THE South African Department of Foreign Affairs has released an update on South Africans missing in New York who may have been affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The department said it had sent a list of eight SA citizens to US authorities for confirmation that they are indeed […]

THE United Nations offices in Pretoria were evacuated on Wednesday after police sniffer dogs reacted to two vehicles in the basement car park during a routine check, UN official John Ohiorhenuan said. The bomb squad was brought in and police evacuated everyone as a precaution, he said, but after a thorough search nothing suspicious was […]

AMERICANS who don’t support calls for war have started a petition which appears on the web here. The petition calls for the US to use moderation in its response to the terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, to respect international institutions in makings its response, and to judge carefully the level of accountability […]

The US and its coalition against terrorism is moving into position near Afghanistan Mail & Guardian reporters By air and sea, the United States and Britain were building up their military presence on Thursday in the Gulf and hundreds of thousands of Afghans rushed to their borders to find they had been almost completely sealed […]

If the US co-operates with an African dictatorship, it is guilty of propping up an African tyrant; if it opposes the dictatorship, it is guilty of imposing American ideas of democracy on Africa; if it does nothing at all, it is guilty of “marginalising” the country. If the US acts, it is wrong; if it […]

One can only commiserate with the United States for the massive terrorist outrage visited upon it and more particularly the injured and families of the dead. All life is precious. As for George W Bush facing his moment of truth, I would rather say that it is not even the US but all of humanity […]

Why do women want to look like skeletons? Is the media to blame, or is body-sculpting the new DIY? BODY LANGUAGE Gaby Wood If you invented a game called fantasy glossies, in which imaginary magazines had to be put together using the most marketable elements of everything on the news agent’s shelf, you might, in […]

Cadres appear to have sold themselves for 30 pieces of silver NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe The 1994 democratic election brought to an end centuries of racial and colonial domination of the continent. Credit is due to the men and women who defied and overcame extreme repression and dehumanisation. They heroically suffered mental and physical […]

Mail & Guardian reporter The development of the wind-up radio moved clockwork from the realm of children’s toys to the adult world. But a team at Technikon Witwatersrand intends to take wind-up power into the electronic age, with a project that should eventually result in a computer powered by a spring. Chris Bradum is manager […]

Carolyn Frost South Africa is the world’s 10th-largest exporter and 13th-largest producer of sugar cane, but a group of scientists at the University of Stellenbosch hope their research will help push the country up the rankings. Although South Africa is the third most productive grower of sugar cane, sugar yields have plateaued since the 1960s […]