A draft Bill on immigration aims to ease restrictions on skilled foreigners coming to South Africa Khadija Magardie The new draft Immigration Bill looks geared to promote economic development by easing restrictions on monied and skilled would-be immigrants. Its predecessor, the White Paper on International Migration, focused largely on controlling the influx of illegal, generally […]
M&G reporter The English Academy of Southern Africa awarded Alex Sudheim the Pringle Award for 1999, on March 7, for his reviews published in the Mail & Guardian’s Friday in 1998. Sudheim’s work was honoured for its widely diverse nature. Stories he has written for Friday were named, specifically his look at Durban’s Indian cinema […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY Two weeks into the Super 12 and already a few predictions are looking sick. The form lines seemed to suggest that this would be Australia’s year, but the Reds have been humiliated twice, the Brumbies lost at Canberra and the Waratahs won one and lost one on their South African tour. The […]
Literary circles are agog at James Thackara’s new novel. But would they care if it were 80 pages rather than 800? DJ Taylor The recent revelation that after two decades of sweat and expectation the novelist James Thackara is ready to publish his 800-page work, The Book of Kings, will come as no surprise to […]
Anita Allen The idea that a virus, HIV, causes Aids remains merely a hypothesis until it is proven true. There is, as yet, no such proof. Moreover, HIV tests are non- specific and tend to cross-react, yielding false positives. The definition of the syndrome (the “s” in Aids) has been changed over the years. Originally, […]
The United Nations has adopted a harsh policy in an attempt to move people to higher ground Chris McGreal A United Nations strategy of withholding aid from flood-stricken towns and villages in Mozambique in an attempt to pressure residents to move to refugee camps has left thousands of people desperate for clean drinking water and […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF I am not simply returning a compliment when I say that it was somewhat uplifting to see Aggrey Klaaste stand up in St George’s church, Parktown, Johannesburg, last Tuesday afternoon, and deliver a warm and honest tribute to the late Jim Bailey. It was a particularly striking gesture because […]
“Didn’t it evoke any laughter?” – Barney Pityana to Claudia Braude on the Mail & Guardian’s Machiavelli cartoon which she said demonised Thabo Mbeki “I wasn’t looking at that.” – Braude replies “If I had been a journalist I would have embraced a process like this.” – Braude on the Human Rights Commission probe into […]
A six-member delegation from the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) arrived in South Africa on Thursday to evaluate our bid for the 2006 World Cup. The country will be putting on an all-out show to prove to the delegation leader, American lawyer Alan Rothenberg, and his team that we deserve to host the spectacle. […]
BRITISH-BORN supermodel Naomi Campbell jetted into South Africa this week to attend the official launch on Thursday of the new logo and name for the World Motorcycle Grand Prix, Phakisa raceway organisers said. She attended a lunch at the Phakisa hospitality suites tower at Welkom’s Phakisa Freeway with about 400 other invited guests. The first […]