Vivek Chaudhary in London The British Queen, thought to be one of the world’s richest women, could increase her income sixfold under proposals to scrap money given to the royal family by the government, in return for money generated from property owned by the family. The proposal is one of five under consideration that would […]
Stefaans BrUmmer THE Department of Correctional Services this week started an investigation into former security police captain and convicted murderer Michael Bellingan’s “walkabout” outside prison in May. Bellingan, who is serving a 25-year sentence at Diepkloof Prison, near Soweto, was allegedly seen in Johannesburg’s plush Killarney Mall, in civilian clothes, on May 14. He killed […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter JUDGE Edwin Cameron was hauled into the spotlight in the Pretoria Supreme Court last week when one of his brothers, Judge Pierre Roux, took the unusual step of needling him and his recent landmark defamation judgment. While judges delight in torpedoing each other’s judgments, they rarely gun for each other’s personalities […]
Mark Milner in London British Aerospace (BAe) and Lagardere are no doubt right to claim that their decision to combine missile businesses reflects the changing nature of defence procurement in Europe. Nor is Europe the only place where the defence industry is being redefined. Look no further than the emergence, through merger, of United States […]
Stefaans Brummer reports on the mystery surrounding the Project Coast chemical weapons programme PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, this week backed Defence Force Chief General Georg Meiring in his battle to keep details of South Africa’s apartheid-era chemical weapons programme from the public. Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday had […]
Duncan Mackay on the quick question that is giving athletics a touch of the twitches after Atlanta HIS feet speak as eloquently as those of Michael Johnson or Carl Lewis, and he has a treasure trove of gold and a world record to prove it. But Donovan Bailey’s Olympic accomplishments in the 100m have been […]
A classic of African cinema gets big-screen release in SA for the first time this week. Director Djibril Diop Mambety speaks to ANDREW WORSDALE THE celebrated rebel of African cinema, Djibril Diop Mambety (see pic) says it’s the mission of film to make people think — through laughter. He is an eccentric visionary, a poet […]
The players are doing their best against a formidable All Black side, it’s the leadership at the top that isn’t performing RUGBY: Jon Swift WE South Africans have a disturbing habit of closing our eyes to problems and hoping they will go away. Perhaps this ostrich-like behaviour is a consequence of having to live behind […]
A cultural battle is taking place at Potch University, where white student leaders are resisting any change to language policy, writes Max Gebhardt Afrikaans-medium universities are living on borrowed time. The South African Student Congress (Sasco) this week placed Afrikaans tertiary institutions firmly in the firing line after last weeks clashes at the University of […]
Ann Eveleth THE KwaZulu-Natal offshoot of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) is a politically conservative shadow of its Cape-based mother body, with mainly National Party supporters rallying around calls to confront homosexuals at gay bars and “deal forcibly” with doctors performing abortions. Led by a Muslim activist, a Hindu priest and a Christian pastor, […]