SO when is it not wet and windy in Cape Town? I was about to abandon myself to the elements and head for the nearest Battery 9 gig when a pair of headlights split the night. I straighten out. My thumb, by now used to its role as travel agent, upright. The car slows down […]

Simon Hattenstone talked to Joe Menell and angus Gibson, the men who made the extraordinary filem Mandela, now on circuit. DO you believe film-makers can change the world? Jo Menell: Definitely. If not change the world, at least wake people up, give them something to think about. Angus Gibson: I’m not sure films change the […]

Despite numerous setbacks, the TNDT is making steady headway, reports Madeleine Wackernagel WHEN Eric Molobi, chairman of the Kagiso Trust Investment Company, took on the task of running the Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT), even this veteran of the struggle was not prepared for the battle ahead. Delays in setting up the trust and frustrations […]

David Beresford NELSON MANDELA’S pledge to uncover the “truth” of the 1986 Samora Machel air crash highlights the unsatisfactory outcome of the Margo Commission of Inquiry which blamed the tragedy on pilot error. The inquiry was flawed by the refusal of the Mozambican and Russian governments to exercise their right of representation as well as […]

Accusations are flying over the actions of a minority shareholder in the Perskor arbitration, writes Max Gebhardt DEEP within the stack of legal documents presented to former judge Mervyn King, for arbitration in the multi-million rand acquisition of Kagiso Publishers by Perskor, are a number of affidavits outlining alleged attempts to “greenmail” Rand Merchant Bank […]

This week’s Khotso House revelations catapault Archbishop Tutu’s Truth Commission Into confrontation with PW Botha. By Mail & Guardian reporters GOVERNMENT law advisers are searching for precedents to establish whether PW Botha could face a jail term if he defies a subpoena to testify before the truth commission. President Mandela’s office is already bracing itself […]

THIS might be seen as the week of the killers as victims. The amnesty committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been hearing five former members of the security branch confess to atrocities they carried out during the apartheid era. And SABC has been broadcasting a two-part documentary on the life story of Eugene […]

Glynis O’Hara `EVERYONE thinks Australia has been conquered, but it hasn’t been conquered. It’s only 200 years ago that the white man came. They think they did it, but they didn’t. The roots of this country are just starting to speak.” The person talking is Mandawuy Yunupingu, leader of Yothu Yindi, the Aboriginal group that’s […]

Battle-scarred Zuma has some strong support in her Health Ministry’s latest war, reports Stefaans Brmmer HEALTH Minister Nkosazana Zuma may have a reputation for tilting at windmills, but for once her opponent – the fabulously powerful tobacco lobby – may have met its match. Zuma is backed by a strong body of international opinion and […]

Sedentary occupations may still be classified as low risk, but the growing reality is that more and more people are cracking up, reports Anne Montague in London WORK is a dangerous business. Every year, millions of people suffer ill health that is directly caused by, or made worse by, their jobs. And although hazardous occupations […]