Barbara Ellen Body Language One of my strangest assignments was being asked to review an example of “erotic fiction for women”. If I remember rightly, it was called something like The Silken Flesh or Sigh Of Desire. Oddly, for a mucky book, none of the female characters appeared to have vaginas, clitorises, or any of […]

Ann Eveleth Before the 1994 elections, the African National Congress drew criticism from its opponents when it hinted that 16-year-old children should be allowed to vote. In those heady days of pre-liberation politics the youth flocked to the party’s campaign rallies and mobbed soon-to-be-president Nelson Mandela with the fervour of rock-star groupies. This year, those […]

Marianne Merten Tit-for-tat killings have hit the Cape Flats, as a complex net of revenge attacks unfolds in the ongoing violence between rival gangs, and between gangsters and anti-drug vigilantes. Saturday’s attack on members of a social and soccer club in Hanover Park – in which one man was killed and at least 20 people […]

There’s the pink pound and the pink dollar, but do we have a rose-tinted rand to go with them? Mike Metelits looks into gay buying power Pink money is either common enough to be a stereotype, or stereotypical enough that we think it’s common. It is the perception that gays make, have, invest and spend […]

Peter Dickson Magistrates ignorant of the law are sending hundreds of farm worker families out into the cold and back to the darkest days of apartheid in the Eastern Cape. And officials of the provincial Department of Land Affairs have told land reform lobbyists that the hard-won Extension of Security of Tenure Act (Esta) is […]

At the end of 1994, I took a film crew to nine countries on the African continent to make a documentary called Africa Salutes Mandela.

David le Page Lately, cellular phone users have discovered that the identities of not only cell users, but also Telkom users, are popping up automatically when they receive calls. This development follows the introduction by Telkom earlier this year of its Identicall system – where a special plug-in unit can be rented for a nominal […]

Mail & Guardian reporters Kader Asmal (Education):Had remarkable success as minister of water affairs and forestry, despite the onset of enervating illness. Intelligent and hard working, he was a distinguished legal academic before returning from 27 years in exile. He was placed at number four on the African National Congress’s national election list, showing that […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni `That’s where my father’s house used to be,” says Michael Ngeno, pointing to a pile of rocks in the middle of an open field in Ventersdorp. “My parents built it in 1955, and it was a comfortable home for us. We had a school nearby, and a clinic. The soil was […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby Well, well, well. Win a Test 74-3, make seven changes and appoint a new captain. There are those who criticised Springbok coach Nick Mallet for being too conservative during his team’s assault on the record for successive Test wins. The same people may now be wondering whether an alien life form has […]