OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 9.45am. THE meeting called by National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala on Friday morning to discuss Thursday’s fisticuffs in Parliament has ended with Ginwala saying she gave all parties a copy of video footage of the fracas and gave them until Monday to decide what action to take. The meeting, […]

Swapna Prabhakaran Environmentalists and researchers from around the world converged on Durban’s International Convention Centre this week to share ideas on global air pollution. It was the first time the World Clean Air and Environment Congress, holding its 11th conference, has been held in Africa. It provided an opportunity for valuable information exchange, bridging the […]

Peter Dickson A scam dubbed “Aircon” is the latest corruption scandal to rock the Eastern Cape legislature. On Tuesday, Eastern Cape legislature speaker Gugile Nkwinti announced that the secretary of the legislature, Connie de Beer, and finance director Bej Fatuse have been forced to take leave, pending investigation into allegations that they illegally converted R300 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kuala Lumpur | Thursday 9.00pm. FIFTH-year medical student Frantz Kruger took Games silver in the discus on Thursday night, in the Bukit Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. Kruger, hot from a personal best throw of 65,73m at the International Athletics Federation World Cup in Johannesburg, threw 63,93 on his sixth throw to come […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer For sheer suspense, the ongoing saga over who will succeed Monsieur Philippe Troussier as coach of the national team is beginning to rival an Agatha Christie thriller. Dutchman Ruud Gullit was coming to Africa to transform Bafana Bafana into giants, only to be permanently distracted by the small matter of a […]

Ferial Haffajee A Pretoria branch of the Democratic Party is known as the armed wing of the party – or Umkhonto weDP – because its members have so much firepower. Among the diverse membership of the Centurion branch are former generals, colonels navy officers of the old South African Defence Force and 12 members of […]

Mail &Guardian reporter Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI’s) have created 518 investment opportunities valued at R115,4 billion – with the potential to create 118 000 new jobs – across South Africa. By June this year, 144 of these projects, with an investment value of around R31- billion and the potential to create more than 32 000 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 11.45am. SUNDOWNS were stunned on Saturday when they went down 2-1 to Bloemfontein Celtic in a shock Premier Soccer League defeat at the Free State Stadium. Sundowns missed many opportunities that could have seen then take the match, but Celtic opened the scoring in the 25th minute through Stoffel Nikane […]

More disillusioned MPs are expected to defect to the Democratic Party, writes Howard Barrell As the Democratic Party increasingly assumes the mantle of unofficial leader of the opposition in Parliament from the ailing National Party, a number of MPs from other opposition parties are expected to jump ship in coming weeks. Only the timing of […]

Chiara Carter The Pan Africanist Congress is spelt “Pat” in several townships and platteland towns in the Western Cape. PAC MP Patricia de Lille’s involvement in bread-and-butter issues is helping the party make inroads into coloured communities in the Western Cape – and attract a handful of white members. This weekend the PAC will launch […]