”HITCH-HIKING” northwards by road and sea, bad-tempered descendants of South African queen bees that were brought to Brazil nearly half a century ago have begun arriving in Canada, says apiculturist Mehat Nasr of Guelph University, near Toronto. The ”Africanized killer bees,” as they are called, invaded and colonised the south western US over the past […]
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Jeremy Cronin Crossfire Last Friday the Mail & Guardian ran an emotive banner headline, “SACP to grill free-thinker”. A long article by Khadija Magardie evoked the same heretic burning imagery (“SACP to grill outspoken McKinley”). On April 12 there was, indeed, a disciplinary hearing; it considered articles written in local and international newspapers by Dale […]
David Le Page An unprecedented alliance between top computer companies and anarchic Internet fundis looks set to produce the first serious competition to Microsoft’s Windows family of operating systems. On Tuesday IBM, Compaq, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and nine other United States companies announced the Gnome Foundation, which will speed the development of the Gnome desktop system. […]
Neil Thomas taking stock After decades of being run as a cosy old boys’ club, the changes to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) over the second half of the 1990s have been profound. The perception, justified by numerous moves to arrest change from the JSE’s main committee, was that the exchange was run primarily for […]
demand Khadija Magardie crossfire Any discussion on prostitution is replete with difficulties. Any attempts to critically address the issue, without resorting to decriminalisation, is met with derision and almost always has various gender types foaming at the mouth. To argue that something is fundamentally wrong with prostitution does not necessarily imply any adverse judgement of […]
Paul Kirk A Durban high court judge, Phillip Levisohn, has summonsed the deputy director of Prince Gideon Zulu’s Department of Social Welfare and Population Development to court. The summons will see top civil servant Eric Mhlongo appear before Judge Levisohn next month to explain why his department is being taken to court and sued with […]
Marianne Merten An 11-year-old Boland girl who lost half a leg in a farming accident eight months ago is getting an artificial leg fitted free of charge after a Pretoria orthopaedist and prostheticist became aware of her plight. “I’m doing this for free because of two reasons: I feel sorry for her and not everyone […]
Khadija Magardie The latest statistics of the United States- based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) indicate that sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest-growing population “of any major region in the world”. According to the 2000 World Population Data Sheet, the region has a population of 657- million and a total fertility rate of 5,8 children per woman. […]
Neal Collins RUGBY South Africa’s hopes of installing Francois Pienaar as Springbok coach in place of the under-pressure Nick Mallett have been dealt a potentially devastating blow. Pienaar’s club Saracens have announced they have agreed a lucrative five-year deal with the former Springbok captain which will tie him to the premiership’s most ambitious club until […]