DR HILLARY CARMEN was at the forefront of=20 the movement to get skin-lighteners banned.=20 She says some of the first skinlighteners=20 available worldwide had mercury in them,=20 which was absorbed into the bloodstream=20 and caused kidney damage. Lotion containing=20 mercury was banned in 1975 and instead=20 hydroquinone was used. According to Carmen=20 this caused “an […]

airport Mungo Soggot ISRAELI national Zif Falk narrowly failed=20 this week to set a new record for “body- smuggling” diamonds out of South Africa.=20 Apprehended by police on Saturday night in=20 the departures lounge at Johannesburg=20 International Airport, Falk was found to=20 have uncut gems worth R2,4-million packed=20 carefully in a condom in his rectum. […]

After recovering from a head injury, it’s=20 downhill all the way for South Africa’s=20 one-man team at the world skiing champs SKIING:Julian Drew IT requires a certain amount of courage to=20 ski at 140km/h down a 52 degree slope when=20 the slightest misjudgment in the blinding=20 glare of the sun can prove extremely=20 hazardous. To […]

KwaZulu-Natal’s premier-in-waiting is a=20 cautious, sauve politician with an=20 impressive resum=E9, reports Ann Eveleth KWAZULU-NATAL’S premier-designate, Ben=20 Ngubane, has signalled he will do Inkatha=20 Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s=20 bidding, rather than risk the fate of his=20 colleagues.=20 In an interview with the Mail & Guardian=20 this week, Ngubane stressed that he would=20 not make […]

Manning Rangers are suprisingly top of the=20 League’s mid-term progress report, but=20 Chiefs look the more probable winners SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE halfway stage in the Castle Premiership=20 arrives this weekend with unfashionable=20 Durban club Manning Rangers surprise one- point leaders from Kaizer Chiefs. Umtata outfit Bush Bucks are third,=20 progressive Supersport United fourth and=20 […]

South Africa talks about reconciliation,=20 but Rwanda wants its political criminals=20 behind bars. David Goodman reports WHILE the Truth and Reconciliation=20 Commission busies itself with doling out=20 amnesty to apartheid killers, justice=20 officials at another end of Africa are=20 pursuing a decidedly different approach to=20 settling old scores. Rwandan officials=20 visiting South Africa this week […]

Amid continuing controversy, abortion this=20 week becomes legal, but many units will be=20 unable to offer the service. Jim Day=20 reports=20 MANY provincial health departments have=20 been caught ill-prepared for the=20 introduction this week of legalised=20 abortion.=20 The new Choice on Termination of Pregnancy=20 Law comes into force on Saturday, and the=20 health ministry on […]

Peter Vale IT was never possible that South Africa’s=20 foreign policy would be a glorious success;=20 that we would ride into the setting sun of=20 the 20th Century – national dreams=20 fulfilled, collective destiny guaranteed,=20 all insecurities stilled. But we had a right to expect that the=20 discussion on South Africa’s place in the=20 world […]

Jim Day LESS than five years after the founding of an independent press in Mozambique, two of the nation’s top independent editors remain confident that the country’s press will remain vibrant. In a society dominated by government newspapers including the daily Noticias and a Sunday paper called Domingo, both these editors have successfully found a […]