Paul Kirk A Durban high court judge, Phillip Levisohn, has summonsed the deputy director of Prince Gideon Zulu’s Department of Social Welfare and Population Development to court. The summons will see top civil servant Eric Mhlongo appear before Judge Levisohn next month to explain why his department is being taken to court and sued with […]
Paul Kirk More details emerged this week of the involvement of KwaZulu-Natal Gambling Board members in casino companies to which they have awarded licenses. The Mail & Guardian last week reported how gambling board member Londiwe Mthembu was a director of Akani Umsundizi, a company that has won a lucrative bid to build a casino […]
innovations An altogether new kind of Internet service has been created by Hypersend, for those occasions when you need to get a top priority document – of large proportions – from A to B without the delays and security risks involved in sending it via e-mail. The service simply requires you and the receiver to […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Former Mail & Guardian journalist Vusi Mona has been appointed editor of City Press with effect from January 2001. His appointment could signal a major editorial restructuring drive at the paper’s editorial section, aimed at increasing its stake in the highly contested Sunday market. Until his appointment Mona was serving as deputy to […]
Marianne Merten An 11-year-old Boland girl who lost half a leg in a farming accident eight months ago is getting an artificial leg fitted free of charge after a Pretoria orthopaedist and prostheticist became aware of her plight. “I’m doing this for free because of two reasons: I feel sorry for her and not everyone […]
The fact that they’ve twice wrongly predicted the end of the world has not swayed the members of an Eastern Cape cult from their beliefs Thebe Mabanga and Peter Dickson For the second time this year, the world did not end as they had hoped. But the 70 members of the Church of God, an […]
After many years in the football wilderness, Lamontville Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Premier Soccer League Merryman Kunene If Lamontville Golden Arrows’ ascendancy to the Premier Soccer League was a straight- forward issue of clinching the MTN First Division Coastal Stream crown, then staying in the company of the elite boys will require […]
Africa John Stremlau Political pundits across the United States predict a very close presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush on November 7. Equally important and also too close to call are several local campaigns that will determine which party controls the US Congress. All 435 seats of the House of […]
Khadija Magardie The latest statistics of the United States- based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) indicate that sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest-growing population “of any major region in the world”. According to the 2000 World Population Data Sheet, the region has a population of 657- million and a total fertility rate of 5,8 children per woman. […]
The new partnership is a much-needed consolidation of efforts and is working towards building an exciting and more effective platform to promote professional contemporary dance in the KwaZulu-Natal area. FNB choreographic grants have been awarded to Jay Pather, who is working with Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre and Boyzie Cekwana and his Floating Outfit Project. With […]
weapons deal Director Keith Mokoape’s personal stake in this lucrative deal is the latest in a series of scandals surrounding South Africa’s arms procurement Ivor Powell A director of the South African defence parastatal Armscor and former head of African National Congress military intelligence is the head of a newly formed company that stands to […]
Marianne Merten South Africa is battling to stop the illegal fishing of its Antarctic deep-water toothfish resources, which has cost the country a conservatively estimated $150- million in income over the past four years. And it has emerged that a 1998 Cabinet memo stipulating requirements for patrolling the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone around […]
Neal Collins RUGBY South Africa’s hopes of installing Francois Pienaar as Springbok coach in place of the under-pressure Nick Mallett have been dealt a potentially devastating blow. Pienaar’s club Saracens have announced they have agreed a lucrative five-year deal with the former Springbok captain which will tie him to the premiership’s most ambitious club until […]
The government has so far ignored its own report on administering antiretrovirals Belinda Beresford The government has been sitting on a report it commissioned that vigorously endorses the use of antiretroviral drugs in stopping the transmission of HIV between mothers and children. The study, commissioned by the Department of Health and delivered four months ago, […]
National Women’s Day is important in continuing the struggle for women’s emancipation Baleka Mbete Seeing the veterans of the 1956 march on the Union Buildings on National Women’s Day had an invigorating effect. For as long as women do not yet enjoy most or all their human rights, we need National Women’s Day. This day […]
links David Le Page The country’s largest providers of Internet services to home dial-up subscribers, M-Web, World Online and SAIX, are carrying links to child pornography websites on their servers. The links are part of the Usenet service, an Internet-wide system of virtual bulletin boards on which subscribers can place and respond to messages. Users […]
Thebe Mabanga South African beatmasters are looking to make a mark on territory traditionally dominated by United Kingdom and Spanish DJs – a club hub that counts Frankie Knuckles and David Morales as virtual resident DJs. For that is what Ibiza is. The clubbers paradise off the Spanish coast is currently experiencing summer madness and […]
Brenda Atkinson REVIEW OF THE WEEK The exhibition blank_ Architecture, apartheid and after currently on show in Newtown, forms part of the recent Urban Futures multi-disciplinary event. It offers inspiring insights into the historical articulations of South African urban space. Deserving of acclaim for its acute intelligence and meticulous research, blank_ Architecture, apartheid and after, […]
Home affairs botches permits for Mother Theresa’s missionaries Marianne Merten The government has given marching orders to three nuns of the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, who have been running an HIV/Aids care centre in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town. One Mission of Charity sister has been told to leave in January; another in July […]
BACTERIOLOGISTS at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in Pretoria are baffled as to what is causing chunks of meat to glow and frighten rural villagers in Northern Province. Head of the bacteriology division Dr Maryke Henton said it was the first case of its kind that she had investigated, and that she believed it was something […]
THE shooting of a 15-year-old boy in an apparent gang-related attack in Factreton brings to 19 the number of people killed in gang-related violence on the Cape Flats since the beginning of August, despite the deployment of extra police and soldiers to the trouble spots. At least eight people were killed in separate incidents of […]
THE world’s last Concordes stopped flying this week after authorities told British Airways they were about to brand the jet unairworthy, three weeks after an Air France crash killed 113 people. BA, the only other airline to fly the supersonic jet, said it had grounded its entire fleet of seven within minutes of hearing that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE is facing a critical shortage of fuel because of a debilitating lack of foreign currency, with no immediate solution in sight, a fuel industry source said on Wednesday. He confirmed that the supply of fuel in Harare was critical and said the country’s second city of Bulawayo had “a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Johannesburg | Thursday SIZZLING oil prices are unlikely to cool off in the near future fuelling speculation that South Africa may have to move away from its neutral monetary policy. OPEC has indicated it is not keen to take any action to reduce the current crude price of around US$32 per […]
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has expelled freelance journalist Dale McKinley from the party for “consistently and publicly” attacking leaders of the African National Congress. McKinley was summonsed to a disciplinary hearing at the weekend where he was allowed to present a defence. The SACP’s central committee then endorsed the decision to expel him. […]
THE release of a dozen foreign hostages – including South Africans Callie and Monique Strydom – held for up to nearly four months by Moslem rebels in the southern Philippines has been postponed at least until Friday, officials said. A spokesman for chief hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado said bad weather over Jolo, the southern island […]
UNDERWATER rescue capsules fighting to reach 118 seamen trapped on a Russian nuclear submarine have failed again as new evidence suggested a massive explosion shattered large areas of the vessel. Navy officials said there were no signs of life, but some of the crew could still be alive. Rescue capsules trying to link up with […]
SIXTEEN people died instantly when a bakkie collided head-on with a school bus in Northern Province on Tuesday morning. The 16 people were in the bakkie and were going from Vhulaudzi village to Louis Trichardt when they hit the bus in misty weather on the Witvlag road at about 6.20am. Provincial police spokesman Senior Superintendent […]
A RAPE suspect allegedly leapt to his death at the Wynberg Magistrates Court in Cape Town on Tuesday, shortly after he was denied bail. Police said the man, a 22-year-old rape suspect, appeared in court in connection with the rape of a Guguletu woman. He apparently jumped out of a window on the fifth floor […]
The Nigerian naira fell further in inter-bank open market trading, dropping to 114.30 naira to the dollar from 114 at the start of the week. The naira slipped to 168.50 from 168 naira against the pound sterling, and dropped to 163 from 162.50 to 1,000 CFA francs but held steady at 55 naira to the […]
RACING against time, Russian Navy rescuers have begun lowering an escape capsule to a crippled nuclear submarine on the bed of the Barents Sea in a new attempt to save the 116 sailors trapped inside, officials said. The latest bid came after two earlier attempts during the night to lower a rescue capsule to the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and LESLEY WROUGHTON, Lagos | Wednesday THE winners of the four licences to operate digital mobile telecommunications in Africa’s most populous country will be announced on December 5 this year after contenders bid for the privilege. The Nigerian Communications Commission, in charge of an auction for the four sought-after licences, said bidding would […]