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/ 21 December 2006
ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma will be opening his Christmas presents and kissing his numerous wives under the mistletoe at his homestead in Nkandla, northern KwaZulu-Natal, the Mail & Guardian has established. One assumes President Thabo Mbeki will not be among the guests.
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/ 20 December 2006
Who scores a D for leadership? Whose strength is her frankness? Whose department did move to clean up some of the mess of past years in 2006? Who is a pragmatist either in hiding or deluded about the power of the state? The Mail & Guardian presents its yearly, no-holds-barred Cabinet report card.
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/ 20 December 2006
Who scores a D for leadership? Whose strength is her frankness? Whose department did move to clean up some of the mess of past years in 2006? Who is a pragmatist either in hiding or deluded about the power of the state? The Mail & Guardian presents its yearly, no-holds-barred Cabinet report card.
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/ 15 December 2006
The ANC has expelled its parliamentary chief whip, Mbulelo Goniwe, from the party and banned him from its activities for three years. Goniwe was accused of sexually harassing a 21-year-old administrative parliamentary assistant, who has now been named as Nomawele Njongo.
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/ 1 December 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>"Give us our daily bread …" is more than just prayer to 18-year-old Tisetso. It is her credo. While her friends are out clubbing and socialising, she carries the world on her shoulders. She is the head of her household. Like so many children in South Africa, her childhood was stolen from her when she was orphaned by HIV/Aids.
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/ 20 November 2006
As I sat reading, my entire body convulsed in absolute revulsion. It was all too easy for me to imagine the 21-year-old woman’s agony as a flabby, balding man old enough to be her father lay half-naked on his bed and instructed her to come and ”take care” of him. Unfortunately, I wasn’t reading a trashy paperback novel, writes the Mail & Guardian‘s Vuyo Sokupa.
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/ 3 November 2006
Thuli Makhubu, the Mail & Guardian’s receptionist, is a few weeks away from giving birth to her second child. Sameer Mehta, her ”husband” of two years, whom she found out about two weeks ago, is in hiding, being protected from her wrath by the department of home affairs.
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/ 27 October 2006
Nigel Adams and his Blue Scorpions team of four have been ruffling feathers since they started work in June this year. Not that Adams apologises. He has no mercy for water abusers — unless they repent and face up to their sins. The Scorpions’ wrath is coming down on 67 unsuspecting members of the Impala Water User Association in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 16 October 2006
A beautifully manicured vegetable garden lies beyond the busy playground at Masisebenze Combination School in Tembisa. Miriam Phalatsi, a dedicated teacher, tends this patch, which embodies the system of permanent agriculture, with enthusiasm. Permaculture strives for agriculture that is ecologically sound and sustainable in the long term.
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/ 13 October 2006
The ”blue Scorpions” have opened 500 cases of water crime in a countrywide crackdown since it began operating in June. Some of these cases involve politicians and other powerful individuals, but the head of the water affairs department’s policing unit, Nigel Adams, refused to divulge the names of those who have violated the Water Act.