Yearly Archives: 1999

Once Britain’s champion writer, Martin Amis has been given a hammering by the British press. The memoir he’s writing could settle a few scores – and express his growing empathy with his father. He spoke to Stephen Moss Martin Amis is a clich. Pouting bad boy, famous dad, huge advances, ridiculously expensive teeth, taste for […]

police New evidence has emerged that arch-rivals David Ntombela and Sifiso Nkabinde were both security police informers. Mail & Guardian reporters investigate Two of KwaZulu-Natal’s most notorious warlords – seemingly on opposite sides of the political fence – were agents of the security police and were at one stage handled by the same policeman. Sifiso […]

ANGLOGOLD and Iamgold announced an initial estimate of 1,9-million ounces of gold for the Yatela deposit, located 25km north of the Sadiola Gold Mine in Mali, West Africa. Yatela is owned by the 50:50 Anglogold/Iamgold joint venture, Sadex. The estimate was based on 455 boreholes totalling 21381 samples. “The resource estimates will continue to be […]

Emeka Nwandiko Pape Diaby has a dream – that someday Africa will have a tennis academy that will produce some of the best players in the world. In Meadowlands, Soweto, under the blazing midday sun, the general manager of the Confederation of African Tennis is coaching 75 pre-schoolers from the suburb. As a labourer wearing […]

Do annual government budgets really matter? A great fuss invariably accompanies them and they attract a degree of examination which seems quite disproportionate for what they usually turn out to be. In fact, the annual budget is really little more than a household accounting of how much money will be needed to pay for the […]

Marianne Merten More than 200 people have heeded a Western Cape African National Congress call for members of the public to join the police reservists. Bright yellow posters calling for volunteers went up throughout Cape Town recently after the party pledged to National Commissioner George Fivaz that it would recruit 500 new volunteers by April […]

Emeka Nwandiko Black employees at Gauteng’s Department of Finance have rallied around a white colleague who was dismissed for making a racist remark, saying her sacking was “apartheid in reverse”. Bets Enslin was dismissed last Friday after she was brought before a disciplinary tribunal for an incident last December. It is alleged that Enslin jokingly […]

Mungo Soggot The company accused of paying a R1-million bribe for a Gauteng gambling licence, Tsogo Sun, is fighting a court order instructing the Mpumalanga gambling board to hand over tapes of deliberations which gave Tsogo a licence in Witbank. In a judgment that raises questions about the gambling booard’s conduct, Judge Brian Southwood ordered […]

market Mail & Guardian reporter The Mail & Guardian’s circulation grew by 6% between the last six months of 1997 and the last six months of 1998, as quality niche publications bucked the trend of declining newspaper circulations throughout the country. According to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, the M&G sold an average […]