The controversial lawyer who has helped steer the HRC’s media probe kept a low profile at the hearings this week Jaspreet Kindra Christine Qunta, the prominent Cape Town attorney, wore several caps at the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) hearings into racism in the media this week. Not only has she been identified as […]
Philippa Garson CLASS STRUGGLE It is one thing to appoint think-tanks and talk-shops to assess the pros and cons of government policy. It is quite another to stop the relentless march of bureaucracy. A case in point is the implementation of Curriculum 2005. Although Minister of Education Kader Asmal took the wise step of appointing […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The vast majority of clinicians the world over reject the view that HIV and Aids are not causally linked and that Aids does not exist. The National Institutes of Health in the United States, drawing on research from around the world, issued a rebuttal of the dissident view. This rebuttal has […]
Greg Bowes PREVIEW OFTHEWEEK As if the banging breakbeats of Cut La Roc and Aphrodite weren’t enough, this month you can catch a staggering assortment of international DJs at two not-to-be-missed Gauteng events. The first of these is the Select party at Carfax on Friday March 10. Backed by the French Institute, this is the […]
show Alan Henry Although Formula One Holdings will require a professional management board when it is floated as a public company, the administration of grand prix racing has always responded to a powerful individual touch. These are some of the names that have been mentioned as possible members of the board. Luca di Montezemolo: The […]
A draft Bill on immigration aims to ease restrictions on skilled foreigners coming to South Africa Khadija Magardie The new draft Immigration Bill looks geared to promote economic development by easing restrictions on monied and skilled would-be immigrants. Its predecessor, the White Paper on International Migration, focused largely on controlling the influx of illegal, generally […]
M&G reporter The English Academy of Southern Africa awarded Alex Sudheim the Pringle Award for 1999, on March 7, for his reviews published in the Mail & Guardian’s Friday in 1998. Sudheim’s work was honoured for its widely diverse nature. Stories he has written for Friday were named, specifically his look at Durban’s Indian cinema […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY Two weeks into the Super 12 and already a few predictions are looking sick. The form lines seemed to suggest that this would be Australia’s year, but the Reds have been humiliated twice, the Brumbies lost at Canberra and the Waratahs won one and lost one on their South African tour. The […]
Literary circles are agog at James Thackara’s new novel. But would they care if it were 80 pages rather than 800? DJ Taylor The recent revelation that after two decades of sweat and expectation the novelist James Thackara is ready to publish his 800-page work, The Book of Kings, will come as no surprise to […]
Anita Allen The idea that a virus, HIV, causes Aids remains merely a hypothesis until it is proven true. There is, as yet, no such proof. Moreover, HIV tests are non- specific and tend to cross-react, yielding false positives. The definition of the syndrome (the “s” in Aids) has been changed over the years. Originally, […]