You could say Mbijane Ngubane lives on a golfing estate. In fact, her neighbour, Sibongile Jiyane, has a stream running past her front door. Yet both women cannot wait to move to a new settlement. Life at this golfing estate is nothing to envy. Property prices are rock-bottom and it has been too long since the grass was cut.
It was a mere 29 years ago that this date became an indelible mark on the national calendar — the day when black students took to the streets to protest against the use of Afrikaans as a mandatory language of instruction at schools nationwide. But, since 1994, the date has progressively meant less, with a generation of ”born frees’ indifferent to its importance.
He promised his dying mother he would be an artist. Today he is one of South Africa’s most promising cartoonists. Bethuel Mangena ignored high school teachers who told him to look for a ”respectable” job — and has not looked back. Choosing to study fine art, Magena — at 26 — is one of the youngest practitioners of this most difficult journalistic art.
In a week in which Tony Leon came out with guns blazing because the African National Congress seemed, in his view, bent on dividing and ruling the white population, South Africa was pondering yet another great gulf in the populace.
This weekend, the national question will be answered: Who will be South Africa’s football champions?
”There truly is a sucker born every minute. And when being a sucker collides with vanity, you have yourself a whole lot of emperors walking around in their birthday suits. Take the multitudes who bought some of what were purported to be Nelson Mandela’s art works, specifically the handprints”.
‘An educationist should never be made a minister of education, just like a military person should not be made minister of defence,” Kader Asmal, then water and forestry minister, told the Sunday Times in 1996. ‘They bring their own activist ideas, but there is more to it than that [activism].” President Thabo Mbeki, who has […]
Nobody is perfect. Not even Christ’s vicar could claim to be. So Pope John Paul II, who stepped into the shoes of St Peter, the man who denied Jesus Christ thrice, was only human. But he was the leader of the biggest Christian outfit in the world and, therefore, his actions rightly attract scrutiny. The pontiff had made his mind known with reference to women’s roles in the church
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) has thrown its weight behind moves to secure two permanent seats with veto rights for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. International parliamentary institutions will be lobbied to support proposals for a further four non-permanent seats for the continent. The PAP adopted a report on reform of multilateral institutions by the standing committee.
Former askari Joe Mamasela said the human remains exhumed on Human Rights Day are not those of the ”Mamelodi 10”, as claimed by the National Prosecuting Authority. According to Mamasela, the bodies of the 10 Mamelodi activists assassinated by apartheid hit squads in 1986 had been incinerated by the security forces.
One of South Africa’s most senior judges, KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala, has warned that some judges will consider returning to private practice if the government’s proposed Bills aimed at reining in errant judges becomes law.
Judge Tshabalala told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> that colleagues told him they would quit the Bench if the draft laws were enacted in their current form.