Eddie Koch Senior Department of Trade and Industry officials have come under fire from the European Union (EU) for refusing to endorse a ban on the movement of toxic waste to developing nations because South Africa can treat and recycle hazardous materials. This is despite repeated statements that the Cabinet is opposed to the international […]
Mountaineers question whether the South African Everest team ever really reached the summit. Justin Pearce and Gaye Davis report A row is brewing over who owns the still-unpublised photos of the South African Everest team at the summit. Everest expedition leader Ian Woodall says he is holding on to the photos of the South African […]
Muslim members of Mozambique’s Parliament are trying to pass a law recognising the days of Eid as public holidays. Andrew Meldrum reports from Boane Sabati Omar breaks from his work building a mosque to explain how Islam is growing in Boane, a rural area in southern Mozambique. “Every month we see somebody convert,” says Omar, […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift Boy Louw said it best. “Looks for the scoreboards” was his superbly unique and ungrammatical reply to criticism of how the Spingboks played. So it should be with the 43-18 scoreline from this week’s test against Fiji at Loftus Versfeld. This was not an inspired perfomance. But it was a winning one, […]
Prospects of a large church congress in Zimbabwe has given impetus to the gay rights movement, writes Iden Wetherell in Harare ZIMBABWE’s embattled gay community, the target of an abusive campaign last year by President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwean church leaders, is bracing for another confrontation with the same opponents. A proposal by international Protestant […]
Justin Pearce A schoolteacher seeking paternity leave, a group of prisoners claiming to have been assaulted and a schoolboy defending his right to have long hair are among the stories told inside the cardboard folders stacked on the desk of Human Rights Commission (HRC) member Pansy Tlakula. Upstairs in the stately Houghton office suite occupied […]
The jury is still out on whether the new framework for small business policy can be put into action, writes Aspasia Karras The White Paper on a National Strategy for the Development of Small Business in South Africa, endorsed in March 1995, is finally kicking into life. The national Small Business Act was tabled in […]
Targeting state pension funds rather than state assets would be a more efficient way of addressing the Budget deficit, writes Ravi Naidoo The direction of macro-economics policy reflects the political agenda being pursued by the government. So the government’s belated unveiling of its macro- economic plan is indeed a defining moment. However, judging by the […]
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 […]