Bongani Majola and Thebe Mabanga Johannesburg’s Nelson Mandela Theatre is host to an uneasy mix of audience members. Zulu-speaking hostel residents from surrounding settlements rub shoulders with black and white suburbanites keen to learn more about Zulu history. All have come to watch the life story of Zulu king Shaka in the musical Bayede Shaka: […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter Each of Gauteng’s 2 409 schools will be equipped with 25 networked computers in the next five years if the Gauteng Online initiative meets its goal. And every one of the 1,5-million learners will be assigned personal e-mail addresses, while more than 12000 educators will be trained in information and communication […]

Microsoft chooses security to increase consumers’ trust in computers, writes David Shapshak The computer world entered a new era last week, if Bill Gates is to be believed, when the Microsoft boss announced that “trustworthy computing” is now the “highest priority for all the work we are doing”. It couldn’t come any sooner for beleaguered […]

Jockey Karl Neisius rates Australian-bred Laisserfaire the best filly he has partnered and the ice-cool rider has the chance to guide her to her tenth win from just 14 races in the R250 000 weight-for-age grade 1 Cape Flying Championship over 1 000m at Kenilworth on Saturday. The brilliant daughter of Danehill, from the string […]

Thabo Mohlala Andrew Feinstein, a former African National Congress MP who resigned from his post over the arms deal imbroglio, has found a new job in London with Investec, a South African bank with a significant presence in Britain. His new responsibilities seem to dovetail with the central plank of his party: development of the […]

Paul Kirk A key member of Parliament’s public accounts committee and a local arms company boss are squaring up for a fight with the auditor general that may well test the Promotion of Access to Information Act in court for the first time. The pending battle looks certain after Auditor General Shauket Fakie dismissed their […]

In his letter “Come back to us, Brother Seepe, all will be forgiven” (January 18) Rabelani Dagada mentions a number of academics who he claims would not be what they are had it not been for the African National Congress’s contribution. He mentions people such as Vincent Maphai, Chris Landsberg, Xolela Mangcu, among others. I […]

I was very interested in “Naval officer shielded by arms report changes” by Paul Kirk (January 11). While I stand by the first quoted statement attributed to me (“I know that the drafts were altered. I do not suspect it, I know it.”) I deny that the second observation attributed to me is accurate (“Young […]

Durban | Thursday PETROLEUM giants BP and Shell on Wednesday signed a R600-million (60-million euros, $53-million) shipping deal with a black South African empowerment company. The deal will see Southern Tankers transport about a million tons of oil along the African coast. Southern Tankers chairman Sithembiso Mthethwa announced the deal, saying it signalled the dawn […]

crossfire Peter Vale The study of international relations divides into two houses: one is preoccupied with state power and its management; the other house fears the effects of power and its economic, military and cultural manifestations. This is at the core of the recent exchange in these pages between the Wits academic Professor John Stremlau […]