A departmental inquiry into Sarafina II has cleared three officials and slapped a fourth on the wrist, reports Jim Day FOUR officials investigated by the Department of Health for their role in Sarafina II, the ill-fated Aids awareness play that cost taxpayers several million rands, have escaped with their jobs. Responding to a request by […]
A series of sensational allegations against SABC bosses about a top-selling TV show will result in arbitration, reports Peta Thornycroft THE heads of SABC1 and 2 have been accused of illegally removing property from the offices of an independent television producer. This is one of a series of sensational allegations involving prominent television and media […]
Seventeen years after independence, white Rhodesians are going back to Zim in their droves, reports Iden Wetherell THE Rhodesians are coming! Thousands of citizens of rebel prime minister Ian Smith’s former white bastion who fled majority rule in 1980 to seek refuge in apartheid South Africa are now flocking back across the border. And they […]
Before the 1994 elections the IFP used taxpayers’ money to train and arm a military force, writes Stefaans Brümmer.
The media are less than honest in their statements to the truth commission regarding their role in apartheid, argues Guy Berger NEARLY nobody noticed when FWde Klerk told the truth commission last year that government disinformation “could have created a climate” allowing for gross human rights violations to occur. This surprise admission stands in contrast […]
‘WE believe Afrikaner/ Boere reporters should stand together. We all have a common goal of self-determination and as the media we can disseminate our information to the Afrikaner people and exert a great influence,” says Henk van der Graaf, chair of Die Mediaklub – the group officially formed about two weeks ago in reaction, it […]
TEN lucky readers of the Mail &Guardian – and their partners – can get to see a preview of Anthony Mingella’s film of The English Patient, which received an impressive 12 Oscar nominations, before everyone else. Based on Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel, the film stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. The preview will […]
John le Carre is credited by some with originating one of the most powerful analytical tools since sod’s law: the explanation of human endeavour and its frustration in terms of the conspiracy and the cock-up theories. It is perhaps time it was brought to bear on South Africa’s most critical problem: crime. Over recent months […]
Marion Edmunds THE government is to investigate importing Cuban teachers to shore up the state school service. Education Minister Sibusiso Bengu said this week he planned to go to Cuba later this month to look at the country’s maths and science teachers. He dismissed suggestions that the government’s redeployment programme – where state teachers were […]
Three former editors have distanced themselves from the submission by Independent Newspapers to the truth commission, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy EX-EDITORS of the former Argus Company, the new management at Independent Newspapers and journalists are involved in a heated debate regarding the Independent group’s submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In an extraordinary move, […]