Mungo Soggot DEPRESSIVES hooked on “happy” drug Prozac have something new to be down about: the drug for which they have been paying more than R300 a box is actually available at less than half the price, provided they ask for it by the right name. United States company Eli Lilly, inventor of the wonder […]
Project Coast Chris Oppermann LAST year South African National Defence Force (SANDF) chief General Georg Meiring refused to release information about Project Coast before a special parliamentary committee. Project Coast was approved in 1983 by the then minister of defence, Magnus Malan, and his colleague, finance minister Barend du Plessis. Dr Wouter Basson, who held […]
machines Barbara Ludman THE COMPLETE BOOK OF UFOs by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough (Piatkus, R61) THE RETURN OF THE GODS by Erich von Dniken (Element, R134,95) NEXT week marks the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident, one of the landmark events that catapulted to fame the concept of little silver creatures travelling to earth […]
COMMUNITY radio broadcasting is battling to keep its head above water. The bulk of community radio stations operate at a loss, with sky-high debt; staff lack financial training; and infighting and power struggles further undercut the stations’ potential for growth. This is according to a detailed industry review of community radio compiled by the monitoring […]
PETER MAKURUBE meets West African music man and griot Adama Drame, who is visiting South Africa with his troupe of singers and drummers WHEN he was born he joined a long line of great musical tradition – the Djeli griots (musicians) had been at it for six generations. Adama Drame was totally immersed in the […]
weather The bandit weather system El Ni —o is so unpredictable that scientists can’t predict whether it’s even going to happen, writes Julia Grey YOU can rely on the sun to rise, and the seasons to tick over predictably, but in some cases, nature is not so straightforward. It’s even possible that the breath of […]
A lack of tolerance by the central party structure appears to be restricting provincial freedom and creativity, argues Jabu Sindane THE African National Congress national working committee’s intervention in the Bushbuckridge border dispute last month raises many questions of the constitutional and political importance of inter- governmental relations. For instance, to what extent: * Can […]
Human rights form a significant part of the new police curriculum, reports Tangeni Amupadhi F ROM now on police recruits will be trained to be nice to people, replacing the old-style “bandit-chasing”. About 200 000 applications have poured in for the 1 300 police posts advertised so far. Training with the new curriculum kicks off […]
There are some capable people waiting to provide the expertise that athletics in South Africa needs – but they have to be voted into office first ATHLETICS:Julian Drew JUST over two years ago athletics staged its first-ever democratic elections which predictably followed overtly political lines. At the time this was understandable because each province was […]
Zambia’s Chiluba’ Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government is portraying a meeting between former president Kenneth Kaunda and South Africa’s Minister of Defence Joe Modise as a plot for armed insurrection. President Frederick Chiluba’s deputies told Zambian journalists this week that the meeting – at Johannesburg’s FNB stadium earlier this month when Zambia’s national […]