Despite a clear policy on prison leave, Eugene Terre’Blanche was recently granted weekend parole while a seemingly deserving prisoner was not Lebo Malepe and Sammy Modiba It took a last-minute court application to get Phola Katisi to attend her brother’s funeral, while Eugene Terre’Blanche enjoyed 12 hours of freedom, courtesy of a bureaucratic mix-up in […]
The economic modelling unit is the brains behind the Reserve Bank’s inflation targeting policy David Le Page To each age, its anathema. Idolatry, witchcraft and the plague have been succeeded by inflation and so, deep within the glass monolith of the Reserve Bank and many floors up, we have an economic modelling unit. Theirs is […]
free’ in the Eastern Cape Peter Dickson The Port Elizabeth metropole, described by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete last month as “the rape capital of South Africa”, is to be the target of a top-level police research project into why less than 10% of the area’s rapists are caught and jailed. >From January […]
Kevin Mitchell Pete Sampras’s opponents might have hoped he was going to disintegrate in pain and self-doubt at this Wimbledon. But Pistol Pete showed this week he is not ready to be run out of town just yet. The title-holder came through a third- round examination of his resolve and his aching left shin last […]
situation Marianne Merten Turbulent sea currents and unseasonably calm weather this week thwarted the transfer of the remaining 900 tons of oil from the sunken Treasure wreck and the dispersal of oil slicks from the Cape coast. Salvage operators and conservationists face a catch-22 situation: while calm weather prevails oil slicks do not disperse and […]
Minority opposition parties in the National Assembly have found common ground, despite their differences Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra The oddest of couples on the opposition benches in the National Assembly have emerged as the stars of the first year of the new Parliament that has just come to a close. Politically, Mosibudi Mangena, president […]
Matlou, Connie Selebogo, Barry Streek and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni After having tracked down the whereabouts of prominent apartheid torturers enjoying life after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Mail & Guardian went in search of the former regime’s quislings. They were apartheid’s puppets – the people who ran the nominally independent, corrupt homelands […]
Haidar Eid THE END OF THE ‘PEACE PROCESS’: OSLO AND AFTER by Edward Said (Pantheon) The difficulty, albeit necessity, of addressing the current situation in Palestine emanates from the euphoria of the mainstream media accompanying the signing of the Oslo Accords in 199. The mainstream media avoided the agreement’s denial of Palestinian rights, endorsing the […]
Robert Kirby THE BAYONET FIELD by Peter Wilhelm (Ad Donker) This collection of the short stories of Peter Wilhelm again reveals his extraordinary gifts, both as writer and as intuitive diarist of the human condition. Of Wilhelm’s output of some 70 short stories and novellas, collected here are 20. Set in the past, the present […]
HIV mutates very readily, which means it can rapidly become resistant to drugs, so patients need to be treated with a cocktail of medicines Belinda Beresford People almost never die of HIV, they die from any number of a wide selection of diseases which overwhelm immune systems ravaged by the virus. Thousands of different mutants […]