Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico appeared before the South African Human Rights Commission this week and denied tapping the telephones of his employees, although he had been given a copy of a taped conversation of one staffer, writes Ngwako Modjadji. Dipico had been subpoenaed to appear at the commission, which is investigating whether tapping a […]
Feelings are running high over the decision by local bishops of the Catholic Church to maintain their long-standing objection to the use of condoms. A writer in our Letters section this week has eloquently summed up this anger in one, brutally frank sentence. The bishops have taken their position in opposition to the best scientific […]
Akin Ojumu The Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia has been the subject of numerous tributes after his death, but perhaps the most flattering came last year when he inspired the character of God in the short-lived animated series God, the Devil and Bob. Given tongue by a languid James Garner, God, who seemingly hails from […]
Garth Abraham Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective by David Johnson, Steve Pete and Max du Plessis (Butterworths) Following the inauguration of a chairperson in jurisprudence at the newly constituted University of London in 1826, law students the world over have had, in the estimation of their majority, to suffer within their academic curriculum a course […]
The allegation by Paul Kirk (July 27) that I presented a false driver’s licence to my employer is a blatant lie. The abusive remarks attributed to me are nothing but fabrication. I had already resigned from the companies mentioned in the article before joining the council. Regarding Mr Shange’s appointment as director of community and […]
The South African Catholic bishops’ stance against the use of condoms to curb the spread of HIV is irresponsible. Not only is the debate 15 years too late, but totally out of touch with the suffering of so many people. The assertion that “condoms may even be one of the main reasons for the spread […]
After a decade of market imitation, is it possible to be a radical intellectual? Lynne Segal comments Have you had yours yet? One astonished academic after another has sent me copies of letters asking them to consider a little school teaching on the side. It is unclear if the private company soliciting us imagines, correctly, […]
South Africa’s cricket administration appears to be in disarray Peter Robinson Remember South Africa’s visit to India at the beginning of last year? Right, that was the Match-Fixing tour. And what about South Africa in the West Indies this year? Ah yes, the Dope-Smoking tour. OK, then, the players might have been a little too […]
All times Central African Time Friday August 3 2.45am (Sat): Men marathon 3.00am:Opening ceremony Saturday August 4 (see also late Friday) 5.45pm: Men 400m first round 6.30pm:Men 100m first round 7.40pm:Women 10000m first round 9.50pm:Men 800m first round Midnight: Men shot-put Final 00.05am (Sun): Men 100m second round 1.40am: Women 1500m first round Sunday August […]
This landmark case shows that investor activism is on the rise Belinda Anderson A shareholder in disgraced pharmaceutical company Beige Holdings is suing some of the former directors for his losses incurred, he argues, by investing in a company whose share price was inflated by false profit declarations. Beige was suspended in late 1999 when […]
Belinda Anderson profiles Sizwe Nxasana, the gentle, well-considered boss of this soon-to-be public telecoms utility In his pinstriped suit and with his collected manner, Sizwe Nxasana could be mistaken for an ace merchant banker who has just closed a big deal. Rather, he is the head of Telkom, the parastatal that is preparing for South […]
Struan Douglas is obviously entitled to his opinion when it comes to criticising Selaelo’s debut recording (“No room for compromise”, July 27), but I’m somewhat perplexed by how he is able to make a comment like “became throttled by the label’s accurate economic strategies”. As the person responsible for signing Selaelo and commissioning the recording […]
A delegate hacked the conference network and was given an award typical of the Defcon conference that attracts enthusiasts and saboteurs alike Simon Edwards The crowds that descended on Las Vegas’s casinos, strip clubs and all-you-can-eat restaurants recently were a little different from the norm. They were a little more troublesome, too. For these thrill […]
Belinda Beresford South Africa’s military forces are recording a decline in the levels of HIV infection among soldiers used for international missions, although it is still not prepared to give anti-retroviral treatment to affected troops . Testing of about 11 000 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members initially revealed 17% had HIV. The selected […]
FINANCE and economic experts in Malawi on Wednesday took President Bakili Muluzi’s government to task over the suspension of a four-year-old program to privatise some 100 loss-making parastatals. The Malawi cabinet last week suspended the much vaunted privatization program without giving a reason. “The general public want an explanation from government because there are still […]
SUDAN’S health ministry has sent an emergency medical team to the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea after around 40 people died of sunstroke there during a heatwave. Health minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said in a statement that 38 people, most of them elderly, had died from the heat out of a total […]
UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Kofi Annan named former Ugandan Health Minister Crispus Kiyonga as head of the transition team for the UN-brokered Global Aids and Health Fund on Monday. Kiyonga, who until last week oversaw what many observers consider to be “one of Africa’s most effective AIDS-prevention campaigns,” will head a group charged with determining how […]
OVER 2_500 residents of the northern Ethiopia border town of Himora have been displaced from their homes following the overflowing of the Tekeze river, Ethiopia radio reported on Monday. This flooded parts of the town, forcing residents to flee to higher ground. The river forms part of the common border between Ethiopia and Eritrea until […]
Cape Town | Wednesday A JUDGE on Tuesday ruled that an English court order forcing foreign journalists in South Africa to hand over video footage of a vigilante lynching was invalid. Cape Town High Court Judge Jeannette Traverso found that international news agencies Reuters and Associated Press (AP) did not have to submit video footage […]
TALKS between representatives of Burundi government and those of the rebel CNDD-FDD were on Friday adjourned till August, SAPA reported. It quoted South African deputy president, Jacob Zuma, who mediated the talks as expressing optimism about the outcome of the talks. He told journalists that another round of talks would be held at a venue […]
FOUR Tanzanian teenagers, who went missing at an international scouting convention in Virginia, have turned up in Washington, turned themselves in to police and now are seeking political asylum, authorities here said on Tuesday. “The four boy scouts … have been found safe and unharmed,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement. […]
CHRISTOF MALETSKY, Windhoek | Thursday THE South African Broadcasting Corporation last night apologised to President Sam Nujoma for quoting him out of context in a documentary programme aired last month. The programme Special Assignment broadcast an apology for the “very serious journalistic error” which was read out by the presenter. The text of the apology […]
Cape Town | Thursday THE South African Navy icebreaker Outeniqua was racing Wednesday to remote Marion Island, 1_100km southeast of Cape Town, to aid two seriously ill members of a weather service expedition, officials said. The icebreaker, expected to arrive late Friday or early Saturday, has a fully equipped hospital on board, complete with operating […]
IRIN, City | day NIGERIA plans to launch the largest Aids treatment program in Africa using cheap generic drugs on 1 September, AP reported on Tuesday. Stephen Lewis, the special envoy of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for HIV/Aids in Africa told a press conference on Monday that the Nigerian government’s commitment demonstrates that efforts are under […]
WERNER MENGES, Windhoek | Wednesday THE 125 men accused of high treason and other alleged offences in what is set to be Namibia’s biggest trial since Independence are set to appear in the High Court at Grootfontein tomorrow, with the ranks of their defence lawyers now reduced to one solitary attorney. Tsumeb attorney Chris van […]
MPUMALANGAs renegade lion almost caused a pile-up on the N4 highway just outside the provincial capital Nelspruit on Monday night when it dashed across the busy road. Shaken motorists called the local radio station from the scene, describing how the young male lion casually loped across the double-carriage motorway at 8pm before disappearing into orange […]
Cape Town | Wednesday A JUDGE on Tuesday ruled that an English court order forcing foreign journalists in South Africa to hand over video footage of a vigilante lynching was invalid. Cape Town High Court Judge Jeannette Traverso found that international news agencies Reuters and Associated Press (AP) did not have to submit video footage […]
ZAMBIA plans to reform its tax system in a bid to stimulate economic growth and development, the finance ministry announced on Monday. A ministry statement said the tax reforms would be implemented as part of next year’s national budget. “The objective of the tax reform is to build a modern tax system that is conducive […]
A PRIVATE US surveillance airplane has been missing in Angola since 16 July, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA) on Friday. A spokesperson for the Florida-based firm Airscan was quoted by VOA as saying that one of its twin-engine Cessna 337s went missing on a night-time surveillance mission near Soyo, in the […]
MORE than 40 people have died of sunstroke after temperatures soared in Port Sudan on the Red Sea in recent days, a Sudanese press report said Tuesday. The independent Akhbar Al Youm daily said the port city is experiencing its most intense heat wave in 10 years, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). […]
Johannesburg | Monday TWO of South Africa’s largest unions on Monday said some 65_000 members are two go on strike Wednesday and Thursday at mining companies and the country’s giant steel manufacturer. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Moferefere Lekorotsoana said the union had issued a 48-hour notice of mass action at the Goldfields, Harmony […]
HUNDREDS of people protested angrily outside a court here Monday after the judge hearing a suit against US drugs company Pfizer failed to turn up and case had to be adjourned. A high court in Kano, northern Nigeria, in March gave leave to three Nigerian families to sue Pfizer in a class action over tests […]