The Semenya commission recommends senior Northern Province officials should go. Marion Edmunds reports THE initial report by the Semenya commission into financial irregularities in the Northern Province recommends a purge of senior officials – many of them close associates of Premier Ngoako Ramathlodi. Senior African National Congress members in the province say the report – […]
Tim Radford in London ASTRONOMERS have discovered a huge fountain of antimatter at the heart of the galaxy. The jet – from a mystery source – extends for 3 000 light years above the Milky Way. Antimatter is a particle with the same characteristics as normal matter, except that it has an opposite electrical charge. […]
Opinions differ strongly about the effects of South Africa’s crime wave on foreign investment. Miepje Commandeur and Helma van de Vondevoort report LOCAL representatives of South Africa’s leading trade partners regularly suffer from crime, a snap survey by the Mail & Guardian shows. Staff members of foreign embassies and chambers of commerce are often at […]
Anti-Aids activists claim the Health Department has good policies – on paper – but is falling down on implementation.Jim Day reports ONLY about half of R65-million budgeted for HIV education, prevention and care has yet been used -even while the virus continues to spread alarmingly. The money, from the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), is […]
pupils Dawn Blalock RONL BURGER is a businesswoman of the year who can barely turn a profit. Burger is the headmistress of Malvern Primary School, Johannesburg. She is also the owner of a privately run hostel that houses up to 35 of the school’s children. Wearing her two hats – one as a government servant […]
Voluntary organisation Otherwise has taken the homeless off the streets and put them on the air in an innovative new project, reports Glynis O’ Hara BABALWA NANI (21) has spent the past five years on the streets of Cape Town doing anything and everything to survive. Now she is involved in an autobiographical radio documentary. […]
FRIDAY 11.00AM INVESTMENT in SA by United States companies is growing at 25% a year despite the country’s widely publicised crime problem, a US chamber of commerce official said yesterday. Bill Mallory, the chamber’s immediate past president, said: “A crime survey by the US business community, which is duye to be released soon, shows that […]
charged Peta Thornycroft SEVERAL “third force” trials may not take place because the Transvaal attorney general’s office is grossly under- resourced. Dozens of former and present members of the security forces are likely to escape being charged for their crimes. Knowing that they will not be prosecuted will also enable them to avoid applying for […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SUNDOWNS recovered from an own goal in the first half to crush Kaizer Chiefs with a 3-1 victory in a tense Premier League clash at Odi Stadium yesterday. Downs’ midfielder Linda Buthelezi gave Chiefs a free lead in the 18th minute when he accidentally headed the ball into his team’s net. But Downs […]
Lesley Cowling Imagine the life of Sergeant Van der Merwe. He comes home after a hard day at work, switches on the television to relax and gets yet another detective drama. Not only do his glamorous counterparts get to solve crimes in the space of an hour, but they’re surrounded by state-of-the-art law enforcement technology. […]