Marianne Merten Driving from Cape Town to Khayelitsha, the green of the Western Cape’s first township golf range jumps out from the sandy, bush- covered surroundings. Water sprinklers are going at full force in the howling south- easter wind to ensure the greens and fairways are lush enough to satisfy even Ernie Els. The scenic, […]
WHO IS … PETER DUESBERG Ivor Powell Question: If you were told tomorrow that you were HIV-positive, what would you do? Answer: I wouldn’t get worried about this, not the least bit. The speaker here is German-American scientist Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and doyen of […]
Tim de Lisle Most fast bowlers are sports cars, Ferraris or Aston Martins, exciting but expensive. Courtney Walsh is a Volvo. A number of fast bowlers have been more brilliant, and a few of them are playing today – Allan Donald, Wasim Akram, Glenn McGrath, Curtly Ambrose. But no fast bowler, past or present, comes […]
All eyes are sure to be on Kyalami this weekend when the first of the World Superbike meetings kicks off Gavin Foster In the 1950s, motorcyclists from the colonies were known as the wild boys of racing because of their fearless and aggressive riding styles. One theory attributed their success to the fact that most […]
John Matshikiza ‘We go anywhere in South Africa where there is a railway line,” says Lynette Coetzee, senior manager of Transnet’s Phelophepa health-care train project. “In fact, we sometimes even go where there is no railway line. One time, when we were going to Qamata [in the Eastern Cape] it turned out that the line […]
Judge Edwin Cameron Tonight I am talking not as a lawyer or as a judge. I am talking as a person living with this virus in my body, who knows what it is like to feel deathly sick and to fear death. I also know what it is like to recover and to start feeling […]
Parks Mankhlana The presidency spent considerable time the past week searching frantically for a passage in the president’s speeches which said an HIV-positive condition does not lead to Aids. Neither his private correspondence nor a reconstruction of all the discussions with either his ministers or any other authority on the question of HIV and Aids […]
Scientific knowledge is only ever provisional. Whatever the rigour applied in trying to establish it, it survives only for as long as it is not falsified or a better explanation for something is not put forward. So there is something to be said for the person who sets out to falsify all or part of […]
There is often little connection between the importance of a constitutional decision and the uncertainty of the outcome of the actual case in which the issue is raised. Last year the Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma- controlled Department of Health behaved as expected. It botched up the introduction of the South African Medicines and Medical Devices Regulatory Authority […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH I was extremely upset when I read the report by Anthony Sampson, author of the amazingly brilliant biography of Nelson Mandela, that it had been alleged in a forthcoming book that Mandela “was recruited as an ‘agent of influence’ by British intelligence”. It is also alleged that Mandela visited […]