Khadija Magardie, a Mail & Guardian reporter who took part in the SA team that observed the Zimbabwe election, reports on the deep schisms in the group which met this week to thrash out a final position on the poll The presidential foot must be starting to tap impatiently. The 14 days given to the […]
Shyaka Kanuma A high court judge has issued a ruling against the Department of Home Affairs to prevent the deportation of a Congolese, Jacques Katambayi, back to his country. The case of Katambayi, who was represented by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), is an unusual one: he actually was being deported by Australia. Katambayi was […]
Liverpool’s recent success has been built on the Red brick wall at the back their Finnish captain Sami Hyypia Michael Walker It did not feel possible at the time, in those emotional moments after the final whistle at Anfield, but Liverpool’s week got even better. Liverpool will have been quietly content to draw Bayer Leverkusen […]
A Beautiful Mind got the best picture Oscar. But do biopics really work? John Patterson For a genre often considered the very essence of fermented box-office poison, the biopic seems to be doing all right at the moment. Usually we go years between big-screen biographies of public figures. A film like Malcolm X will flop […]
Matthew Krouse Will adult television audiences respond to the documentary series Steps for the Future the way that school kids are supposed to respond to the Learning Channel? However harrowing these tales of HIV survival are, Steps should be prescribed viewing in every home. In an important manoeuvre, SABC1 has secured 15 episodes of this […]
BODY LANGUAGE Maureen Freely It’s been available in Sanskrit for 1 700 years and it’s 129 years since Sir Richard Burton blackened his name by translating it into English. Although many generations of grateful schoolboys went on to read it in the dark, it was not until the 1960s that the Kamasutra became the sort […]
analysis Piers Pigou The government has taken a series of self-inflicted public relations knocks recently most of which could have been mitigated, or even avoided, by a more careful approach to the messages it sends out through its actions, and its inaction. The issue of reparations is an example of this. After promising R800-million for […]
The best of South African schoolboy rugby is on view this weekend Andy Capostagno It was kind of the Super 12 organisers to give the South African sides an Easter off. After the dismal results of the first half of the tournament, a week away from the game is just what the doctor ordered. And […]
M&G reporter The Elle and Elizabeth Arden Visible Difference Award for the contribution of women to South African society enters its third year, calling on the public to rally behind those remarkable women who work tirelessly to make a difference in their communities. At the launch of this year’s awards Elle and Elizabeth Arden handed […]
OLA AWONIYI, Abuja | Tuesday AFRICAN leaders flew to Nigeria on Monday ahead of a one-day summit on ways of tackling damaging wars and corruption and pressing for an opening up of rich Western markets to African goods. Presidents and officials from up to 20 countries were due on Tuesday to discuss ways of putting […]