David Le Page What network to choose? It’s a question that should probably tax us a little more when going on air, even though there are only two choices at present: Vodacom or MTN. The range of different billing plans offered by the two networks tends to make choosing between the two networks seem more […]
KAIZER Chiefs deadlocked 1-1 with Jomo Cosmos in their PSL match at the Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday night. Cosmos’ Mozambican star Manuel “Tico Tico” Bucuane played a stunning game and was the catalyst for a wonderful equaliser in the 71st minute. Chiefs drew first blood in the 42nd minute when Siyabonga Nomvete scored from the […]
Desmond Balmer An innovative marine park on a small Tanzanian island that can accommodate only 14 guests at a time was last month declared the global winner of the British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. Chumbe Island Coral Park, in an idyllic setting south- west of Zanzibar Town, was chosen as the winner ahead of […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The vast majority of clinicians the world over reject the view that HIV and Aids are not causally linked and that Aids does not exist. The National Institutes of Health in the United States, drawing on research from around the world, issued a rebuttal of the dissident view. This rebuttal has […]
Amazon’s 1-Click system may be neat, but making it exclusive is absurd John Naughton Like many people in my line of business, I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. It’s by far the slickest, most efficient e-commerce operation on the Web. Unlike many of its competitors, it has cracked the “fulfilment” problem – the […]
Members of Lesotho’s government have been implicated in the 1982 cross-border raid that claimed the lives of nine people Jubie Matlou Former police commissioner Johan van der Merwe is claiming personal responsibility for the December 1985 raid into Lesotho which resulted in the massacre of six underground African National Congress operatives and three Lesotho nationals. […]
AUTHORITIES in Cameroon have questioned three radio station workers over a broadcast which allegedly criticised the country’s human rights record, leaked security service reports say. The reports said the three were questioned over a broadcast entitled “Refugees in France and Britain” which included interviews with English-speaking separatists living abroad who accused President Paul Biya’s government […]
Thebe Mabanga IN YOUR EAR Gauteng youth station Yfm 99.2 has broken new ground by setting up an exchange programme with a foreign broadcaster. The two-year-old music station has linked up with Rythm 93.7 fm of Nigeria to exchange expertise in areas of management, news and information presentation, and music content. Rythm is a two-year-old […]
The United Nations has adopted a harsh policy in an attempt to move people to higher ground Chris McGreal A United Nations strategy of withholding aid from flood-stricken towns and villages in Mozambique in an attempt to pressure residents to move to refugee camps has left thousands of people desperate for clean drinking water and […]
Neil Thomas TAKING STOCK Everybody in the investment industry knows it happens. It’s share price manipulation, an activity that skirts the border of legality depending on its scale and intention. But there’s little that can be done about it – many professional investors would rather nothing was done about it, regarding stock manipulation as just […]
Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga’s “prince of the dodgy deal” and suspended parks chief, Alan Gray, has been forced to sell his personalised M3 BMW and Land Rover after pleading poverty in the Nelspruit regional court. Gray’s attorney, Pieter Swanepoel, said this week Gray had been forced to “downscale” to a BMW 318i to help pay escalating […]
BAFANA Bafana will meet Mauritius on April 29, instead og April 1, in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship first-round match. The match has been rescheduled due to date clashes with first-round, second-leg matches in the African Champions League, Cup Winners Cup and CAF Cup.
Shaun de Waal REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Showing simultaneously at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery are two shows by important young South African artists, but beyond that they have little in common: if one expects some kind of dialogue between Lisa Brice’s Work in Transit and Hentie van der Merwe’s ‘Trappings’, one may be left in a state of […]
Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW This week’s Human Rights Commission hearings could influence our economic growth prospects as much as last month’s budget. We can have no growth without investment – but the way we handle politics and government may do as much as economic policies, if not more, to shape whether people invest. The […]
Anita Allen The idea that a virus, HIV, causes Aids remains merely a hypothesis until it is proven true. There is, as yet, no such proof. Moreover, HIV tests are non- specific and tend to cross-react, yielding false positives. The definition of the syndrome (the “s” in Aids) has been changed over the years. Originally, […]
Alan Henry MOTOR RACING When the Formula One (F1) paddock reconvenes in Melbourne this week, the main topic of conversation will for once not surround the future of a particular driver or team. Rather it is the very future of the sport which is of paramount concern after the recent revelation that its commercial controller […]
Jubie Matlou More than two million South Africans will observe Water Week 2000 next week without adequate access to clean water and sanitation because of the extensive flood damage to water works infrastructure in Mpumalanga, the Northern Province and the North-West. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry estimates the damage to infrastructure to be […]
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has accused ex-rebel leader Foday Sankoh of hampering peace in Sierra Leone. Annan, in a report to the Security Council, said Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front (RUF), although now part of the government, were hostile to U.N. peacekeepers and contributed to rising tensions in the tiny Western African nation.
Matthew Krouse CD OFTHEWEEK I must have been 10. A difficult age to decide what you want when mother offers you a gift. I chose a Meccano set, my older sister demanded a copy of John Lennon’s album Imagine. By the time I turned 11 I was already bored with the Meccano, but somehow I […]
A six-member delegation from the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) arrived in South Africa on Thursday to evaluate our bid for the 2006 World Cup. The country will be putting on an all-out show to prove to the delegation leader, American lawyer Alan Rothenberg, and his team that we deserve to host the spectacle. […]
Literary circles are agog at James Thackara’s new novel. But would they care if it were 80 pages rather than 800? DJ Taylor The recent revelation that after two decades of sweat and expectation the novelist James Thackara is ready to publish his 800-page work, The Book of Kings, will come as no surprise to […]
The opportunity to institute a constructive policy to deal with the HIV/Aids epidemic is slipping out of reach as politicians and scientists argue over who knows best Mail & Guardian reporters Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang confirmed last week that her department is busy setting up a panel of approximately 30 local and international experts […]
The tragic story of an 11-year-old girl whose leg was mangled by a tractor has spotlighted the use of child labour on South African farms Marianne Merten ‘Sometimes I forget the leg is gone,” says 11-year-old Waronice van Wyk. “I am unhappy, but I’m getting used to it.” She lost half her right leg in […]
TRANSNET said on Wednesday it plans to sell its passenger bus services business, Autopax, in a bid to step up its restructuring programme. The loss-making parastatal, whose restructuring has been hobbled by massive debts, set no deadline for the disposal. “The government of the Republic of South Africa, represented by Transnet announces its intention to […]
OWN CORESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. GAUTENG Deputy Judge President HCJ Flemming became the sixth Johannesburg judge or close family member to be hijacked in the past three years when he was robbed of his white Audi as he left his Victory Park home. The judge, who each day sits on appeal benches hearing the […]
SOUTH Africa closed the gap on Australia at the top of the Wisden World Championship with their 2-0 series victory in India. India dropped to seventh in the table, with only England and Zimbabwe below them. If Australia lose their forthcoming series in New Zealand — the last was drawn — their record will be […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kochi | Thursday 9.00am SOUTH Africa have posted a total of 301/3 in their alotted 50 overs against India at Kochi, leaving the home-side a tough, but not unreachable target. The top-scorers for South Africa were openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs who scored 115 and 111 respectively. The two openers were sent […]
A PLACE remains open for the South Africa men’s hockey team at this year’s Sydney Olympics even though the squad has been withdrawn by its own national Olympic association. In a statement from its Brussels headquarters on Tuesday the International Hockey Federation said talks are still being held between the South Africa Hockey Association and […]
SEVENTEEN people have been killed by a viral Marburg-type haemorrhagic fever among 38 cases registered in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak occurred in the Durba region of Orientale province, according to state radio. A Marburg fever epidemic claimed 70 lives in the same region between January and May 1999. Marburg fever, […]
THE local maize industry said on Wednesday that it expects to export 800000 tons of maize during the next marketing year (2000/1). According to a survey some 690000 tons of white maize and 110000 tons of yellow maize will be exported. 1998/9 saw over a million tons of maize leave the country; half of the […]
CRUDE oil prices tumbled more than 8% on Wednesday amid indications that Iran will back plans by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to raise production from April 1. At the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), April delivery crude oil futures settled at $31,26 per barrel, falling $2,87 or 8,4%on the day. The fall […]
STORMERS centre Robbie Fleck will miss three weeks of Super 12 action after an accidental collision during Saturday’s 22-18 loss to the Cats. Fleck saw a specialist in Cape Town, who advised him not to play until the Crusaders match on March 26.