legitimate [sleazy] behaviour’ Want to make a quick buck, squash a fine, get ahead in your career or get away with murder? The Mail & Guardian offers some tips from past and present pros Ivor Powell, Jubie Matlou, Mungo Soggot, Paul Kirk and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The reaction to Mail & Guardian revelations last […]
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main opposition movement in Zimbabwe, says President Robert Mugabe should be offered an honourable way out. But how? Stubborn, oblivious of the damage he is inflicting on his country and the suffering of the individuals caught up in the dramas he has manufactured, Mugabe has paid attention so far […]
SOUTH African Breweries and Germany’s Holsten-Brauerei AG, seeking to establish a presence in a fast-growing market, have launched licensed production of Holsten beer in Russia. “We have signed an initial agreement for five years”, Alan Richards, managing director of SAB Europe division, said. A SAB-owned brewery in Kaluga, about 200km south-west of Moscow, is expected […]
David Gough in Mutitu, Kenya Mwangi Githendu might not know much about politics but drumming his fist on the table to emphasise his point, he insists: “I know when I’m being cheated.” It’s hard to imagine this kindly old man with his wispy grey beard and permanent smile as a leader of a violent peasants’ […]
Many of Timbavati’s famous white lions may have ended up as prize trophies on neighbouring game farms Fiona Macleod Lions are being stolen from the Timbavati Nature Reserve by suspected canned-lion hunting operators. An employee on a small neighbouring game farm was convicted and sentenced late last month after he was caught red-handed trying to […]
Isabel Hilton COMMENT Zimbabwe celebrated the 20th anniversary of her independence yesterday with the murder of a second white farmer. This was another government-inspired outrage on the way to what threatens to be a deliberate descent into a more general, armed conflict over Zimbabwe’s colonial legacy. Two decades ago, Robert Mugabe subscribed to a different […]
Mikkel Beck was a fan of the chef, so he invested in the restaurant Jim White Traditionally, the only contact footballers had with the catering trade was buying a pub the moment they stopped playing. Which, to be fair, was merely falling in line with expert opinion that it is always enriching during retirement to […]
Marianne Merten A piece of South African history was sold last weekend when 20 000 items from the refurbished Blue Train went on auction in Cape Town. The memorabilia that went under the hammer in Cape Town last Saturday included everything from an industrial- sized, peppermint-green toaster to ice cream scoops, pots, butler’s ties, toiletry […]
Barry Streek Publisher David Philip has changed hands to emerge as the major black-controlled book publishing house in South Africa. A majority share of David Philip Publishers (DPP) has been sold to New African Publications (NAP), a subsidiary of New Africa Investments Limited’s newly formed New Africa Media (NAM). Meanwhile three prominent black academics, Professors […]
Mary Dover People all around the world can watch the African sunset or a lion kill, or track leopard spoor when the “CNN of the bush”, Africam.com, launches its first live nature and game viewing footage on the Internet in July. Wildlife viewing might sound “ho hum” to many South Africans but consider the appeal […]