The winner of the Mail & Guardian and Madam& Eve: It’s a Jungle out There competition is Georgina Pickett of Pretoria, who wins an original full- size Madam & Eve cartoon and a signed copy of their new book, It’s a Jungle out There. The 10 runners up are: Dan Naidu of Scottburgh, Tsholanang Thekiso […]

NIGERIA’S former finance minister Olu Falae huddled with advisers on Thursday after he became the first official candidate for the Nigerian presidency and the flagbearer of the south-west based Alliance for Democracy (AD). The radical leftist AD is one of three parties running in the polls, alongside the rightwing All Peoples Party and centre-left Peoples […]

The Market Precinct is a-jive with an electric fusion of Southern African sounds. Ramotena Mabote tunes in to Mahube `A new dawn” and new band that’s living up to it’s epic name. That’s Mahube: a whole new musical movement born out of a collaboration of sounds, cultures and beats. It came to life right here […]

DENIS BARNETT, Richmond | Thursday 5.30pm. ARMY and police were deployed in force on Thursday as the United Democratic Movement held a memorial service for its assassinated leader Sifiso Nkabinde. The Methodist service, held at a school 400 metres from Nkabinde’s home in his Magoda township stronghold near the KwaZulu-Natal town of Richmond, heard angry […]

Belinda Beresford Perhaps it’s the scars of a wild youth, the aftermath of a delinquent spouse or the legacy of mismanagement of your money. But a bad credit record can have unpleasant repercussions, including failure to get a bond, credit card, store card, cellphone – all the trappings of a relatively affluent South African. It’s […]

Ann Eveleth A Zambian student committed suicide after his South African boarding school expelled him and booked a ticket to send him home without informing his parents. International School of South Africa (Issa) principal Ed Khabele said he told lower sixth form student Tabo Mwenechanya (18) at a disciplinary inquiry on October 31 that he […]

AN Wilson FAYED: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by Tom Bower (Macmillan) One of the most richly enjoyable incidents in this extraordinary story occurs in September 1964. Papa Doc, the Haitian tyrant, has engaged a young but illustrious Kuwaiti sheikh to rebuild the harbour in Port-au-Prince. The sheikh tries to persuade some British oil experts that there […]

testicles and electrodes Some men have always been ready to try anything to stay potent. However, the pseudo-scientific approach to ageing began only a century ago. Charles-Edouard Brown-Squard, a French doctor, announced that he felt 20 years younger after injecting “extract of fresh guinea-pig and dog testicles”. Within a year, 1 200 physicians were administering […]

ANGOLA called on Thursday for the United Nations to publish results of its enquiry into the June plane crash which killed UN envoy Alioune Blondin Beye. Beye spent the last two years of his life mediating in Angola’s peace process between the Luanda government and Unita rebels. He was killed last June when the light […]

DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday officially launched a revised government website from the State Theatre in Pretoria, saying it will help government communications. It carries legislation, records of parliamentary proceedings, speeches, press releases and background on members of the government, national and provincial. Most of it works.