Neil Manthorp Planning was something that South Africa’s cricket teams weren’t able to do in the past because they had no experience of what they were planning for. It was like packing for a weekend trip to the moon – should you take sandwiches? Does it get cold in the evenings? This time, with three […]
Khadija Magardie The leading United States television news network, ABC, has drafted advertisements for the South African press seeking patients who were part of Dr Werner Bezwoda’s discredited clinical trials into breast cancer treatment. The advert calls on women who were part of Bezwoda’s breast cancer trials at Johannesburg hospital to come forward to tell […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Surging oil prices – which may push the cost of petrol to more than R3 a litre by April – have come as an overdue reminder to industrialised countries of just how dependent their economies still are on a single source of energy. And, more to the point, how little they […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Television is a wonderful invention – it finds it hard to lie. So we have all been witnesses to the paltry efforts of the so-called “international community” to save the people of Mozambique from the incredible deluges of water that have threatened to drown thousands of them with every […]
David Gow Forget the gearstick and bewildering array of switches and buttons you have scarcely mastered before buying a new model. The car of the future will come with a single joystick to activate Web-based data services; it will even talk to you and tell you where to go. Within 10 years at most, the […]
The controversial lawyer who has helped steer the HRC’s media probe kept a low profile at the hearings this week Jaspreet Kindra Christine Qunta, the prominent Cape Town attorney, wore several caps at the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) hearings into racism in the media this week. Not only has she been identified as […]
Philippa Garson CLASS STRUGGLE It is one thing to appoint think-tanks and talk-shops to assess the pros and cons of government policy. It is quite another to stop the relentless march of bureaucracy. A case in point is the implementation of Curriculum 2005. Although Minister of Education Kader Asmal took the wise step of appointing […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The vast majority of clinicians the world over reject the view that HIV and Aids are not causally linked and that Aids does not exist. The National Institutes of Health in the United States, drawing on research from around the world, issued a rebuttal of the dissident view. This rebuttal has […]
Greg Bowes PREVIEW OFTHEWEEK As if the banging breakbeats of Cut La Roc and Aphrodite weren’t enough, this month you can catch a staggering assortment of international DJs at two not-to-be-missed Gauteng events. The first of these is the Select party at Carfax on Friday March 10. Backed by the French Institute, this is the […]
show Alan Henry Although Formula One Holdings will require a professional management board when it is floated as a public company, the administration of grand prix racing has always responded to a powerful individual touch. These are some of the names that have been mentioned as possible members of the board. Luca di Montezemolo: The […]