Researchers can’t agree on whether we are sleep-deprived, writes Jay Rayner from London, but the evidence suggests that few of us get enough IN their recent paper We are chronically sleep deprived, doctors Michael Bonnet and Donna Arand from Dayton, Ohio, produced facts and figures to support their title. They found that 50% of college […]
Jim Day THE number of black students studying to be doctors declined this year, leading government health officials to question the commitment of university medical schools to change. But medical deans reject this and blame the poor-quality education of many would-be medical students. South Africa is educating enough doctors for its needs, said the Health […]
South Africa’s economic revolution is under way and trade unions are leading the charge, writes Eddie Koch WHAT began as a silent coup, hatched in the corporate boardrooms of Main Street, Johannesburg, and Sandton, has burgeoned into one of the most radical transformations since the 1994 elections. At stake is the very nature of South […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE soccer programme this weekend is nothing if not varied with two Zimbabwe clubs in South Africa, Aces staging a home match several hundred kilometres from their Witbank base, and some strange kick-off times. On Saturday afternoon, Harare Glamour Boys Dynamos are at PAM Brink Stadium in Springs to face Jomo Cosmos […]
THEATRE: Lesley Marx ‘IF you want to film a definition of irony,” Brian Astbury tells me, ”do it here.” The point is well taken. He has been directing David Mowat’s The Guise for Capab Drama. The Guise was the last play to be banned at The Space theatre nearly two decades ago. The Space itself […]
LORRAINE SITHOLE, a mother of three, looked up at the sky and sighed, mumbling, ”I’m sure God will help us”. She does not know how long her corrugated iron shack will remain on the dusty Pretoria hillside. In January Sithole – who is ”not sure” how old she is – and 2 800 other families […]
Coetzee was the first security policeman to publicly confess and recant for his crimes.
SUTTNER IN SWEDEN RAYMOND SUTTNER, chairman of parliament’s foriegn affairs committee and a vociferious proponent of an “ethical” foreign policy, has been appointed ambassador to Sweden. Sheila Sisulu, director of World Wide Africa Investment Holdings, has been appointed consul general to New York. ZIM BANS LANDMINES ZIMBABWE announced a ban on the sale and use […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM ALTHOUGH a country’s airspace is sovereign, organisations are looking into ways to improve air safety over Africa, according to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj. Under consideration is a meeting convened by SAA of all airlines flying north-south routes over Africa, in which each airline would “adopt” a country whose procedures were suspect, “taking responsiblity […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM: TWO pupils have lodged assault charges after being injured in racial clashes at Elandspoort High School in Pretoria West (see below). Police are investigating attacks on a white boy, Chris Janse van Rensburg, and a black girl, Gina Mokabe — Van Rensburg’s nose was broken and Mokabe’s ear was torn after she was […]