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/ 9 November 2004
Low admission requirements were undermining the reputation of South African Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degrees, the Council on Higher Education has found. ”Unless programmes take admissions seriously… the standing of the MBA as a master’s degree will be jeopardised in the market,” it says in a special report on the state of MBA provision released on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2004
While most South Africans agree that black economic empowerment (BEE) is necessary to uplift standard and correct the wrongs of the past, there is a strong feeling that it has benefited only a select few, a survey has found. The survey shows that 70% of the sample felt that BEE has enriched only a select few.
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/ 9 November 2004
Telkom, South Africa’s partially privatised fixed-line telephone company, will announce its proposed tariffs for next year on Monday, says Telkom CEO Sizwe Nxasana. "With inflation being where it is, we can expect Telkom’s tariffs to be even much lower [sic]," Nxasana told the National Assembly communications portfolio committee on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2004
Italian prosecutors are hoping that a former South African police officer now in a psychiatric clinic may be able to testify in Italy at alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo’s trial in absentia. The police officer, Abraham Smith, broke down last week when he took the stand.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125190">Count Agusta link probed</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125163">Failed bid to charge Palazzolo</a>
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/ 9 November 2004
A traditional surgeon who allegedly performed an illegal circumcision on a 48-year-old man is to be prosecuted, the Eastern Cape health department said on Tuesday. Kupelo said the circumcision season has just started, with more than 30 boys in the Port Elizabeth area queuing for pre-circumcision medical tests on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki was on Tuesday to meet his Côte d’Ivoire counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the West African state for two years.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=125194">Mbeki flies to restive Côte d’Ivoire</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=125187">500 wounded in Abidjan unrest</a>
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/ 9 November 2004
It was the last fang for Malaysian snake-charmer Bidin Mat Hashim when a cobra bit him in front of a Korean television crew. After 24 snakebites in a 50-year career, he’s calling it quits. Bidin, who has been handling snakes since the age of 15 and appeared regularly on television, said: ”I have given serious thought to it and have decided to stop, once and for all.”
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/ 9 November 2004
A German adventurer has become the first person to cross Australia from south to north using a kite-powered skateboard. Dirk Gion left Adelaide in South Australia 17 days ago and arrived in the Northern Territory city of Darwin on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2004
The country is in the midst of an educational crisis when it comes to mathematics and physical science. The lack of matriculants in these subjects is one of the biggest obstacles for African advancement. The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> spoke to an expert about teaching mathematics, and the role language plays.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124969">SA maths scores ‘near worst in world'</a>
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/ 9 November 2004
The Securities Regulation Panel ruled on Monday in favour of the Harmony gold mining company in the first of a series of legal and regulatory challenges to its hostile ,1-billion takeover bid for rival South African mining company Gold Fields.