Mail & Guardian reporter Young travellers are becoming increasingly adventurous and travelling to more far- flung destinations, with many looking for the experiences highlighted in Alex Garland’s novel The Beach. Reasearch commissioned to tie in with the release of the film The Beach shows that 20- to 30-year-olds believe that independent travel is an essential […]

David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY It was at 6.30am that Barney awoke, to the cock-o-doodle-doo of a hahdedah playing silly-buggers in the garden. He stifled the impulse to hurl the Tea’sMade out the window. To cure him of the habit Leonora the maid had attached a rubber band. The last time he had done himself a […]

Michael Finch ATHLETICS During the 1999 season, there were many certainties in South African athletics – South Africa’s 400m hurdling superstar Llewellyn Herbert would always win on home soil, Wendy Hartman was untouchable in the sprints, and the men’s 400m was a toss-up between Arnaud Malherbe or Jopie van Oudtshoorn. Not surprisingly, the lure of […]

‘Frankenfoods’ Fiona Macleod Large shiploads of genetically engineered foodstuffs are quietly being imported into South Africa because a loophole in the law enables importers to fast-track such shipments without the public knowing anything about them. South African ports are receiving “an average of one large bulk shipment each month, mostly from Argentina and the United […]

Last week in this column, bell hooks made a distinction between romantic love and true love. The former, she told us, quoting from Toni Morrison, is “one of the most destructive ideas in the history of modern thought”. She may be right, but then hooks goes on to define “true love” in terms that don’t […]

Investors always make the most noise about the latest budget. What will they be saying about this one? Belinda Beresford and David Le Page Was this an investor’s budget? Analysts are likely to be chewing over the reams of documentation provided by the Department of Finance for some time, trying to answer this question. Adults […]

Thebe Mabanga IN YOUR EAR Surviving the weekend on South African radio is a pleasant but sometimes frustrating act. In search of something entertaining to listen to, one can sometimes find oneself listening to astrology on a Saturday night or receiving soccer commentary in a very entertaining but incomprehensible language. Here then is a guide […]

Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER If the South African under-23 side defeat Cameroon in Yaounde on Saturday and Ghana at Vosloorus Stadium next month, cries of siyaya e Sydney will reverberate around our beautiful land. It is a big if, with the first hurdle particularly difficult, but what a prize lies in wait should we succeed. A […]

Duncan Campbell New techniques are revolutionising the art of creating murals in the world’s mural capital, Los Angeles. A new generation of artists is exploring the potential created by digital imaging. “Digital imaging is going to bring muralism into the 21st century,” said Judy Baca, founder of the city’s Social and Public Art Resource Centre […]

NOTICE IN TERMS OF SECTION 9(1)(c) OF ACT 54 OF 1994 Notice to appear before the South African Human Rights Commission, sitting at Council Chambers, Ground Floor, Council Chambers Wing, Metropolitan Centre, 158 Loveday Street, Braamfontein: To:The Editor – Mail & Guardian Media Hill, 7 Quince Road, MILPARK WHEREAS, 1. The South African Human Rights […]