Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer With South Africa qualifying automatically for the 1998 African Nations Cup in Burkina Faso as title holders, the biennial competition has tended to slip from the minds of the local football public. While 28 national teams fought for the honour of competing in the African showcase, Bafana Bafana could afford to […]
Ferial Haffajee Did you know that Sissy Boy jeans are a local range? Kevin Aspoas, the managing director of the Jupiter Drawing Room, claims a mark of their successful shocker ad campaigns is that many people regard the brand as international although it is homespun. Theres nothing blue about the business of jeans. Potential profits […]
Greg Bowes: Desert Storm rave Just past the gate to Verneuk Pan is a sign that reads No Mans Land. After spending a bewildering afternoon in the scorching heat there, one begins to understand why. The extreme weather provided most of the talking points at this years Desert Storm party and can be blamed for […]
branches Wally Mbhele Despite Mathole Motshekgas conciliatory statements after he won the African National Congress Gauteng chair, a provincial conference early next year could result in a wholesale purge of ANC provincial executive members. Motshekga, who spoke to the Mail & Guardian this week amid new speculation that heads would roll, does not believe relationships […]
The days when the likes of Wilbur Smith and Stephen King ruled the book shelves in public libraries are over. So says June Moshoeshoe, the director for Provincial Library, Information and Archives Services in the Eastern Cape. Our focus is on education and development, she says. The recreational side of our libraries has to take […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM THE World Bank will heavily promote regional integration with maximum private-sector involvement in Southern Africa during the coming year, Bank officials said in Washington on Tuesday. Country director for SA Pamela Cox, after a meeting of country directors and resident repesentatives of 12 Southern African countries, said regional integration is less advanced in […]
Swapna Prabhakaran A simple plan to build a museum on the land around the ruins of President Nelson Mandelas old school has mushroomed into an R80-million scheme involving six architectural firms and a series of elaborate structures. Mandelas primary school in the Eastern Cape consisted of two rondavels and a hut in Qunu, a tiny […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Dancer Colin Myburgh may have been planning to murder the director of the Johannesburg Dance Theatre, Grayham Davies, when he stabbed and killed colleague Paula Preller in a fit of rage as she tried to stop him, it emerged this week. Colleagues say that Myburgh, who had recently been involved in […]
Janet Smith : Design of the week Port Elizabeths got one. Cape Towns got one. Pietersburgs got one. And Joburgs got three. Nine more are planned nationwide and by the end of the Christmas holidays, the YoTV Mural Project will have made an impact in strategic areas like no other South African childrens branding campaign […]
damages Numsa is instituting a civil claim against Jay Naidoo and Sydney Mufamadi for the alleged interception of union cheques, writes Sechaba kaNkosi The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) is to institute a civil claim against Minister of Communications Jay Naidoo, and his counterpart, Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi, for damages the union […]