Sechaba ka’Nkosi Gauteng MEC for Safety and Security Jessie Duarte, whose political career hangs in the balance, personally handed an allegedly fraudulent document to the Mail & Guardian last week in an attempt to ward off a series of damaging allegations levelled against her. The commission of inquiry investigating the charges heard this week that […]

Ferial Haffajee Investigative journalists Max du Preez and Jacques Pauw have been commissioned to produce a weekly investigative programme for the SABC. “Special Assignment will carry on the tradition of TRC Special Report,” says Du Preez. His weekly programme on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and related issues has kept the probe into the country’s […]

Belinda Beresford Too broke to pay full price for that ticket to Cape Town or around the world? Quailing at the thought of standby again? Why not try to catch your flight using a ticket auction on the Internet? Ticket auctions allow you to offer a price for a ticket, usually subject to a minimum […]

Thabo Mbeki is an intelligent man with long experience of the press. When he complained this week that the press was failing to inform the public – pointing out that only 17% of Nelson Mandela’s Mafikeng speech had been conveyed to readers – we initially assumed he was making a joke. In the absence of […]

Bongani Siqoko Rugby may have appeared to unite the country when South Africa won the World Cup, but soccer could be the catalyst for real integration of blacks into financial markets. Soccer team Kaizer Chiefs is expected shortly to announce plans to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Representative Louis “Sprinter” Tshakoane said discussions […]

Cecil Abrahams: A Second Look Predictably, South African universities have once again been embroiled in the annual nauseating spectacle of disadvantaged students trying to register at cash-strapped universities where the management must refuse admission. And, as usual, the “culprits” for this stand-off are the same. Intransigent students believe the managements of the various historically disadvantaged […]

The Vita awards have been reorganised, but they could still do with a tweak or two, writes Brenda Atkinson If South Africa’s annual FNB Vita Art Prize can achieve the degree of angst, ecstasy and public attention surrounding its British counterpart – the prestigious and controversial Turner Prize – local contemporary art might just be […]

FRIDAY, 12.30PM: AFTER sharing the lead with five other players on Thursday, defending champion Zimbabwean Nick Price has taken the lead in the $2-million Dimension Data Pro-Am tournament at Sun City on Friday. Starting the second round on three under par, Price was eight under after 12 holes on the Lost City course. Overnight co-leader, […]

Tim Phillips The annual computer virus season began last month and the next few weeks will be filled with new viruses with lurid names. But at least three of these -Valentine Greetings, Penpal Greetings and Join the Crew – are hoaxes. Michelangelo and Jerusalem – two of the most feared viruses in the history of […]

Madeleine Wackernagel Taking Stock Funny how mere mention of the arms industry has the power to stop a conversation. It’s a classic case of guns versus butter (Economics One), and the divisions run deep. Should we be selling weapons at all? And who decides which country qualifies and on what criteria? So it was with […]