OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. THE Mail & Guardian has endorsed the African National Congress for the June 2 elections, just three weeks after promising that it would not be endorsing any specific party. Editor Philip van Niekerk explained the choice of the ANC, saying the party “has made a contribution second to none […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube Election time is bringing out the best of what local television producers have to offer, allowing for some boundary-breaking exercises. Suddenly there’s a dearth of new programmes to watch, not all of them studio interrogations of the parties that will ultimately represent folks who decide to make their mark on […]
Corruption and crime have dominated the election debates up to now. But there are other critical issues that are germane to how South Africans will vote on June 2. These are just three. Education The African National Congress has always been strong on education policy. It brought to office an ambitious vision for a radically […]
recovery Marianne Merten Garry has been clean for 18 months. He survived crack addiction. “It brings people to their knees quicker than anything else. You lose weight. You can’t sleep. I often sat in my room high on crack, highly emotional, wanting to cry. I couldn’t. It leaves you hollow.” Garry came to Cape Town […]
MORE than 45 pick-up trucks armed with anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft weapons and heavy machine-guns arrived in the south-central Somali town of Baidoa on Wednesday to protect a shipment of shillings due to arrive. The battle-wagons are manned by militiamen loyal to warlord Mohamed Hussein Aidid and the currency thought to be heading to Abdulrashid Shire […]
ANNUAL passenger car sales worldwide will barely top 32-million in 2000, 3,3-million vehicles fewer than last year’s turnover, reducing sales to levels last seen in the 1980s, Britain’s Economist Intelligence Unit said on Thursday. “Overall world car sales will not exceed their 1997 peak volumes again until 2003,” the EIU said in an abstract from […]
Ivor Powell More than 20 senior leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal have secretly defected to the African National Congress before the June election. A top ANC leader in the province told the Mail & Guardian that at least six of the turncoats are members of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature. The group also includes […]
Phillip vanNiekerk:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK The truism that a week can be a long time in politics has been brought home to me. At the end of last month I devoted this column to what I had thought to be an unanswerable case against newspapers coming out in support of political parties – a practice […]
The Cannes Film Festival got off to an uneasy start last week with Nikita Mikhalkov’s saccharine three-hour melodrama The Barber Of Siberia, a movie with the epic qualities of a Russian winter. By the end of it, no peasant imagined the first shy blooms of springtime more fervently than we awaited the closing credits. Moreover, […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Namibian artists are outraged over what they call “apartheid-style censorship” rearing its head in their democratic country. The outrage was sparked by the Namibian government’s decision to withdraw financial support for a popular play scheduled to be staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg next week. The Ministry of Basic Education and Culture […]