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. […]
CINEMA: Charl Blignaut As I was leaving Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies, it occurred to me that the impact of the movie pretty much depends on how screwed up your mother was. Or, for that matter, exactly how much it screwed your mother up to give birth to this life that would become a shadow […]
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. […]
FRIDAY 11.00AM The start of trade in rand-dollar futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange next week will help stabilise the local currency, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said yesterday. “Instruments like the futures contract are likely to dampen the volatility we lived through last year because they put instruments of choice on the market place,” Manuel […]
Gustav Thiel THE Anglican Church was due in Port Elizabeth’s Labour Court this Friday to fight a case in which God’s will (according to the church) squares up to the Labour Relations Act. Roger Paxton, a former Anglican rector in the Eastern Cape, claims he was unfairly dismissed and that the church breached the new […]
One of the biggest sexual-harassment suits in US corporate history has led to two senior officials losing their positions at Mitsubishi and 28 women are still set to sue. Frank Swoboda and Warren Brown report Mitsubishi Motor Corporation has replaced the top two Japanese officials of its United States auto-operations as part of the continuing […]