An initiative helps children from disadvantaged backgrounds attain a significant level of readiness before entering school Congress Mahlangu Project Head Start is making a difference in improving the quality of early childhood development in townships around Pretoria. The five-year-old project is an initiative of Early Childhood Development (ECD), an NGO that runs the programme in […]
Byron Kennedy Since the start of this week platinum shed a further $36 per oz to touch fresh 18-month lows of $435, a far cry from the $625 that the metal commanded back in April. That translates into a 30% devaluation in three months, although the majority of that pain was effected over the past […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Mail & Guardian chief photographer Ruth Motau was honoured for her work at an awards ceremony sponsored by the SABC. This is the second year the SABC acknowledged women who have made a difference in the media and 28 women were honoured last Friday. Motau received the same award last year. […]
Nobody could have anticipated Sharpeville a second look Humphrey Tyler So the Sharpeville massacre need not have happened. According to the Mail & Guardian (August 3) Philip Frankel, a Wits University academic, claims in his book, An Ordinary Atrocity, that it could have been avoided if, for example, there had been “proper crowd control” and […]
Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot Did two well-connected black empowerment firms fraudulently conspire to mislead MTN in a bid for shares? This counts among the dirtier claims that may surface when both companies go to court in an internecine battle over the cellphone company shares, said to be worth more than R200-million. The offices of […]
Tara Turkington The African National Congress-controlled municipality in the Northern Cape town of De Aar failed to pay an overdue account to a law firm run by a Democratic Alliance leader in the province so the town was brought to a near standstill. The Emthanjeni municipality’s moveable assets from the traffic police’s car to the […]
Harrison Ndlovu In a bid to control public urinating in their neighbourhood, Hillbrow residents are imposing spot fines ranging between R10 and R50 for offenders Central Hillbrow, with its high liquor consumption and many dark alleyways, is worst affected and residents have taken it upon themselves to control the health hazard. On a wall on […]
A farm worker claims he was beaten by vigilantes on an executive’s hunting farm Fiona Macleod Police are investigating an alleged sjambok beating carried out by vigilante group Mapogo-A-Mathamaga on a Northern Province hunting farm owned by one of Bill Gates’s right-hand men at Microsoft. A former employee at the farm of senior Microsoft executive […]
BODY LANGUAGE Julie Burchill If there’s one type of broad I can’t stand, it’s what I call You’re-Not-Going-Out-Dressed-Like-That feminists: older women, past the first bloom of youthful beauty perhaps, who instead of concentrating their fury on patriarchy and its evils make a second career out of attacking younger women, usually stunners or starlets of some […]
Alec Hogg Failure to keep losses in check forced South African-owned technology group Ixchange to issue a profit warning on Tuesday morning. But chief executive Derek Kreunen says although the bottom line number for the six months to June 30 came in $3,3-million worse than had been projected, there is enough in the results for […]