Thierry M Luescher Student activism is in limbo. The struggle is over and no new driving force has emerged. HIV/Aids, poverty, unemployment, education, housing, crime, nation-building … students know that these are the issues. However, when asked what they do about them, there is silence. “I use condoms,” one might say, and many smirk or […]
I refer to the article “Megapark threatened” (April 26). Indeed Minister of Enviromental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa did promise undeliverables with regard to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, but I’d like to suggest that a certain stakeholder group got him to stick his neck out on its behalf (for fences to be lifted […]
More than a decade after the Market Photography Workshop was founded, a publication has been launched that illustrates the changing face of South African photography. Yazeed Kamaldien reports Newtown’s Market Photography Workshop was started in 1989, and in reaction to the constraints of apart- heid it threw together people from all walks of life teaching […]
Tony Jackman Is the rate at which sperm travels in space of interest only to those planning to copulate very slowly in zero-gravity conditions? It must be a tad disconcerting when your partner keeps floating off like a bad joke just when you’re approaching the punchline. The question is best not asked, as anyone who […]
Suzan Chala and Jaspreet Kindra Anti-privatisation protests could embarrass the government In a surprise move reminiscent of last year’s anti-privatisation protests during the Durban racism conference, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is calling for a civil society-led, anti-privatisation campaign in August this year. Johannesburg will host the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development […]
“Tshwete was larger than life a very tough man with the heart of a teddy bear.” Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi about the late Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete “Freedom does not mean anarchy … If you don’t want to walk, don’t set train coaches alight.” Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa at Freedom Day […]
What is the origin of the phrase “draconian laws”? Named after Draco, the ancient Athenian statesman whose penal code made his name a byword for severity. Steven Davies, Cape Town What exactly (in biochemical terms) are the “toxins” that so many diet regimes aim to “flush out” of our systems, usually by semi-starvation for a […]
Sarah Duguid Across South Africa, criminals walk free every day because of poor investigation methods. Police officers often see their cases thrown out of court because they are not sufficiently skilled to know how to follow proper procedure. There are 18 000 police officers currently employed as investigators, not counting private investigators, and they have […]
Riaan Wolmarans Barbarellos, Illovo Square, Oxford Road, Illovo. V-Sessions presents DJRudi playing deep and jazzy house on Tuesdays from 9pm. It’s R20 with a free cocktail if you register on www.verge.co.za. Bassline, 7 Seventh Street, Melville. Wessel vanRensburg performs onFridayMay 3 and Moses Khumalo is on stage on Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5 […]
ISRAEL will not guarantee Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat the right to return to the West Bank, if he travels abroad, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told ABC television’s Nightline on Wednesday. “We are not giving any guarantees for that,” Sharon said in the interview. “We’re not asked to give any guarantees, we’re not going to […]
CABINET’S decision to "provide a comprehensive package of care for survivors of sexual assault" and to strive for a complete universal roll-out to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids has, understandably, been described as a turning point, a breakthrough, a triumph of reason and a victory for the people.
Patent busting: Zimbabwe has declared a six-month national emergency and suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat HIV/Aids. The move, published by the Ministry of Justice, will allow cheaper generic drugs to be imported without being submitted to normal testing and registration.
SA mining giant Anglo American said on Thursday it had agreed to buy the Chilean copper interests of US ExxonMobil for $1,3-billion (1,4-billion euros) cash to boost its base metals operations.
Swakopmund is still more German than African. <i>Daar’s die hele vokken land wat jy kan op sit,</i>" said the young, white assistant director, incorrectly using the singular pronoun to address a motley band of black extras who were sitting on a Land Rover that was supposed to be decorating the movie set.
In A stirring speech last week Deputy President Jacob Zuma spoke of the urgent need for South Africans to pull up their moral socks. Mr Zuma used the opportunity to announce yet another in the long line of "summits".
SOUTH AFRICAN space tourist Mark Shuttleworth took his compatriots on an an on-air tour of the International Space Station on Tuesday, Russian NTV television reported.
JASPREET KINDRA, Johannesburg | Friday ABOUT 2 000 political activists remain imprisoned under the Burmese military junta, which has renamed the South Asian country Myanmar. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the military regime is running more than 43 forced labour camps. These camps are used for infrastructure and agricultural projects to profit […]
Kampala | Monday UP to 60 mourners have been shot dead in southern Sudan by suspected Ugandan rebels who forced them to eat a dead body they were about to bury, the Ugandan army charged on Sunday. Army representative Major Shaban Bantariza said that the attack took place on Friday on the ranges of mountain […]
COULD it be the new star wars? The Evening Standard, a London daily newspaper, seems bent on claiming cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth as a Briton.
Kinshasa | Monday THE World Bank has approved a $450-million (500-million euro) credit line for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aimed at rebuilding the vast central African country’s war-ravaged economy, official sources said on Sunday. Under the terms of the loan agreement signed between the DRC government and the Bank, the monies will be […]
ANTHONY MORLAND, Pretoria | Monday A UN Security Council mission began a whirlwind tour of eight African countries in South Africa on Sunday, aimed at boosting peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi. Headed by French ambassador Jean-David Levitte who sounded an upbeat note as he arrived in Pretoria the third […]
Antananarivo | Tuesday MARC Ravalomanana, who has been officially declared president of Madagascar, will be sworn in to office on Friday in the capital Antananarivo, political and judicial sources said on Tuesday. Ravalomanana, who was declared on Monday by a constitutional court to have won a long-disputed presidential election held in December, will take the […]
France | Monday A GRIM chapter in scientific curiosity ends Monday when the remains of the so-called “Hottentot Venus” the preserved body of an African woman begin their journey back to a dignified resting place in South Africa. The dissected and preserved body of Saartjie Baartman will be handed over to South Africa’s ambassador to […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Friday POLITICAL grandstanding and greed are threatening the world’s biggest game reserve, a key prestige project of the South African government. The proposed Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is intended to link South Africa’s Kruger National Park with its Mozambican and Zimbabwean counterparts as the first step towards creating the planet’s largest […]
A testing time: AngloGold says its research data estimates that 29% of its workforce is HIV-positive…
Farewell princess: Hundreds of Capetonians last Saturday bade farewell to five-year-old Sibongile Mazeka, who died of an Aids-related illness.
Here we go again: The health minister and seven MECs are to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court…
Proposed: An integrated HIV/Aids research entity by the University of the Witwatersrand, which will bring together all the research and policy work being undertaken at the university…
Taken by surprise: Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang by KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali’s announcement that the anti-retroviral nevirapine would be administered as an emergency measure in the province…
In court again: The Treatment Action Campaign won its legal challenge to force the Department of Health to make nevirapine available to all HIV-positive pregnant women attending public antenatal facilities. The government will appeal to the Constitutional Court to reverse the judgement…
Mounting toll: The United Nations joint programme on HIV/Aids produced its 2001 update on the epidemic. It estimates that five million people became infected with HIV this year and that worldwide 40-million people are living with the virus…
Defensive: Responding in Parliament to a multi-party challenge to the government’s HIV/Aids policy, President Thabo Mbeki expressed reservations about the use of anti-retroviral drugs to treat it.