My name is Phumzile Dlamini. I am a postgraduate student of Museum and Heritage Studies living on Robben Island. I am writing to respond to “Lesotho steps intto Robben Island ray” (September 21) The article used a fictitious name for a survivor of sexual harassment on the island that resembles my own. The names Phumla […]

Mail & Guardian reporter After the success of its 2000 academic bridging programme, Gensec Bank has extended the programme and is now investing a further R817500 in upgrading the skills of promising formerly disadvantaged students. A year ago 20 young people who matriculated in 1999 were given the opportunity to improve their matric results to […]

Shady, quiet streets featuring bougainvillea, backgammon, coffee and persecuted felines still exist on the Greek islands, writes Angus Begg It’s late May 1987. The time is somewhere around 8am down at the harbourside in Piraeus, Athens, and hundreds of backpackers and students are milling about, smoking, sitting on pavements, hassling for cheaper tickets … waiting. […]

Michael Hartnack With the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Brisbane, Australia, scheduled to start on October 6, hopes are high in Zimbabwe that President Robert Mugabe will face censure from world leaders. Leaders of the 53-nation grouping will consider whether Mugabe’s regime is beyond the pale on human rights after nearly two years of […]

Mail & Guardian reporter A milestone that marks Telkom’s evolution is the upgrading of its network facilities from analogue to digital all to ensure network reliability, efficient service delivery and the expanding of its range of services to corporate and individual clients. Today Telkom boasts more than 200000km of fibre-optic cable in its network and […]

analysis Thabo Masebe South Africa’s democratic government stands accused of serious crimes against its own people. Is it guilty as charged? Methinks the charges are based on fallacious and dangerous hype. Much has been said about our government’s economic policies that might convince a casual observer that the government is pursuing policies inimical to national […]

The article by Belinda Beresford (R2,7-billion needed to fight Aids”, September 21) missed the point of the government’s pathetic HIV/Aids policy. At the root of the President’s attempts to block the use of anti-retroviral drugs for the poor are his desperate attempts to privatise the public health services. Reports that contradict his view are suppressed, […]

Kenya boasts a phenomenon that every lover of Africa and its wildlife should get to see, writes Angus Begg It is a story that has been told, filmed and read on numerous occasions: of the million-plus wildebeest that every year make the trek north from Tanzania’s Serengeti to Kenya’s Masai Mara. More than a million […]

Nicolette Sampson remembers a time when abstinence wasn’t a big deal, simply the right thing to do BODY LANGUAGE It’s time for some 50-something wisdom. High time. Too late maybe. I suddenly know I’m a woman with a past and that I’m proud of it. So listen up and learn because you don’t see much […]

France, a country that does things differently, is worth paying attention to contretemps Richard Calland It’s 2.10pm September 11. The TGV Paris-Bordeaux Express leaves the Gare de Montparnesse on time. No surprise there. Nor that the carriage is so clean; the engine so smooth and quiet; and its motion so rapid. You can, I believe, […]