VISITING Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday invited African countries to share the cost of the launch and use of his country’s third satellite in 2004 to boost South-South cooperation and to promote the continent’s image worldwide. Speaking at the end of the four-day Global 2001 Smart Partnership International Dialogue in Kampala, Mahathir said […]
A new approach linking racism to power and self-interest is needed NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe Many analyses of racism proceed from an assumption that the eradication of racism and other forms of discrimination is in the interests of all. Yet despite a universal condemnation of discrimination, racism persists. Even the most successful persons of […]
Using nature’s gifts to fill their needs Hilary Fine Dreams of a healthier planet and a self-sufficient community prompted educators at Bathurst Primary, near Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape, to infuse an environmental ethos into everything they do. “Our aim is to develop a sanctuary of learning where respect for the world we live […]
Investing in the Environment: Corporate Award Finalist: Conservation Corporation Africa Niki Moore The Phinda private game reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal used to be a 17?000ha stretch of degraded farmland. Now it is a world-famous “big five” tourist destination as well as a conduit for international foreign aid. Phinda, which means “the return”, is an apt […]
analysis Robert D Bullard Environmental racism affects individuals, groups or communities differentially, based on race or colour. It combines with public policies and industry practices to provide benefits for corporations, while shifting the costs to people of colour. It influences local land use, the enforcement of environmental regulations, the siting of industry and the areas […]
Barry Streek Donald Woods was a bit of a chancer, but with his enormous talents, his charm, his ability to talk himself out of virtually any situation and some luck, he made an unforgettable mark on South African journalism. Few, if any, editors of a small daily newspaper in Africa have ever written an editorial […]
Kampala | Thursday AFRICAN political and business leaders plan to publicise positive aspects of the continent’s investment environment in order to attract investors, they said on Wednesday. Nine African presidents and captains of industry who met for four days at an international investment conference that ended here on Tuesday called for “more attention to techniques […]
Barry Streek Despite spending R119,4-million on private security firms, last year Metrorail lost between R150-million and R170-million in fare evasion and a further R62,1-million in theft and vandalism. Minister of Transport Dullah Omar said R21,97-million was spent on repairs caused by theft and vandalism on trains and a further R40,3-million in theft and vandalism to […]
Congress Mahlangu The government, through the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and the South African National Parks (SANP), will host the World Park Congress at the International Convention Centre in Durban on September 18 and 19 2003. The theme of the congress is “Benefits beyond boundaries” and it will review the global status of […]
The emblem of this year’s Green Trust Awards is a South African species of seahorse, called the Knysna seahorse (Hippocampus capensis). It is the world’s most threatened seahorse and occurs only in the Knysna and Swartvlei estuaries. The Knysna seahorse was chosen as the emblem because it is so vulnerable and in recognition of ground-breaking […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) in the Northern Province has threatened to disrupt the already troubled provincial education system if the province’s education head does not resign by the end of this week. Cosas says it will embark on a “militant and radical” action if Northern Province education superintendent […]
Mail & Guardian reporter The Mail & Guardian’s status as South Africa’s fastest-growing quality newspaper was confirmed this week with the release of the latest All Media Product Survey (Amps).The M&G now boasts 230 000 readers, according to Amps 2001A. This represents a 16,1% growth in readership over the previous survey. The M&G has shown […]
DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday SIZE does count – and that’s official. District councillors around the country have been seduced by the argument that because South Africans “are generally big people”, they are more susceptible to “deep vein thrombosis” if they fly economy class. Shortly before setting off on an investment mission to China in […]
Schumacher joins Ascari in Ferrari book of greats, writes Richard Williams Tradition was not the first thing on Michael Schumacher’s mind when he signed his contract with the Scuderia Ferrari back in 1996. In fact it was not on his mind at all. He professed to know little and seemed to care less about the […]
Barry Streek Nearly 4 000 movements of the Earth, scientifically labelled as “seismic events”, have happened in South Africa over the past six years, 630 of them last year. But the majority of them are small and insignificant. Although one of these events recently caused a house to collapse in Welkom, in the Free State, […]
Michelle Nel “Dire Straits. Coming soon to Cape Town,” proclaims an eye-catching poster. Beneath the words is a picture of cracked mud. Does it mean the internationally acclaimed band Dire Straits is coming to South Africa, perhaps to play at a dried-out waterhole? A second look reveals the tag line: “Save water. Save the Cape.” […]
The Arab and the Jew may never solve their problems, not because the problem is insoluble, but because they seem both to be terminally disabled by the disease of ideology, both religious and nationalist in character. Ideology makes impossible any objective debate. This is Laura Stovel’s point (“A debate long overdue”, August 17). Frog-marching these […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo The under-23 South African squad will be taking part in a four- nations tournament in Angola from August 25 to 28. The squad will be coached by Shakes Mashaba, who did well with the previous Amaglug-glug squad that went to the Olympics last year. Mashaba now has many of the previous national under-20 […]
ADDITIONAL police and prison cells have been made available to police during the World Conference Against Racism to deal with offenders who ignored the strict security rules in place for the conference at the end of the month. KwaZulu-Natal police representative Director Bala Naidoo said a special court has also been established by the Justice […]
Johannesburg | Thursday RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has blamed PAC secretary-general Thami ka Plaatjie and the Zimbabwean government for the slump in the rand, SABC radio news reports. In an off-the-cuff comment at an African investment seminar in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, Mboweni said “the wheels had come off” in Zimbabwe. In a […]
A NORTHERN Province retiree known as the “transport man” because he earned extra money by collecting goods in his bakkie took his last trip on Monday. Two youths beat and stabbed 62-year-old Mkhatshana Mongolo to death in front of his 11-year-old grandson after hiring him to collect cement. His grandson ran to a nearby village […]
SOUTH African dignitaries lit an Olympic-style torch in Pretoria on Tuesday to symbolise their opposition to racism, as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Cape Town to protest what they said was Israel’s continuing oppression of Palestinians. The two events came 10 days ahead of a UN-sponsored global conference on racism which will […]
Johannesburg | Thursday THE South African rand hit record lows against two major currencies on Wednesday, dashing hopes that the government might announce an interest rate cut next month. The besieged currency was trading at 12,26 to the pound sterling and 7,77 to the euro early on Wednesday. Late Tuesday, the rand recorded its lowest […]
SOUTH African rescue workers were elated after they towed a stranded whale out to sea on Sunday, but on Tuesday it beached itself again and died so they blew it up. The nine-metre long humpback whale first stranded itself off the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth in one metre of water for about six hours. […]
SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Pretoria | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s security forces and justice system prioritise crimes against farmers but ignore those against farm labourers, Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The international organisation investigated the country’s volatile farming community last year and released a scathing 230-page report on Wednesday entitled “Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday THE Department of Health is claiming that it has not yet received court papers from Aids lobby groups, demanding that anti-HIV drugs be provided to all mothers at risk of transmitting HIV to their unborn infants. But the Treatment Action Campaign says that in fact, the court papers were served on the […]
A TEAM of nine basketball players from the Central African Republic, their trainer, his assistant and an official all went missing during a stopover in Paris on their way home last week. The group stopped over in Paris on August 13 after playing an African Cup of Nations match in Rabat, Morocco, and has not […]
MEDIA conglomerate AOL Time Warner is cutting 1 200 workers from its America Online division, the company announced on Tuesday. The company also said it was merging its various online entities into one giant, unified Internet company.The restructuring eliminates the postions, the company said. In addition, AOL said it was sacking another 500 from its […]
Lusaka | Wednesday ZAMBIA police released an outspoken opposition politician and two journalists late on Tuesday after charging them with defaming President Frederick Chiluba, one of their defence lawyers said. The three surrendered themselves to the police on Tuesday morning after their arrest was ordered at the weekend following a newspaper article which claimed Chiluba […]
MAXIM KNIAZKOV, Washington | Wednesday THE US government came under fire on Tuesday over its stance during Rwanda’s 1994 mass killings following the release of declassified official documents showing Washington anticipated events now seen as among the most gruesome atrocities of the late 20th century. “The US response was literally running away from any responsibility,” […]
A JOINT team of experts from the Sudanese government, UN relief agencies and NGOs left on Tuesday for the central Sudan Sennar State, to assess the situation after days of heavy rains and storms. High waters of the Blue Nile have already inundated a number of villages in Sennar State, where 500 homes and numerous […]
EVARISTO CUMBANE, Maputo | Wednesday SENA Sugar Estates — abandoned by its owners, bombed by rebels, and threatened by raging floodwaters — is about to complete its transformation from ruin to a potent symbol of Mozambique’s post-war recovery. The sugar mill in the central town of Marromeu, flanked by the mighty Zambezi River and surrounded […]