Abbey Makoe, chairperson of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ), has lashed out at a South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) finding regarding a controversial FBJ meeting where white journalists were barred based on the colour of their skin, calling it "nothing more than a judicial ambush" and a "banning order".
”I’m not here to say sorry about your hard time in prison. You brought it upon yourself,” Allan Heyl, member of South Africa’s infamous Stander gang, told a group of juvenile prisoners at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg on Thursday. Heyl was among guests invited to an annual prisoners’ day.
Up to three million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the country’s 12-million strong population, live outside the country, the majority in South Africa. Although they are not in the thick of Zimbabwe’s struggles, they keenly follow the politics. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to a cross-section of Zimbabweans living in exile in Johannesburg.
South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.
The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.
Zimbabweans in the diaspora are crucial to preventing a meltdown of Zimbabwe’s economy. It is estimated that more than US$1-billion finds its way into Zimbabwe each year, sent in as hard currency by nationals living abroad, principally in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Zahira Kharsany finds out how it’s done.
For many refugees streaming into South Africa, especially from Zimbabwe, it is a matter of trading a life of poverty and famine for one of violent crime, unemployment and bureaucratic obstacles. Most of the refugees arriving here try to escape the economic meltdown in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
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/ 25 February 2008
Tourist guides from across Gauteng gathered under a hot marquee for the International Tourist Guides’ Day at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg last week — and, for a change, were on the receiving end of an educational tour. "We are who we are through others," were the words of Lungi Morrison, of the Gauteng Tourism Authority.
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/ 8 February 2008
Zahira Kharsany speaks to Rani Moorthy about her play, Curry Tales.
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/ 8 February 2008
As President Thabo Mbeki delivered his State of the Nation address in Parliament on Friday, ordinary South Africans told the Mail & Guardian Online they were concerned about crime and unemployment, but didn’t expect the government to get to grips with these problems.