Mail & Guardian reporter Business, and particularly the tourism sector, will be a major direct beneficiary of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. It is estimated that it will cost between R300-million and R400-million to host the event. The South African government has allocated up to R50-million of this, and the rest is to be […]

Paul Kirk Road-hogs and speedsters in the up-market Umhlanga area of Durban have had nearly R1-million worth of speeding tickets quashed in less than two years. Now municipal investigators from the Durban Metro Council are investigating whether the crime of defeating the ends of justice has been committed and are probing one of their top […]

Johannesburg World Summit Company CEO Moss Mashishi looks at the role of business The intimate involvement of business and industry with the Earth summit process is more than a decade old. In 1992 the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), millionaire Canadian industrialist Maurice Strong, identified business and industry […]

Mail & Guardian reporters and agencies American warplanes were sighted over Kabul on Thursday as the United States launched its first daylight raid on the capital. Anti-aircraft fire rang out on the fifth day of military strikes on Afghanistan, a month on from the attacks on New York and Washington that prompted the “war on […]

For the first time the party has to confront internal dissent on a significant scale, says Drew Forrest Seven years after taking power, the leadership echelons of the African National Congress are showing signs of growing entropy. A senior ANC man speaks of “loss of coherence and focus”, adding that the party has been through […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster BMW X5 3.0i, from R370 000 BMW X5 3.0d, R391 000 We loved BMW’s X5 launched last year. The problem was that the price ticket of R471 000 for the 4,4 litre V8 model is a little rich for all but the very well-heeled. At the time it was believed that the […]

channel vision Robert Kirby ‘The paradigm of privilege must be communicated exponentially so that, at the end of the day, an interface and the aforementioned synergy can be utilised, hopefully to set up empowerment, albeit in terms of the previously disadvantaged and underprivileged, but of which fortuitous input can be maintained and feedback perused at […]

For 40 years Private Eye has enraged and amused. As it enters its fifth decade, can the magazine keep pace with the newer, darker satire of TV’s Brass Eye or is it trapped in its own tweedy past? asks Geraldine Bedell Sneering, smug, homophobic, vicious and parochial: Private Eye has been accused of being all […]

A new book shows how on-court talent seems secondary to off-court shenanigans Stephen Bierley Here is a reminder: Anna Kour-nikova is a star. This might have escaped attention since she has played three competitive tennis matches only in the past eight months and lost them all. But it is of little or no consequence. For, […]

Bongani Majola The initial enthusiasm shown by South African media consumers in the wake of the United States terror attacks two weeks ago is dwindling markedly, judging by circulation figures. Given to trumpeting their “rise in sales” the country’s major newspapers were uncharacteristically coy, confirming only that their sales are back to where they were […]