Barbara Ludman Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Viking) Any book that will keep children reading after they’ve devoured all four Harry Potter books is worth a try, but the hero of this one is perhaps not the kind of fellow you want as a role model for your children. Artemis Fowl, the scion of a […]

Byron Kennedy in London Just two of the five major South African companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will be included in the FTSE 4good indices when they go live at the end of July. South African Breweries (SAB) and Dimension Data both meet the required standards and are poised to join one of […]

Jwara Mali Flames and Flowers by James Matthews (Realities) The poem is a story as well. In Flames and Flowers, James Matthews seems to take us through the story of his life. There is a narrative element, however slight, in the treatment of this poet’s themes: “Dorfman/ I have eaten the bread of your pain/ […]

The Arts & Culture Trust Awards are handed out in eight categories 1. Arts Administrator of the Year Open to any person in cultural organisations, government, the business community or activities concerned primarily with administration, policy, funding or management of the arts and culture or any aspect of it. Criteria to consider: l The skills, […]

A wealthy European businessman has invested millions in a unique conservation project Fiona Macleod Paul van Vlissengen is one of the richest men in the world, but when he comes out to South Africa where he spends half his time at the moment he lives in a tent. Even for a Hollander, the winter winds […]

For how much longer will government indifference, petty political infighting and bureaucratic incompetence continue to blight millions of South African adults who cannot read or write their own names? And how does one calculate the personal and national costs of the country’s shockingly widespread illiteracy more than a third of adults? Minister of Education Kader […]

Marianne Merten “As we say in Islam, we are brothers and sisters. We must stand together. Don’t look down on someone who is sick, especially not this kind of sick,” says Fatimah January*. She is living with HIV. Her husband discovered his HIV-positive status years ago. Their child is also HIV-positive. “People must get over […]

Congress Mahlangu Agrilink, a project aimed at increasing employment opportunities in agriculture, has raised R11,3-million to assist small farmers in acquiring skills that will enable them to compete with their more established counterparts in the commercial markets. The USAid-funded project was launched in October last year as a pilot in the Eastern Cape. Agrilink provides […]

schoolboy There are fears that a new virulent strain of the disease is circulating in South Africa Mail & Guardian reporter James Hale (16), a scholar at Pretoria Boys High, was packing to return to boarding school on Sunday when he developed a severe headache. His parents took him to Sunward Park Clinic in Boksburg […]

Marianne Merten Citizens appearing in Cape Town’s tax court get more than they bargain for a lecture on civic responsibility and how not submitting tax returns undermines South Africa’s transformation. “This court is not an alien living on the moon, but part of society,” magistrate Nu’maan Long recently lectured an offender. A Cape Town businessman […]