If a new Bill passes in Zambia, the government will have more control over the press than ever before, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government is gearing itself to gag journalists through the establishment of a media council which will have the power to license or bar from practice any journalist flouting set […]
tell MPs Gustav Thiel CAPE TOWN’s sex workers say there is at least one good reason to keep Parliament in the “mother city”: if it moves, they will lose some of their best customers. Though it is not clear such concerns will play a key role in determining Parliament’s future home, a brief probe by […]
standards’ The Education Ministry dismisses concerns about the quality of university degrees as `racist’, report Mungo Soggot and Stuart Hess A PUBLIC row has erupted at Wits University between two of its top academics over whether its drive to bring in previously disadvantaged students has eroded standards. Professor Charles van Onselen, a historian, says the […]
K Letsholo in Maun THE Botswana government is being accused of hiding its head in the sand when it comes to involving citizens in the lucrative ostrich industry. The country which has the largest wild ostrich population in the world still only has nine registered farmers – and one of them is the president. Two […]
GOLF: Bill Elliott AUGUSTA National Golf Club like to promote the idea that they, the US Masters and all things related are about tradition above all else. Over the years, this has become something of a tradition in itself. Nowhere is this more evident than on the greensward close to the back of the clubhouse, […]
companies Jim Day THE London-based lawyers who recently won more than R9-million for workers poisoned by mercury contamination in KwaZulu-Natal have launched a suit against a British company that ran asbestos mines in South Africa. Richard Meeran, a solicitor with Leigh, Day & Co, has filed proceedings against Cape plc of Middlesex, the parent of […]
Lynda Loxton THE financial services market could be in for a shake-up this year as supermarket giant Pick ‘n Pay moves into in-store banking. Fairly common in Britain, the concept is new to South Africa and has created quite a stir in the conservative banking community. What particularly irks the banks is that Pick ‘n […]
Marion Edmunds THE cash-strapped Western Cape Education Department is depositing millions of rands into the bank accounts of adult literacy centres for spending on education materials – but largely ignores their administrative and teaching needs. With confusion rife, concern is mounting among literacy centres and providers of education materials: they worry that the system set […]
Peter Makurube SOUTH AFRICA is the only country on the continent where reggae music never took off – at least not among black people. After all, the powers that used to be did not allow it. It is protest music, and like all songs containing lyrics deemed “undesirable”, reggae never got air time on the […]
In his first year as a professional, Tiger Woods is carving a place among the game’s immortals GOLF: Richard Williams WE need sport to be unpredictable. That is the point of it. But from time to time we also need to witness the inevitability of undisputed greatness. And when Tiger Woods stalked the acres of […]