Cheryl Goodenough Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Joyce Mabudafhasi has called on the youth to make their voices heard on environmental issues and to mobilise ahead of the World Summit for Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg next year. Mabudafhasi made her call to the 400 delegates from 27 countries who converged […]
whipping boy The KwaZulu-Natal season is still in full swing and on Saturday comes the chance for a choice selection of sprinters to show what they are made of in the R250 000 grade one Mercury Sprint at Clairwood Park. The Mercury is a weight-for-age event, meaning that in these final weeks of the season […]
Stephen Gray Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell by Joseph Pearce (Bloomsbury) With the centenary of South Africa’s macho poet, Roy Campbell, in view he was born on October 2 1901 Joseph Pearce has taken the opportunity for a timely reappraisal. Despite his curious title, the work is a straight account […]
When other black artists of his generation went abroad, he remained in South Africa to make his name GEORGE PEMBA George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba, one of the pioneers of painting among South African black artists, has died. Pemba, who was born in Korsten Village, Port Elizabeth, in 1912, attended the Van der Kemp Mission Primary […]
Jeremy Cronin The key achievement of the South African Communist Party through the 1990s has been to rethink the communist project, neither abandoning nor being complacent about our legacy. We have carried through this rethinking, not as an intellectual curiosity, but in the midst of making ongoing, sometimes decisive, contributions to one of the great […]
Paul Kirk Joe Modise, the former minister of defence and one of the figures central to the multi-agency probe into corruption in South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal, had a six-bedroom mansion constructed partly at the expense of state-owned armaments company Denel which operates with taxpayers’ money. This week the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions confirmed […]
Nawaal Deane The Road Accident Fund has watered down its controversial plans to require its legal representatives to hire only black professionals. This follows a Mail & Guardian report in June on the fund’s affirmative action policy, instructing law firms acting on its behalf to avoid using white advocates to defend their cases. The fund […]
l Only share identity information when necessary. Credit card numbers should never be given over the telephone unless you have initiated the call. Same goes for the Internet. l Beware of “shoulder surfers” who swipe your bank card number while peering over your shoulder at cash machines. l Make sure your letter box is secure. […]
Mail& Guardian reporter The Joubert Park Public Art Project (JPP) is hosting a major multi-disciplinary exhibition and series of events at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Joubert Park, which will run from October 13 until the end of December. With the focus on “public art” the JPP aims to address and engage the conditions, changes […]
Bluetooth is set to revolutionise handheld computing, reports David Shapshak ‘So what’s the big deal?” a friend asked when I phoned him excitedly from a handheld digital organiser. Making a phone call from a personal digital assistant (PDA) may seem neither here nor there in the age of almost global cellphone coverage, hence his lack […]