the future It’s time to consolidate the wealth of knowledge Africans are carrying around in their heads, argues Nhlanganiso Dladla A nation with no knowledge of its history (and culture) is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Mosiah Garvey My 13-year-old daughter (whom I would refer to as “niece” if I were of the […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM FORMER Springbok rugby player Johan Ackermann, has lost his appeal against his two-year suspension from rugby for illegal drug use. Ackermann, a policeman, tested positive for the anabolic steroid Nandrolone at a Springbok training camp in in February. Ackermann says the handling of his urine sample did not follow procedures prescribed by the […]
Kobus Rust, of the South African Boerboel BreedersÕ Association (ÒBoerboels: A breed apartÓ, Letters, July 25 to 31) excellently describes this pure and attractive breed. But I do wonder, as I do when I look at our poodlesÕ tails, why we choose to mutilate some breeds? Or is a Boerboel, like a Manx cat, born […]
Law students could soon be following in the footsteps of student doctors if a community-service proposal gets the go-ahead, reports Marion Edmunds LAW graduates could be next in line for the government’s drive to recruit students into community service. Ideas for practical training for lawyers have been under consideration for some time. Earlier this year […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: NORTHERN Transvaal rugby supporters will elect a committee to fight for the sacking of John Williams as coach and Hentie Serfontein as president of the Northern Transvaal Rugby Union on Friday. The supporters have been unhappy with the team’s recent performance. Dannie Coetzee, one of the organisers, said a march has been planned […]
Chris McGreal in Kigali RWANDA’s Parliament is demanding that the government arrest a prominent Hutu politician who has been appointed as a regional governor despite his inclusion on the administration’s own list of men wanted for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis. Boniface Rucagu is number 120 on the list of about 2 000 people who […]
Funding shortfalls in provincial education could derail more than just the new school curriculum, reports Ann Eveleth THE Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, walked into a meeting last Friday with little good news for the provincial education and finance leaders who confronted him. They had hoped that Manuel could cover the spiralling cash shortfalls threatening […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: FORMER SA Breweries chief executive Meyer Kahn started work as a policeman on Friday. Kahn’s role as the most senior civilian in the police force will be to restructure the force, taking charge of personnel and financial matters while freeing up the police commissioner George Fivaz to concentrate on policing. His appointment, announced […]
Ann Eveleth A BIZARRE, long-running row split the management at South Africa’s main nuclear waste dump in the months leading up to the discovery of radioactive leaks at the site. Kappie Steyn, head of the Vaalputs site for 11 years, was pushed from his post last December after what his wife says was a six-year […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga MANAGEMENT at the University of Zululand, facing a barrage of corruption allegations, has ordered its staff and students to shut up or produce evidence to back the claims. The administration, already rocked by revelations surrounding fake degrees and fake financial credits to students, issued what amounts to an ultimatum on the campus […]