Andrew Spencer : Golf There is little doubt in the minds of those at the Japanese motor company who have stacked their yen behind the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth this weekend that the man to bring their event out of the doldrums and back into golfs big league is Ernie Els. This Friday, the […]

Hazel Friedman People dont understand the role of curator, particularly the intellectual role, says Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian- born New-York-based critic and curator, now artistic director of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale. The curator today is not an administrator as in previous years. He or she is more critically engaged with the subject matter, more willing […]

Maria McCloy Last week a Johannesburg bus was used for more than just transporting people around town, but was instead transformed into a new type of interactive advertising campaign. As the open-top bus bedecked with balloons wound through Johannesburgs streets, teenagers danced to Skeem and ODa Meesta who played the latest kwaito and RnB sounds […]

Roy Collins : Soccer Jamaicas footballers, says Robbie Earle, have become the countrys biggest cult heroes since the bobsleigh team implausibly qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Instead of careering down a mountain Jamaicas football team are just as implausibly attempting to climb one. Their goal: to become the first Caribbean side to […]

With government finances under pressure, the ANC is looking for ways to shift the debt burden, write Mungo Soggot and Madeleine Wackernagel The African National Congress has recruited consultants to find a way round the mounting public debt problem in a bid to free up government finances. Professor Peter le Roux of the University of […]

Nigeria Guinness Ohazuruike The first day of October marked 37 years since Nigeria gained independence from Britain. Of this, the military has been in power for a cumulative period of 28 years. And at present Nigeria is still suffering under the burden of military dictatorship which annulled the June 12 1993 presidential election, reputed to […]

Marion Edmunds One of the staunchest supporters of the principles underlying Minister of Health Nkosazana Zumas controversial medical Bills has crossed swords with the minister over her bid for more power. The Medical Control Council (MCC) chair, Professor Peter Folb, is to petition ANC parliamentarians on Monday to oppose Zuma, her director general Olive Shisana […]

Wally Mbhele The African National Congress should radically change its national executive committee (NEC) to accommodate more than double the number of current officials, Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Peter Mokaba will propose to its December conference. In the discussion document on leadership that he prepared for the conference, Mokaba calls for the […]

prisoners Tangeni Amupadhi A team of prison guards charged with beating and robbing inmates in three Western Cape jails this year could go free because their superiors refuse to discipline them. The task team members trained to contain riots and identify weapons and explosives allegedly assaulted prisoners during raids on Pollsmoor Prison in May, Voorberg […]

Mail & Guardian reporters The arts void on the box could soon be filled. SABC3, which recently axed all its arts programming in line with cost-cutting, is looking for a replacement. The quality channel will today begin sifting through proposals from independent producers punting for the new programme. This is the first time that the […]