Rehana Rossouw TRADITIONS steeped in centuries of British history will change next week when Queen Elizabeth II pulls out all the stops to honour her guest for a week, President Nelson Mandela. Even Oxford University’s ceremonial pomp will have to travel to Buckingham Palace to join seven other universities in the garden next Wednesday to […]
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba in Kigali United States nationals need to watch their backs – — not just in Saudi Arabia, where a truck bomb killed 19 Americans and wounded about 80 more at a US air base last week. They are also under threat in East and Central Africa, according to a communique issued in […]
1 NATIONAL EMBLEM. Outstanding win in the Premiers Cup, and a good third in this race last year. Better than last run when 8th at Clairwood (1 600m) but should run a couple of lengths off them under top weight. Rating: Fair Minus 2 COUNTER ACTION. Queen’s Plate winner with the “guv’nor” Jeff Lloyd aboard. […]
Philippa Garson THE director of the Alexandra Health Centre has been suspended and another employee has been fired following allegations of corruption among officials, first revealed in the Mail & Guardian. Clinic director Nomvuyo Molefe may face criminal charges after allegedly defrauding the clinic of R50 000 by channelling funds into Chitons Consultancy, of which […]
ANDREW WORSDALE searches for an interesting plot among the holiday glut of children’s movies. Films about growing up don’t have to be stupid or simplistic — one only has to think of The Wizard of Oz, The Railway Children, My Life as a Dog or Toto the Hero. But with the school holidays upon us, […]
Tebello Radebe Mpho Mokwana, equal opportunities director at the Ministry of Labour, has strongly defended the right of the government to propose strict penalties and fines against companies that will not comply with affirmative action laws, despite recommendations by the recent Labour Market Commission report. “We cannot have laws for the sake of having them, […]
BORIS YELTSIN urged Russian voters not to allow their “grievances and tiredness” to sway the vote. But what if Boris himself is too tired? It may only be a sore throat, but Yeltsin’s backers must be on their knees and praying hard. They are faced with an unpalatable scenario. What happens if Yeltsin’s sore throat […]
BOXING: Gavin Evans THE first and last time Sugarboy Malinga and Vincenzo Nardinello met it was all hugs, kisses and fun and games in foreign accents. Fun’n’games, in fact, is one of the things this Italian enjoys most about the fight game, even when he is on the wrong side of a beating, as he […]
“During the apartheid era there was no channel for negotiation. Now that there is such a channel, students don’t have to protest immediately, when something is wrong” — Benedict Radebe, 19, BSc first year “A lot of the protesting isn’t justified. Here at Wits, it hasn’t been about genuine student grievances, but more about a […]
HOME Affairs’ highly paid special adviser Mario Ambrosini has been taking some time off during the past two weeks to keep tabs on KwaZulu-Natal’s progress at the Constitutional Court. (Perish the thought that either he or his boss, Mangosuthu Buthhelezi, would do party work on government time). Last week he was popping in and out […]