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. Three print publications have […]
PROSTITUTION cannot be criminalised, but a landmark judgment in a South African court to take the profession one step closer to legalisation is unfortunate, the country’s churches said on Friday. Two South African High Court judges upheld an appeal by a self-confessed prostitute Thursday, a landmark ruling which will legalise prostitution if confirmed by the […]
HUMAN rights deteriorated in Namibia over the past year, the Namibian Society for Human Rights (NSHR) said in its annual report, released on Tuesday, noting slight improvements in two regions. “Widespread and systematic acts and/or statements manifesting or inciting racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance were monitored throughout the period under consideration,” it said. […]
STEFAANS BRMMER and MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday 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 last month — on the same day the Mail & Guardian broke a story on his alleged collusion with Telkom contractors. […]
KENYAN police said on Friday they are following up clues in the murder of a member of parliament in Nairobi as it emerged that robbery was unlikely to have motivated the killing. Tony Ndilinge, MP for the ruling Kenya African National Union (Kanu) party representing Kilome constituency in the southern Makueni district, was killed on […]
LIBYA on Friday condemned the militant activities of the Philippines Muslim insurgent Abu Sayyaf guerrillas — who last held South African couple Monique and Carel Strydom hostage — and said they must be “crushed.” Salem Adam, Libya’s ambassador to Manila described the Abu Sayyaf as a group of bandits and ruled out any further negotiations […]
THE original recording of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, composed 62 years ago by a South African who died in poverty without royalties, is to be released again to benefit his family. Versions of the song by Solomon Linda will be recorded by top South African groups Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Elite Swingsters and released […]
Ben Summers The Internet may be the most powerful advance in technology of recent years, but the past has never been more easily revisited. Nostalgia has never been so much fun. Witness the toys of your childhood for example, such as Mr Potato Head. In production since 1952, Mr Potato Head had a resurgence of […]
A European tour led to overseas distribution and now this local band is being remixed in Prague Adam Haupt When Moodphase 5ive released their debut album, Steady On, they won Cape Town over big time. Who could forget their phenomenal performances at this year’s Up the Creek and North Sea Jazz Festival? They also toured […]
Martin Gillingham South Africa’s athletics selectors have performed a remarkable volte face and secretly invited top 400m runner Arnaud Malherbe to join the team in Edmonton. Last week’s Mail & Guardian reported that South Africa would be travelling to Canada without a specialist relay squad. The men’s 4x400m quartet is one of South Africa’s few […]