The US mobilises support from its Western allies for a crusade against Islamist terrorism Julian Borger in Washington, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill in London and Ian Black in Brussels Nato is drawing up an emergency plan for a massive attack on Afghanistan if proof emerges that Osama bin Laden, the wanted Saudi-born terrorist sheltered […]

Now the applications have been completed, officials are faced with the tough task of allocating fishing rights Barry Streek The first phase of one of South Africa’s biggest empowerment deals the allocation of new fishing quotas was completed this week. Between 6 000 and 9 000 applications were expected for the 1 000 to 1 […]

The World Trade Centre not only dominated the skyscape of New York, but towered over the American imagination. Darryl Pinckney, who watched it being built, mourns the loss of a landmark No one I know loved the World Trade Centre, or recalled their first visits to it, in the way that they remember being taken […]

There is a view among some South Africans that the United States had its just desserts when hijacked airliners cannoned into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon this week. Some even suggested that the attacks marked the beginning of the end of the “American empire”. The idea that US military and economic muscle has […]

It will be bloody, but Hewlett-Packard and Compaq were left few options other than a merger and radical surgery Edmond Warner As they strode into work last Tuesday morning, Wall Street’s finest must have believed that at long last they were witnessing the turn in the investment banking cycle. The New York Times was carrying […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Nearly three months after the Mail & Guardian obtained proof that Cromet Molepo, the CEO of Umgeni Water, had illegally tapped the telephones of his employees, an investigation by Pietermaritzburg attorney Julian von Klemperer has corroborated the M&G’s expos. Molepo has now gone into hiding after he resigned on September 3. […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Damelin, one of South Africa’s leading correspondence colleges, is pioneering the installation of a Readwell Project that seeks to improve the reading capabilities of South African learners, including adult learners. Based on the visagraph, an imported computer targeted at the estimated 60% of students aged 10 to 18 who are reported […]

Barry Streek In a move to fight corruption, police officers in South Africa are going to be required to submit an annual signed declaration of their personal financial interests including their ownership of property and shares. “We are doing it because we want to run a very clean service,” Minister of Safety and Security Steve […]

Drew Forrest The government and labour are on the brink of an agreement that would mean the dropping of a state plan to break up and concession a major part of Spoornet’s freight business to private operators. Earlier this week the Department of Labour’s head of restructuring, Leslie Maasdorp, suggested that the listing of SAA […]

a second look Stephen Corry The Mail & Guardian’s article on the Bushmen of Botswana (“Going back to their roots”, August 31) accurately reports that more than 1000 of them were removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and put in bleak resettlement camps where social and economic problems are rife in contrast to false […]