Former president Nelson Mandela has been asked to mediate in the Middle East peace process.
Andrew Muchineripi soccer After winning the Castle Premiership for three consecutive seasons, Sundowns Football Club have decided the time has arrived to raise their sights a little bit higher. The natural progression from being champions of a country is to become champions of a continent and that is what the Pretoria-based club has set its […]
Colleen Lowe Morna South AfricaOs WomenOs Budget Initiative (WBI) is receiving more accolades abroad than commitment at home. Launched in government three years ago as part of a high-profile, two-year pilot project on gender and economic policy supported by the Commonwealth secretariat, the gender implications of public expenditure received extensive commentary in the 1998 and […]
Investigators at the Independent Complaints Directorate this week began fitting together the pieces of the puzzle around Bheki MkhizeOs death Paul Kirk and Niki Moore African National Congress MP Bheki Mkhize, killed in a police raid on his home at Mahlabathini, near Ulundi, was shot through his open palm an indication, say the provincial ANC […]
ZimbabweOs political and economic stability is in danger as President Robert Mugabe pushes ahead with plans to expropriate white-owned land Chris McGreal in Harare Zimbabwe is mobilising its army to rapidly resettle several million black peasants on expropriated farms after a government announcement that it will now seize about two-thirds of all white-owned land. And […]
Hennie Bester, the new Western Cape safety MEC, has brought a new attitude to his portfolio Marianne Merten OIOm not sure whether I must accept congratulations or sympathy,O smiled Western Cape MEC for Community Safety Hennie Bester after his first media conference. He and MEC for Transport Piet Meyer had just announced that Khayelitsha the […]
GM war Jaspreet Kindra The real political contest today is between the Opower of people and the power of corporationsO, pronounces Dr Vandana Shiva, the fiery activist from India. Shiva, one of the stalwarts of the anti- biotech movement launched over a decade ago, is here to help kick-start the South African campaign against genetically […]
Vasti Roodt crossfire In the Mail & Guardian of July 28, David Macfarlane concludes his defence of Catherine BreillatOs Romance with a call for women to speak out on the presumed merits of the film (OFlaccid reviews reveal male myopiaO). Macfarlane is filled with indignation at the critical comments the film has elicited from three […]
Anita Chaudhuri Annie Sprinkle, the American porn star turned performance artist, would like a word with British authorities. OItOs outrageous: your customs people wonOt allow any of my videos into the country. WhatOs the matter with you all? When I come over and perform my live show, they make me cut out anything that shows […]
conferencesO Jaspreet Kindra The Pan-Africanist Congress has criticised the organising of the National Conference on Racism, which begins at the end of this month. According to the PAC, racism is Otoo deep- rootedO to be handled by Osuperficial mechanisms which provide short-term solutionsO and cost millions of rand. OIt is time to descend from platforms […]