Ufrieda Ho The Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit rises like a displaced pagoda in the middle of fields of sun-bleached highveld grass. For the new abbess of the Buddhist temple, these contrasts and contradictions are opportunities to fire up the great melting pot of modern culture. Venerable Man Ya (47), who joined the temple at […]
When Steve Gibson’s website was repeatedly attacked by a hacker, he discovered a secret society of cyber-anarchists. Stuart Millar reports In one corner, Steve Gibson, world-renowned computer security expert with his own research corporation, regular adviser to the United States federal authorities and former child genius. In the other, a 13-year-old amateur hacker with a […]
It is 25 years since the Soweto uprising. Jeremy Baskin examines three new books that reflect on that seismic event Where were you on June 16 1976? The question has an iconic status among South Africans of a certain age, the way Americans remember where they were when JF Kennedy was shot. Three new books […]
Bottles of Le Vie de Luc mineral water sport the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund logo without permission Stefaans Brummer The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund has found itself in bed with a business linked to Mafia don Vito Palazzolo but the fund protests that it is an unwilling partner and says it has asked for an […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Mail & Guardian assistant editor Belinda Beresford has been named overall winner of the United States South Africa Health Reporting Awards. Beresford was selected for her piece on HIV/Aids entitled “None so blind as those who will not see”, one of several submitted. The panel of judges, comprising journalists and US […]
South Africans’ mad rush towards all that glitters, tingles and titillates will ensure high HIV/Aids rates for the foreseeable future Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala There is a joke making the rounds among pre-teen girls in KwaZulu-Natal that goes like this: “Why is Jennifer Lopez so poor? Answer: Because her love don’t cost a thing.” With reference to […]
British documentary film-maker Ben Cashdan is on a nationwide crusade to convert people to his own brand of anti-globalisation Alex Sudheim One of the strange facts of life seems to be that aspirant independent film-makers wear black blazers. Whether to symbolise dark, subversive intellect or solemn commitment to the I-mean-business-in-an-anarchic-sort-or-way school of cool, the blazer […]
The unpredictable French are first up on the menu for the Springboks this year Andy Capostagno It seems a lifetime ago, but it is in fact only eight years and two weeks since France and South Africa last locked horns at Ellis Park. In those far-off days Springbok coach Ian McIntosh’s most frequently expressed concern […]
Neil Sonnekus review OFTHEWEEK They were seven young men whose heads were filled with ganga and idealism. They wanted to build the new South Africa and their navety cost them their lives. They became the victims of one of the most cynical police operations in the mid-Eighties and they became known as The Guguletu Seven. […]
The infighting behind Cape Town’s attempt to host the 2004 Olympics is detailed in a new book Martin Gillingham Former Cape Town Olympic bid boss Raymond Ackerman has stepped up his campaign against Sam Ramsamy by claiming that the South African Olympic chief had told him the only way he could win the race to […]