Dear Walter, Sorry I have been out of touch for so long, but I have been frantically busy resolving man-kind’s problems. As you know, the miracles we performed in bringing peace to South Africa have given us a reputation as the world’s foremost political mediators. As a result, whenever a tiff breaks out between ruler […]
Soccer: A draw against Congo, and one point, is all South Africa need to book their place at the World Cup finals, writes Andrew Muchineripi There is no higher peak in African football than qualifying for the World Cup finals and South Africa can realise that dream this Saturday provided they avoid defeat against Congo […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga The University of Zululand has failed to send audited statements for millions of rands given to it by the Kagiso Trust for student loans and bursaries. Last week, the Mail & Guardian published a statement by the university’s rector, Charles Dlamini, saying Kagiso’s claim that it had not received statements was “false […]
Mystery surrounds an alleged meeting early last year between Iran’s Deputy Minister of Atomic Affairs and the head of SA’s Atomic Energy Corporation.
When the chair of the South African Chamber for the Development of Agriculture in Africa (Sacada) visited Niassa exactly one year ago, he wrote in the visitors’ book at the provincial government offices: “The delegation from South Africa looks forward to help build Niassa to a paradise.” A paradise for whom? Sacada, affiliated to the […]
Armscor and the defence industry want to tap the Mandela magic abroad, and are putting pressure on the government to teach politicians the arms trade.
Janet Smith SABC radio and broadcasting and entertainment industry leader, Primedia, have done a fair swop of Jeremy Thorpe and Chris Gibbons, two of South Africa’s strongest newsmen. Thorpe, a former TV news chief executive producer who left the SABC this year after an internal battle over the decision to end the wire services of […]
The discovery of a 117 000-year-old set of footprints on the dunes near Langebaan once again places Africa at the centre of the evolution of man. If palaeo- anthropologist Lee Berger’s hypothesis is correct, these prints were left by the earliest humans, whose first home may have been the Western Cape. They were small feet. […]
The horrific murder of a child at the hands of his peers has seen a community grappling to come to terms with itself. Gaye Davis reports The people of the working-class Cape Flats suburb of Factreton are no strangers to death and violence. Turf wars between two local gangs, the Americans and the Casbahs, have […]
Government has reduced tariffs over a wide range of goods without considering the broader consequences for industry, writes Charles Millward In January 1943, a commentator in The Times of London noted: “Next to war, unemployment has been the most widespread, the most insidious, and the most corroding malady of our generation: it is the specific […]