South Africa’s first entirely online bank has had a storming start, writes David Shapshak For a bank without any branches, new online banking service 20twenty has ironically garnered a lot of brand and consumer awareness. This is due in no small part to its high-profile outdoor advertising campaign, which featured a quote from Microsoft chief […]

Matthew Krouse Children’s theatre producer Joyce Levinsohn is the fourth individual to win the coveted Arts & Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award. Levinsohn, who began her career in London in the mid-1950s, has noted that she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dancing in the year that “coincided with the iniquitous Bantu education laws that […]

South Africa boasts a rich and diverse cultural and artistic heritage. This has evolved over centuries and has been shaped by events, experiences and the attitude and the soul of its people. The heritage of any country is unique, and, in a healthy society, is a source of national unity and pride. The development of […]

Mail & Guardian reporter The Business Coordinating Forum (BCF) for World Summit 2002, chaired by politician-turned-businessman Tokyo Sexwale, comprises representatives of all the major business organisations in South Africa. The forum is coordinating and promoting business initiatives in the preparations for the summit. According to the BCF business plan, which is to be a public […]

As the bombs rain down on Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance finds itself in a tricky position. Stefaans Brmmer reports from Khwaja-Bahawudin in northern Afghanistan A boyish soldier named Satar cradles a Russian machine gun at his post in a dusty hilltop trench, then fires a short burst towards a hill in the distance where similar […]

Performances at this year’s festival ranged from good to middling to downright bad Riaan Wolmarans It was very white, it was very Afrikaans and there were more food stalls than there were shows. The Aardklop National Arts Festival took place last weekend in Potchefstroom and while it attracted a massive crowd, with about 83000 tickets […]

ATHLETICS Martin Gillingham South Africa’s top athletics official has issued a blunt ultimatum to the government, claiming: “If you want us to bring back medals from major championships then you have to show us the money.” Athletics South Africa (ASA) came under heavy fire following our athletes’ performances at the world championships in August where […]

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 the developed and developing worlds had vastly different agendas. Developed vs developing: Pollution vs land degradation Acid rain/ozone depletion vs loss of biomass Water quality vs water quantity/access Over-production of crops vs monoculture crops Landscape destruction (road-building) vs landscape destruction (mining) Climate change vs desertification Population stagnation vs […]

The party has launched a two-pronged strategy to win voters in 2004 Marianne Merten An African National Congress pamphlet blitz across the Cape Peninsula makes a significantly different pitch in English and Afrikaans to Cape Town’s white suburbs and the working class communities of the Cape Flats. Tens of thousands of flyers titled From Divided […]

CRICKET Peter Robinson One man has emerged as the gravest threat imaginable to South Africa’s avowed ambition of becoming the best cricket team in the world. It isn’t Steve Waugh and it isn’t Shane Warne. Nor even is it, as many South Africans might suppose, umpire Darrell Hair. No, the worm in the apple is […]