OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.45pm. BAFANA Bafana will be delighted to know that key Namibian defender Mohamed Auseb will not be playing in the two countries’ Cosafa Castle Cup quarterfinal in Windhoek on July 31. Auseb is under suspension after picking up two bookings in Cup matches against Lesotho and Malawi. Namibia will surely […]
Marianne Merten Six former Cape Town street children left for Germany for two weeks to meet other children at risk as part of a life-skills programme. It was the first time Shana Steer (14) from Mitchells Plain and Vuyiswa Nogioa (17) from Nyanga East left Cape Town. Both are excited and, by their own admission, […]
Chris Dunton ALF KUMALO: SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER edited by Itala Vivan (Leonardo Arte) This beautifully designed and printed album reproduces around 150 of Alf Kumalo’s photos, ranging from his work in the 1950s as a Drum staffer to photos of the 1990s. Four decades worth of some of the most striking photo-reportage produced in South […]
capital city Luvuyo Kakaza A Mail & Guardian editorial (“Rename Pretoria Mandela City”, June 18 to 24) has found favour with politicians at the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council and the Pretoria City Council. Max van der Wath, a councillor at the Pretoria City Council, said the idea of renaming Pretoria Mandela City has merit. “It […]
POLICE have found evidence of ghost writers in 4000 papers from last year’s scandal-hit Mpumalanga matric exams. Police spokesman Senior Superintendent Faizel Abdul-Kader on Thursday said it meant that at least two handwriting styles showed up in each of the papers. If the normal rules were applied this would have been impossible. Abdul-Kader said police […]
Shaun Harris Taking Stock There is still an intimidating air about private banks. They service an exclusive ring of wealthy, often powerful clients who fall within the scope of that dreadful term, “high net-worth individuals”. So are private banks really only for the filthy rich? Well yes, but not as exclusively as in the past. […]
Wonder Hlongwa The recent spate of deaths among young people in Highflats, KwaZulu-Natal, believed to be caused by Aids, has prompted the formation of a youth self-help group whose aim is to spearhead an Aids awareness campaign in the area. Situated between the South Coast and Natal Midlands, Highflats is one of the poorest and […]
1975: Angola wins independence from Portugal amid civil war and intervention from the apartheid regime in South Africa. The conflict evolves into a war between the new Marxist MPLA government and its main rival, the then Maoist Unita led by Jonas Savimbi. Cold war years: Washington funds Unita while apartheid South Africa fights many of […]
David Sharrock in Jerusalem Nine hundred years after the first crusaders reached Jerusalem on a mission to free the Holy City from Islamic control, massacring thousands of Jews and Muslims, a second wave of Western Christians arrived this week with a very different purpose – to apologise for the actions of their bloodthirsty forebears. The […]
Ken Daniels Horse-racing This year’s Rothmans July seemed to have fallen flat when the horse racing fraternity’s VIP decided not to come to the party. But the event may still be saved by a surprise guest who slipped in the back door at the last minute. Horse wonder Horse Chestnut was just threatening to capture […]