Bafana Khumalo With all the bitching about English as she is spoken on SAfm, wait till you hear the Voice of Soweto. It’s promising not to broadcast the queen’s English when the station comes on the air in spring. But in a spirit of reconciliation, the Voice promises not to slam the phone down on […]
Mike Loewe For Glenn van Loggerenberg, the earnest and upbeat station manager of Rhodes Music Radio, the angry old days of confrontation are an anathema. The new language, he insists, is sweet, slick music — much like the stuff that is coming through the walls as we Underneath the baggy pants and flowing jersey lurks […]
ANC MP kicks dust in the faces of those who want to stop the Saldanha steel mill, reports Rehana Rossouw African National Congress MP Jenny Schreiner this week hit out at “arrogant” conservationists for trying to stop Iscor from building a steel mill in the environmentally sensitive Langebaan lagoon area at Her broadside came as […]
In the wake of our report last week on South Africa’s close relationship with Indonesia, Simon Ratcliffe says there should be even greater concern over our relations with Sudan Between October 1990 and September 1992 I lived and worked in Khartoum, Sudan, for the United Nations Development Programme. I was witness to acts of extreme […]
Ann Eveleth SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party leaders this week closed ranks around party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and engaged in a concerted damage-control exercise following the untimely leakage of the contentious “20- point plan” last week. While African National Congress leaders accused the party of launching a bid to secede KwaZulu/Natal from the rest of the […]
Feel strongly about something in this newspaper? Want to question a reporter? Want to say something to the editor? Now’s your chance, with a new radio talk-back show starting this week. Mail & Guardian reporters, editor Anton Harber and other guests will be in the SAfm studio with Will Bernard this Friday morning (June 2) […]
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the unsolved assassination of Matthew Goniwe and his three Cradock comrades. Jonathan Ancer visited Goniwe’s home town Among the simple graves and the old, weathered headstones one polished tombstone looms large in the Lingelihle Cemetery. It stands watch over the remains and memories of Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, […]
Rehana Rossouw Spanish shipbuilder Joaquin Coello left South Africa on Tuesday night an extremely disappointed man, after months of lobbying failed to secure a decision from Cabinet to give his company a contract to build four corvettes at the cost of R1,69- billion. Coello said he was assured by contacts in the Ministry of Defence […]
Pat Sidley WEDNESDAY — D-day for health warnings on tobacco advertising — was an ultra-light affair: * Many radio stations were exempted from broadcasting cigarette ads with health warnings. * Warnings on cigarette packs did not appear after being given a stay of execution * Some tobacco companies simply withdrew their ads from the marketplace. […]
Age: Born in 1959 when it was still fashionable to name your children after Eastern Bloc communist leaders. Has this been a liability? Only after he returned from exile in 1990, when even computers were anti-communist and spell checks would advise his name be changed to “Tits” or “Veto”. Present occupation: Minister with a Mission […]