Mark Tran in New York John Meriwether, the head of stricken hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, recently accused big Wall Street firms of preying on his company when it lost millions last year, in the hope of buying up his firm on the cheap. He was speaking in public for the first time since […]

bloodshed Chris McGreal The KwaZulu-Natal town of Richmond is bracing itself for another bout of bloodshed this weekend with the funerals of assassinated United Democratic Movement secretary general and warlord Sifiso Nkabinde and those killed in a revenge attack on an African National Congress family attending a funeral vigil. Nkabinde’s right-hand man and probable successor […]

Widow Product:BLACK WIDOW V3.63 by SoftByte Lab If you’ve gone through the tedious process of trying to save an entire website on to your hard drive file by file, you probably got the jitters thinking about your telephone bill. And if you discovered afterwards that suddenly all those images you painstakingly saved cannot be viewed […]

The proposed national lottery is likely to prove hugely popular with South Africans and could benefit NGOs. Evidence wa ka Ngobeni reports Millions of people, and needy organisations, could soon benefit from the first South African national lottery, which is expected to contribute hundreds of rands to government budgets, as well as generating billions of […]

Germaine Greer:SITE SEEING I’m not impressed with the general availability of books online. I’m glad a United Kingdom edition of Amazon’s online bookshop was launched because it was infuriating not being able to buy books from UK distributors on the United States site. But I find this site slow. Virtually all its titles are available […]

FURTHER flaws in the identity parade involving robbery accused “people’s poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli were exposed on Thursday in the Pretoria High Court. Not only was Mbuli significantly taller than all those standing with him, but an Inspector Christiaan Theunissen who was involved in his arrest was present at the identity parade against regulations. Theunissen, despite […]

This week’s Mail & Guardian comes with a new set of features designed to make Africa’s best read even better. l Writer, movie director and semi- retired actor John Matshikiza kicks off a new column, With the Lid Off. Those with long memories will remember this was the title of the regular column his father, […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The first indication that it was going to be no walkover for Bafana Bafana in Mauritius came about five minutes before the kick-off of the drawn African Nations Cup Group Four qualifier at the ramshackle King George V Stadium. Mauritian captain Jean-Marc Ithier was a picture of grim determination during the pre-match […]

THE second round of voter registration kicked off around the country at 9am on Friday, despite this week’s resignation of Independent Electoral Commission chief Judge Johann Kriegler. Registration will continue on Saturday and through Sunday. Only about a third of potential voters registered in the first round at the end of November. If insufficient voters […]

Wally Mbhele Embattled Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa is set to be discharged of his duties next month as premier and African National Congress provincial chair when the party meets to finalise its list of parliamentary candidates. The ANC committee investigating the causes of infighting among ANC heavyweights in Mpumalanga – which is scheduled to complete […]