Lagos | Wednesday A DELEGATION of the west African regional grouping Ecowas is scheduled to meet in Washington with representatives of the European Union, Bretton Woods institutions and African Development Bank (ADB) on cooperation, a statement said on Tuesday. The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) said in the statement sent from Abuja that […]
Donwald Pressly Foreigners have found ways of robbing the state of millions of rands in social welfare grants to which they are not entitled, including old age pensions meant for the poor. This emerges from Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s general report on government spending up to March 31 2001, presented to the public accounts committee. […]
So it has finally come to this. A R40 000 bronze bust of Durban poet Douglas Livingstone bolted to its cement pedestal in our beloved Kwasuka Theatre has been stolen and will probably fetch less than R1 000 when melted down as scrap! While it may be easy to see this outrage as yet another […]
Mail & Guardian journalist Khadija Magardie is among four South African finalists in this year’s CNN African Journalist of the Year award. Magardie was last year’s runner-up in the Duma Nokwe Human Rights in Journalism award and a recent recipient of the Ameen Akhalwaya Journalist of the Year award. The M&G’s rugby columnist, Andy Capostagno, […]
Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 46 496 650 at 12.58 pm on Thursday April 25 A testing time: AngloGold says its research data estimates that 29% of its workforce is HIV-positive. The company estimates this will increase its costs in its South African operations by between $4 (R44) and $6 (R66) an ounce. The company says […]
Izegwire* has found the South African experience particularly bad.
DREW FORREST and MARIANNE MERTEN, Johannesburg, Cape Town | Friday A FOUR-person commission of the Democratic Alliance has found no evidence of improper conduct by Cape Town mayor and DA Western Cape leader Gerald Morkel in his dealings with fugitive German billionaire Jurgen Harksen. The implication is that Morkel’s political career is safe, for the […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo Two South African clubs, Orlando Pirates and Santos, take part in Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions this weekend. Orlando Pirates play in the African Champions League, hoping to win the title a second time after they beat Asec Mimosa in the 1995 final. They face TP Mazembe of Congo Kinshasa, also former […]
Richard Calland is plainly not an anti-Semite: he is too cultured, and too conscious, to be guilty of such vulgarity. What Mr Calland himself may allow though is that he is prone to a number of other crude and destructive intellectual impulses. In common with all political columnists, he exaggerates, wildly. Nuance, subtlety, qualification and […]
Reaching out to humanity Matthew Krouse The grooviest album of the week, and at a nice price, is Just My Humanity, a local compilation of tracks from the mythical German !K7 label. This is the first time the label has let out such a range of its finery to an outside agent. In this instance […]