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, […]
Guest writer Pippa Green watches the truth commission catch fire THERE is a monument outside Pretoria’s vast municipal complex, a broken arch of triumph. Its dedication reads: “To all victims of terrorism.” It stands on the corner of Munitoria, a distinctly Pretorian name in a city where names like Cartoria for a major vehicle dealer […]
Exactly how much fuss can one naked man in a jeans ad cause? Plenty, reports MARIA McCLOY TWO adverts for Sissy Boy Jeans in the March editions of Cosmopolitan and Elle magazines have resulted in a widespread media furore and caused several leading local chain stores to remove the magazines from their shelves. ”What, can […]