TUESDAY, 8.30AM: JACQUES KALLIS and Hansie Cronje kept the South African flag flying on the last day of the first Australian test, to reach 226 for four, 77 runs short of their target. Scores at tea time on the fifth and final day on Tuesday were: Australia first innings — 309 South Africa first innings […]

MONDAY, 6.00PM: At least two Kenyan voters were killed on Monday, the day of elections, both involved in a political clash in the western Siaya district, 300 kilometres north west of the capital, Nairobi. No details are available about the incident, or the parties involved. On Sunday, three people were killed, bringing the death toll […]

WEDNESDAY, 9.30AM: The SA Breweries-controlled Amalgamated Beverage Industries is to acquire Suncrush in a R1,9-billion deal payable in cash and equities that will see ABI controlling 60% of SA’s soft drinks industry. ABI is already the largest Coca-Cola bottler in SA, holding the franchises for Gauteng and metropolitan Durban. ABI’s acquisition of Suncrush, which holds […]

We evaluate the peformances of South Africa’s ministers over the past year Keeping score: What the marks mean A –Brilliant. On top of the job, innovative, delivering. Vote yourself a salary increase. B — Very good. Could do better. C — Average. Needs quite a lot of brushing up. D — Mediocre. Not up to […]

Summer poems for the beloveds 1 husband man with rampant tongue hold me and hear my heart howl with lust flaying my skirt to the thigh as I ride out on your voice man who holds me as if embracing womb I am with young by you my abdomen lows its fertility in this festive […]

TUESDAY 1.30PM: FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda returned home on Sunday for the first time since a failed coup in October against his successor President Frederick Chiluba. Kaunda office said on Monday that he returned by road from neighboring Zimbabwe after a two-month lecture tour that also took him to Britain, the United States, India […]

How clued up are you on the highs and lows of 1997? Exercise your memory with this brain-teaser 1 South African arms were found in at least three African hot-spots this year. Which countries were they? 2 Which South African city is leading the pack of candidates as the future site of Parliament? 3 A […]

The Electronic Mail & Guardian, the daily online sister to the print edition, won a Loerie design award for best Internet news site, beating almost 100 rivals. eM&G editor Irwin Manoim became the first journalist in the history of the Loeries to win the advertising industry’s most prestigious award. Antjie Krog was the joint recipient […]

extinction William Makgoba Comment Eighty-five years of struggle, pain and experience have weaved a solid movement whose traditions, values and culture are unparalleled and rooted within the grassroots. The African National Congress as both a liberation movement and political party has refined its own complexity with African simplicity to produce a transformation machinery whose vision […]

Emanuel Shaw II may be the king of sleaze, but South Africa is not without its own homegrown sleazeballs, writes Mungo Soggot While discussing Liberian politician Emanuel Shaw II’s spectacularly corrupt track record in the West African country, a Liberian journalist based in Washington told the Mail & Guardian last month: “You must watch out. […]