Stephen Gray THE latest number of the six-monthly English in Africa shows a change of policy. Instead of the usual miscellany of learned articles, most of it is devoted to printing primary material that would not otherwise be available to the general reader. This is the very raw material, before the biographer gets to it. […]
Oceans ROADRUNNING:Julian Drew DESPITE all the noise about breaking the course record coming from Zithulele Sinqe in the lead up to Saturday’s 56km Two Oceans Marathon, the safe money for the title is riding on Abel Mokibe of Scaw Harriers. Both Sinqe, last year’s winner and South African record-holder over the standard marathon with his […]
In choosing their one-day squad, the selectors have acknowledged that vastly different skills are needed for Test matches and one-day games CRICKET:Jon Swift IT has come as a welcome revelation that this country can contest a cricket Test against even the best the world has to offer, and in the process, beat them convincingly. The […]
Mungo Soggot JUSTICE Minsister Dullah Omar said this week the squad of judges and lawyers recently appointed to root out state corruption could be the first of several special units to dispense a new brand of swift justice against public-sector malpractice. The Special Investigative Unit and Special Tribunal, which was set up by President Nelson […]
A new age of African film dawned at Fespaco this year, reports ALEXA DALBY BURKINA FASO is one of the world’s poorest countries, but it has still co-financed 25 feature films and is the only country that thinks film-makers important enough to merit their own public monument. Two weeks ago, its capital, Ouagadougou, hosted the […]
Everything is in place for the Zimbabwe mining industry to take off, so now appears to be the time to invest. Andrew Meldrum reports from Harare WITH earnings of more than Z$7-billion ($620-million) last year and enthusiastic exploration activity, Zimbabwe’s mining industry is booming and looking for more. A big new platinum mine and several […]
Cloning a human being would not produce a double, argues Saliem Fakir, who says recent commentators have missed the point IMPLICIT in the recent articles about cloning is the assumption that once a human being has been replicated from the same genetic stock, the cloned person will be a prototype of the real thing in […]
Madeleine Wackernagel THE formation of the second-largest trade union federation this week drew a unanimously positive response, even from its bigger rival, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa), created through the merger of the Federation of South African Labour Unions (Fedsal) and the Federation of […]
Jim Day LUCAS Mangope is campaigning hard for a political comeback in the former Bophuthatswana, but so far his support base appears limited to the rural elderly and some disgruntled civil servants. He took time out on Tuesday to face a scolding by the Tebbutt Commission, but for the rest of the time Mangope is […]
The parliamentary finance committee criticised slow Budget reform, but praised fiscal discipline, reports Lynda Loxton AFTER intensive week-long public hearings, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his team were handed brickbats and bouquets from the parliamentary finance committee for the 1997/98 Budget. “Overall, the committee commends the minister for the manner in which this Budget balances […]