A CONTINGENT of 10 Malawian soldiersleft for the Zambian capital of Lusaka on Wednesday to begintraining forpeace-keeping duties inKinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Astatement fromthe Malawian army headquarters in Lilongwe said the Malawian contingent was part of an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) peace-keeping initiative. Army spokesmen stressed thatthe Malawian soldiers were merely […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 6.30pm THE Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that the Liquor Bill, passed by Parliament in November 1998, is unconstitutional. This comes after then president Nelson Mandela referred the Bill to the Concourt with questions over its constitutionality. Mandela said he had reservations about the constitutionality of the Bill as […]

AN outbreak of Lassa fever in eastern Sierra Leone has killed at least 80 people, while about 100 more are in an extremely serious condition in Segbwema Town, a doctor said. Dr Ibrahim Turay said: “The outbreak has been prevalent for some 10 months now since we took over Segbwema,” 255km east of Freetown. He […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday 12.45pm THE Department of Finance said on Friday that inland revenue and customs and excise receipts of R17,51-billion were collected in October, which was 1,2% less than the same month last year. The ministry said in its monthly report on the progress of the budget that total revenue in the […]

FOSSIL remains of two new types of herbivorous dinosaur dating back more than 100-million years have been discovered in Niger, nearly intact. The largest of the two dinosaurs, named Jobaria tiguidensis, unknown until its recent discovery by an international team, is 17 meters long and had spatula-like teeth which enabled it to munch on small […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby World Cup A week has come and gone and the assessments of the fourth Rugby World Cup are still at wide variance. There are the familiar voices of the traditionalists maintaining that all the games (bar England versus Tonga when the bus was late) started on time, a total of 1,75- million […]

Mail & Guardian reporter What is an Internet company worth? The spiralling values of Net stocks now make it a quasi-scientific question. And two Salomon Smith Barney analysts are just the latest to attempt an answer. London-based Gerard van Hamel Platerink and Morten Andersen have recently completed a detailed note on the subject which provides […]

Justin Pearce ‘It was eight months ago the police took him away,” Maryam recalls. “First they take the husband to starve the wife.” Maryam (47) and her husband are Eritreans who had spent all of their adult lives in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. They were part of a community of thousands who, during the […]

Barry Streek South Africa’s 739 unelected traditional leaders are being paid nearly R600- million a year in salaries – at an average of R65 071,84 a month or R780 853,68 a year. This was revealed by Minister for Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi in reply to a question tabled in the National Assembly by […]

Channel vision Now that the recent surfeit of rugby is behind us, perhaps it is time to reflect on the surfeit of television advertising that accompanied it. And surfeit, overabundance, glut it most certainly was. If nothing else the coverage of the Rugby World Cup once again emphasised the urgent necessity for a strict rewriting […]