Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the state-backed financing company, has been injecting millions of rands into private companies of which the IDC’s chief executive is a shareholder. Kanya Ngqula, who reportedly earns at least a R1-million annual salary from the IDC, is also a director of Worldwide Africa Investment, a black-owned […]

In August 1936 Jesse Owens became an Olympic immortal by winning four golds at the Berlin Games. Four months later he had been banned from athletics and reduced to racing against horses, writes Donald McRae Jesse Owens had hit the road again. He had arrived in Havana the day before, on a wet Christmas Day. […]

air A United States company is spewing a cocktail of lethal chemicals into the Cape air Paul Kirk The government has threatened to shut down the Caltex refinery in Cape Town after air sampling revealed the air in the city’s Table View area is among the most heavily polluted in the world. Among the lethal […]

Andy Capostagno rugby The international season is over until November. We are now in the middle of mud- slinging season and it is scarcely surprising that the Currie Cup has lost its lustre. For who can concentrate on the game when the real heavyweights are spending every waking moment consulting with their lawyers? Five years […]

Public Internet services are finding their niche in the Mother City Lauren Shantall Have you ever heard of an Internet caf’? If it is a ridiculous question for the year 2000, then that’s only because South Africans have embraced the Age of the Computer to such an extent that we’ve internalised it and our modems. […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi KwaZulu-Natal’s head of the elite Scorpions investigative unit, Chris MacAdam, is to be replaced by Shamila Batohi – the prosecutor who took on Hansie Cronje during the hearings into the cricket scandal two months ago. The Mail & Guardian has reliably learned that MacAdam will be transferred to Pretoria as an adviser in […]

a round-earther These are extracts from the detailed diary kept by a member of the Presidential Aids Advisory panel May 2000 I was invited to participate on the Presidential Aids Advisory Panel which would have high visibility given President Thabo Mbeki’s famous letter to United States President Bill Clinton and his flirtation with denialists – […]

The government will face legal action following its failure to introduce measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV Timothy Trengove-Jones The Aids Treatment Action Campaign (Atac) has announced that it plans to proceed with legal action against the government. The campaign’s case will challenge the government’s refusal to imple- ment programmes to prevent the transmission […]

acknowledged Sechaba ka’Nkosi crossfire A close friend, Muff Anderson, last year asked me to testify in a civil suit she had instituted against a black colleague. It was a typical office disagreement where the colleague had resorted to calling her a racist. Muff rightfully felt offended. And for a person I had related to as […]