delays Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Northern Province public service commission has launched a probe into alleged irregularities involving the selection of prescribed textbooks for the province’s schools – irregularities that could lead to serious delays in textbooks reaching pupils. This comes less than a week after Minister of Education Kader Asmal announced the appointment […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Sometimes I can’t help feeling that the “education” that we got in school was invented by a con artist, sold by a charlatan and taught by a mountebank. In my day, for example, we were often forced to memorise “recitations” containing high-minded maxims that were supposed to guide us […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY When a great player shows signs of mortality it is a brave coach who tells him to shape up or ship out. Whether it was because of a knee injury that has not properly healed, a paucity of playing time or that most elusive of facets, a lack of ambition, scrumhalf Joost […]
Plenty of people have modelled themselves on him, but Tom Waits has never slunk in anyone’s shadow Tom Cox We are complete numbskulls to believe it’s true, of course, but there’s a brief moment at the Rex Theatre in Paris when several thousand of us think that we just may have been given Tom Waits’s […]
Meet the judges who will be presiding at the prestigious Investing in the Future Awards Mail & Guardian reporter An impressive panel of opinion-makers have agreed to judge the Investing in the Future Awards. The awards laud corporate social investment in South Africa and were established over a decade ago by the Mail & Guardian. […]
Jaspreet Kindra As the Democratic Party flirts with the New National Party and the African National Congress espouses almost Thatcherite ideas, black consciousness parties and the Pan-Africanist Congress can safely claim to be the only ideological purists left in South Africa. Last week the Socialist Party of Azania (Sopa), the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) and […]
A physical theatre group has based its latest venture on something everyone has in common: dreams Matthew Simpson Let’s put it in perspective: it all began with LSD. Like it or not, modern cultural expression of all kinds would not be the same without the hallucinogenic generation. Never before had an essentially alternative lifestyle had […]
In the aftermath of the controversial R32- billion weapons deal, the government has plans to spend even more money on upgrading the army Ivor Powell With the dust yet to settle on the government’s controversial R32-billion weapons deal, plans are afoot to spend several more billions of taxpayers’ money on another round of arms purchases […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe snubbed this week’s gathering of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), sending only a junior Cabinet minister and a diplomat to represent his country. Mugabe, a founder and senior SADC member, failed to attend this year’s SADC World Economic Forum currently taking place in Durban despite expectations from […]
The Heath unit will launch an investigation into the affairs of Prince Gideon Zulu after receiving the approval of the premier of KwaZulu-Natal Paul Kirk KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has signed a proclamation allowing the Heath special investigating unit to probe the affairs of his Minister of Welfare and Population Development, Prince Gideon Zulu. The […]