Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION I confess happily to being an ardent South Park fan. There can be no other television programme, of whatever form or theme, which has stretched the limits of tolerance quite as far as this one has. Dreamed up by two high school boys and pushed into reality by them as soon as […]

Iden Wetherell What has turned out to be the most ill-fated year in Zimbabwe’s history more devastating in its impact than the Great Depression of the 1930s started off on a hopeful note. A commission appointed by President Robert Mugabe to draw up a new Constitution had heard country-wide evidence of the head of state’s […]

From the US election fiasco to the cricket match-fixing scandal, it’s been an interesting start to the millennium David Le Page The United States Supreme Court helped George “Dubya” Bush to become that country’s next contribution to unfettered international capitalism, while 2,3-million votes across the country went uncounted. In Russia, premier Boris Yeltsin stepped down […]

THE World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Thursday announced a debt reduction package for Malawi that when fully implemented would make the African nation eligible for relief worth one billion dollars. The relief envisioned for Malawi is worth $643m in present value terms, according to a Bank-IMF statement, which added that over the […]

friday december 22 Cricket: Tour match, second day, KwaZulu-Natal vs Sri Lanka at 10am on SuperSport1 (SS1)/CSN; Standard Bank Cup, Boland vs Griqualand West, from Paarl, at 3.45pm on SS2 (from 6pm also on SS1/CSN) Soccer: English Nationwide second division, Bristol City vs Bristol Rovers at 9.45pm on SuperSport International (SSInt) saturday december 23 Cricket: […]

Riaan Wolmarans It’s not easy to ask an attractive waiter for a Screaming Orgasm or Sex on the Beach while keeping a straight face especially not after you’ve already had a few of either. But you’ll just get a stoical stare before you’re served a big multicoloured concoction with various straws, fruits and an umbrella […]

The Mail & Guardian introduces you to the movers and shakers of the rainbow nation In compiling our top 100 stars of the future, we sought to have fun. But more importantly, we wish to reflect the direction we believe our country will take over the next decade. This will be a decade in which […]

It was supposed to have been a universal high, but culturally the year 2000 was one of blood, guts and acrimony Matthew Krouse Below the belt: October 23. It was a foreskin fury when artist Peet Pienaar raised the ire of fellow exhibitor Thembinkosi Goniwe upon announcing he was to stage his own circumcision as […]

Mail & Guardian reporters The Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has axed the board of the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) and called in the police to pursue a criminal investigation of the state oil company’s R1,5-billion deal with an international oil company. Mlambo-Ngcuka has also asked for the resignation of Keith Kunene, […]

All that glitters: Having been knighted, actor Antony Sher was celebrated by Ambassador Cheryl Carolus at South Africa House. As an openly gay man he lamented that his partner, theatre director Gregory Doran, would not be called Lady Gregory from then on. Going for gold: In an industry full of fat egos and tiny balls, […]