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 […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There will be those based in the north of the country who are experiencing a severe sense of dj vu about the Super 12 performance of the Gauteng Cats. You may recall that the Cats won their first match last year (39-32 vs Northern Bulls), then lost nine in a row […]
Cameron Duodu : LETTER FROM THE NORTH `A great tree has been uprooted” in the Asante kingdom of Ghana! This is how the Asante – incorrectly dubbed the “Ashanti” by colonialist and neo-colonialist writers – announced the death of their king. He was Otumfuor Opoku Ware II, and he has just joined his ancestors at […]
The venue that hosted Codesa has been transformed into a gambling den. Bafana Khumalo reports The “miracle” of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy was painfully hammered out at the World Trade Centre in 1993 after months of negotiation at the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa). Today, this hall of democracy has […]
Charlene Smith and Aaron Nicodemus The company that produced the controversial Aids drug Virodene has conducted more human trials without the approval of the Medicines Control Council (MCC), according to papers filed before the Pretoria High Court. In 1997 the MCC suspended human trials of the drug. The documents reveal that despite no apparent financial […]
The Mail & Guardian cleaned up at South Africa’s first Science and Technology Journalism Awards presented in Pretoria last weekend. The newspaper walked off with the overall prize as well as winning both national newspaper categories. The strength of the M&G’s science and technology coverage was demonstrated in the features category, where it provided not […]
Philip Nel : A SECOND LOOK I hope I am not the only Afrikaans speaker who feels uncomfortable with being made the focus of a special debate in Parliament. Although I can understand the political reasons why political parties would like to have such a debate in the run-up to the elections, I do not […]
Andrew Muchineripi laments the fact that you can’t watch soccer in a cosy stadium It is a sad reflection on the people who inhabit our beautiful land that a soccer club cannot host a Bob Save Super Bowl match because the risk of crowd disturbance is too high. SuperSport United were drawn to play Orlando […]
INDABA, MY CHILDREN by Credo Mutwa (Payback Press) Payback Press, part of Scottish publisher Canongate, is devoted to new and old works by important black writers. Among the titles already published under this imprint is Chester Himes’s Harlem cycle of murder mysteries; two famous books on black music, Leroi Jones’s Blues People and Ben Sidran’s […]