The American comic book industry has come back to life with its reflections on the September 11 attacks, writes Joel Pollak.
A legal dispute has arisen owing to a noiseless track on the Planets’s album, <i>Classical Graffiti</i>, called <i>A One Minute Silence</i>, writes Steven Poole.
The Trinity Session, has let out that it is involved in colouring the new <i>Big Brother</i>environment with work donated for free by some of the country’s biggest artists, writes Matthew Krouse.
Last Thursday the Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour named a ministerial task force charged with, among other things, looking into the United Cricket Board’s claims that the quota system was no longer necessary when picking teams at national and senior interprovincial levels. Less than 48 hours later, in Wellington, the South African rugby […]
In his now famous interview with Irish radical Helena Sheehan, senior communist and African National Congress member Jeremy Cronin remarks that "the worst elements" in the ANC were "unleashed" on the left after last year’s anti-privatisation strike. That this is happening again confirms his complaint.
My relationship with the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> dates back to my student days at the University of Zimbabwe. Then as now, I found the <i>M&G</i>’s editorial content intellectually challenging and refreshing to read. Nothing has occurred to materially change my high regard for the paper.
President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday he could see no reason for the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s planned anti-privatisation strike, and that the ANC would be talking to Cosatu about the proposed action. Cosatu has announced a national protest strike for October.
Durban businessman David Stock is taking on the United Cricket Board (UCB) to protect the rights of the small business he has built up over five years at the Kingsmead cricket ground.
Initiatives over access to information are set to place the government on the rack — in the courts and politically. The tussle over the monitoring and disclosure of arms exports continues when amendments to the National Conventional Arms Control Bill are debated by Parliament’s defence committee.