Jonathan Ancer When the train passed through Nelspruit, Kenneth Simango closed his eyes, took a deep breath and jumped. The Mozambican landed on the ground, bruised but unharmed. Simango (29) claims that while he was being transported from the controversial Lindela deportation centre in Krugersdorp back to Maputo, guards let him jump off the moving […]
At first glance, wars in Southern Africa and Yugoslavia have little in common. Barely a decade ago American and Soviet strategists might have linked them to their global rivalry and to the risk of nuclear war. Today such conflicts are isolated, with external involvement responding to a new diplomatic drumbeat of regional solutions for regional […]
music day With top-class gigs happening across the country for an entire 24 hours, South African Music Day is set to take local is lekker to new heights. Michelle Constant takes the microphone The key to the very first South African Music Day (March 27) is not to find all the answers but to feel […]
The latest chapter in her continuing fascination with pathology, psychosis, sick humour and sleazy soap opera is Shireen James’s new play Viagra Falls. James is the writer/director of When Suicides Meet, a meditation upon the inner torment of Sylvia Plath, and Alice Threw The Looking Glass, a harrowing and gruesomely comic portrayal of a young […]
The bombing of Belgrade is yet another warning that the USwill stop at nothing to secure world domination, writes John Pilger When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima after Japan had all but surrendered, the front page of the London Daily Express said: “This is a warning to the world.” When American […]
BOWLS South Africa (BSA) said on Thursday it had banned Neil Carroll until August 31 next year for an anti-Semitic slur, overturning a lighter sentence handed down by the Central Gauteng Bowls Association. Carroll, who allegedly joked that he did not want to “play with that Jewish boy”, was suspended for two years by the […]
Neil Manthorp in Napier Cricket Hansie Cronje has an awful lot on his mind going into the last three one- day internationals of this New Zealand tour. All three games must be won for the series to be tucked away alongside the Test series victory and then, of course, there is the World Cup. The […]
The battle for votes among South Africa’s political parties is on. The African National Congress and the Democratic Party launch their election campaigns this weekend. The New National Party set out its stall last weekend. And other major parties are loosening up their tongues and sharpening up their soundbites for 10 weeks of campaigning which […]
The Mail & Guardian’s holding company, M&G Media Limited, has announced the appointment of Govin Reddy as its new CEO. A media executive with national and international experience, Reddy most recently served as the deputy CEO of the SABC. He steps into the shoes of Mike Martin, the M&G’s first CEO. Said Reddy: “There are […]
Elias Chitenje The Democratic Republic of Congo security force members who fled into Zambia from the upsurge in fighting have been relocated pending their repatriation. The 650 armed soldiers and 250 policemen were relocated during the week from Kaputa to Chililabombwe near the Zambia/Congo border. They have separated from more than 7 000 civilian refugees. […]