene in the leadership crisis at the embattled Department of Correctional Services which has been described as nearing “catastrophic” proportions. With the globe-trotting commissioner of correctional services, Khulekani Sitole, in Sweden for the World Police Fire Games, senior departmental […]
world Julian Drew Swimming It was somehow appropriate that Penny Heyns should achieve what was arguably her finest hour at the Janet Evans Invitational Meeting at the University of Southern California last weekend. Evans herself was a four-time Olympic champion and multiple world record holder who knew what it was like to come back from […]
Nick Mallett’s faltering class of 1999 could do with some help from several members of the World Cup-winning class of 1995, writes Andy Capostagno Last Sunday, before a recording of the TV quiz show Use It or Lose It, Burger Geldenhuys was relating Gordon Forbes’s famous story about the day that Abe Segal said: “It’s […]