The debates (and fears) around Africanism often turn on a misreading of the term, writes Charlene Smith AFRICANIST remains a dirty word among those who are not a darker shade of chocolate. But, and here the pigmentally challenged need to take note, a new African consciousness (the new terminology) is becoming a hallmark of the […]
A businessman wanted in Germany for tax evasion says he gave money to the ANC because `he was interested in politics’, writes Gustav Thiel A GERMAN citizen who allegedly owes his government R500-million in tax arrears and is fighting his extradition from South Africa claims he has contributed more than R100 000 to the African […]
A new strain of TB may signal potential disaster for 10 000 buffalo in the Kruger National Park, writes Ellen Bartlett SOUTH AFRICA, already facing the worst human tuberculosis epidemic in the world, is now confronting a new TB threat. Mycobacterium bovis, the strain commonly known as bovine TB, is sweeping the buffalo population in […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM DE BEERS and the National Union of Mineworkers have signed a historic two-year wage deal, the mining industry’s first, giving workers a 9,7% increase this year, and an inflation-linked rise next year. After earlier deadlock between the parties, the agreement was facilitated by Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration senior commissioner Attie van […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM GAYE DERBY-LEWIS, the wife of fomer Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, has complained to the Truth and Reconciliation of “gross contempt of court” during her husband’s recent amnesty hearing. Derby-Lewis, whose amnesty hearing was postponed until next month, is serving a life sentence together with Polish immigrant Janusz Walus for the murder in […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM NORTHERN Province director-general John Malatji rresigned on Friday morning following the release of the Semenya commission report that found the provincial government had squandered at least R10-million on the irregular purchase of office buildings. The Semenya commission was appointed by Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi last year to investigate claims of irregularities in government procurement […]
AS part of the Mail & Guardian’s continued efforts to provide our readers with the best newspaper reading in South Africa, from this week we add to and welcome back some of the top voices in journalism in the country. Robert Kirby joins the team with Loose Cannon, a humorous column itching to take on […]
intervention Gustav Thiel THE outgoing chief censor, Dr Braam Coetzee, believes censorship is about to end in South Africa. The new law enacted last year embodies the principles of democracy and will make the public the guardians of morality, he says. Turning his 17 years as a censor on its head, Coetzee now says he […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM SEVEN senior Johannesburg detectives, including the notorious former head of the Brixton Murder and Robbery squad, Superintendent Charlie Landman, on Friday quit the police to join private security firm Khulani Springbok Patrols. A KSP spokesman and police spokesman Inspector Mark Reynolds confirmed that Landman, three captains from his former unit and three inspectors […]
Andrew Worsdale SO what if you’re a concerned parent who goes out one night and leaves your eight- year-old plugged into cyberspace? Is the child going to be exposed to all the variegations of sins of the flesh and/or revolutionary subversion? If the child is naturally curious, all he has to do is call up […]