Martin Gillingham athletics When Cathy Freeman arrived in Monte Carlo last week to collect the most prestigious sporting award of the year she was … how can we put this delicately? … OK, why bother. Last year’s world sportswoman of the year has gone to fat. Fat, that is, in the eye of your average […]
Timothy Wood American notes Stocks have likely seen their lows for the year and are showing value again. That’s the view of Morgan Stanley as it tracks the fastest money supply growth in 20 years even faster than the artificial increase engineered for Y2K. The research is startling because it was taken for granted that […]
Glenda Daniels The Commission for Gender Equality has put the land restitution programme at the top of its agenda for the coming gender summit to be held in August. The commission wants to sensitise land reform policy about gender issues, and to devise strategies to ensure land access and security of tenure for rural women […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni In a scathing attack on men, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Frene Ginwala blamed the “old boys network” for destroying governments’ integrity. “Links established in schools and universities, in villages and on golf links all too easily slip from an old boys network into nepotism, whether based on the old […]
Barry Streek The government has allocated R40-million to build sport facilities in disadvantaged communities, Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour announced in Parliament this week. This amount, Balfour says, will treble over the next three years. The programme will target all provinces and use labour-intensive methods that will create employment. According to the Department […]
Glenda Daniels Charges of brutal police assault will be heard in the Johannesburg High Court next week when Andrew Phillips, owner of the brothel The Ranch, brings a civil claim against the Ministry of Safety and Security. The assault charges will be backed up by allegations of extortion and bribery, including how police forced prostitutes […]
Lynda Gilfillan food Kalk Bay, with its air of shabby English chic, is at first glance an un- likely place to find a restaurant redolent with the Spanish-African sounds and symbols of Cuba. From Christ to Che Guevara, the walls of the Cape to Cuba restaurant are covered with genuine icons and artefacts that reflect […]
We note that after the Press Ombudsman conveyed my complaint to the Mail & Guardian, the M&G afforded me an opportunity to answer an article in the M&G of April 26 to May 3 2001 under the heading: “Bogoshi still not charged after 10- year fraud investigation”. Before I lodged my complaint with the Press […]
Kinshasa | Thursday RWANDAN reinforcements have entered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in defiance of international accords to pursue “programmed genocide,” the DRC government claimed Thursday. It called on the United Nations to speed deployment of its military observer mission in the east of the country dominated by anti-government rebels backed by Rwanda and […]
SENEGALS president Abdoulaye Wade has unveiled plans for the Senegalese telecommunications agency, that is expected to “develop new information and communication technologies” nationwide. Launching the “Internet Caravan,” on Tuesday in Dakar, he described new technology as “the domain of democracy as it enables everybody to move at the same speed.” The Internet Caravan, is to […]
FRENCH Prime Minister Lionel Jospin arrived in Cape Town early on Thursday for a two-day official visit to South Africa that will see him hold talks with President Thabo Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. Jospin was due to meet Mbeki in Cape Town on Thursday before addressing parliament and flying to the former prison […]
CONSERVATION officials from around the world have gathered in Cape Town for a workshop to focus on the protection and management of African shark populations. Sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the three-day IFAW Shark Conservation Workshop 2001 gathered over 50 delegates from more than 18 countries including Eritrea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, […]
AFRICAN linguists from Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, America and Europe, have agreed to create an Academy of African Languages in Mali. Following a three-day meeting on the project, participants said on Monday that the objective of the institution is to promote African languages. – Pana
SOUTH Africa does not intend to petition the United States to save a Tanzanian convicted over US embassy bombings from possible execution, the justice ministry said on Wednesday. “The matter is in the hands of the United States now. We can’t dictate terms to the US,” said ministry representative Paul Setsetse. South Africa’s Constitutional Court […]
CONGO Brazzaville, one of the world’s most indebted countries, is expecting a reprieve of $60m under an emergency programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the private weekly “Tam-Tam d’Afrique” has reported. A decision on the programme is expected to be taken by the IMF in a “few days” time, the paper reported. But according […]
THE Strijdom monument in Pretoria has collapsed dramatically into parking garages beneath the square in which it sat. The cave-in, according to 702 radio news, occurred at around 4.30am on Thursday morning. Rescue units from around Gauteng, including dog units, are on the scene. But so far, the number of trapped victims or deaths, if […]
GHANAS parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to scrap June 4 as a public holiday known as Rawlings Day. The holiday marked the day in 1979 when retired president Jerry Rawlings, then a young Air Force pilot, first tasted power as a head of state in the West African country. – Pana
DUMISANE LUBISI & ZENZELE KUHLASE, Burgersfort | Wednesday THE Mpumalanga education department is yet to decide whether to intervene at EJ Singwane High School at Msogwaba near Nelspruit where pupils torched a police car and opened fire on police officers on Friday. The pupils were trying to prevent a classmate from being arrested for brandishing […]
SA President Thabo Mbeki told parliament on Wednesday that US Secretary of State Colin Powell had endorsed his handling of the crisis in Zimbabwe. “The secretary of state said to me that they themselves had been engaging the Zimbabwean government in a similar way as we had been, and would want to sustain the interaction, […]
IN an effort to bring the Namibian Parliament closer to the countrys citizens, the legislature announced it would be launching its own website on Thursday. Officials gave the address. – Pana
HEALTH units across Mozambique have registered more than three million cases of malaria last year out of a population of 17-million inhabitants. In a document presented to its Coordinating Council currently meeting in Maputo, the ministry of health said 1_637 of the malaria sufferers are known to have died of the disease. The document also […]
MOZAMBICAN police in the northern port city of Nacala have arrested a group of five men accused of killing children to extract and sell body parts. The Maputo daily, Noticias, cited a police source as saying the killers cut out some of the victims’ organs to sell to the crew of foreign ships at Nacala […]
MOZAMBIQUE and the US oil and gas company Enron corporation have signed a $1,5-billion agreement for the Maputo Iron and Steel Project (MISP), news reports said on Tuesday. The deal involved the construction of a process plant in Maputo and support infrastructure to produce steel slabs from iron ore, and the construction of a 610km […]
ZAMBIA?S Catholic bishops have condemned former Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo’s decision to marry a South Korean woman in New York under the Moon sect. A press statement released on Tuesday in Lusaka by the bishops said the former archbishop, by marrying, he had betrayed his vows of celibacy as required by his calling. “For a long […]
THE Kruger National Park will auction off 20 white rhino next month in an attempt to raise funds for the South African National Parks (SANP) Park Development Fund. SANP’s director of parks, Johan van der Merwe, said on Wednesday that the auction is expected to raise at least R4,5-million for development projects in smaller game […]
SOME 53 Casamance refugees deported from Guinea-Bissau have arrived in Ziguinchor, southern Senegal, from Sao Dominga where they had been since last week. They were met at the border by local administrative authorities and NGOs represented in Ziguinchor, which took them to Ziguinchor’s children’s centre for further assistance. The returnees – 33 children, 13 women […]
A SOUTH African provincial health minister called on Tuesday for free condoms to be distributed to schoolchildren as young as 12. “To think that schoolchildren are not having sex is … like thinking we are not going to have rugby next season,” Nick Koornhof, the Western Cape health minister, told a seminar. “You must link […]
EIGHT people, including five traders from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), drowned at the weekend after a fishing boat capsized in the Lake Albert area of western Uganda’s Hoima district. Police said the boat was overloaded. The boat was travelling between two Ugandan ports on the lake at the time of the accident. None […]
CRIME in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has reached alarming proportions with the UN rating the city on a par with crime-prone regions like Bogota and Colombia. In Nairobi cars can be snatched at gunpoint and women donning jewellery are ready targets for snatchers. The surge has galvanised ordinary Kenyans into mounting neighbourhood vigilante groups, while […]
ABSA Bank and BoE Bank have entered into a business venture called MultiBank Processing where Absa Bank will in future maintain all the cheque processing functions of BoE Bank. It is the first time in South Africa that such an agreement has been reached between two banks. Absa Bank approached BoE Bank for a business […]
FRENCH newspapers on Tuesday paid homage to Cameroonian composer and writer Francis Bebey, who died on Monday morning in Paris at the age of 72, sending shock waves through the African music world. Bebey, who had been in poor health for some time, was instrumental in bringing African music to the rest of the world. […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the government acted unconstitutionally by handing over a Tanzanian bombing suspect to the United States where he faces the death penalty. An international legal expert, however, said he doubted whether the court’s ruling would have an influence on the outcome of the trial. Khalfan Khamis […]