Greer van Zyl Scientists at the largest malaria conference ever held in Africa, which took place in Durban last week, were upbeat about forming alliances to fight malaria on the continent. >From humble beginnings in Dakar two years ago, the Multinational Initiative against Malaria (MIM) has burgeoned into a global movement aimed at controlling the […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing There’s no stopping former three-time world cham- pion Thulani “Sugarboy” Malinga. After “breaking” his hand on Saturday in a world unification bout in Denmark, Malinga, the World Boxing Federation’s (WBF)super middle-weight world champion, was forced to withdraw in the 10th round of the fight and relinquished his title to his opponent. Matt […]
David Gough in Nairobi and Martin Kettle in Washington A California lawyer who was suspended two years ago for “ambulance chasing” tactics is spearheading a series of legal claims – some against the United States State Department – by hundreds of Kenyan victims of last year’s US embassy bombing in Nairobi. According to some estimates, […]
Now that the touching Allan Boesak tragicomedy is grinding down, the political apologists have again been hard at work, trying to explain it all away. Of the more occult deconstructions have been those emanating from that master spinner of words, Mr Thabo Mbeki. It was from Mbeki’s office that the first truly imaginative Boesak mitigation […]
The latest chapter in her continuing fascination with pathology, psychosis, sick humour and sleazy soap opera is Shireen James’s new play Viagra Falls. James is the writer/director of When Suicides Meet, a meditation upon the inner torment of Sylvia Plath, and Alice Threw The Looking Glass, a harrowing and gruesomely comic portrayal of a young […]
Jay Naidoo Right to Reply It is a sad day for South African journalism when an allegedly serious newspaper can write a lead article based on gossip, innuendo and rumour, without quoting one named source. This is an example of microwave journalism that does not inform or educate the public and is sadly reminiscent of […]
divider Zimbabwe was once seen as one of the success stories of Africa after colonialism. But there are pictures which still tell a tale of division. In 1999, the issues are black and white, but also about class, writes Andrew Meldrum The Harare Club’s teak-panelled walls speak of years of tradition, privilege and exclusivity, dating […]
The battle for votes among South Africa’s political parties is on. The African National Congress and the Democratic Party launch their election campaigns this weekend. The New National Party set out its stall last weekend. And other major parties are loosening up their tongues and sharpening up their soundbites for 10 weeks of campaigning which […]
Is small becoming beautiful again? In the United Kingdom equity market, smaller firms have out-performed the FTSE 100 by 10% this year. But on the charts it looks like nothing more than a statistical wonder on a 10-year run of poor performance. EF Schumacher’s seminal economic treatise, Small is Beautiful, was first published in 1973. […]
Donna Block Last year I wrote about the London and Frankfurt exchanges merging and how that was going to give European investors bigger and better trading opportunities. Well, forget it. Then I gave you the low-down on lots of other European exchanges that were poised to take off. Forget that too. You can forget it […]