Michele Pickover and Verne Harris Brought into operation on March 9 this year, the Promotion of Access to Information Act is intended to be the legislative cornerstone of freedom of information in South Africa. Technically it is sound, drawing on the experiences of drafters and implementers of such legislation in a number of other countries. […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo badminton For the first time in South Africa or Africa a badminton tournament of world importance will be staged on the continent. South Africa will be hosting the sixth world junior championships in November next year. About 30 countries will participate in the tournament, which will determine the world rankings. African Badminton Federation […]
About 30 employees have already completed an adult literacy programme at Hilton College and another 32 are attending classes Jubie Matlou Gladys Dlamini (34) is a mother of two and works as a cleaner at Hilton College for Boys, the famous and exclusive private school outside Pietermaritzburg. Her working day starts at 7am and continues […]
Khadija Magardie Victims of violent crime in South Africa may in future receive financial restitution for their pain and suffering. This is if a recent discussion document, released for public comment and submitted to the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna this week, is favourably received. The South African Law Commission has mooted […]
Paul Kerton Body Language Your partner’s body will change but it doesn’t mean that you should give up sex. As her tummy develops, it can become quite a beautiful erogenous zone in itself. And I don’t know of any man alive who has ever complained when his partner’s breasts increased by a size or two. […]
Belinda Anderson Inthebag, the Woolworths/ Wooltru joint-venture online shopping portal, aims to be profitable by January 2003 and, according to chief executive officer Jessica Knight, is burning less cash than it had expected to in the first year. By June R66-million will have been spent, about R22-million less than the R88-million it had projected. Wooltru […]
Khadija Magardie The Eastern Cape MEC for health this week admitted his department kept a lid on information that peanut butter being fed to indigent children on its school feeding scheme was toxic. Bevan Goqwana said this was because the department lacked evidence that certain suppliers were passing on contaminated peanut butter, and because they […]
Charlotte Mathews The South African Red Cross, the largest humanitarian organisation in the country, is struggling with a financial crisis that it hopes can be resolved within the next few weeks. If not, a wide range of aid projects will be jeopardised. Mandisa Kalako-Williams, vice-president of the Red Cross, said the organisation’s fixed assets were […]
David Beresford Another Country I’ve made an application to Grenoble, France, for the brain operation to deal with my Parkinson’s. Whether I will be accepted, despite being a known admirer of that scourge of Napoleonic France, Lord “‘Oratio” Hornblower, is another matter. I must also confess to a certain anxiety as to whether my schoolboy […]
For the third time in six weeks a Cape Town court has wrapped up a rape and attempted murder case with tough sentences Marianne Merten Karriema Viljoen* was not in court this week when the men who raped, stabbed, slit her throat and left her for dead were sentenced to long periods of imprisonment. The […]
A cellphone service provider has spent R15-million on upgrading Alexandra police station and magistrate’s court Ntuthuko Maphumulo It is a typical busy scene as you drive into Wynberg towards the Alexandra police station and magistrate’s court. There are many people going to the taxi rank, and around the rank are the makeshift stalls of hawkers […]
Charlene Smith crossfire The list of conspirators against President Thabo Mbeki grows ever longer. On Monday I returned home from lending support to a young rape survivor, took out a thick wad of letters from people with HIV in my letter box, and downloaded e-mails to discover that I was leading a right-wing media conspiracy […]
There is market concern that DiData is offering too much for the Nasdaq-listed Proxicom Belinda Anderson If DiData’s bid for Proxicom goes through it will end up with a significantly enhanced global presence in the interactive commerce arena, with numerous world-class clients such as General Electric, Merrill Lynch and America Online. But if its bid […]
ZIMBABWE?S government has created a climate of intimidation against journalists in the country that must end, a panel of international press rights groups said Thursday. In presenting their findings, members of the delegation said their meeting with Information Minister Jonathan Moyo produced little hope for change. “Mister Moyo, in my opinion, saw nothing wrong with […]
Louise Stack and Paula Soggot South Africa’s criminal justice system is in crisis. The crime rate is high and the prisons are overcrowded. The prosecution rate is low and courts are backlogged. The number of cases being prosecuted has been dropping since the mid-1980s. The declining number of cases prosecuted indicates that case backlogs are […]
Peter Robinson cricket There_s no getting away from the record: since a hiccup in Nairobi in October, South Africa have swept aside any and all opposition placed before them. Other than achieving a perfect, 100% success rate, very little more could have been asked of, or provided by, Shaun Pollock and his South African team. […]
Niki Moore They are known as the Bee-Team: a group of about 60 rural youngsters who make a living from selling the fragrant honey from the wild bees that nest in the eucalyptus plantations in Zululand. The teenagers stand by the side of the road, selling wild honey in a variety of containers, including trays, […]
EGYPTIAN authorities have arrested a man for having five permanent wives – one more than permitted under Islamic law – and for briefly marrying 29 underage girls over the past two years, police said on Thursday. Self-professed devout Muslim Sayed Ragab al-Sawarki, 51, was taken into custody on Wednesday on his return to Cairo from […]
The Menlyn Park Shopping Centre has been given 60 days to comply with safety regulations Roshila Pillay In the week that Makro in Woodmead, Johannesburg, was razed by a fire, the Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria was found to be a fire hazard. The R800-million complex, which sees an average of two million people […]
Ken Gooding The World Gold Council (WGC) can’t be particularly pleased with the findings of the report it commissioned from the London Business School (LBS) on the impact of derivatives on the gold market. For the study flies in the face of perceived wisdom and shows that hedging had only a marginal impact on the […]
Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK I must admit that I was not a big fan of Snow_s mix of rap, reggae and ragamuffin on his hit album 12 Inches of Snow back in 1993, especially the single Informer _ unlike millions of others, obviously, since that song is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as […]
HOTEL owners along the Wild Coast were this week exhorted to join forums for the Wild Coast Spatial Development Initiative to help speed up infrastructure delivery and highlight impediments in the way of progress. Gernot Ott, programme manager for the Support to the Wild Coast SDI programme and East Cape Development Corporation investment manager Martin […]
Time was when REM, and the band_s singer Michael Stipe in particular, were the last people you_d think of as shiny or happy. Today, after a period of regrouping, they_re more content with life and music than ever Sean O_Hagan There was a time when Michael Stipe would get offended if you called him a […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I am not by nature a violent man. The excesses of my physical reactions to being grandly pissed off are confined usually to the slamming of doors, loud and vivid cursing and the occasional attack on inanimate objects. I once heaved a miscreant typewriter out of an SABC third-floor window and kicked […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo In the space of two months, Africa has experienced four soccer tragedies. The latest occurred in Ghana on Wednesday, when more than 130 soccer fans were killed in a stampede at the Accra stadium. Five minutes before the end of the match between Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko, with Hearts leading […]
David McKay Anglo Platinum chief executive officer Barry Davison is to become executive chair of the group, it emerged in Anglo Platinum’s annual report. The board will also appoint a projects director who will focus on managing the group’s R12-billion expansion strategy. Chair Leslie Boyd announced he would retire from the board of Anglo Platinum’s […]
A NURSE and ambulance driver suspected of negligence after a pregnant woman fell out of the back of a speeding ambulance and died, have been suspended from work. Northern Province health MEC Sello Moloto said on Thursday that the nurse and driver from Tintsaolo Hospital in Acornhoek, were given compulsory leave on Wednesday and immediately […]
Jaspreet Kindra The ruling African National Congress’s alliance partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party are unlikely to field a candidate against President Thabo Mbeki next year. “Unless the current leadership continues down the self-destructive path,” adds a senior alliance leader referring to Minister of Safety and […]
Liverpool_s fast-maturing striker could make the difference in the FA Cup final Neal Collins The good news for Liverpool fans going into Saturday_s fascinating FA Cup final against Arsenal at the Millennium stadium in Cardiff is this: Michael Owen looks unstoppable. The bad news? That rugged Red rearguard of Sammi Hyypia and Stephane Henchoz allowed […]
Glenda Daniels The Commission for Gender Equality has 11 new commissioners who aim to create a new vision for women in the millennium, starting with a national gender summit in August. The new full-time commissioners are theologian Bafana Khumalo, academic Sheila Meintjes, rural expert Nombulelo Siqwana-Ndulo and Gertrude Fester, a Western Cape gender specialist. They […]
The Cats and the Sharks will be playing for a home semifinal in the last round of the Super 12 Andy Capostagno Alan Solomons has the right idea. Asked about the complexities of qualification for the semi- finals of the Super 12 he said, _I don_t get involved. Pieter Rossouw is my mathematician. He goes […]
ALMOST 4_000 municipal workers in Mpumalanga on Wednesday marched on the South African Local Government Association (Salga) to demand a 10% wage increase. SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) demonstrators also briefly picketed Salgas regional headquarters in Nelspruit to demand a minimum wage of R2_000 for all municipal workers countrywide, in addition to an across-the-board 10% […]