The Mail & Guardian walked away with two industry awards this week, proving once more that it’s Africa’s best read.
Battle lines have been drawn between Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veteran Thandi Modise and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as the African National Congress Women’s League prepares for a future without Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Two powerful interest groups at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) say they are determined that vice-chancellor Cooper should be ousted. But the groups are also at war with each other in the run-up to the UDW’s merger with the University of Natal.
The emergence of a black bourgeoisie in South Africa is compromising the national democratic movement, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has charged. And there are ”forces” within the [democratic] movement not supportive of the interests of the working class.
Dr Allan Boesak has questioned Justice Minister Penuell Maduna’s motives for revealing that he has recommended the convicted cleric not receive a presidential pardon.
Visiting US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested on Thursday South Africa had to take the scope of the Aids pandemic sweeping the country more seriously.
There are 50 tons of uranium ore concentrate on board the grounded Sealand Express in Table Bay, the Nuclear Fuels Corporation of South Africa confirmed on Thursday.
The South African Parliament spent R502,7-million in the financial year ending March 2003 or R22,5-million more than the target budget, according to documents presented to its rules committee. The target budget had been R480,2-million.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reporters continue to reap awards for outstanding journalism. Nawaal Deane, the <i>M&G</i>’s health reporter, has won a US/SA Excellence in Health Reporting Award.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government gave notice on Thursday it was almost doubling state spending for this year, in a move that economists said would accelerate the collapse of the economy already reeling from galactic inflation.