John Campbell The idea that each individual owns and controls his or her property lies at the very foundation of most (perhaps, all) societies. However useful the concept is at an ideological level, it is a notion that is increasingly less appropriate to describe property rights as the 20th century advances into the 21st. One […]
The Mail & Guardian cleaned up at South Africa’s first Science and Technology Journalism Awards presented in Pretoria last weekend. The newspaper walked off with the overall prize as well as winning both national newspaper categories. The strength of the M&G’s science and technology coverage was demonstrated in the features category, where it provided not […]
Ivor Powell Faced with recent opinion polls which suggest it could lose its KwaZulu-Natal heartland to the African National Congress in the June elections, the Inkatha Freedom Party is pursuing a double strategy. On one hand, its election manifesto makes it clear the IFP is looking to promote itself as a national party – rather […]
The education ministry has requested forensic audits into the financial affairs of six black universities, writes Evidence wa ka Ngobeni With black universities on the brink of collapse, the Ministry of Education has said that criminal charges will be laid against university managers if they are found to have abused taxpayers’ money. This follows Minister […]
Ian Clayton South Africa’s poorest provinces have the most civil servants, it was revealed in Parliament this week. There are more civil servants in the Northern Province – 119 465 – than there are in Gauteng – 112 851 – although Gauteng has 2,4-million more residents. The Northern Province has 25 civil servants for every […]
Howard Barrell Unita rebels have taken delivery of new weapons which enable them to attack Angola’s offshore oil rigs and bombard the nation’s capital, Luanda, according to unconfirmed intelligence reports. The rebels now have three Russian-built MI 25 Hind helicopters, with another seven on delivery. They have also recently obtained more than 20 Russian-built unguided […]
Bafana Khumalo Sergeant Sibusiso Gwala left his army base at Thabatshwane in Pretoria in August 1997 to rush to KwaZulu-Natal when he heard his father, African National Congress leader Harry Gwala, had died. “This was a blood relative and it was important for me to be there,” he explained this week, expressing bitterness that attending […]
A newspaper report that half of the low- cost houses already built by order of the government are substandard seems to have been inaccurate. Charlene Smith reports Every three minutes and 10 seconds a new Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)house is erected in Gauteng – and the government has enacted tough legislation to ensure that […]
Vanessa Farr : CROSSFIRE I was perplexed and frustrated, not to mention angered, by Cameron Duodu’s ”Viagra’s here, so let the clit be” (March 12 to 18). What a contradictory article this is: ostensibly, Duodu is attempting to express his support for International Women’s Day, an event which, he grudgingly admits, ”does have its serious […]
NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital […]