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/ 2 December 2001
Pretoria | Saturday THE South African government on Friday said they had closed a textile factory in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal province following the death of twins born in the plant because their mother was trapped inside. Labour Department occupational health inspector Faiza Salie said the factory would not be allowed to continue operations until it […]
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/ 2 December 2001
Harare | Saturday THE Zimbabwe government has approved a new bill that will effectively bar foreign journalists from operating and impose strict operating conditions for local journalists, a move media practitioners have vowed to challenge. The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill will only allow Zimbabweans to operate as foreign correspondents, but slapped […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Film funny man Leon Schuster’s latest film is aimed squarely at the US market. But we can go along for the ride, writes Tony Jackman.
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/ 30 November 2001
<b>Not quite comedy of the week:</b>It falters because it tries to be everything for everyone, but where it really falls apart is when it looks back to another era and turns to stone, writes Neil Sonnekus.
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/ 30 November 2001
The works hover between a robust expressiveness and a breathtaking fragility and force you to confront the deliquescence encoded into all art forms, writes Chris Roper.
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/ 30 November 2001
Thebe Mabanga takes a bird’s-eye view of the world’s biggest TV series on HIV/Aids.
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/ 30 November 2001
The following letter, from an enraged Multichoice customer in Mtubatuba, was sent to me via the Mail & Guardian in September. In a display of the improved internal efficiency of this newspaper, I received it last week. It remains relevant and is reproduced in full but with a couple of excisions made with regard to […]
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/ 30 November 2001
ANALYSIS Firoz Osman It is becoming more apparent that the war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban or the World Trade Centre. Realpolitik, the need and greed for oil and gas are, once again, the source of misery and tragedy. This time it is happening in central Asia, […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Belinda Beresford Sitting alone behind his lawyers, hands frequently over his face, the director general of health often cut a forlorn figure in court this week. As the most senior civil servant in the Department of Health, Ayanda Ntsaluba had the unenviable task of being the front-line trooper in defending government policy that he did […]
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/ 30 November 2001
Comment Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at Fort Hare will lay nothing to rest. The president’s latest conspiracy theory on the Aids issue that Aids statistics have more to do with derogatory views (that “we” are “promiscuous carriers of germs” with an “unconquerable devotion to the sin of lust”) than sexual behaviour comes at […]