William Boot A secret commission of inquiry into the collapse of Namibia’s copper mining industry wrapped up its proceedings in Windhoek this week and is expected to move on to Johannesburg. It was established to investigate the role of Goldfields SA, owner of the Tsumeb Corporation Limited (TCL), in the closure of all four of […]
stars – the friends and enemies Colette The woman who owns the theatre [where Sartre’s play, Dirty Hands, was being staged], an ex-beautiful woman, a dreadful whore, having slept with thousands of men, took us to her home for dinner. The dinner was strange and wonderful: Arabian dishes, because she was once the mistress of […]
Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD It was a bitterly cold night. The kind where a chill seeps into the marrow of your bones and you think your body will never be warm again. Sitting in his car, Tiny Nortje let out a lengthy sigh; he had forgotten to wear a jumper for his vigil. […]
Mail & Guardian correspondents A last-ditch attempt by a coalition of states to rescue the ailing regime of Congolese President Laurent Kabila may have come too late as anti-government rebels continued their inexorable march to the capital Kinshasa this week. Despite reports of a ceasefire offer from the rebels and desperate attempts by South Africa […]
Gill Moodie A giant iceberg that has been lurking in the southern ocean for 12 years is making its way north from Antarctica, firing scientists’ dreams of mining icebergs for freshwater. Bigger than the Cape Peninsula, the iceberg known as Atlantic 22B, was formed in September 1986 when a massive piece of ice broke off […]
wife on Women’s Day’ Tangeni Amupadhi A well-known Johannesburg psychiatrist is to appear in court next week on charges of battering his wife on National Women’s Day. According to Yeoville police, where the woman laid charges of common assault, the psychiatrist – who cannot be named for professional reasons – attacked his wife twice on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 10.00PM. THE Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday that there is irrefutable proof that the prosecution failed to disclose relevant evidence in the trial of three young men who were convicted in 1994 for murdering a woman and two children in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg It was also submitted that […]
Stewart Dalby Spending it Travel literature is a field in which the collector would seem spoilt for choice. The variety is vast: exploration, seafaring, biology, outer space, anthropology, derring-do, geography, geology and meteorology. Some people collect modern tourist guides while others collect rare 16th- century books about how the world was first circumnavigated. What would […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH African athletes have added three more gold medals to their haul at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal, bringing their bag of gold medals to seven. Pole-valter Okkert Brits won the evnt with a vault of 5,40m, while Burger Lamprechts took the shot-put gold with a throw […]
Sandra Spavins EMILY-KATE by Meg Jordan (Iris) This is a story about a little girl who temporarily goes missing on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal. It is a large-format picture book, but has more text than most books of this type. The average eight or nine year old should be able to read it, yet the […]