LIBYAN leader Moamer Kadhafi lashed out against the United States as being responsible for the AIDS scourge, in a fiery speech during Friday’s closing session of Africa’s biggest ever summit on the disease. “A vaccine and a medicine exists but there is a malevolent plot by capitalists to prevent the world from having it as […]
AMAZON.COM on Tuesday reported a 22% increase in sales and a narrower than expected loss for the first quarter, and declared itself on track to reach its profitability goals. The Seattle-based Internet retailer reported a net loss of $234m, or 66 cents a share, for the first quarter, compared with a net loss of $308m, […]
THE three men who beat a 14-year-old Bloemfontein schoolboy to death on Friday afternoon and then robbed him of R300 were likely to be arrested soon, police said on Saturday. Francois Kruger was selling sheep with two friends at a roadside in Heidedal when he was attacked and beaten with pipes. Southern Free State police […]
POLICE in Swaziland said on Thursday they had arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with the murders of 29 people, mostly women, whose bodies were found buried in shallow graves in a forest. Four babies were among the dead. Some of the women’s bodies were found lying face down with their hands tied behind their […]
FORMER US President Bill Clinton arrived in Nigeria late on Wednesday ahead of a two-day regional summit on HIV/AIDS, airport sources said. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in the Nigerian capital a little earlier for the two-day summit, on Aids, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, involving nearly 50 African heads of state. Clinton was […]
SOUTH Africas main Freedom Day celebration in Pietersburg was off to a cheerful start on Friday despite cool and rainy weather. People packing the pavilion of the rugby stadium were unfazed by a slight drizzle as cultural performances got underway. The crowd will later in the day be addressed by Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramathlodi […]
FORTY members of the Algerian security forces were killed and 38 injured in a clash this week with armed Islamic extremists, Algerian newspapers reported on Saturday. The clash happened Thursday at Ras El-Ach, 70km south of Tebessa, which is 630km east of the capital Algiers, according to the Quotidien d’Oran and Le Matin. – AFP
THE South African rand retained its firm foothold on Wednesday morning floated by positive sentiment, dealers said. The rand was last quoted at R8.0820 to the U.S. dollar from a previous close of 8.0700. “Dollars have been long and dealers have been clearing their long positions, which has helped the rand firm quite a bit,” […]
FOREIGN shareholding in SA pulp and paper group Sappi has now surpassed the 60% mark, the company said on Thursday. This followed strong buying from US and other international institutions in recent weeks, it said. The group said 37% of its shares were now held by US shareholders and 23% by European and other foreign […]
FORMER president Nelson Mandela and media company Naspers will launch two internet technology centres in the Karoo towns of Calitzdorp and Carnarvon on Thursday. Both towns will each receive an internet technology centre. Calitzdorp was identified by the Department of Health as one of the most underprivileged towns in South Africa. Each centre has been […]
THE Reverend Leon Sullivan, the civil rights crusader who wrote the Sullivan Principles, an international code of business conduct that helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died of leukemia. He was 78. Sullivan, a former Philadelphia minister described the principals as “a code that companies of America and the world came to follow to […]
TWENTY one African countries have developed action plans to contain the scourge of malaria plaguing the continent, WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland said on Wednesday to mark the first-ever Africa Malaria Day. Malaria kills at least one million people a year and it is a major barrier to development in the continent, Brundtland told a […]
AUTHORITIES at the University of Benin, in Nigeria’s southern Edo State, have expelled another 108 students for forging their credentials. The latest expulsions bring to 178 the total number of students sent away this month for forging their credentials. At least 1_000 students have been expelled from various academic institutions in Nigeria over the past […]
UGANDAN police said in a statement on Wednesday they had destroyed 400 tonnes of marijuana, the largest haul deriving from a single seizure operation. The 600 000 plants, which were burned, were valued at 2.3m shillings ($1.1m). Eleven people were also arrested in the three-day operation carried out between April 18-20 in Busia District in […]
Matthew Krouse review OFTHEWEEK As a prelude to Sweat on Somerset, upon entering the Barney Simon Theatre in Johannesburg one encounters two makebelieve hookers lounging about in the audience, ready to make small talk with the patrons. This is an obvious effort to authenticate the upfront experience of steamers when they first step into any […]
Andrew Muchineripi soccer If ever there was a tournament that is Bafana Bafana’s bte noire, it is the Confederation of Southern African Football Association (Cosafa) Cup. Not once has our national team reached the final of this tournament, let alone win it and the R500 000 or more that goes to the conquering country. As […]
Tracy McVeigh Body Language It could be something in the cocoa or too much titillation on Coronation Street: Britain’s pensioners are shedding their cardigans and getting down to it. But the men and women who began the sexual revolution as twentysomethings in the late 1950s are not only finding new passion and partners in their […]
Johannesburg architects Jeremy Rose and Phill Mashabane recently won the Robben Island architectural competition Yvette Gresl In postapartheid South Africa Robben Island has taken on a dual significance. It is a contradictory symbol of extreme political subjugation and, in the words of Ahmed Kathrada, the “triumph of the human spirit”. Nelson Mandela, as a symbol […]
Mail & Guardian reporter South Africa’s wine industry has taken another step towards transformation and global competitiveness with the conclusion of a 21month review and the adoption of recommendations ranging from affirmative action and quality?control to logistical support.? This process comes in the wake of longstanding accusations that established growers and exporters’ monopolies are favoured […]
Riaan Wolmarans 206, 206 Louis Botha Avenue, Orange Grove. Special K is on the list for Friday April 27, and 206 is closed on Saturday April 28. Tuesdays:The Garage Zero, Kid Fonque and others play drum’n’bass, hiphop, twostep and deep house. Website: www.206live.co.za. Tel: 728 5333. Amazon, Banbury Cross shopping centre, corner of Hans Strijdom […]
Thuli Nhlapo Angry residents of Msawawa informal settlement near Kya Sands this week expressed their disappointment in the justice system and vowed to take the law into their own hands. This follows a shocking incident two weeks ago where Douglasdale police allegedly set a suspected rapist free, claiming he jumped through a window. “The women […]
Melvyn Minnaar In the past those who fancied themselves in the frontline of the vintage would have been sipping brandnew “nouveau” wines with their autumn braais right now. Bubbling with fresh fruit and nifty modern winemaking methods ?this fad of getting new wine out under the new vintage label has mercifully?faded around here. In a […]
Several years ago we asked the same question:Is Thabo Mbeki fit to rule? At the time, it elicited a furious response from African National Congress representatives and a coterie of others keen to ingratiate themselves with the heir apparent to Nelson Mandela. It was deemed an unfitting question, insulting, arrogant and predictably racist. Today we […]
Eastern Cape Branches in the provinces are unsure whether Makhenkesi Stofile will be available for the position of African National Congress chair at the next provincial congress. Stofile had indicated in the local media last year that he would not be available. Should he stand, the feeling is that Stofile, who replaced Raymond Mhlaba as […]
Nawaal Deane In a desperate attempt to get rid of the worst outbreak of algae in 20 years, Hartebeespoort Dam residents have come up with an innovative solution: a floating bulldozer. In February a few residents ó tired of the stench and the complaints ó formed the Water Action Group in an attempt to clean […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo horse racing The sport of kings has given 21-year-old Monnapula Denicious Smith the sort of opportunity most youngsters just dream of. He is to be the first black apprentice jockey to leave South Africa to compete in the ninth annual Macau apprentice jockeys’ race meeting on the island near Hong Kong on May […]
Alex Sudheim Bargo, 15 Mitchell Crescent, Greyville racecourse. Durban’s nattiest nightclub provides a seamless combination of live music and clubstyle DJ action this week, kicking off on Thursday April 26 with a concert featuring, for the first time in Durban, Cape Town electronica legends Moodphase 5ive, Krushed & Sorted, Felix Laband and DJ Honey B. […]
Alex Sudheim Art Engine Studio, Lost World nursery, Ramsgate. This exciting new art space on the South Coast of KwaZuluNatal opens its inaugural exhibition on Friday April 27. The Children’s Story is a remarkable and inspiring exhibition of 100 images created by children in the ghetto of Terezin in World War II Prague. Appropriately opening […]
While England run free, Romania struggle against all odds to keep rugby alive Eddie Butler The last time I saw Florica Murariu was one lunchtime in Bucharest. He was on television. Not that he was doing anything. One of the finest forwards of his generation, one of the key players in the Romanian side that […]
The institution won’t adopt the World Commission on Dams’s guidelines on resettlement and indigenous peoples David Le Page What appears to be a small, undeclared spat between the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and the World Bank could dramatically affect the future of millions of people. The World Bank is backing down from fully adopting […]
Marianne Merten Since 1996 several wine estates have introduced black empowerment by, for example, allocating shares to farm workers. But research has found these schemes often flounder because the newly empowered workers lack business skills. Another key shortfall is?the lack of visible shortterm benefits for weekly wage earners who have?to wait for a return on […]
Michelle Matthews 8Tease Fever, Eikestad mall, Stellenbosch. On April 30 (yes, there’s another public holiday on Tuesday) Nick E Louder, Richard Carter, Carsens and Dexter club each other with their DJ bags over who plays the best commercial dance music Cape Town or Stellenbosch? Ringside seats cost R20. Adrenalin, 38 Neptune Street, Paarden Island. There […]