OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Friday 10.30am. OIL giant Shell will next week launch the world’s first large scale commercial solar electrification project which will eventually bring power to 50000 homes in the Eastern Cape. President Nelson Mandela will attend the inauguration of the scheme in the Bipa area on February 24, pulling the switch on […]

`agreement’ Ann Eveleth A high-level government meeting set for March 1 is expected to lay down the law on the use of Zimbabwean farm labour – now widespread in areas of high unemployment along the Northern Province border – by South African farmers. Department of Labour representative Sello Mosai said the deputy directors general of […]

Studies show that forcing children to use computers is creating techno-anxiety and impairing the learning process. Louise MacLeod reports There may be a huge vault of health information on the Internet, but how healthy is using the technology itself? Researchers in the United States have recently reported that people who spend even a few hours […]

FORMER Rwandan health minister Casimir Bizimungu has been arrested in Kenya on suspicion of war crimes and will be moved to the International Criminal Tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, a tribunal spokesperson said on Friday. “He has not been accused but he is a suspect,” spokesperson Kingsley Moghalu said. The court was set up by the […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela announced the nomination of Independent Electoral Commission vice-chair, Brigalia Bam, for appointment as chair on Friday . Judge Ismail Hussain was nominated for the position of IEC commissioner, on the recommendation of the National Assembly and in terms of the Electoral Commission Act of 1996, Mandela said. Herbert Vilakazi, an IEC member […]

Ferial Haffajee Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel again displayed his linguistic dexterity this week. It has become a Trevor trademark to deliver bits of the annual budget in at least three languages. His fluent Xhosa brought the house down and the minister clearly loved playing to the gallery. In his three years in office Manuel […]

BRITAIN, Norway, Mali and Togo have offered to host peace talks between rebels and the government in Sierra Leone where fighting this year has claimed up to 5000 lives. Widespread atrocities such as crude amputations and immolation have been attributed to the rebels.Britain, Sierra Leone’s former colonial power, has said the two sides could use […]

>From parallel parking to Ponte, Stephen Hobbs’s exhibition puts a new spin on living in Johannesburg, writes Chris Roper Arriving at the opening of Stephen Hobbs’ current exhibition, Torque of the Town, normally unflappable Capetonians are confronted with a scene of disjunctive strangeness. All the road markings in Bree Street have been painted out. Even […]

The DP has accused Gauteng MEC Jabu Moleketi of bribery. Charlene Smith writes that he is a great administrator, setting an example for other provinces While most provincial governments have struggled to manage their budgets, Gauteng has quietly but efficiently managed to cut back debt and increase revenue, in an environment where provinces have virtually […]

ANGOLA is awash with counterfeit money, including high-quality copies of $100 bills and one million denominations of the Angolan currency, the new kwanza, police said on Wednesday. The injection of fake money is an attempt at economic destabilisation of Angola perpetrated from “the outside,” police said in a communique. A ring of foreign businessmen and […]