SA Justin Pearce Adriana Naude knew her baby son would be taken out of South Africa immediately after being adopted. This was revealed this week by a private social worker, Riekie van der Berg, who organised the adoption granted in February against the wishes of the child’s natural father, Lawrie Fraser. Speaking to the press […]
Laurie Nathan takes Frederik van Zyl Slabbert to task for trying to sweep our racist past under the carpet FREDERIK VAN ZYL Slabbert’s article on the Barney Pityana-Dennis Davis debate and the Professor William Makgoba crisis at Wits University was a great disappointment (April 4 to 11). Instead of offering new insights on managing racial […]
Mail & Guardian Reporters PRETORIA Attorney General Jan D’Oliveira, whose office this week wound up its marathon prosecution of Eugene de Kock, plans to charge more security force members in high-profile “political” murder trials over the next “month or two”. These prosecutions may pre-empt applications by perpetrators of apartheid crimes to the Truth and Reconciliation […]
Simon Segal THE great seven-year haggling game between divergent interest groups around the establishment of a regulated bond market appears at last to be moving towards a resolution. Last week the Bond Market Association (BMA) submitted its application to the Financial Services Board (FSB) to be licensed as South Africa’s bond market exchange. The FSB […]
attitude Madeleine Wackernagel The rand retreated from its record lows this week, no thanks to Trevor Manuel’s insistence that the government’s position on exchange controls remains firm. The finance minister is labouring the point, said one economist. He should have made suitably reassuring noises at the onset of the crisis, and then let the markets […]
With Cyril Ramaphosa shunted from the frontline, there are deep concerns in the ANC caucus. Gaye Davis reports CYRIL Rampahosa did not jump, he was pushed. His decision to opt for a corporate position was not his first choice: he would rather have been finance minister. But he found his political options closed off as […]
Visiting jazz pianist Keith Tippett explores three decades of South African connections in conversation with GWEN ANSELL ‘SERIOUS musicians have to make a choice,” says visiting UK jazz pianist Keith Tippett. “Are they going to be curators or creators?” The question is typical of the man, whose own three-decade career has spanned jazz, jazz- rock, […]
Mike Loewe The most ambitious public relations stunt by a South African newspaper is degenerating into farce as two ill-prepared women climbers scramble for the top of Mount Everest. South African mountaineer Cathy O’Dowd, a Rhodes University photojournalism masters student and daughter of Anglo-American director Michael O’Dowd, will carry with her the hopes of her […]
The SABC is keeping its involvement in a R20- million locally made production under wraps, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy BRITAIN’S Channel 5, which will begin transmission in the UK next year, is planning to buy one of South Africa’s biggest ever locally made television co-productions. The R20-million family action adventure series called Legend of the Hidden […]
Soon you will be able to study to be a Nat politician, reports Marion Edmunds The National Party is setting up a political academy and its first group of 50 students begin training on August 1. While the detail of this academy is still under discussion, the shape and concept has been accepted. An NP […]