The South African cricket team goes to Sri Lanka on its first tour since the Hansie Cronje scandal broke Peter Robinson Not so much the man who would be king as the man who had to be king, Shaun Pollock will carry a fair bit of excess baggage in his coffin when he flies off […]
sales Glenda Daniels While the government’s final plan for the restructuring of state assets will be released within weeks – about two months later than scheduled and with labour organisations demanding a moratorium – it is expected that the motions of consultation will take place before the massive privatisation steamrolls ahead. Labour organisations has not […]
Connie Selebogo Anita Manyike (16) battles to hold a pen firmly to write out her schoolwork. Access to a computer – a government grant from the Department of Communications to her school – could not have come at a better time. For the past six years Manyike’s handwriting has deteriorated as a result of her […]
The Pill is 40 years old and in that time it has mostly received a bad press because of health risks – we hear less of the benefits. Tania Unsworth celebrates one of the defining inventions of the 20th century The Pill turns 40 this year, and during the course of its life it has […]
Tony Cox talks to Adam Haupt about his new album and the integrity of music that ignores the pop charts Tony Cox is one of those acoustic guitar trailblazers who began way before it was fashionable to create a uniquely South African sound. He first made a name for himself when he recorded 101 Ways […]
Jaspreet Kindra and Marianne Merten The alliance between former enemies the New National Party and the Democratic Party has left die-hard democrats to the north of Johannesburg ”devastated” and rightwingers in Ventersdorp ”speechless”, according to a Mail & Guardian snap poll. In the Cape, opponents of the merger were more pithy in their responses, accusing […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Minister of Education Kader Asmal has criticised the Law Society of the Transvaal for publicly announcing its intention to oust Tiego Moseneke, a Johannesburg lawyer and businessman, from the roll of attorneys without giving reasons to either Moseneke or the public. Asmal has also questioned the role of the National Association of Democratic […]
Zimbabwe taught Africa an impressive lesson on civic and political maturity last weekend. In spite of brutal pre- election intimidation, a flawed electoral process and attempts to obstruct independent monitoring, people were neither cowed nor discouraged. More than half of the voters told President Robert Mugabe it is time for change. Let us not forget […]
ThandwayiZizwe Mthembu CROSSFIRE Much as Parks Mankahlana bemoans Sipho Seepe’s disregard for logic and facts (”Seepe disregards logic and facts”, Mail & Guardian, June 23 to 29), he exhibits a frightening lack of understanding of the inter- connectedness of proposition, logic, facts and their synchronicity. This understanding is required for designing acceptable proofs of his […]
Roger Southall A SECOND LOOK Dr Mamphele Ramphele, former vice- chancellor of the University of Cape Town, recently faulted what she saw as the reluctance of intellectuals who identified with the liberation struggle to openly criticise what they considered mistakes or abuses by the African National Congress now that it is in power. Writing in […]