When news of Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota’s business interests first broke last week, a spirited debate ensued in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s leader conference where we determine our editorials: should Cabinet ministers be allowed business interests?
The first week of Cannes came to an end with Hollywood star-spotters mollified by appearances by Keanu Reeves, Meg Ryan and Steven Soderbergh, and Arnold Schwarzenegger lumbering into town for a party for his third Terminator film, writes Peter Bradshaw.
It’s not the first film to attempt to simulate human faces, butThe Matrix Reloaded is perhaps the first to pull it off. David Adam looks into the technology behind the hype.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has resigned from the South African Parliament, it was confirmed on Friday.
The banking group Investec put on a brave face this week by maintaining its dividend for the year to March, despite suffering heavy losses.
One man who should be smug about the Treasury’s elimination of the Net Open Forward Position is Iraj Abedian, chief economist of the Standard Bank Group.
In the year he celebrates his 50th birthday, Professor Loyiso Nongxa reaches another milestone. Last week he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, the institution’s first African leader.
There can be no doubt that the sanctions recommended by Parliament’s ethics committee on Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota – a written reprimand by the speaker and a week’s forfeiture of salary – are a symbolic milestone.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and power utility Eskom are expected to meet on Friday in an arbitration meeting in a bid to resolve a wage dispute.
Kendell Geers’s new show is about security, violence and pornography. Matthew Krouse and Shaun de Waal ask him some tough questions