Between the volatile rand and the transformation process, Timothy Thahane has had a busy first year as deputy governor, he tells Madeleine Wackernagel From a personal point of view, Timothy Thahane is very happy to be back in South Africa. Work, on the other hand, has been a bit more hectic, he says with a […]

A silicosis victim’s opponent has asked the court to pay him compensation, reports Rehana Rossouw A DYING man’s five-year fight for compensation ended in Cape Town this week after his opponent stood up in court to deliberately testify in his favour. Western Cape Department of Labour director Brian Williams turned a routine Workmen’s Compensation Commission […]

Peta Thornycroft THE Transvaal attorney general’s office is putting the finishing touches to the case against several police generals who will be arrested and charged in the middle of next month. General “Krappies” Engelbrecht is finally going to be brought to court three years after he was forced to leave the police service, following Judge […]

Marion Edmunds TRUTH and Reconciliation Commission revelations about National Party leader FW De Klerk could cost him a major award from internationally renowned Yale University, in the United States. The university’s law school has been planning to award De Klerk the Harper Memorial Fellowship for distinguished public service to the South African community. Losing the […]

The submission to the truth commission by Independent Newspapers is a litany of failure, argues Anton Harber INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS has conceded that the company has much to be embarrassed about in its history. In its report to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, written by ex- editor John Patten, the country’s largest newspaper group writes that […]

an early start Mail & Guardian Reporters MANY people were surprised when Carel du Plessis was appointed the new Springbok coach this week. With little previous coaching experience and the British Lions tour looming, Du Plessis has been thrown in at the deep end after the sudden departure of the disgraced Andre Markgraaf. The new […]

Suzy Bell A young black child strokes the lilac long nails of “Aurora the Raver”, marvelling at the sight of a flamboyant marionette on exhibition. With purple spiral curls, rainbow coloured eyelashes, bellybutton and nose resplendent with shiny silver rings, it’s no wonder Winnie Mandela (marionette) couldn’t quite compete. In this joint exhibition of KwaZulu-Natal […]

The M&G’s guest writer this week, Boetie Damane, revisited the `Jozi’ of hope, sorrow and fear he knew as a child BACK in 1966, when I was 12, I was a street child in Hillbrow. We slept by the waterfall on the corner of Catherine Street and Saratoga Avenue. Also in scrapyards. Trees provided a […]

Emma Lindsey savours the sweaty spectacle of an ancient game of strength and skill that is no pastime for bored old fatties IF YOU thought tug-of-war was a pub pastime for a bunch of bored fatties, you’d be wrong. The 10 nations gathered for the fourth world closed indoor championship at the Torbay Leisure Centre […]

John Arlidge in Edinburgh THE pioneering British scientist who created the first clone of an adult animal – a lamb named Dolly, created from a sheep – admitted this week that the technique could be applied to humans. Dr Ian Wilmut said a human embryo, produced using the same methods, could be used to treat […]