Nawaal Deane The Office of the President has become embroiled in a dispute over outstanding debts of the South African Chapter of the African Renaissance (Sacar), a supposedly independent body formed to change negative perceptions of the continent. An advertising and events-management firm, Vukani Ma Afrika, has accused Sacar of dodging the payment of accounts […]

For many years people in this country and elsewhere pretended not to know anything about the daily atrocities perpetuated by successive apartheid governments on our country’s black people. They preferred only to concentrate on the reaction (often justifiably violent) of the oppressed people on various organs of the apartheid state and its support civil structures, […]

Sceptics have tended to answer any discussion about South African policy on the Zimbabwean crisis with the riposte: “What policy?” They appear to have been right. Eighteen months on, there is little evidence the government has set clear goals to avert a catastrophe. And there is even less to suggest our government has decided on […]

How a quiet French intellectual revolutionised British sporting culture Andrew Anthony Just after Arsenal Football Club won the Double in 1998, David Dein, the vice-chairman, filled out a hotel form for his team manager, Arsne Wenger. He wrote down his name and address, and then, in the section marked “occupation”, he entered “miracle worker”. One […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Khadija Magardie of the Mail & Guardian has won a human rights award for her reporting. The Human Rights Commission (HRC) honoured Magardie this week for her reporting on migrants, refugees and womens rights. Magardie was runner-up in the print media category for this years Duma Nokwe National Human Rights Awards […]

Glenda Daniels Peace between labour and business has replaced blood on the streets as ructions in amendments to the Labour Relations Act (LRA) are finally over. The amendments are now with the National Council of Provinces and are expected to become law in February next year. The most fraught issues negotiating retrenchments, the right to […]

The Mother CityQueer Project onDecember 15 at the River Club is themed Farm Fresh (above) and should be lots of fun. There are also the loveparade on December 16 in long Street and DJ/producer Seb Fontaine playing at 96 Degrees on December 19. Port Elizabeth has the SABCMandela Metro Music Summer Festival on December 16 […]

Jillian Edelstein spent four years recording the progress of the truth commission. Her new book, Truth and Lies, tells some of the stories that emerged. The following is an extract from this book In 1985 I left South Africa to take up a photography course in London. After that, although I went back regularly to […]

In his November 30 commentary (“The war in Afghanistan is a means to another end”) Firoz Osman makes outrageous claims concerning United States goals in the war on terrorism. According to Osman, the US attack on terrorism in Afghanistan is linked to oil in Central Asia rather than the brutal attacks on the US on […]

Africa would go a long way towards solving its problems if Africans acknowledged their role in causing the mess it is in, writes Shyaka Kanuma Will South Africa work now that political power is firmly in the hands of the black majority? This apparently impudent, patronising question has been asked a million times since 1994. […]