FRIDAY, 10.30AM: AFTER three years in the drafting, government on Thursday released new competition policy guidelines that will see a new watchdog body set up to investigate abuses by powerful corporations. Presenting the new policy guidelines to the National Economic Develpment and Labour Council, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said it is hoped the […]

Nicky Barker The Campaign for St Lucia was reactivated at a meeting in Durban last Sunday, amid fears that Richards Bay Minerals may be reconsidering mining in the area. In the early 1990s, the campaign co- ordinated the largest single petition ever compiled in this country, leading to the scrapping of plans to mine titanium. […]

Swapna Prabhakaran Imagine a condom that can be washed after sex and hung out to dry with your stockings. Imagine being able to re-use that condom the next time you have sex, and the next. This is what the reproductive health research unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is investigating. They’re looking at the possibility […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM: The soldier who removed the landmine intended to blow up Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s armoured Mercedes Benz (see below) said it was not powerful enough to penetrate the car’s armour. Lance Corporal John Manunure told the treason trial of opposition leader Ndabaningi Sithole that the claymore mine was an anti-personnel mine. While it […]

Grassroots culture in Sharpeville is under threat, but out at Dlomo Dam the show goes on, writes Janet Smith Someone wants to turn Dlomo Dam into a tourist destination: a place, perhaps, where intrepid foreign types who are not quite brave enough to spend the night in an actual township, can get close enough to […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The University of the North lost a four- year dispute this week when the Pretoria High Court ruled that an academic fired by the university should be reinstated. Sipho Ndlela, former head of the optometry faculty, was fired in March last year after more than two years of internal strife over his […]

SATURDAY Soccer: Kaizer Chiefs vs Mamelodi Sundowns in the Rothmans Cup final on SABC1 at 3pm Rugby: Springboks vs England on M-Net at 4pm

Charl Blignaut The year-long saga around the alleged financial mismanagement involving the board of the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (Pact) has continued to spiral. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the board is currently under investigation by the Public Protector. Also under investigation is Pact’s subsidiary Johannesburg theatre, the Windybrow Centre for […]