Mungo Soggot and David Macfarlane Health authorities in Tanzania have not approved controversial tests of an alleged new HIV/Aids treatment that South African researchers are conducting on Tanzanian soldiers. It has also emerged that the coal-based substance, oxihumate-K, that has been administered to HIV-positive Tanzanian soldiers for the past 18 months is used in the […]
You suggest you are “starting to feel sorry” for Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi, for the delayed enactment of the Immigration Bill (September 28). It is probably true to say that no piece of legislation has come under more intense public scrutiny and stonewalling tactics in the history of the new democratic dispensation. While […]
Glenda Daniels Congress of South African Trade Unions affiliates in the public service have accused the government of flouting bargaining procedures by making an improved pay offer to non-Cosatu unions outside the official bargaining forum. As a strike by potentially 500 000 public servants loomed, state officials hotly denied this, accusing Cosatu of having missed […]
Many Americans are blaming new technology for aiding terrorism, writes Duncan Campbell As United States forces converge on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone has not been cut off. But calls to his satphone relayed via an Inmarsat satellite 40 000km over the Indian Ocean are going unanswered. His number 00873 682505331 was disclosed during […]
Trainer Mike de Kock has an exciting filly on his hands in Brazilian import Velvet Green, and even carrying top weight from the worst draw she looks like the one to beat in the R200000 grade 2 Spring Challenge for fillies and mares over 1600m at Gosforth Park on Saturday. Punters who allowed the four-year-old […]
CRICKET Peter Robinson If you hadn’t heard of the Summer Spice Series, fear not: you’re about to hear an awful lot about it over the next few weeks. This is the name dreamed up mainly to cover India’s travels around South Africa for the next two months but which also encompasses Kenya’s visit to this […]
Peace protesters hold it aloft as do the advocates of war. The Right rallies round it but so do radicals. It’s now a flag of defiance and of mourning. Ed Vulliamy explores the many meanings of the Stars and Stripes In a landscape smothered by the dust of death Pompeii in our lifetime three New […]
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi on Tuesday questioned the legitimacy of the United States leading an international campaign against terrorism, and also accused Britain of being the country sheltering the largest number of terrorists. In comments published on the official Libyan government website, Gadaffi warned against a two-speed policy towards states accused of harbouring terrorists. “It […]
TEACHERS at the Lagos State University have launched strike action to press for higher pay and better conditions. The strike began on Tuesday and “is total and indefinite”, said the chairman of the ASUU teachers’ union, Gbola Aderibigbe. The union leader accused the Lagos State government of not paying outstanding salaries and allowances, and of […]
THE Tamazight or Berber language is to be officially recognized in Algeria, with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika due to change the constitution which currently only recognizes Arabic. Officials said the decision was announced to representatives of village committees and tribes from the Kabylie region who met Prime Minister Ali Benflis. Kabylie in the northeast is the […]