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 […]
Uganda, Rwanda, Chad Sudan and Zimbabwe – the war in Congo has redrawn alliances all over the continent. Victoria Brittain reports from Kisangani Flying over the forest from the Ruwenzori mountains of south-western Uganda, one sees no sign of man: no road, no village, no puff of smoke across hundreds of kilometres of the northern […]
A NIGERIAN herdsman who discovered an 8500-year-old canoe has asked his local government to build him a house next to where the ancient relic is kept, the News Agency of Nigeria said on Friday. Malam Yau (59) appealed to the Yobe state government to provide him with a place to live as he received a […]
NIGERIA has yet to launch an official campaign for their 2006 World Cup bid and a bidding committee is not even in place. Sports Minister Emeka Omeruah said earlier this month: “It will soon be constituted,” but time is fast running out with only a year to go before Fifa decides on the 2006 host. […]
John Higgins It’s embarrassing to introduce an academic superstar to a small audience in a large hall. “There may be just my theory of literature class here,” I murmured, as we hurried towards the lecture, adding silently, “all 10 of them!” Could the unfashionable topic, “Marxism at the Millennium”, draw in the crowds on this […]
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 […]
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 […]
WEST Rand police said on Friday that they have arrested eight suspects in connection with the robbery at the Roodepoort Cascades Shopping Mall which left a police officer and a suspected robber dead and several people wounded. The shoot-out took place earlier with an armed gang which ambushed security guards at the mall. Police confronted […]
Music: Malu van Leeuwen `I ain’t fucking satisfied! I ain’t satisfied!’ Keith Flint of Prodigy is not satisifed with a screaming audience of thousands, he’s not satisfied with those hands in the air showing him the finger like all good dance punks. Flint marches round the stage with his hair (what there is of it) […]
Andy Colquhoun Rugby There is a rhythm to the rugby season by which we followers of the game can measure out the advance of each year. The pungent scent of braaing meat hanging in the air of the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside can only mean that the Blue Bulls are once more on the rampage […]