KEVIN SCOTT, Durban | Friday THE Durban consulate general of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has tried to censor a Truth About Tibet photographic exhibition that opened this week. The consul, Zemin Yu, went beyond a formal complaint against the gallery by appealing to the provincial government to stop the exhibition. The chairperson of […]
Director Michael Mann tells Xan Brooks about getting into the ring with a legend.
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Mail & Guardian reporter Public and private forces in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry have come together to support the first independent, multiple-funded ICT policy and research programme. The programme was initiated last year by a pledge from the director general of the Department of Communications and a call to other industry players […]
In a letter attempting to discredit Fort Hare and Rhodes universities (February 22 2002), Bambihlelo Hlwattika declares that “during the 1960s and later” the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes was responsible for “some of the most racist research”. He refers particularly to research in urban communities in East London in the […]
SOCCER Thebe Mabanga Quinton Fortune will have returned to club duty feeling an uneasy three-way split: excited about being a newly wed, dejected at his indifferent performance at the African Cup of Nations and not sure what to make of manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s decision to stay on until 2005. For let no one be […]
Various literary and book- related events are lined up for readers and book-lovers around the country over the coming months. Durban’s Time of the Writer festival, now South Africa’s leading literary festival, has a new satellite event in Johannesburg. The festival runs at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on the University of Natal campus from March […]
Fights are not unexpected as the government tries to balance state involvement in the sector with the pressure to privatise Jubie Matlou The furore surrounding telecommunications policy and law is far from over a series of constitutional challenges may be in the pipeline as the country prepares complementary legislation on digital technology. An ominous sign […]
Jaspreet Kindra Days after Deputy President Jacob Zuma called for “restraint” in tense relations between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, the two parties waged a ding-dong battle over Aids drugs and other issues in the legislature. Zuma flew into Ulundi to try to defuse tensions last weekend. Lauding KwaZulu-Natal’s coalition government […]