priority The Border Rural Committee (BRC) and Eastern Cape provincial office of the Department of Land Affairs were shocked to read in the Mail & Guardian (“Back to the bad old days”, June 18 to 24) the allegation of a lack of departmental interest in the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (Esta). The article […]
Larry Elliott in Cologne The World Bank is wooing the world’s biggest drugs companies with a multibillion dollar package of guarantees to encourage the development of a low-cost Aids vaccine for poor countries. Alarmed by the relentless spread of the HIV virus, the bank is proposing the creation of a global health insurance programme to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wimbledon | Friday 3.30pm. AMANDA COETZER will be relying on wider experience at the top levels of professional tennis when she faces Kim Clijsters in their third round match-up at Wimbledon. Clijsters, at only 16, is highly regarded by many observers, and is barely younger than Jelena Dokic, who sent Martina Hingis packing […]
David le Page Finding out that there is a special cellphone service for deaf people was a little puzzling. After all, surely any phone with a vibrating alarm, which is pretty standard, and a normal short message service (SMS) – just as standard- can work perfectly well as a wireless communicator for deaf people? Sure […]
Stephen Bierley Tennis It is an axiom of sport, and particularly tennis, that when a great champion dominates the game, most yearn for a change, and that when the game is in an obvious state of flux everybody yearns for a great champion. For the past 18 months, the only theme running through men’s tennis […]
Niki Moore James Mthembu is a frustrated man. For five years, this tribal elder from the Mbila community in Sodwana, on KwaZulu-Natal’s unspoilt tropical coast, has been trying to get permission to build a small tourist resort on Lake Mgobozeleni. Sodwana falls within Maputaland, advertised extensively by government planners as the next El Dorado for […]
Xolela Mangcu Guest Column Five years ago I invited Sam Nolutshungu and Mamphela Ramphele to Cornell University to discuss South Africa’s prospects for democracy. I remember complaining to Nolutshungu about the overtly political nature of Cabinet appointments in our first democratically elected government. I wanted people to be appointed on the basis of their knowledge […]
The appointment of his Cabinet fitted the last pieces into a power jigsaw that will guarantee President Thabo Mbeki control over every level of South Africa’s government, reports Ivor Powell With a full minister of government attached to the Office of the President; a beefed up Cabinet secretariat to co-ordinate and oversee the implementation of […]
The Microsoft trial is back in full swing and just in case you’re feeling sorry for William Gates III, just stop by the Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock, . Philip Greenspun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology runs a little programme on his site which updates the Spectacled One’s fortune based on the daily price […]
Troop movements on both sides of the Congo conflict belie the peace talks in Lusaka, writes Ivor Powell A massive showdown that could determine the course of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is looming in the diamond-rich region in the centre of the country. Regional talks in Lusaka this weekend aimed at […]