Bronwen Jones PROTOTYPES of puncture-proof tyres just made at a factory in Carletonville mark the beginnings of what is expected to become a multi-million rand industry for South Africa. The main design project started in 1991, when military users asked the Defence Research and Development Council and Allthane Technologies International, to find a solution to […]
As the final constitutional deadline draws closer, some rights remain unresolved, write Gaye Davis and Justin Pearce Exhausted constitutional negotiators kept smiling — sometimes grimly – — this week, saying they were on track to meet the May 8 deadline for the adoption of the final Constitution. But the happy faces barely concealed the reality […]
A strange case has been under way this week in the Kempton Park magistrate’s court — an application for the extradition of a British spy, Paul Grecian, to the United States. Grecian, the man credited with blowing the cover on Saddam Hussein’s project to build a “super-gun”, was arrested on December 15 while on a […]
Arthur Goldstuck Give it to me straight: how many people really are on the Internet? How many people will get my marketing message and buy my product? That remains the single most vexing question about the potential of the Internet, at least when you get past the hype about pornography and security. If you still […]
Eddie Koch KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally will subpoena the Department of Military Intelligence to supply a vital batch of military documents which have gone missing from the top-secret collection implicating General Magnus Malan and other officers in a conspiracy to murder African National Congress supporters. Last week the AG handed a set of documents […]
POP/ROCK: Chris Roper TINA TURNER presents an energetic and polished show, and, observing the enthusiastic and adulatory response of the audience, you can come to only one conclusion: if Nelson Mandela was a woman, he’d be Tina Turner. There is just no way to engage objectively with the music and performance of the supreme Granmeister […]
Two years of transition: A series by leading South African authors, celebrating the second birthday of our democracy Njabulo Ndebele AFTER some 20 years of absence, I returned home with a family in 1991. On the first Saturday of our return, I took them on a drive to see the house in which I was […]
CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale Patrice Leconte’s Yvonne’s Perfume arrives in this country over two years after its international release. But don’t miss it: in many ways it’s his most lyrical work to date. Leconte’s Monsieur Hire caused a ripple at the art house in 1989, with its subtle dissection of a murder tale and economical narrative. […]
Mungo Soggot MINERAL and Energy Affairs Minister Pik Botha wants a South African oil field deep in the heart of the old Soviet Union. He told the Mail & Guardian this week he is trying to perusade local oil companies to form a consortium to buy an oil field in Kazakhstan, one of several politically […]
Business says South Africa can ill-afford a national strike while investor sentiment is still fragile. Madeleine Wackernagel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report As Cosatu members prepare to picket today (Friday), in advance of the first 24-hour national strike called this year, new evidence shows a significant increase in labour unrest in the first quarter. And this […]