<i>The Face</i>, the ultra-cool pop culture magazine that helped shape many trends of the 1980s and 1990s, is being closed because of poor sales, its publishers said on Friday. The British monthly launched in 1980 and stood out with its edgy take on music and fashion.
The <i>M&G Online</i> has been accused of trademark infringement by a United States publisher for using the phrase "for dummies" in a headline.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Nine political parties out of the 21 parties that contested Wednesday’s election at a national level are likely to be represented in Parliament. The African National Congress was on Thursday afternoon heading towards a pivotal 70%, followed by the incumbent official opposition Democratic Alliance at about 15%.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>South Africa’s third democratic election was running smoothly late on Wednesday afternoon at the almost 17 000 voting stations around the country, despite long queues and some complaints from parties in the Western Cape, a bomb scare in Gauteng and allegations of fraud in KwaZulu-Natal. Read it all in our continually updated election event rundown.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34154">Diepsloot, Alex residents make their mark</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34151">Western Cape voters out in force</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34145">PAC laughs off Mbeki’s comments</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34148">ANC activists ‘caught red-handed'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34135">Queue talk: What voters are saying</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
South African billionaire entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth is going to Mars — thanks to United States President George Bush. Shuttleworth on Thursday revealed the exciting news to the Mail & Guardian Online in an exclusive telephonic interview from his London apartment.
Mail & Guardian Online readers who believe that entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth will soon be travelling to Mars on a Nasa space mission have a long wait ahead of them. The M&G Online received several e-mails about this April Fool’s Day joke on Thursday. Most other publications also made use of the opportunity to fool their readers.
Read our April Fool’s Day story
South African radio presenter Gareth Cliff has been suspended for two days by national music station 5fm as a result of an "interview" he conducted with "Jesus" on his show on Tuesday afternoon, which elicited numerous complaints from listeners. Cliff on Wednesday apologised to his listeners.
The Mail & Guardian has again proved its worth as South Africa’s top newspaper by scooping all the nominations in the investigative journalism category of the Mondi Newspaper Awards 2003. The nominations were announced on Tuesday.
John Ondrasik, basically, is Five for Fighting. He writes the music, sings it, lends a hand with the production, and plays piano and guitar (and there’s a lot of that). His fellow two musicians, Curt Schneider and Andrew Williams, simply fill in the gaps. Riaan Wolmarans reviews The Battle for Everything.
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The Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has reacted strongly to a feature published by the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> about the fate of former pets and farm animals in Zimbabwe. However, the Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre in South Africa has disputed the NSPCA’s response.