Five pairs of tickets can be won in the Mail & Guardian’s Bee Gees competition. All you have to do is answer this question: What are the Bee Gees first names? To respond call (011) 726-8098 between 6pm and 7pm on Friday November 27 for your tickets that will be valid for November 28.

SOCCER: Rothman’s cup final, Sundowns vs Chiefs Andrew Muchineripi The safest bet before the Rothmans Cup final between holders Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns at FNB Stadium on Saturday is that Amakhosi coach Paul Dolezar will take longer to choose his team than counterpart Ted Dumitru. Suspensions rule defender Jacob Tshisevhe and wingback Lifa Gqosha out […]

directorate Stuart Hess South Africa’s first black female gynaecologist, Nothemba Simalela, will become the new head of the national Aids directorate on World Aids Day next Tuesday. A senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa), Simalela replaces Rose Smart. Smart said she is leaving as director because she […]

I was recently asked whether REM had made any other albums like 1992’s beauty, Automatic for the People. That moody, ballady hit album had a carefully worked quasi-acoustic surface that made it sound almost mainstream. Trouble is, REM tend not to repeat themselves very often. Out of Time, the album before Automatic for the People, […]

Anew Viking anthology commemorates Nadine Gordimer’s 75th birthday. She spoke to Peter Godwin With the tentative tread of the dancer she once wanted to be, Nadine Gordimer steps noiselessly down the stairs from her afternoon nap. Dressed in black, she sits, taut as a sparrow, elbows on knees, chin on fists. She is quick to […]

Stuart Hess A disabled pupil was expelled from her school after she laid a charge of rape against two pupils. The boys have not been expelled. A doctor at Cecilia Makiwane hospital, who examined the pupil and confirmed she was raped, said this was not the first rape complaint at the Vukuhambe School for the […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi had an extremely close relationship with the notorious Bureau for State Security (BOSS) during a decades-long collaboration with apartheid-era security structures, according to explosive in-camera testimony presented to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). This testimony – leaked to the Mail & Guardian this week […]

Victor Keegan on Microsoft’s worst enemy … itself It’s lunchtime in the spacious restaurant. Outside the windows water flows gently over landscaped rocks and maple trees are starting to shed their leaves. There are millionaires to the left of me and millionaires to the right of me – though you would never guess from their […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.30pm. ONE would be forgiven for thinking the Johannesburg Stock Exchange lacked a pulse on Thursday as it all but shut down as the United States markets closed for Thanksgiving. A miserably thin volume at R667-million left the all share index 0,08% up, with the all gold index gaining 0,43%. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm. THE South African government’s decision to go on a massive arms shopping spree has sent out “an enormous signal” that it is serious about playing peacekeeper, Deputy Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils s on Thursday. “If we had put this decision off … I would say the perception out […]