Bourgeois

Celebrities, or rather personalities, infuse our lives with laughter, anger, ideas and idle chatter. Personalities intrigue us as much in their lives as in their deaths. This year Peter Mokaba and Hansie Cronje made us rethink the departed.

No follow-up: Traditional healers are battling to get patients to go for follow-up tests after they have tested HIV-positive.

Dear Mahlako, There is a lovely road that runs through Nelspruit in Mpumalanga and the Komatipoort border to Mozambique. At the end of it lies a city once known as Lorenco Marques — now Maputo.

The once maligned, much awaited and widely accepted mining charter ranks, to my mind, as one of the finest achievements in the economic transformation process of the democratic order.

This is a tribute to young lions — all those people under 35 who offer hope and inspiration for the future of this country. In presenting our top 100 rising stars in 2000, we said the future is young and black.

So, the event that the French call <i>Le Sommet Mondial Developpement Durable</i>, or the World Summit on Sustainable Development, has come and gone, leaving in its wake what this newspaper calls "a dubious legacy".