Mail & Guardian reporter More than ever before technology has become an integral part of our lives. From our cellphones to the Internet, from home computing to corporate efficiency, technology surrounds us and makes our lives work. The Mail & Guardian will reflect the importance of this growth industry through high-quality journalism in its rejuvenated […]
Salim Vally and Patrick Bond A quick and somewhat bloody ”teach-in” on foreign policy was held at the Wits University Great Hall last Friday, in the form of a vibrant human rights protest. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell was forced to spend an extra hour hemmed in on campus by demonstrators, learning why […]
Jubie Matlou CROSSFIRE Iwas taken aback by the recent comments by Sandile Memela in his Mind Blast column in City Press. In one column Memela attacks black journalists who have become ”house niggers” (my interpretation) in white media institutions. In another he attacks black journalists who have left the township for the leafy suburbs. Memela’s […]
Sipho Seepe no blows barred Corruption takes many forms, but a common thread that runs through all of them is the misuse of power and/or resources for private benefit or advantage. The benefit can take the form of protection, special treatment, commendation, promotion, or the favours of women or men. Broadening our view of corruption […]
Marianne Merten Five Khayelitsha fishermen have asked the Cape High Court to allow them to catch their quota of hake despite a looming interdict by their employer, one of the country’s biggest fishing companies. The legal battle comes in the wake of a complicated paper trail of closed corporations, dormant entities and conversions to private […]
Mboniso Sigonyela The R377-million purchase of Kagiso’s media assets by rival empowerment group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) could leave the latter in contravention of the Broadcasting Act. The acquisition gives Nail’s media arm, New Africa Media (NAM), effective control of at least three private stations, Jacaranda (77,7%), Kfm (70%) and East Coast Radio (90%) […]
Neil Sonnekus Film & Television Two new documentaries one on cinema screens and the other to be screened on TV look into South Africa’s tortured past. The results are varied. Long Night’s Journey into Day tells the stories of four cases that appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the Amy Biehl, Matthew Goniwe, Robert […]
Fiona Macleod One of less than 500 East African black rhinos left in the world is due to be killed near Johannesburg in a ”canned” hunt because conservationists can’t agree on what else to do with her. The rhino cow was brought to South Africa 12 years ago as part of an ambitious endangered species […]
Inspired by the one-man presidential show in Zimbabwe, playwright Brett Bailey went in search of Idi Amin, the charismatic Ugandan general who burst on to the African stage with his military regime 30 years ago I had been thinking to do a play about Life President Field Marshal Doctor Idi Amin Dada in 1999, having […]
BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday Property crimes, such as robbery and theft, increased last year and in the first quarter of this year, but the murder rate went down, the first official crime statistics since July last year show. The figures, released this week after an 11-month moratorium on the publication of crime statistics […]