WAMBUI CHEGE, Johannesburg | Saturday A FRAIL Nelson Mandela addressed a South African charity meeting by video conference on Friday after doctors told him to rest due to his ongoing treatment for prostate cancer. The former South African president was to attend the annual meeting of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, but doctors told him […]
RESPECTED anti-racism cleric, Doctor Beyers Naude, may have one of Johannesburg’s prominent streets the DF Malan Drive – named after him, the city’s executive Mayor Amos Masondo hinted on Wednesday. Naude is to be given the freedom of Johannesburg as an honour to the ailing veteran activist’s role in dedicating his adult life fighting against […]
EVIDENCE WA KA NGOBENI, Johannesburg | Friday MINISTER of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota this week backtracked on his decision to appoint Seth Phalatse as the new chairperson of the Armscor, the state arms procurement company, and withdrew the appointment. His turnabout followed the Mail & Guardian report last week revealing how Phalatse had admitted to taking […]
Tim Burton’s new hit version of Planet of the Apes is a massive spectacle that keeps the eye enthralled without, however, much engaging the mind or the heart, writes Shaun de Waal.
Hollywood auteur Tim Burton is as famous for his brave flops as his hits. But his latest, <i>Planet of the Apes</i>, is already breaking box-office records, writes Michael Sragow.
M&G reporter The Green Trust is a partnership between the World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa and Nedbank. Funded pri-marily through contributions made by Nedbank Green banking clients, the trust has raised more than R37-million for conservation projects. These are some of the projects currently funded by The Green Trust. Trees for Africa The Green […]
Celtic Grove, the imposing son of Fort Wood, scooped the coveted Horse of the Year title and also lifted the Champion Classic Three-Year-Old Colt laurel at the Equus Awards this week both titles richly deserved after an outstanding campaign. One success that must have gone a long way towards Celtic Grove’s achievement was the South […]
Mega Music August 3119h00-22h00NYJB, Robbie Jansen (SA), Diane Schuur (US) (R100 a ticket) September 119h00-22h30NYJB, Sipho Gumede (SA), Roy Ayers (US) (R100 a ticket) September 219h00-21h30Ezra Ngcukana (SA), Diane Schuur (US) (R100 a ticket) Main Theatre August 3120h00-22h30Pops Mohamed (SA), Keiko Matsui (Japan) (R100 a ticket) September 120h00-22h30Hugh Masekela (SA), Keiko Matsui (Japan) (R100 a […]
The Treatment Action Campaign is trying to make the goverment supply anti-retrovirals to pregnant women Belinda Beresford A large cocoon of worn baby blankets swaddles a thin, tiny brown body, scowling at light and sucking furiously on his thumb. Baby A is about to become world famous, even if his identity is never publicly known. […]
A report has found that the criminal justice system fails to uphold the rights of farm labourers Marianne Merten “That Sunday the farmer called him to the farm. When he got there, the boer got out of his bakkie and hit him. When he was finished hitting him, he had to help the farmer.” Hendrik […]