Andrew Muchineripi Soccer A year that began disappointingly for Bafana Bafana with a Castle Cup defeat in Namibia ended triumphantly with victory over African champions Egypt in the Nelson Mandela Inauguration Challenge at FNB Stadium. The scoreline read 2-1 and it could have been 5-1 as Benni McCarthy fluffed a good chance, Thabo Mngomeni had […]

A blind photographer. It sounds like a joke, or a novelty turn. But though Aids has robbed John Dugdale of his sight, he is still producing outstanding work, writes Ben Widdicombe John Dugdale lives in one of New York City’s prettiest streets, a curving brownstone avenue lined with lazy trees and 100-year-old town houses. The […]

Wally Mbhele has been appointed assistant editor at the Mail & Guardian. Mbhele (35), who hails from Bethlehem in the Free State, has been a political correspondent at the M&G since August last year. Trained at The Weekly Mail, he has worked on a number of publications including Vrye Weekblad, New Nation and City Press […]

Phillip Kakaza The morning sun glitters over Mount Mautse in the eastern Free State. Cocks crow from its majestic slopes and the jungle drums telegraph a mystic rhythm. Welcome to the holy mountains, where people since the early 1970s have been going in hundreds to pray to their ancestors and to God. Ideally situated in […]

Blessed with prodigious acting gifts, and an Oscar to prove it, and cursed with a terrible liking for drink – now long overcome – he is one of the great British stars. Gaby Wood on a Welshman who conquered his weaknesses and the world Anthony Hopkins says he’s having the best time of his life […]

Friday night: Shaun de Waal Last Friday the charming Brad Holmes opened his Melville jazz club, the Bassline, in the late afternoon for the Mail & Guardian’s annual Christmas staff party. This was an informal bash – the Mail had only pocket money left after the office-warming of our new building earlier in the year. […]

Inside Out, a new local film, seems to have got it the right way round in terms of financing and filming, writes Andrew Worsdale `This movie marks a turning point in the local industry.” This was the less- than-original prophecy on everybody’s lips at the recent bold and upbeat launch of the new SABC3/ African […]

Sanctions against Burundi are falling away, writes Gregory Mthembu-Salter Sanctions imposed by East African countries against Burundi in the wake of the military coup in July 1996 are nearing their end. Of the six original participants, Kenya, Ethiopia and Zambia abandoned sanctions months ago and the Rwandan government believes their usefulness is over, leaving only […]

political home Chiara Carter The National Party in the Western Cape looks set to lose several key politicians to the Democratic Party. The big prize is former education MEC Martha Olckers, set to leave after first being deposed as a provincial Cabinet minister and now featuring low on the regional lists. A number of other […]

Jim McClellan surfs his way to spirituality on the Web Looking to live up to the proclamations of business experts, who have declared that this Christmas online shopping will cross over to the mainstream (at least in the United States), Net retailers seem to be going all out to exploit the seasonal spirit. However, there […]