Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW When will we stop relying on others to do what only we can do ourselves? As the gloom which followed the frustration of our World Cup bid set in last Thursday, an apparently unemployed man who had been listening carefully to our team’s sales pitch exclaimed: “Now we will not […]
partners Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress this week hatched an action plan to mend troubled relations with its alliance partners and to bolster links between the party inside and outside of the government. At the ANC’s national general council in Port Elizabeth this week, the ruling party announced plans to increase the capacity of […]
A series of art installations has been placed at key points in Johannesburg city. What will these mean to commuters who encounter them? Brenda Atkinson and Thebe Mabanga Whizz down Smit Street towards Braamfontein and your mind’s eye registers a billboard image that might be a mine dump, or perhaps a desert. Stroll down De […]
Belinda Beresford In the United States mother-to-child transmission of HIV has dropped by about 75%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). By far the largest number of infections of children are now in sub- Saharan Africa. Giving a short course of anti- retroviral drugs, such as AZT, has been shown to reduce […]
The first award remembering a black South African journalist should have been named after ‘Mr Drum’ Arthur Maimane A panel of judges is probably already considering who should be the second journalist to be awarded the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Black Journalism. The best of luck to whoever deserves to get it; but no […]
In just three years he has become the best sportsman on the planet. John Carlin charts the astounding progress of Tiger Woods from golfing prodigy to global phenomenon Tiger Woods was furious. He had just missed a 3,6m putt at Pebble Beach. The ball had drifted 15cm left of the hole. Teeth gritted, eyes murderous, […]
Michael Berger CROSSFIRE Set aside the picture of Jeremy Cronin as talented poet, devoted to exploring the deeper truths of human relationships; when it comes to politics Cronin can wield moral outrage and half-truths with the same uni- hemispheric abandon as any other party apparatchik. In the Mail & Guardian of July 7 to 13, […]
In the latest of a string of attacks, the former first lady has accused the government of not addressing the interests of the people Jaspreet Kindra South Africa’s former first lady, Winnie Madikizela- Mandela, was clinging on to her political career in the African National Congress by a thread this week following strong, thinly veiled […]
DAVID MAGERIA | Nairobi | Thursday 10.30am. EGYPT insisted it would not lift a newly introduced duty on Kenyan tea until Kenya applied preferential regional tariffs to all Egyptian exports. Egypt imposed higher duties on Kenya’s tea last week in the latest eruption of a trade dispute between the two countries. The move followed Nairobi’s […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SOUTH Africa’s Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said she will challenge a high court order delaying her approval of the winning bidder of the country’s third mobile phone licence. In documents set to be presented to the court on Friday, Matsepe-Casaburri will argue that an interdict preventing her from acting […]