Anthony Kunda Zambia’s government has warned Lusaka residents to avoid being on the streets at night and is beefing up its armed forces, following seven bomb blasts in the city this week. The warning came in the face of mounting accusations by the Angolan government of Zambian involvement in gun-running for Jonas Savimbi’s Unita forces […]

THE Zambian government denied on Thursday allegations that it was responsible for the weekend bombings in Lusaka, to divert attention from gunrunning claims by the Angolan government. Denouncing the claims, Information Minister and chief government spokesperson, Newstead Zimba, said agents of confusion were deliberately twisting the facts about the bombings. He added that the water […]

When Dr Ron Clarke, formerly of Wits University, made his discovery of Little Foot at Sterkfontein last year, the find was hailed as yet further proof that humans are descended from an ape-like ancestor. But although evolution is the keystone of our modern world-view, the theory propounded by Charles Darwin and his followers still remains […]

Loose cannon:Robert Kirby Like so many I find myself touched by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s now routine meditations on national virtue. His sense of right and wrong becomes more acute by the day, his recent utterances seldom lack florid moral embellishment. Homilies about truth and probity fair tumble from his lips. His speeches have that […]

Charlene Smith Andrew Oberholzer, senior group product manager at Pfizer, makers of Viagra, is a tired man. He speaks to an average of 10 journalists a day – all asking the same questions. He is overseeing the mailing of 30 000 samples and medical information to doctors and pharmacies. Oberholzer is under the average age […]

media maze AAn alphabet soup. That’s what the print media industry is becoming. Ownership is changing every day. Shares have changed hands in each of the four major newspaper publishers and they seem to continue to do so as black shareholders buy in. New titles are hitting the news-stands with regularity and new media personalities […]

Phillip Kakaza and Ren Rosen It’s Saturday afternoon and White City, Soweto, is vibrant with activity: throngs of people bustling along the pavement, vendors sellings their goods and street gamblers betting their homes, luxury cars and more than R10 000 at Javela Park. Rumour has it that some men are even prepared to gamble away […]

Charlene Smith In 10 years, the average life expectancy of South Africans may be 40 years, there will be fewer children and many will be in orphanages. Prison populations will be mostly sick and dying, there will be greater absenteeism in the workplace, and farmers will battle to find enough well people to harvest crops […]

Karlin Lillington It’s about the stupidest site you’ll look at all week, but the URL has been flying across the Web as everyone mails it to friends: it’s the dancing hamsters at . If it doesn’t make you laugh, then you’re clearly the kind of person who enjoys reading Windows programming manuals. We’ve all prayed […]