Ntuthuko Maphumulo Nigeria’s joy was Liberia’s sorrow on Sunday as the Super Eagles thrashed neighbours Ghana 3-0 to wrap up the final berth available to Africa for next year’s World Cup in Japan and Korea. Liberia’s former world footballer of the year, George Weah, could not accept defeat graciously and launched a vicious attack on […]
Barry Streek The government has launched a campaign to open up the fishing industry worth R2,5-billion a year to small-scale and subsistence fishers. The campaign also includes provision for poverty alleviation so, unlike commercial fishermen, those who fish for food security purposes don’t have to apply for fishing quotas. The announcement follows the expiry of […]
Stress and mental health issues are showing a worrying rise in higher education. Kate Coxon reports Simon is in his second year as a lecturer at a university in the south-east of England. In an average week he reckons he clocks up more than 60 hours and since starting the job the 28-year-old has lost […]
The net is closing in on officials and contractors implicated in the security scandal that has rocked Telkom Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot Telkom pressed criminal charges this week against a controversial security company accused of colluding with Bheki Langa, the former number three at the parastatal who resigned under a cloud last month. Langa, […]
Crumbled pieces of paper are all she has to show for the many trips she’s made to the local police Khadija Magardie and Xoli Nxumalo Since her divorce three years ago Mantoa Chabalala has been stalked, threatened, beaten, verbally abused, narrowly missed being shot in the head and had an undertaker turn up to collect […]
Bongani Majola The recent land occupation in Bredell, near Kempton Park, dramatically highlighted the extent of South Africa’s housing problem. More than 5,5-million South Africans live in self-constructed, informal dwellings. Many of these people have insecure tenure and live in appalling conditions in squatter settlements. As of May the number of houses completed or under […]
In today’s economy, where you are doesn’t matter, it’s what you do and how well you do it that counts Deleen Wilson Business education in the 21st century will have to reflect and engage the major changes taking place in management demands around the world. But what will be the role of the increasingly popular […]
The mystery shareholder in Beige who is now trying to get his money back after suspected fraud and theft was uncovered, is an entrepreneur who sold his property development business last year and bought a well-stocked game farm. The small-time private investor, Chris Schutte, had converted the bulk of his investment portfolio into cash just […]
Thuli Nhlapo visits Johannesburg hospital, where male and female patients are forced to share a ward The CEO of Johannesburg hospital has confirmed that “at times, especially in winter”, the hospital puts patients of the opposite sex in the same ward. “We have a huge number of patients in this hospital. Currently we have a […]
The Mail &Guardian is one of only three national weekly newspapers to have posted significant year-on-year circulation increases in the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) certificate issued on August 2. The declining circulation figures for most urban daily and weekly newspapers reveal one thing: South Africans are reading less. Of course there are always […]