All women think about is good sex and bad hair, suggests a new survey. BODY LANGUAGE Kate Taylor Asking your lover, “What are you thinking about?” has always been a one-stop route to getting dumped. That’s because you’re only ever prompted to ask it at inopportune moments, like when they’ve just watched you being sick, […]
analysis Glenda Daniels Even the most orthodox economists accept that there are instances where state ownership of utilities is appropriate. The business of government should be give and take, with the broad view of creating a better quality of life for all, specifically the upliftment of the poor. Unfortunately, the present situation is all take […]
As millions of workers downed tools this week to protest against privatisation of state assets, Howard Barrell, Glenda Daniels and Sipho Seepe spoke to Cosatu president Willie Madisha on the tensions between the trade union federation and the government and ANC leadership Glenda Daniels: What forms of privatisation or restructuring are you objecting to and […]
food Lauren Shantall The very first time I tasted one, I was on a seaside holiday and knee-high to my grandmother, who leaned forward into a fading show of dune flowers to pluck a few of their odd, fleshy fruits. These were surprisingly sharp and juicy in all that blurry heat and beach grit. I […]
We read your report (August 24) on the National Development Agency (NDA) with dismay but not surprise. Anyone in the field of funding and poverty relief knows about the debacle surrounding the transformation of the old Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT) into the NDA. But we had not thought it was so bad. You report […]
Organisations caring for the elderly fear that data-sharing is taking place between Cash Paymaster Services and a loan company Paul Kirk An adviser to the government on pensioners has set up a company that offers loans to the aged at an interest rate that the Mail & Guardian has calculated to be more than 420% […]
Martin Gillingham was at a meeting where some extraordinary records were set The banner read: “EPO cheats out.” A simple message and one that reflects sentiments shared by many fair-minded people in track and field. The young woman holding the banner in the stands at the world championships in Edmonton, as the Russian runner Olga […]
The younger Williams sister won the US Open two years ago but has since been eclipsed by Venus Stephen Bierley Two years ago, as the Manhattan traffic crawled across Queensboro bridge towards Queens home of the Mets and, for two weeks in late summer, the United States Open tennis championships New York drivers were confronted […]
The refusal of the United States government to send a high-level delegation to the World Conference Against Racism is not entirely surprising. The conference scares white Americans that finally outsiders will know the racist nature of the USA. The issue also brings up the fact that Africans too should pursue their national interests, as do […]
Barry Streek Countries in the developing world have to work together in international trade and in institutions to gain influence on issues such as globalisation. This is the view of Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin as published in the latest edition of New Agenda, published by the Institute for African Alternatives. “It is […]