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 […]

The Angella Johnson Interview They call her the bible puncher. Late- night Johannesburg revellers dragging their weary bodies home know they are likely to get a sermon if they end up in the back of Cathy Dermedgotlous taxi. At least you know youll get home safely, says one regular. Yes, but how safe is a […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer For decades the Tricolors and the Springboks have hunted an oval ball in the struggle for rugby supremacy. Now it is the turn of those highly paid gentlemen who prefer the round ball. The friendly on Saturday evening at Stade Felix Bollaert in the north-east city of Lens marks the first […]

Vusi Mahlasela has just released his new album. He spoke to Glynis OHara Had a hard day? A hard week? In fact, a revolting month and an indescribable year? Well, you could always drown your sorrows in music, in this case in the minor-key, the healing, caressing notes of Vusi Mahlasela. As Peter Falk said […]

Allegations of corruption at the University of Zululand are misleading, writes Professor CRM Dlamini In the Mail & Guardian of August 1 to 7 1997 allegations of corruption were made against the University of Zululand. Although the headline was Concern over campus corruption, the truth of the matter is that these were mere allegations, and […]

Mercedes Sayagues Poor Agostinho Neto. The first president of independent Angola, who died on his birthday on September 17 1979, cannot rest in peace. When Angola recently commemorated his death declared National Heroes Day Netos widow, Maria Eugenia, phoned into a popular radio talk show called Book of Complaints at Luandas radio LAC. She complained […]

Mungo Soggot The jurists who select South Africas judges were happy to show their admiration for Judge Edwin Cameron this week as he effortlessly cruised through his interview for a position in the Constitutional Court. Well, it seems that you were so devastating in your replies that it was a technical knock out, said the […]

Chris Opperman and Peta Thornycroft A former journalist has made a sworn statement saying the South African government had propaganda plans to prepare the public for the sudden death of Mozambican president Samora Machel a year before his plane crashed into a hill just inside South Africa in 1986. The man is believed to be […]