BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Friday 10.15pm. CHINESE President Jiang Zemin left for home late on Thursday after a four-day state] visit to South Africa marked by the signing of a declaration calling for a new world order. Jiang made a pilgrimage on Thursday to Robben Island, off Cape Town, where former president Nelson Mandela was […]
ZIMBABWEAN police on Friday charged Obed Zilwa, a South African photograper who works for the Associated Press, with the bombing of pro-opposition Zimbabwe newspaper, the Daily News. “He is being charged with throwing or planting a bomb with the intention of destroying a building,” Jonathan Samkange, the lawyer representing Zilwa said. If convicted, Zilwa could […]
NIGERIA said the devastating toll from malaria and Aids in Africa called for a total writeoff of the continent’s foreign debt to free resources to combat the twin scourges. “The gravity of the malaria problem with all its ramifications, provides a strong case for the forgiveness of all African debts,” Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told […]
MANAGING Director of Boland PKS Riaan Stassen and its financial director Andre du Plessis have resigned, the Business Day reports. Their resignations are being linked to clashes between executives from Boland and from holding company BoE. According to the paper the differences relate to future stategies for Boland PKS and an enquiry by BoE into […]
Heather Hogan LIFESTYLE Weed lovers, now you can legally grow marijuana in your own homes without fear – the virtual kind that is! Slick Software has produced an amazing marijuana-type Tamagoshi package known as HighGrow Legal Marijuana Growing. You have to see it to believe it. You can select three seeds out of 24 options […]
Hip-hop woman What? What? talks about her name and coming home this weekend to roost Ben Joseph A telephone rings in Manhattan. The answer service. Hang up. Try again. A tired, uncharacteristically small voice answers on the second ring. “Hello, this is What? What?” What? What?, who is now calling herself Jean Grae, but was […]
Alan Finlay Benefit and retirement funds for low-income earners – like domestic workers and taxi drivers – are catching on in South Africa. But while a group like Fedsure Life Assurance receives as many as 150 applications a day, others are battling to keep in the running. There are three main players in the industry […]
Blade Nzimande May Day 2000 takes place in the wake of continued job losses and against the background of unprecedented mass mobilisation and action by the workers to defend their jobs. Despite negative and silent coverage by the bosses’ media, the workers’ struggles have focused the attention of the country on the urgency to stem […]
Mercedes Sayagues The government of Zimbabwe has a peculiarly selective way of reading the press. Usually, the Mail & Guardian is lumped among the foreign media engaged in a conspiracy to tarnish Zimbabwe’s image and bring down President Robert Mugabe. The many speeches where Mugabe says so inflame his followers and account no doubt for […]
Mercedes Sayagues Kariba, Tuesday mid-morning: A gang of 35 men kidnaps four supporters of the Zimbabwe opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), from their homes, and one from his office at the public power utility. They are paraded through town and beaten up so badly that one dies on the spot and one aEwhile […]