Marianne Merten About 5 000 Capetonians on Thursday marched in protest against the United States-led bombings of Afghanistan to the razor-wire-surrounded American consulate, bearing posters like “Stop the Oppression”, “Stop the War” and “No Difference Hitler and Bush”. The peace march was jointly called by the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), the Congress of South African […]

Richard Calland Abuja Domestic airport, September 21. He sees me coming and, as I hand him my case, informs me that I must pay him 500 naira due to “excess weight”. I point out that he has not yet actually weighed my case. He shrugs: “It’s too heavy. You must pay me.” His airline carried […]

Cape Town | Friday TONY Leon goes into battle on Friday with his co-leader of the Democratic Alliance, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, armed with detailed research on Cape voters that does serious damage to the New National Party’s record in the Cape Town council. The full report, leaked to the Mail & Guardian, shows that Cape […]

MARIETTE LE ROUX, Pretoria | Wednesday THE government put its foot down on Thursday, imposing a five percent pay rise on public servants following months of inconclusive wrangling with labour unions. By the state’s final deadline of midnight on Wednesday, a majority of unions had still not accepted its three-year pay rise package, which includes […]

London | Friday BRITAIN has provided the most detailed outline yet of the case against Osama bin Laden, but the evidence which it says indicates his guilt over the September 11 attacks raises as many questions as answers. Crucially, what has been made public so far does not appear to contain the elusive “smoking gun” […]

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 […]