The pilot programme to spearhead land reform has fallen flat, with most provinces spending only a fraction of the budgets set aside for this purpose. Jim Day reports THE government programme set up two years ago to spearhead land redistribution has failed to hand over more than a few acres to the landless. Figures from […]
Draft legislation proposed by the law commission recommends legalising euthanasia, reports Gustav Thiel THE first steps have been taken toward legislation allowing South African doctors to end the lives of the terminally ill. A discussion document by the South African Law Commission, released to the Mail & Guardian, recommends new legislation allowing so-called passive euthanasia […]
Andrew Worsdale IN an impassioned oral presentation to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), members of the newly formed Independent Producer’s Organisation discussed the viable options for a new “free-to-air” channel. The organisation responded to the IBA’s discussion paper on the channel, honing in on local content and independent production, programming contributions, language, employment equity and […]
gore Special writer Ruaridh Nicoll spends 12 hours in the hell halls of Baragwanath Hospital Friday 6.48pm T HE night-porter waits. Lounging in a wheelchair, he watches as the darkness begins to strangle the eve-ning’s flaring sun. At his feet, pools of water from earlier rain stand in the hollows while the tools of his […]
Documents found in the wrecked car of Internal Security head Leonard Radu led to the identification of two KwaZulu-Natal warlords as alleged agents, reports Ann Eveleth THE spy scandal which erupted this week also implicates Inkatha Freedom Party warlord David Ntombela. The Mail & Guardian has established that the evidence which led the African National […]
Potential bidders may think again before taking on SAA’s losses, now set to top R400-million, writes Ferial Haffajee SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) may now be up for grabs, but potential bidders are likely to baulk at the extent of its losses – now tipped to top R400-million in 1996-97. The disappointing prognosis comes at a […]
Hazel Friedman ART will soon stop playing the role of Oliver Twist to the public and private sector’s Mr Beadle. This is the prophesy of Dr Chris Mann, convenor of what could well be a landmark international conference on the economic benefits of arts and culture in South Africa. A project of the Grahamstown Foundation […]
Witnesses testified in court this week that a senior children’s home official sexually abused several children in his charge, reports Stuart Hess A FORMER house parent at one of the country’s most respected children’s homes appeared in court this week on charges that he raped and abused five children in his care. James Arthur Frazer […]
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This year’s Rustlers Valley Easter Festival became a battle between the ravers and the hippies, reports SUZYBELL A WOODPECKER screeched as 900 Gemini twins howled at the half-eaten moon. Yup, the rave scene has infiltrated this once laid- back hippie pastoral happening – Rustlers Easter festival. “It’s just thud, thud, thud, thud,” moaned the hippies. […]