THE former editor of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams, once said memorably that a libel suit is like a game of Russian roulette, the outcome being equally unpredictable. The financial magazine, Finance Week, has recently put a gun to the Mail & Guardian’s head and pulled the trigger. We are waiting anxiously to discover whether there […]
FRIDAY, 1.30PM WITH a crucial by-election imminent in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands area of Richmond, the African National Congress will kick off its campaign with a rally at Ndaleni Stadium which will be a trial of strength against local warlord Sifison Nkabinde. Nkabinde, who was expelled from the ANC and sacked from the local council recently […]
The Standard Bank National Arts Festival, held in Grahamstown, always generates a lot of controversy and differing opinions. Here are some Suzy Bell on Trevor Makhoba DURBAN artist, Trevor Makhoba, recipient of the 1996 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for the Visual Arts, has spoken out against the Standard Bank National Arts Festival committee. “They […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM THE Producer Price Index fell to an annual 8,4% in May, 0,4 of a percentage point lower than the figure for April, the Central Statistical Servise said on Thursday. The PPI for locally produced commodities stood at 8,9%, 0,8 of a percentage point lower than the corresponding annualised rate in April. The PPI […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM The agreement reached on Thursday between Gauteng Democratic Party leader Peter Leon and new Johannesburg police area commissioner Isak Pretorius that all six entrances to Alexandra township will be blockaded by police and army has drawn sharp reaction from safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte. Reacting “with utter dismay and serious concern” to […]
The Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid’s attempts to `Africanise’ its programme may be too little, too late, argues Julian Drew DEPUTY Foreign Affairs Minister Essop Pahad has shared a vital fact with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, a fact that has so far eluded the bid company: the first known records of organised sport are from […]
FRIDAY, 8.00AM A SECURITY company manager in Harare opened fire on 200 employees on Thursday who were stoning the company’s offices, demanding 50% pay rises. He injured 18 workers. The workers burnt a dozen company motorbikes before police arrived to quell the riot and arrest the manager. THURSDAY, 4.00PM MORE than 11 000 Zimbabwean railway […]
The plot to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko originated not in the Congo but in Rwanda, before the campaign actually began. John Pomfret reports from Kigali, Rwanda RWANDA’S powerful Defence Minister Paul Kagame has acknowledged for the first time his country’s key role in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]
FENCING:Julian Drew NEXT week the first-ever world championships in an Olympic sport to take place in South Africa will be held in Cape Town when the World Fencing Championships are staged at a newly constructed venue in Culemborg. Just weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games decision in Lausanne it is important for Cape Town that […]
Ferial Haffajee `NOW my friends it is time for you to come to your friend in order to understand. The cattle have udders, come and milk them!” It is 1899, and around the reef which was to become Johannesburg touts put up notices like this one to entice black labourers on to the mines. At […]