Mark Tran in New York Boxing Almost 20 years after Muhammad Ali retired from boxing, another Ali is poised to enter the ring, perhaps as soon as this summer. She is Laila Ali, his youngest daughter. Laila Ali, aged 21, trains at the Los Angeles Boxing Gym, turning up every night for sparring practice. One […]
The battlefield of the real banking war has shifted to the corridors of Parliament. Howard Barrell reports The major banks, stung by perceptions that they don’t care about customers and charge as much as they can get away with for their services, begin hawking a new draft banking code of conduct around consumer groups this […]
Chiara Carter A snap parliamentary debate is likely to be called by the African National Congress next week in a move to defuse the row over claims that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was involved in transporting explosives and did not pass crucial information on to police. Government sources said the debate was likely to […]
The Mail & Guardian cover price will increase to R5,00 this week. This 11% increase has been made necessary due to increasing costs. The subscription price of the paper will remain at the current level of R3,50 a copy, and home deliveries are available in most metropolitan areas. The paper continues to be a leader […]
Friday night Bongani Madondo Feeling kinda bluesy as I scribble this piece. As one African slave-descended poet, Langston Hughes, once inked, “Feeling bluesy should not be confused with feeling down”. Feeling bluesy is feeling emotionally enchanted in that you’re closer to your ancestors than anyone around you. And that is how I am feeling today. […]
reality Philippa Garson:CLASS STRUGGLE When a country’s legislative and policy framework is totally at odds with the reality on the ground, sober mutterings about anarchy and “meltdown” begin. Compared with the mayhem in some of the disintegrating, war-ravaged countries to the north, it would appear South Africa has nothing to worry about in this regard. […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week The opening scene of Todd Solondz’s Happiness, which deservedly won the International Critics Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is just an indication of what’s to come in this devastatingly brilliant, unsettlingly mordant mix of comedy and tragedy. In a simple shot that lasts about three minutes, the […]
A SENIOR Mozambican Muslim leader has been arrested in Maputo for alleged involvement in trading human body parts, police said on Friday. A police spokesperson said Maulana Mahomed Chafique was arrested this week as he was due to receive a human head he allegedly ordered from two young men. The men were apprehended with the […]
Suren Pillay I came to the University of the Western Cape in the late 1980s, at the tail-end of the post-1985 generation of school-leavers. Fresh from this experience, infused with dewy-eyed Marxism, it seemed a natural progression. If an alternative society was being built, then the seeds of it were being nurtured at “the home […]
Records are made to be broken -some just break more easily than others, reports Neil Manthorp in Auckland Animal rights activists will be happy with calls to ban any repeat of the heartbreak pitch on which South Africa’s bowlers toiled in the first Test at Eden Park. Glue, after all, is made from boiled cow […]