Hip-hop woman What? What? talks about her name and coming home this weekend to roost Ben Joseph A telephone rings in Manhattan. The answer service. Hang up. Try again. A tired, uncharacteristically small voice answers on the second ring. “Hello, this is What? What?” What? What?, who is now calling herself Jean Grae, but was […]
Alan Finlay Benefit and retirement funds for low-income earners – like domestic workers and taxi drivers – are catching on in South Africa. But while a group like Fedsure Life Assurance receives as many as 150 applications a day, others are battling to keep in the running. There are three main players in the industry […]
Blade Nzimande May Day 2000 takes place in the wake of continued job losses and against the background of unprecedented mass mobilisation and action by the workers to defend their jobs. Despite negative and silent coverage by the bosses’ media, the workers’ struggles have focused the attention of the country on the urgency to stem […]
Mercedes Sayagues The government of Zimbabwe has a peculiarly selective way of reading the press. Usually, the Mail & Guardian is lumped among the foreign media engaged in a conspiracy to tarnish Zimbabwe’s image and bring down President Robert Mugabe. The many speeches where Mugabe says so inflame his followers and account no doubt for […]
Mercedes Sayagues Kariba, Tuesday mid-morning: A gang of 35 men kidnaps four supporters of the Zimbabwe opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), from their homes, and one from his office at the public power utility. They are paraded through town and beaten up so badly that one dies on the spot and one aEwhile […]
THE price of petrol is set to increase by 1c per litre on May 3, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Wednesday. In a statement the department said the price of diesel will remain the same, while illuminating paraffin will increase by 3c per litre. The statement said the increase is attributed to […]
STARVING Angolans have been reduced to eating grass and worms in a desperate attempt to survive, according to a report compiled by the United Nations humanitarian office in Angola. The report, due for release in Luanda on Wednesday, describes Angola’s humanitarian situation as alarming, and in certain cases, on the brink of disaster. It is […]
PHILIP PANK & SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Friday 4.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN war veterans’ leader Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi began a national tour on Friday, urging squatters on white-owned farms to renounce violence and wait peacefully for a share of the land. Hunzvi was accompanied by Commercial Farmers’ Union vice president Nick Swanepoel after talks in the capital […]
Mary Dover Taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Burj Al Arab or Arabian Tower – the world’s first seven star hotel – has opened in Dubai. The hotel is part of a three-part leisure paradise along the Jumeirah coastline, combining the Jumeirah Beach Hotel and the recently opened Wadi Wadi waterpark, which boasts […]
Cosmo Landesman BODY LANGUAGE It used to be that the modern male, with his passion for hair gels, facial scrubs and designer suits, was dismissed as something of a Narcissus. That was a decade ago. Now the big news from the United States is that the modern male has moved on from designer suits to […]