FORMER land commissioner and African National Congress member Joe Seremane has been chosen by the Democratic Party to represent Mmabatho in the North West in June’s election. Seremane, a former Robben Island prisoner, joined the DP six years.

Howard Barrell : OVER A BARREL Why believe economists or economic explanations? For economics takes creativity, greed, mood swings and fortune- telling, and pretends to combine them into a science. If, in this world, some things do indeed cause other things to happen, it is unusually difficult to say in the case of economics what […]

Wally Mbhele and Ferial Haffajee Jay Naidoo’s future as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting hangs in the balance as tensions with his department’s officials have reached the deputy president’s office. With elections looming, the jockeying for Cabinet posts has begun and Naidoo could be an early casualty. There is a persistent rumour that Free […]

A dynamic team is driving the vision of Johannesburg as the motor of African growth – and not not the Third World slum it is in danger of becoming Bafana Khumalo A trio of knights has ridden into the city of Johannesburg with plans to bring it back from the abyss. On the biggest steed […]

SWAZILAND’s King Mswati III opened the two-day Southern African Development Community defence and security committee meeting on Thursday with the recommendation that the regional trading bloc establish a peacekeeping force. Addressing delegates from 14 SADC countries in the Swazi capital, Mbabane, Mswati said an impartial peacekeeping force would be the most effective way to promote […]

Peter Dickson Thieves in Port Elizabeth’s Kwazakhele township this week stole Sophakama High School. On Tuesday its 11 classrooms were still there, but when pupils arrived on Wednesday morning, they had vanished along with the surrounding security fence. The only evidence the school had ever been there were concrete struts embedded in the foundation. “I […]

ONE of President Nelson Mandela’s nephews, Reverend Daliwonga Mandela, is to establish a branch of the New National Party at Motherwell, near Port Elizabeth. NNP MP Dr Manie Schoeman said in Parliament on Thursday that Reverend Mandela had resigned from the African National Congress in 1990 and has now decided to join the NNP. Said […]

John Rawling : Boxing Evander Holyfield is demanding a staggering $25-million to be tempted back into the ring to face Lennox Lewis in a rematch this year. According to promoters, Lewis would be looking for a 50-50 split rather than the one-third he took on Saturday but the American television company which underwrites the deal […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Consider the scenario: a New York society wedding, and two Johannesburg-based guests, but only one regularly reads Smart Money & Technology. He’s expecting his round trip to New York to cost around R1 900. This will be less than half the price paid by his less well- informed friend, who did […]

Emeka Nwandiko There is something strange about the cars parked outside the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides building at Delta Park. Its occupants dressed in shirt and ties get out and look around furtively before they start walking. Some just sit in their flashy cars and wait. Equally strange are the large black capital letters […]