Tangeni Amupadhi The official police watchdog has obtained an affidavit from a person who claims to have seen two police officers coaching witnesses to finger people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli at an identity parade. At least two witnesses were shown photographs of Mbuli by policemen investigating a bank robbery in Waverley, north of Pretoria, last October, […]
Marthali Brand : Spending it United States President Bill Clinton is still regretting the day he told the world he never inhaled. But if he had been speaking about cigars, he would not only have avoided embarrassment, he’d have won points for doing the right thing. Not inhaling is one of the golden rules of […]
Alex Dodd – Milan, Marseille, New York, Rotterdam A short, hard-hitting film about xenophobia in the heart of Johannesburg by local film- maker Zola Maseko has been playing to thunderous applause around the world. This is the first time a film by a black South African director has achieved such widespread international acclaim. The Foreigner […]
Tracy Murinik Whether you’ve been aware of it or not, if you’ve been living in South Africa within the past four decades or so, and if you’ve experienced any of this country’s major cities (and even some smaller towns), then it is likely that you have at some point encountered Revel Fox. Or his vision […]
Movies and television make kids illiterate, say the experts. Don’t you believe it. Colin MacCabe on some amazing findings Television and reading are opposed, right? What parent has not thought that a few episodes less of Sesame Street or Hercules would turn their children into veritable bibliophiles, at home with Dickens as well as Tolkien, […]
Neil Manthorp in Chelmsford : Cricket The memory of the 1994 tour still sits in the palate of South African cricket like old garlic. The glory of Lord’s, the passion of the defensive draw at Headingley, and then the crumbling edifice at the end. Devon Malcolm’s crushing 9-57 at the Oval was only the beginning. […]
Belinda Beresford Employees of one of the country’s largest banks, Nedcor, have been using legally questionable tactics – ranging from impersonating policemen to threatening arrest – to intimidate petty debtors. Nedcor says such tactics are not part of its debt-collection effort and the matter is being looked into. But a Mail & Guardian investigation has […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There is a lot to be said for relaxation. In the next millennium we are told that working hours will shrink to about 30 a week so we’ll all have to get used to more time at home, more time on the golf course, more time. But rugby events on opposite […]
Howard Barrell : Over a Barrel What is one of the cleverest people in South Africa doing indulging so assiduously one of the vainest? Why has Deputy President Thabo Mbeki taken to bowing and scraping before Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Inkatha Freedom Party leader and minister of home affairs? Why has Mbeki been calling him Shenge, offering […]
Here is the eM&G’s guide to some of the most popular software titles available for download as shareware or freeware off the Internet. * Opera 3.21: From Oslo, Norway comes a speedy, award-winning browser. It’s compact, versatile and it supports the HTML 3.2 standard. Designed expressly to fly with older 386/486 machines, it includes a […]