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Ntuthuko Maphumulo No South African team has yet managed to win the African Cup Winners’ Cup, which is also known as the Mandela Cup. This weekend Kaizer Chiefs trek to Tunisia to meet Club Africain in the semifinal second leg of this continental competition. Chiefs won the first leg 2-0 a few weeks ago through […]

Mayor Giuliani shares a Yankee victory that leads on to Arizona Rob Steen The Big Apple just got bigger. Willed on by a nation as well as a city, and in a manner that bordered on the pre- ordained, the New York Yankees displayed consummate professionalism in brushing aside the Seattle Mariners, sweeping into what […]

analysis Jeremy Rifkin For the first 10 days we worried about commercial aeroplanes being hijacked and used as missiles. Now the American people are worried about a new, even more deadly threat: bacteria and viruses being released in populated areas, infecting and killing millions of people. Policymakers are scurrying to catch up, by allocating funds […]

Paul Kirk The total cost of providing bodyguards to politicians may amount to more than R250-million a year. This week the office of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi confirmed that a total of 2 740 bodyguards are placed at the disposal of politicians. Mail & Guardian sources estimate that their salaries amount to about R200-million, […]

Townships are being uplifted through the efforts of Food and Trees for Africa Thabo Mohlala Martha Boshomane grew up liking trees, so when Food and Trees for Africa donated trees to the people of the newly developed Tsutsumani All Africa Games housing project she was naturally over the moon. Martha is one of the beneficiaries […]

HIV/Aids and the war against terrorism vie for space in the South Africa media these days and it was good see that the tragic case of Sibongele and Baby Tinashe was your cover story last week. President Thabo Mbeki and his compliant associates (not least the minister of health, who should have been booted out […]

Stefaans Brmmer ponders the mysteries of this sad and enigmatic land “Asia is a living body, and Afghanistan its heart. In the ruin of the heart lies the ruin of the body. So long as the heart is free, the body remains free. If not, it becomes a straw adrift in the wind.” Mohammed Iqbal […]

Experts also warn that south-eastern Zimbabwe is sitting on a foot-and-mouth time bomb Jenny Sharman In the excitement about the formation of the Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou trans-frontier park, a looming problem has been overlooked: land invasions in the Zimbabwe section of the park. The planned “peace park” includes Zimbabwe’s second-largest game park, the Gonarezhou National Park and […]

The Movement for Multiparty Democracy is unpopular, but it is still likely to win in the upcoming elections Gregory Mthembu-Salter As Zambia prepares to go to the polls in landmark presidential and parliamentary elections, President Frederick Chiluba marked the country’s 37th independence anniversary on Wednesday with a strong warning to the international community not to […]

REVIEW David Shapshak All Africa Internet Guide by Libby Young (M&G Books) Despite being a part of the so-called Third World, all 54 countries in Africa have a Web presence and you can access the Internet from them. But finding out about websites and navigating the Internet is as difficult as doing it physically. Thankfully […]

About 90 children who have been affected by HIV/Aids recently had a chance to tell their stories Barry Streek “Please can I have a doll and a dummy for my doll, because then I can play with my doll in my mother’s room and near her grave. The doll will be my friend because I […]

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe is to step into the row between the party’s head of religious affairs, Cedric Mayson, and Anglican Church leaders over Mayson’s accusation that they are politicising the HIV/Aids issue. In a letter this week to the Anglican bishops, Mayson says he “regrets” that Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu […]

There were more surprises in store for competitors in the recent Brait Grace to Grace 42km mountain bike challenge in the Magaliesberg than just the treacherous inclines and rocky and sandy terrain, writes Ntuthuko Maphumulo. They also had to contend with a redoubtable mother-and-son team who pedalled off with the top prizes. Jean Paul Pearton […]

Jaspreet Kindra Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa is facing unexpected competition for the post of African National Congress chairperson in the province, to be filled at the Gauteng ANC conference next weekend. The conference will elect office-bearers to replace the “interim” ANC leadership installed after the national ANC disbanded the Gauteng executive committee 17 months ago […]

Needy pensioners in the Western Cape are being provided with full sets of teeth for free Rob Davies Most of us take having a full set of teeth for granted. We pay no thought to crunching up a packet of crisps, navigating our way through a mealie or pulverising a pizza. Yet there are many […]

South African firms must adapt to a new role for their corporate social responsibility programmes Hamann and Paul Kapelus A Mail & Guardian article by Colleen du Toit (“New directions for donors”, October 12) and the news- paper’s supplement on the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development were a treasure trove for those interested in […]

Thabo Mohlala When it started the mission was simple: to drive all bakhalangas a term used to refer to non-South Africans, particularly Zimbabweans from Zandspruit. Although it was the murder of a local resident, allegedly by a Zimbabwean, a month ago that set off the violence, it emerged this week that xenophobia was not the […]

Jubie Matlou If you were thinking of where to erect an informal market to sell fruits and crafts to tourists passing between South Africa and Mozambique you couldn’t find a better place than the N4 highway in the Maputo Development Corridor. Informal markets at Mataffin and Matsulu preceded the multimullion-rand development at Nelspruit. For many […]

Drew Forrest and Jaspreet Kindra Business leaders across the racial spectrum reacted with caution this week to the labour movement’s plans for an economic summit, while a key representative of big business was positively disparaging. There was little indication that organised business believes much can be achieved by its participation on economic matters, but there […]

Makurdi, Nigeria | Thursday RAMPAGING soldiers continued reprisal attacks on Wednesday in some parts of Nigeria’s central Benue State, where they have already killed more than 100 people, a leading government official said. The attacks focused on the town of Zaki Biam, from where 19 soldiers were abducted and subsequently slain by militiamen two weeks […]

Washington | Wednesday THE probability of the US economy tumbling into recession sharply increased in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but a rebound is likely in 2002, the White House chief economic adviser said this week. The US economy is likely to contract slightly, Glenn Hubbard told reporters, noting that “even a fairly […]

Pretoria | Wednesday WHILE a situation of total chaos prevailed at the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg on the night 43 people were killed in a stampede, security co-ordinators struggled for almost half an hour to get hold of the public order police (POP), the inquiry into the disaster heard on Wednesday. At 7.30pm on […]

Lagos | Wednesday More than 100 people have been shot dead by rampaging soldiers in central Nigeria in the latest bout of unrest in this crisis-torn African country. The reprisal attacks late on Monday and Tuesday came after 19 soldiers were killed by ethnic militiamen two weeks ago near the border of the south central […]

Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S government has rejected an ultimatum issued by the European Union to decide whether to allow EU observers in the country during next year’s presidential elections, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Tuesday. Mudenge said Zimbabwe would have considered an offer for observers, but will not accept “demands” from other countries because […]

MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano will make a six-day official visit to Cuba next week, at the invitation of his counterpart Fidel Castro, the president’s office announced on Wednesday. The two men will hold talks on boosting bilateral relations between their two friendly states, a statement from Chissano’s office said. Several protocols are expected to be […]

THE number of former fighters in Sierra Leone’s civil war who have handed in their weapons has risen to 21 464, said Dandeson Smith, a representative for the National Disarmament Commission. He said that 12 600 of the former fighters, who have responded since the launching of the disarmament process in May, are working on […]

TOGOLESE authorities are still holding a journalist, Komi Nemvame Klu, who was arrested last Saturday for publishing “false information”. Klu, who is the director of the privately-owned weekly Nouvel Echo was arrested by the gendarmerie in Lome. The Panafrican News Agency (Pana) said authorities had demanded that Klu reveal the source of a story on […]

Cape Town | Tuesday HAVING fought publicly and stridently for over a week, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon and his deputy Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Tuesday opted to meet privately in Cape Town in a bid to save their alliance. Even their lieutenants remained tight-lipped, with one telling Sapa: “We don’t want the media camping […]

Abuja | Tuesday NIGERIA will leave no stone unturned to prevent further spread of HIV/Aids in the country, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared in Abuja on Monday as he kicked off a rally and a nationwide walk against the scourge. The HIV/Aids rally was organised by the National Action Committee on Aids. “We have played a […]

Pretoria | Tuesday FORTY-four people were taken to a Pretoria hospital for tests after an anthrax scare at the University of South Africa on Monday, university representative Doreen Gough reported. The first 20 examined all tested negative to the potentially fatal bacteria, as have those exposed to white powder in about a dozen previous scares […]

FOUR people, including a four-year old boy, were killed and six injured in fighting on Sunday between rival minibus taxi operators in eastern South Africa, police said. Captain Mzukisi Fatyela said the four-year-old died when gunmen opened fire on a taxi owner travelling with his family near Umtata in the southeast of the country. The […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday NEARLY 1 000 Zimbabweans are destitute and seeking refuge at a Johannesburg police station following the torching of their homes in a squatter camp, South African police said on Tuesday. “They have about 450 people looking for shelter at the police station and one of their leaders told me they have about […]