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 […]
The headline “The ANC’s uncompromising street fighter” (March 28) bears reference. Firstly, it is not true that there are disenfranchised MECs in the African National Congress and that they might appear to be vocal Ndaweni Mahlangu supporters. All MECs and premiers are automatically ex-officio members of the provincial executive committee (PEC). Secondly, one of those […]
As computers become more pervasive, the scenarios of science fiction are not that far-fetched, writes David Shapshak I am typing this article using an innovative new keyboard for my Palm hand-held computer, which has no keys. It is not even of the usual plastic that most keyboards are made from. This ingenious keyboard by Logitech […]