Mail & Guardian reporter Apart from pornography, keeping up with the news, and monitoring the latest on Zippergate, the Internet can also provide a playground for a budding George Soros. Local and international financial service websites are rapidly expanding. Their offerings range from basic financial information to trading a portfolio on the Web. Internationally people […]

As mutinous Lesotho troops take to the hills in preparation for a drawn-out struggle, we re-examine the report that caused all the trouble William Boot The Southern African Development Community’s mishandling of the Langa commission of inquiry and its inability to publicly admit that the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD)had fraudulently stolen the May 23 […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Student Representative Council (SRC) leaders have boarded the gravy train at South Africa’s universities and technikons. Some are paid “honorary” salaries, while other benefits include free vehicles, cellphones, housing, meals and trips around the country. SRCs also spend tens of thousands of rands each year on student bashes. And at one […]

“We protested here for almost seven weeks without a single window being broken and now look at our city – it has been destroyed.” – Lesotho opposition representative Mamelo Morrison, quoted in Business Day The quotation says it all. The Lesotho invasion would be laughable if it did not involve the loss of lives and […]

Douglas Rushkoff Online Bill Clinton’s impeachment, if and when it comes, will not herald a crisis of Constitution but a crisis of media. Brilliant exploitation of television may have won this president his office, but he must blame his downfall on an inability to resist the impact of another, newer medium: the Internet. Indeed, the […]

Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon This past week, I wandered down to the bottom of my garden to see how the fairies were getting along. What with the lack this year of anything you might have called a rainy season, I had left them to their own devices. In the “new” South Africa, fairies, like everyone […]

y So Craig Williamson wishes he was James Bond and a generation of aspirant psychos model themselves on Hannibal Lecter. Maggie Davey listened to American theorist Mark Seltzer on the concept of a `wound culture’ Did Craig Williamson really have to reassure us that spying for the apartheid government was no James Bond fantasy? You […]

Peter Dickson More than R300-million in taxpayers’ money is owed in unauthorised, outstanding loans to senior civil servants in the Eastern Cape. This disclosure comes a week after provincial speaker Gugile Nkwinti suspended two officials who had cashed in more than R300 000 in air tickets for members of the legislature without authorisation. The legislature’s […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The Rothmans Cup spin doctors never cease reminding us that the competition is “unbelievable” and the multimillion-rand event certainly has generated more than its fair share of excitement. It has, however, also proved unbelievably predictable with Kaizer Chiefs, Sundowns, Manning Rangers and Orlando Pirates reaching the 1997 semi-finals and only one of […]

Wally Mbhele Azanian People’s Liberation Army commander Phila Dolo was granted amnesty last week by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for killing a policeman and possession of a firearm and ammunition. He had been serving a life sentence. But the commission postponed a decision on Dolo’s plea for amnesty in the 1993 Eikenhof massacre in […]