Swapna Prabhakaran Pregnant women undergoing controversial Aids drug trials at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital are fully aware that they stand a one-in-four chance of receiving a placebo. Despite this, the women this week gave their full support to the programme which has been slated by a top United States medical journal for being unethical. […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM AS the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa buried the 21 people killed by misdirected shells from the civil war in neighbouring Brazzaville, DRC soldiers bombarded Brazzaville on Wednesday in an apparent reprisal. Artillerymen from the Tshasi military camp in western Kinshasa opened fire with multiple rocket-launchers, which had been deployed along the […]
Hazel Friedman The market targeted by Yfm South Africas first youth radio station is a multi- branded beast indeed. It feeds off a diet of MTV, Nikes, Aids consciousness, shopping malls, environmental awareness and a generous portion of nihilism. It burps attitude without the idealism of its more politically earnest forebears. It is the generation […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM STATE debt in SA, which has hovered around 55% of gross domestic product for the past few years, jumped to 57,8% in the second quarter from the first quarter’s 55,8%. The increasing state debt level puts SA perilously close to the “debt trap” of 60% of GDP, where government’s are forced into increasing […]
Betrayed by the ANC, Contralesa is reviewing its options for the future, Wally Mbhele reports The congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) confirmed this week that it plans to cut ties with the African National Congress, but played down suggestions it was seeking links with the newly launched United Democratic Movement. Contralesas shift […]
Andy Duffy The Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) is seeking to drag Deputy President Thabo Mbeki into a squabble with the Department of Education. The incident, provoked by queries from the Mail & Guardian about Medunsas future, points to intriguing political dynamics surrounding the university, which enjoys close links with the deputy president. Medunsas […]
The Angella Johnson Interview I never allow my picture to be taken for newspapers or magazines; its too dangerous, insists Dr Micki Pistorius, chief investigative psychologist for the South African Police Service. She is edgy and dragging on a borrowed cigarette, having failed at yet another attempt to quit smoking. I can see her point. […]
At the Gauteng African National Congresss election of its chair last weekend, the outgoing premier, Tokyo Sexwale, volubly attacked the press for its coverage of the premiership race, singling out a reporter from this newspaper with the charge that he had allowed himself to be used by politicians. The journalists crime was that he had […]
Steve Morris : Rugby The real fight for control of South African rugby was joined this week with the confirmation that Mluleki George is to be nominated to oppose Louis Luyt for the presidency of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu). It is a battle which promises to bloody a few noses and carpets. […]
Jeans companies take advertising beyond the frontiers with in-your-face campaigns Denim company Diesel is poised to launch phase two of an assault on a world already entranced by its Nineties cool image, writes Susannah Barron They know how to throw a good bash, Diesel. Alexander McQueen, Antonio Berardi and Hussein Chalayan might be London fashion […]