Mail & Guardian reporter Chief land claims commissioner Joe Seremane is threatening to take the government and the African National Congress to the International Court of Justice in a desperate attempt to solve the murder of his younger brother, Timothy Seremane, at the infamous ANC Quatro camp in 1982. Seremane’s latest salvo against the ANC […]
Andy Duffy The government is poised to again delay the introduction of the new school curriculum after its launch earlier this year missed at least 20 000 primary schools, one in five of the schools targeted. Provincial report-backs for the first term of the school year show that up to half of the primary schools […]
Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer It has been the worst of times and the best of times for Doctor Khumalo, the Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana icon, who comes closer to walking on water than any other South African soccer star. Just how popular Doctor is was driven home with a forceful bang at FNB Stadium […]
Shaun de Waal : CD of the week It is not in order to denigrate him that one argues Philip Glass has found his perfect medium in the film score. His operas -and opera has long been seen as a pinnacle of the Western art-music tradition -are long and boring to listen to; Glass’s minimalist […]
Doctors at Johannesburg General hospital allegedly refused to examine a dying paraplegic patient, writes Angella Johnson A wheelchair-bound teenager died after he was found sitting in his excrement in the emergency waiting room at Johannesburg General hospital. He had spent four days there waiting to be examined for abdominal and chest pains. Petrus Ndlovu (19) […]
FRIDAY, 1.45PM: THE new “Get Tough” policy of the Premier Soccer League’s disciplinary committee was demonstrated first hand to Kaizer Chiefs on Thursday night, as they were fined R77500 on two counts of bringing the League into disrepute. The club has to pay R52500 within 30 days after admitting to both charges against them. Chiefs […]
FRIDAY, 1.45PM: ALLAN Donald, who moved to the number one spot on the Coopers and Lybrand Test ratings on Thursday, is out of the squad playing Pakistan in the opening game of the Standard Bank International triangular series at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday. South Africa’s workhorse, Shaun Pollock will probably also be rested for […]
Emeka Nwandiko They sell from beneath tarpaulin tents, on top of planks of wood, at street corners and on pavements, at half the price in stores, but street hawkers find that even selling at rock-bottom prices does not attract buyers. “There has been no business this year,” says Hibrahime Theophile from Togo, who sells fresh […]
Robert Kirby : Loose Cannon Squinting down from my ivory tower of white privilege, I am wont to say just how encouraged I am to be called a snobbish elitist, hardly distinguishable from a khaki-clad Neanderthal. What’s more, called all these names by someone who knows exactly what he’s talking about. And no, this column […]
Suzy Bell Clay – ubumba -has never looked so glamorous. “Ceramics!” sniffs Kobus Moolman, the education officer of the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, as his hand waves at the magnificent historical and contemporary collection of ceramics now on exhibit. There are delicate animal studies by Hezekile Ntuli from the 1930s, voluptuous beer vessels in […]