Judith Watt THE son of super-surgeon Dr Chris Barnard and a member of the Meerlust wine dynasty are to join Boss Models’s top overseas operation, swelling the ranks of the blue- blooded and beautiful strutting on world catwalks. Chris Barnard, who joined Boss Models’s Cape Town business last year, is to fly to New York […]
The exposure of alleged ANC spy Sifiso Nkabinde highlights the nature of the tension between George Fivaz and Sydney Mufamadi, write Mail & Guardian Reporters THE public spat between Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi and national Police Commissioner George Fivaz is the culmination of old tensions around police inability to deliver in the face […]
Peta Thornycroft THINUS VAN DER MERWE (31), a policeman for 13 years, was killed in a shoot-out under moulting jacaranda trees in Kensington, Johannesburg, just after lunch on Monday. If it had been in the Gauteng school term, he would have died at more or less the same time as suburban buses bump along the […]
`SCIENCE has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster, or of unlimited progress,” said Winston Churchill. We now know what he means, courtesy of Professor Barry Komisaruk. The professor and his team of researchers at Rutgers University in the United States this week announced the discovery of a chemical in the body which […]
Witnesses testified in court this week that a senior children’s home official sexually abused several children in his charge, reports Stuart Hess A FORMER house parent at one of the country’s most respected children’s homes appeared in court this week on charges that he raped and abused five children in his care. James Arthur Frazer […]
Hazel Friedman ART will soon stop playing the role of Oliver Twist to the public and private sector’s Mr Beadle. This is the prophesy of Dr Chris Mann, convenor of what could well be a landmark international conference on the economic benefits of arts and culture in South Africa. A project of the Grahamstown Foundation […]
Potential bidders may think again before taking on SAA’s losses, now set to top R400-million, writes Ferial Haffajee SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) may now be up for grabs, but potential bidders are likely to baulk at the extent of its losses – now tipped to top R400-million in 1996-97. The disappointing prognosis comes at a […]
Documents found in the wrecked car of Internal Security head Leonard Radu led to the identification of two KwaZulu-Natal warlords as alleged agents, reports Ann Eveleth THE spy scandal which erupted this week also implicates Inkatha Freedom Party warlord David Ntombela. The Mail & Guardian has established that the evidence which led the African National […]
gore Special writer Ruaridh Nicoll spends 12 hours in the hell halls of Baragwanath Hospital Friday 6.48pm T HE night-porter waits. Lounging in a wheelchair, he watches as the darkness begins to strangle the eve-ning’s flaring sun. At his feet, pools of water from earlier rain stand in the hollows while the tools of his […]
Andrew Worsdale IN an impassioned oral presentation to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), members of the newly formed Independent Producer’s Organisation discussed the viable options for a new “free-to-air” channel. The organisation responded to the IBA’s discussion paper on the channel, honing in on local content and independent production, programming contributions, language, employment equity and […]