After the new post-apartheid Constitution was adopted in 1997, restrictions were swept aside and mines reported queues of up to 500 women vying for the chance to work underground. Now women are snubbing domestic employment to prove their mettle in the male-dominated mining industry.
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Now that the dust around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report has settled, the reputation of former president FW de Klerk’s legacy as a peacemaker and a co-liberator is being reassessed. He might have been more of a political pragmatist than a peacemaker.
It is probably most accurate to call him Iraq’s president-elect. The moment President Saddam Hussein falls, Jay Garner will take over, with the kind of sweeping power over the whole of Iraq that even Saddam has been unable to exercise for the past few years.
Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies may drive HIV to mutate.
An unexpectedly prolonged war in Iraq could trigger a world recession that would bite into South African export prospects — but the local economy should withstand the turbulence reasonably well, say economists.
Governments, popes and presidents should not try to control the use of genetic knowledge, the man who began the DNA revolution said yesterday.
An Australian court is to rule on whether a gay couple’s fear of homophobic discrimination in their home country is sufficient grounds for entitlement to refugee status.
Embattled KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has refused to cave in to demands by the African National Congress (ANC) to incorporate three of its members into his provincial cabinet after the power balance in the provincial legislature shifted in its favour.