Ann Eveleth JOE DIESCHO, the most senior black administrator at the University of South Africa, has been gagged, demoted and deprived of his official car. He is the public relations director, but stands accused of publicly criticising the university. These actions follow two press interviews earlier this year in which he echoed growing campus criticisms […]
Visiting author Ariel Dorfman tells how writing Widows mirrored his struggle to come to terms with Chile’s terrible past CHILE and South Africa are linked by their experience of tyranny. The parallels come especially to mind with the current visit of Chilean playwright and novelist Ariel Dorfman, who is speaking at the Grahamstown Festival and […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM The gold price, already under severe pressure for some time, plummeted on Thursday as the Australian reserve bank cut its reserves by a third, selling 167 tons of the precious metal. Gold closed in New York ahead of the Independence Day holiday $5,90 lower, at $325,25/oz. Some analysts had expected prevailing conditions to […]
brigade Don’t make jocular remarks about the prime minister of Mauritius, warns Humphrey Harrison, who was jailed on the island I GAZED around the tiny ant- and mosquito- infested cell and mused at how misleading those glossy brochures about Mauritius had been. Even so, I should try to look on the bright side: at least […]
FRIDAY, 12.10PM: NATIONAL marathon champion Helene Joubert has been dropped from the South African squad which left on Thursday for Hungary to prepare for next month’s world track and field championships in Athens. Joubert was dropped after she unwittingly broke the rules and ran in last month’s Comrades Marathon. Banele Sindani of Athletics South Africa […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM BUSINESS confidence in the second quarter fell sharply against the first three months of the year, according to Stellenbosch University’s Bureau for Economic Research. The BER’s business confidence index fell to 34,4 in the second quarter, from 45,2 in the first, continuing a trend of falling confidence since the last quarter of 1995. […]
UK COPS ARRIVE A BRITISH police team arrived in South Africa at the end of June to work closely with the Derpartment of Safety and Security and the South African Police Services. The team will review management systems and help in training, evaluation and monitoring of the department. It will draw up a report with […]
The debates (and fears) around Africanism often turn on a misreading of the term, writes Charlene Smith AFRICANIST remains a dirty word among those who are not a darker shade of chocolate. But, and here the pigmentally challenged need to take note, a new African consciousness (the new terminology) is becoming a hallmark of the […]
A businessman wanted in Germany for tax evasion says he gave money to the ANC because `he was interested in politics’, writes Gustav Thiel A GERMAN citizen who allegedly owes his government R500-million in tax arrears and is fighting his extradition from South Africa claims he has contributed more than R100 000 to the African […]
A new strain of TB may signal potential disaster for 10 000 buffalo in the Kruger National Park, writes Ellen Bartlett SOUTH AFRICA, already facing the worst human tuberculosis epidemic in the world, is now confronting a new TB threat. Mycobacterium bovis, the strain commonly known as bovine TB, is sweeping the buffalo population in […]