EIGHT people died and four are missing when a bridge across the swollen Kei river collapsed. One survivor has been plucked from the raging waters. A light truck with 10 people on board and a bus carrying only two or three people tired to cross a bridge about halfway between Queenstown and Cofimvaba when it […]
LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Harare | Friday 7.45pm. ZIMBABWE’S besieged white farmers won a court battle Friday over the occupation of their land by independence war veterans, despite President Robert Mugabe’s public approval of the invasions. High Court judge Paddington Garwe declared the occupations illegal and ordered the thousands of squatters who have invaded more than 500 […]
In a statement to the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> this week, Ronnie de Decker denied any involvement in arms smuggling and military activities.
Thebe Mabanga The Windybrow Centre for the Arts in Hillbrow is currently hosting its Annual Arts Festival amidst threats of closure. Now celebrating its twentieth Anniversary, the festival could be the last if measures to rescue the Windybrow are not put in place urgently. “It would be a tragedy if we were to stand by […]
Belinda Beresford It has been vilified as the devil’s excrement and lusted after as black gold, but oil still continues to lubricate the world economy. Whatever you call it, oil has been nothing but bad news for Africa. Those who have it curse it. So do those who don’t. Countries without oil supplies believe their […]
Grant Shimmin SWIMMING On the biographies page of the website run by Fina, global swimming’s governing body, you’ll currently find the name of only one South African and there are no prizes for guessing who it is. The fact that Penny Heyns is the country’s sole representative among a gallery of the biggest names in […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY I think I am beginning to understand just a little of what it was like for Sandra Laing – the 10-year-old girl famously catapulted from white South Africa to black South Africa during the apartheid era. It struck me a few weeks ago when I was trying to buy a second-hand […]
The ANC seems to be wooing the opposition in preparation for local government elections Peter Dickson and Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress this week stepped up efforts to neutralise the fragile opposition in the country in preparation for the November local government elections. In the Eastern Cape, ANC Premier Makhenkesi Stofile told the New […]
sake’ Jean Evans I don’t stand to gain anything by writing my story. Well, maybe I do! I want to know that Professor Werner Bezwoda will continue to be my doctor and that his life’s dedication to the treatment of cancer is not wasted. When I was 34-years old, with a toddler of just two […]
Your work e-mail is about as private as a postcard. How can you protect it from prying eyes? Rupert Neethling The versatility of office computers makes it tremendously tempting to use them for purposes other than work. But if an employee abuses company resources, naturally the boss will want to know about it. What lengths […]