Khadija Magardie The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), a policy think-tank, has called for the abolition of the quota system currently imposed on skilled labour coming into South Africa. This is in response to the government’s draft Immigration Bill, which promises a shake-up of the country’s migration laws. According to CDE director Ann Bernstein […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER The announcement of a national soccer squad can be a pretty pedestrian act. The “hacks” gather and eye the free food and drink. The coach arrives, flanked by officials, sits down and reads out his list of lucky footballers. Then comes the media interrogation. Why was he chosen? Why was he not […]
Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL Capitalism is theologically bankrupt. Fear not, we can make profits and own a house or savings account, but capitalism has become a world religion. It worships money as the ultimate value of life, and spreads the false gospel that profit equals human development. Early capitalism used machines and factories to improve […]
The highly romanticised notion of what a journalist’s work is all about is responsible for the lack of representation of women in the media Khadija Magardie The Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) hearings into racism in the media produced an interesting, though not entirely novel offshoot. Both participants and prominent media persons testifying at the hearings […]
Marianne Merten Cape Town is hosting South Africa’s first international jazz festival this weekend – entrenching the status of the Mother City as the country’s jazz capital and putting South Africa on the global map of annual events as the only one in the southern hemisphere. The festival is a six-year long dream come true […]
grid Gavin Foster When the World Superbike circus lays on its first matinee of the year on Sunday, motorcycle fans at Kyalami will get to see a brand new act – for the first time in South Africa, the Sidecar World Cup will be part of the superbike show. After half a century of playing […]
Marianne Merten Nature conservation in the Western Cape gets a new face from April 1 when an independent statutory board takes over from the provincial government and the old Cape Nature Conservation ceases to exist. It has taken more than five years to transfer responsibility for two million hectares of protected land, water catchment areas […]
Paul Kirk and Jaspreet Kindra The National Intelligence Agency official responsible for recruiting Sifiso Nkabinde’s killer, Bruce Mhlongo, into the intelligence fold is Andre Pruis, a senior operative who works from the agency’s offices in Pietermaritzburg. This is one of several details of Mhlongo’s relationship with NIA that the Mail & Guardian established this week […]
A six-year long dream has become a reality as the North Sea Jazz Festival kicks into gear this weekend Karen Rutter It’s debatable who is more excited about the upcoming North Sea Jazz Festival in Cape Town – the organisers, the artists or the punters. All said, it’s certainly the most prestigious event on the […]
Jon Brodkin Ipswich Town fans shudder at the thought of it. Not even the idea of employing Nicolas Anelka as director of team spirit could fill them with more dread. ”It is,” says one supporter, ”a nightmare scenario.” And that is putting a gloss on matters. The scenario, of course, is ending up in the […]