Jim Day THE Eastern Cape provincial government may often take flak for slow delivery, but the zeal of its clinic-builders has now produced another headache: in deep rural areas of the former Ciskei and Transkei, 20 brand-new and fully equipped clinics stand empty as the province frantically searches for nurses to operate them. A shortage […]
Sierra Leone is another tragic example of how democracy has been abused, write Khareen Pech and Yusuf Hassan Khareen Pech LAST week the former president of Sierra Leone, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, had still not replied to a deal, proposed by Executive Outcomes, offering special protection to the government. By Sunday it was too late. After […]
conditions THE Human Rights Commission plans to hold public hearings into conditions in South African prisons and will decide next week when the hearings are to begin. A commission representative, John Mojapelo, said this week that hundreds of complaints have been received from prisoners. The commission has selected more than 40 prisons in all nine […]
Hazel Friedman A RECORD price has been paid for a Pierneef painting overseas, suggesting that boom times are ahead for South African art. Entitled Transvaal Landscape (1929) the painting was sold last week by Christies in London for the whopping sum of 58 000 (R430 000). The price more than doubles the previous amount of […]
Zimbabwe’s Parliament is refusing to cough up funds for a new international airport following ascandalous award by the tender board, reports Iden Wetherell ZIMBABWEANS may have to wait several more years before they get the new international airport they were promised in 1980. Rebellious members of Parliament have been refusing to cough up the funds […]
Journalists once learnt the trade on the job without the dubious assistance of technology or journalism schools, writes Gabriel Garca Mrquez SOME 50 years ago, there were no schools of journalism. One learnt the trade in the newsroom, in the print shops, in the local caf and in Friday-night hangouts. The entire newspaper was a […]
In the third match of the tour, Lions captain Martin Johnson will be making his first tour appearance RUGBY:Steve Morris IT has been a while coming, but finally we will get our first live look at the player the pre-tour publicity has given Martin Johnson to be when he at last assumes the mantle of […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM THE Congress of SA Trade Unions announced on Friday it is to stage a 24-hour national strike on Monday in protest at the lack of progress in negotiations on sections of the new Basic Conditions of Employment Act in the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). Cosatu representative Nowethu Mpati on Friday […]
results A new trend of investment is bringing good returns which could eventually assist with the delivery of housing, electricity and jobs, reports Ferial Haffajee INVESTORS with a conscience go for a slightly different bottom line than one that measures profit alone – which means being able to use your money to pack a social […]
ZAKES MDA has won this year’s R50 000 M-Net Book Prize in the English category for his novel Ways of Dying (Oxford University Press). Karel Schoeman won in the Afrikaans category for his novel Verkenning (Human &Rousseau), and Ncedile Saule took the laurels in the Nguni category for Ukhozi Olumaphiko (Via Afrika), while Ruth Phasha […]