channel vision Robert Kirby Eager readers and Vivid decoder owners will by now have realised that, with their usual dogged enthusiasm, Sentech and the SABC have now entered the next stage of their disastrous satellite television broadcasting life cycle the one where they turn fully into a worm. As usual they are handling their newest […]

Marianne Merten How do you make mathematics and science relevant to youngsters? At the MTN ScienCentre that’s easy: through interactive displays, maths sleep-overs and workshops where children can build their own electronic burglar alarm or explore polymer chemistry by making slime, rubber balls and foam. The MTN ScienCentre hopes to demystify science by encouraging innovation […]

The MEC for Transport in KwaZulu- Natal and Chair of the African National Congress in that province, S’bu Ndebele, is not under investigation for alleged criminal activities. In the Mail & Guardian of October 12 we quoted Scorpions’ spokesperson Sipho Ngwema as naming Ndebele as one of a number of individual politicians under criminal investigation […]

BuyAfrica is helping local craftsmen and women to ply their trade over the Internet Jubie Matlou Hundreds of rural craftsmen and women who ply their trade of making curios and artefacts in their backyards never thought they would enter the export market and supply the world with South African cultural symbols such as beads, dolls […]

Ngwako Modjadji As senior students across the country sit for their matric exams, the commercial crime investigative unit in the Eastern Cape has uncovered an alleged scam involving forged matric certificates to obtain government jobs. A senior official has appeared in court on charges of fraud and forgery. The scam comes in the wake of […]

The stable of trainer Terry Lowe has shown fair form since his return to regular racing some months ago and a nice prize could go his way on Saturday in the R200000 grade 2 Elevation Stakes over 2000m at Gosforth Park. Lowe sends out five-year-old Polo Classic, who was runner-up in both the South African […]

It must be a long time since the Mail & Guardian published an article as pedantic as the one by Sipho Seepe (“Language, truth and logic”, October 5). He makes all kinds of outrageous epistemological claims in a pompous response to Evidence wa ka Ngobeni’s simple suggestion that Seepe’s conclusion that there is no difference […]

Corporate social investment has evolved over the years, although there is still much that can be done Jubie Matlou A great deal of resources continues to flow into communities and to individuals as a form of empowerment and support be it the imparting of skills, the provision of bursaries and amenities, or even donations. These […]

Mayor Giuliani shares a Yankee victory that leads on to Arizona Rob Steen The Big Apple just got bigger. Willed on by a nation as well as a city, and in a manner that bordered on the pre- ordained, the New York Yankees displayed consummate professionalism in brushing aside the Seattle Mariners, sweeping into what […]

Stefaans Brmmer ponders the mysteries of this sad and enigmatic land “Asia is a living body, and Afghanistan its heart. In the ruin of the heart lies the ruin of the body. So long as the heart is free, the body remains free. If not, it becomes a straw adrift in the wind.” Mohammed Iqbal […]