Tracy McVeigh Body Language It could be something in the cocoa or too much titillation on Coronation Street: Britain’s pensioners are shedding their cardigans and getting down to it. But the men and women who began the sexual revolution as twentysomethings in the late 1950s are not only finding new passion and partners in their […]
What would the South African tourist industry be selling today if it didn’t have the relics of apartheid to offer? Matthew Krouse Marketing brutality is good for tourism. The revenue a country can take from promoting understanding of its darkest hours can certainly rival what it can cream off its sex industry and its natural […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The Cabinet signed off South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal despite being warned of serious repercussions the buying splurge could have on the country’s economy. In August 1999, the Department of Finance stopped just short of advising the Cabinet not to proceed with the package on the scale proposed because of the […]
Gordimer is not an appropriate author to inflict upon learners. Not because she is racist: she is boring and pretentious.
Hasim Rahman’s victory was good for the sport in South Africa and good for Lennox Lewis Deon Potgieter The ”Thunder in Africa” tournament hit a resounding blow for world boxing and one of the benefactors will be South Africa. Another will be the man who lost his title. Lennox Lewis’s dramatic dethroning as the universal […]
Belinda Anderson Nedcor’s strategic planning around technology must be applauded for its clever thinking and planning. The approach is a two-pronged one that cannot really be separated. On the one hand, there is its technology and operations (T&O) division, which is in the process of commercialising. And on the other, there is a collection of […]
Melvyn Minnaar On the vervedeficient, dull social calendar of the new South Africa that generates but a few memorable PR parties these days, the annual Nederburg auction in Paarl still seems to hold its own after 27 years. If you’re still looking for women in serious widebrimmed hats, this is?where you’ll find them. If you […]
Robert McBride Right to Reply Piers Pigou has provided us with a curious response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) decisions in respect of myself, Aboobaker Ismail and others. His lengthy article can be summarised in a sentence. Though there is no evidence to the contrary, Pigou, TRC expert and self-appointed Grand Master of […]
The new Mpumalanga legislature complex diverted funds from other departments, leading to a critical shortage of supplies Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga doctors are being forced to operate on critically injured patients by torchlight and without much of the medicine or other equipment they need. Even basics such as sterile gloves, swabs, and intravenous drips are unavailable […]
Adam Mazmanian English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (Penguin) The genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines is so little remarked upon probably because it was so successful. Between the arrival of European settlers in 1804 and the end of a brief Aboriginal uprising in 1830, Tasmania’s native population was exterminated, with but a few sad exceptions. A […]