on your Uys Some say Afrikaans is a dying language, but the Klein Karoo Festival shows that there’s still plenty of life there, writes Andrea Vinassa Afrikaans theatre is no stranger to controversy or progress, and if you imagine that the Klein Karoo Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn is some boerekonsert, you might be right and you […]
The first newspaper in South Africa edited by a woman is a sports daily, writes David Shapshak Sports writers like statistics. Any game has some “first time since …” statistic that can be worked into a story. This week Bronwyn Wilkinson entered the record books three times. The 32-year-old became the first woman editor, and […]
Mail & Guardian reporter The future of the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) occult-related crime unit hangs in the balance. Its supporters say senior police officers at national headquarters are blocking attempts by the unit to investigate satanic-related crimes and want to disband it. This is despite mounting concerns that there will be an increase […]
THE government will deploy three “mobile forces” in volatile KwaZulu-Natal to snuff out political violence threatening the June 2 elections. Police Divisional Commissioner Andre Pruis said on Thursday that forces combining police, soldiers and intelligence operatives will be deployed from April 1. Pruis, who declined to state the size of what he described as “mobile […]
Neil Manthorp in Wellington Cricket It would be pretty funny if New Zealand won the third Test, don’t you think? Unlike the Rocky scripts that have the battered, bloodied hero dragging himself off his knees and onward to last-gasp, savage victory, this plot would have a dribbly- nosed, 50kg bookworm slapping the bully into submission […]
all Africans John Matshikiza : WITH THE LID OFF The taxi driver is from Yugoslavia. He rails against the politicians and religious orthodoxies that have torn his country apart, but says he is now quite happy in South Africa. He drops me at the airport and wishes me a pleasant flight. My ticket says Air […]
AFRICAN National Congress stalwart Walter Sisulu was released from hospital on Friday after treatment for chest pains, high blood pressure and blood sugar problems.The 86-year-old Sisulu was admitted to hospital on Sunday for the the second time in a week amid growing concern for his health.A Morningside Clinic spokesperson said on Friday he is “doing […]
Ivor Powell Faced with recent opinion polls which suggest it could lose its KwaZulu-Natal heartland to the African National Congress in the June elections, the Inkatha Freedom Party is pursuing a double strategy. On one hand, its election manifesto makes it clear the IFP is looking to promote itself as a national party – rather […]
John Campbell The idea that each individual owns and controls his or her property lies at the very foundation of most (perhaps, all) societies. However useful the concept is at an ideological level, it is a notion that is increasingly less appropriate to describe property rights as the 20th century advances into the 21st. One […]
Howard Barrell Unita rebels have taken delivery of new weapons which enable them to attack Angola’s offshore oil rigs and bombard the nation’s capital, Luanda, according to unconfirmed intelligence reports. The rebels now have three Russian-built MI 25 Hind helicopters, with another seven on delivery. They have also recently obtained more than 20 Russian-built unguided […]