Mail & Guardian reporter The probability of senior African National Congress leaders testifying in mitigation of sentence for Allan Boesak next Tuesday are slim. When Boesak was accused of stealing from foreign donors and flew back to South Africa to stand trial, thousands of supporters turned out at the airport to cheer him. Minister of […]
A newspaper report that half of the low- cost houses already built by order of the government are substandard seems to have been inaccurate. Charlene Smith reports Every three minutes and 10 seconds a new Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)house is erected in Gauteng – and the government has enacted tough legislation to ensure that […]
Review of : the week Nicholas Dawes Southern Born is Myer Taub’s first play, and it has the considerable advantages of a strong cast and an experienced director in Mark Graham. Given the parlous condition of serious theatre in the Western Cape, one approaches it with every hope that the script will be strong enough […]
Vanessa Farr : CROSSFIRE I was perplexed and frustrated, not to mention angered, by Cameron Duodu’s ”Viagra’s here, so let the clit be” (March 12 to 18). What a contradictory article this is: ostensibly, Duodu is attempting to express his support for International Women’s Day, an event which, he grudgingly admits, ”does have its serious […]
A BROOKLYN, Pretoria policeman and a Ugandan doctor were arrested on Thursday night in connection with the smuggling of two elephant tusks. The endangered species protection unit said Inspector Malose Malakomme (32) and Ugandan doctor Oli Kawesi (35) will appear in the Pretoria Regional Court on May 31.
NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital […]
THE Independent Electoral Commission announced on Wednesday that three provincial legislatures will be smaller after the general election. It said that the Gauteng legislature will lose 13 seats, bringing it down to 73 members, the Western Cape three seats and North-West legislature one. The number of seats in the National Assembly will remain at 400. […]
THE Industrial Development Corporation (ICD) has agreed to underwrite R1,5-billion for a R1,1-billion expansion project at Indian Ocean Fertiliser, based in Richard’s Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast. In a statement on Thursday the IDC said the project involves the expansion of existing operations by adding a new sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid plant, as […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will address a rally in Tripoli on Friday after meeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi about the Lockerbie case. His spokesperson Parks Mankahlana said on Thursday that Mandela has been given an exemption from the United Nations to fly directly to the Tripoli despite an air embargo. Mandela leaves Stockholm for Libya late […]
A TWO-DAY summit called by the Organisation of African Unity and slated for March 30-31 has been cancelled, Burkina Faso’s presidential office said on Wednesday. Burkina Faso, current holder of the OAU’s rotating presidency, called the summit, which was to have been held in its capital Ougadougou, to “examine initiatives and mediation efforts under way […]