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/ 19 October 2004
If George Bush believes that the evangelists who did not vote in 2000 could win him this year’s election, for John Kerry the Sex and the City women could carry him into the White House. About 22-million single women, whose group title comes from the title of the successful television show, did not vote in the 2000 election.
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/ 19 October 2004
No one could have accused the British Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn’t afford to flush their toilets started defecating into pots, which they then emptied out of the windows of their tower blocks. It made one quite nostalgic.
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/ 19 October 2004
A year after the Cabinet approved an Aids treatment plan progress is patchy, with seven of the nine provinces lagging behind in meeting patient targets. Provinces also underspent their conditional Aids budgets in the first quarter of this financial year. This month the Department of Health said about 12 000 patients are on anti-retroviral treatment. The M&G‘s calculations show the figure is closer to 14 000.
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/ 19 October 2004
When both the owner and caretaker gave up on Everest, an 11-storey flat block in Johannesburg’s notorious Hillbrow, the job of building manager did not look attractive. In 1999 the building, at the corner of Goldreich and Edith Cavell streets, was well on its way to becoming a slum. But for grandmother Maureen Singh, Everest was an opportunity.
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/ 19 October 2004
Harmony’s planned buy-out of Gold Fields would not benefit miners or South Africa, according to trade union Solidarity and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday. NUM is concerned about the way in which the hostile bid is being handled.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=123933">Gold Fields fights Harmony takeover</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=123889">Harmony wants to be number one </a>
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/ 19 October 2004
Staff and parents from a primary school in East London are up in arms after a housing committee apparently instructed a group of shack dwellers to relocate to the school’s sports field. Nompumelelo Primary School principal Nokuzola Ndabambi said trenches had been dug in the sports field and poles had been placed in the soil so that shacks could be built.
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/ 19 October 2004
When Philip Brocklehurst went to Antarctica, he brought back his own toes as a souvenir. In a jar. That was in the early days of Antarctic tourism (1908 as part of Ernest Shackleton’s unsuccessful attempt on the Pole). Were he to have made the trip with us in 2004, on board MS Explorer II, he’d probably have picked up a proper souvenir such as a Swarovski crystal frog — from one of the ship’s two souvenir shops.
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/ 19 October 2004
When looking back in history, it is evident that in earlier times a teacher was very little more than a slave. He or she had to teach (or try to teach) learners, clean the classroom, ensure that the coal burner in the classroom was in working order, look after the sick, resolve marital problems, and participate in many community activities. The question now is whether the position of educators has changed in any way since those days.
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/ 19 October 2004
<b>Development Facilitator: Agro-biodiversity, Community Public Private Partnership, Department of Trade and Industry</b>
The meaning of Mapule’s name is “she who brings rain”, so it is appropriate that she helps to bring good fortune to marginalised rural communities. She helps people to set up their own businesses, based on indigenous food sources such as goats and African vegetables.