Space is the place: From a locally made satellite to an interview with an American astronaut and a book on the Hubble telescope. Lesley Cowling reports THE object that will be South Africa’s first satellite to circle the earth is, at first sight, unimpressive. It’s a blueish box with a metal ring on one side […]

Telford Vice IN SEARCH OF WILL CARLING: AN EPIC JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA TO THE RUGBY WORLD CUP by Charles Jacoby (Simon & Schuster, R90) RUGGER-BUGGERS who buy this book before spotting the subtitle may believe they are getting 343 pages of Rugby World Cup 1995 as distilled through the pen of an erudite Englishman. The […]

Glynis O’Hara WHILE prisons may no longer accuse people with artistic ideas of being “pansies”, and open their doors to a range of creativity projects, they most certainly do not want to pay for them. “We’ve been forced to shut down,” says Gary Friedman of Puppets In Prison. “We’ve worked for the past seven months […]

John Hooper in Rome ITALY’S most celebrated dramatist, Dario Fo, has been left partially blind by a stroke, he revealed in an interview published last week. For several months he had also had problems with his speech and memory. In July 1995, Fo called off a tour of Europe. At the time, he was reported […]

Aspasia Karras A REPRESENTATIVE piece at the current Hong Kong Biennale art show is a small pile of Chairman Mao Zedong’s little red book. In the context of threats and statements from Beijing to prevent future marches in Hong Kong, it presents a critical counterpoint to the generally upbeat approach most Hong Kong citizens appear […]

A student’s refusal to pray has highlighted religious and racial discrimination at Stellenbosch, writes Marion Edmunds A PETITE 21-year-old Stellenbosch University student says she has been repeatedly heckled, abused and imtimidated by fellow residence students because she refuses to pray after meals. Lawyers’ letters are flying between the student, Yvonne Malan, and student leaders of […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki comes in for a scathing attack in Bantu Holomisa’s court challenge against his expulsion from the African National Congress. Holomisa says in his affidavit served on the African National Congress this week that he had cleared his Truth and Reconciliation Commission submission with President Nelson Mandela, who […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter APPELLATE Division Judge Joos Hefer, the champion of apartheid emergency legislation who called on Ismail Mahomed to withdraw from the race for chief justice, now has some unlikely spiritual allies across the Atlantic. They are the black activists who tried, but failed, to prevent Margaret Marshall, a South African-born lawyer, from […]

Cooking the books may prove less than lucrative in the future if auditing groups have their way, reports Andy Duffy CORPORATE South Africa’s often cavalier attitude to financial reporting can mislead investors and deter foreign interest, according to the firms which check companies’ accounts. Though most of the companies’ accounting ploys are legitimate, they can […]