Duvall Pettway and Kojo Baffoe fashion Local fashion has climbed to an all-time high with designers pulling out all the stops at the 4th annual South African Fashion Week (SAFW). September can be re- dubbed fashion month with the showing of spring/summer collections at various events hosted around Johannesburg. The season kicked off in full […]

The Mail & Guardian’s Cape and Durban correspondents, Marianne Merten and Paul Kirk, were runners-up in the 2000 Ruth First Courageous Journalism Awards, announced this week by Rhodes University. The winner was The Star’s Lynne Altenroxel. Charlene Smith won the prize last year for her articles on rape in the M&G, news editor Mungo Soggot […]

For most of his political life Richard Nixon was prey to drink, prescription drugs and fits of rage. Talking to Nixon’s psychotherapist and key figures in his administration, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan piece together the events that culminated, astonishingly, in the president being asleep and incapable when his country went on nuclear alert against […]

Roshila Pillay One of South Africa’s most progressive schools, St Barnabas College in Johannesburg, faces closure after Standard Bank refused it further financial assistance – despite a World Bank request that it provide temporary financial support. The school has a unique approach characterised by a long-standing history of commitment to education where redress is most […]

HIGH Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Cheryl Carolus, has emerged as the African National Congress’s most favoured choice for mayor of Cape Town in the forthcoming local government elections, Business Day newspaper reports. An unnamed departmental official said he was aware of moves to end Cape-born Carolus’s tenure in London 18 months early so she […]

He gave up school at age 15 to concentrate on racing – and now he’s a motocross world champion at 17 Gavin Foster In 1998, his first year of 125cc motocross Grand Prix racing, Durbanite Grant Langston, then just 15, finished 35th in the world championships. Last year the youngster took a very impressive 10th. […]

Communities in the Hex River Valley and Worcester have united in a way never seen before to save their livelihoods Barry Streek United protests against a proposed toll road between Worcester and the Hex River Valley, European concerns about ethical trading and a major crisis in South Africa’s table grape export industry could bring the […]

independence While welcoming certain aspects of a draft legal Bill, law groups point out that it has crucial flaws Khadija Magardie The legal profession and the government are on a collision course over a plan to launch a regulatory body whose effective control will be vested in the minister of justice. The draft Legal Practice […]

I’m quite sure’ Scientists are divided over a theory that claims Aids was created by Western virologists developing polio vaccines in Africa in the 1950s John Vidal and James Meek The Belgian Congo, 1959. The winds of change are sweeping through Africa. There are riots for self-determination in the capital, Stanleyville (now Kisangani, Congo), and […]

Nawaal Deane, Jaspreet Kindra and Belinda Beresford The Mail & Guardian this week asked all Cabinet ministers whether they were working on the assumption that HIV causes Aids. On Tuesday Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who had been one of 13 female foreign ministers who signed a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, […]