prisons Chief casualties of the conflict between the correctional services minister and ANC MP Carl Niehaus are prisoners, prison staff and prison reform, reports Gaye Davis AMID signs that South Africa’s jails are lurching further into crisis, President Nelson Mandela is yet again to intervene to bring together the Inkatha Freedom Party minister and the […]
The Mail & Guardian has received exclusive documents detailing IBA salary packages. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports Chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Saci Macozoma, emphatically denied this week that a gravy train existed at the Independent Broadcasting Authority. He said his committee would not be drawn into the salary issue and would not get involved […]
Dr Nkosazana Zuma, Minister of Health, in The Mark Gevisser Profile There’s a lesson Nkosazana Zuma learnt from the African National Congress training manuals when she was an operative that she continues to apply, now that she is in Cabinet: “If you sell your people out by giving in to the enemy, the enemy will […]
industry If drastic action is not taken soon, the textile industry may face irreversible damage, writes Karen Harverson South Africa’s R8,8-billion textile industry is trying hard to get its house in order before trade barriers come tumbling down and it is faced with international competition. Already, a government programme, implemented last September, is phasing down […]
David Beresford In the final adjournment on Tuesday in the case of Mandela vs Mandela — waiting for the Judge President of the Transvaal, Judge Frikkie Eloff, to deliver the by-now inevitable decree of divorce — the state president sat slumped in his chair, gazing into the middle distance. Gone was his bonhomie with the […]
Natal have bounced back from a hiding by Northern Transvaal and are playing sparkling rugby just in time for their tough Super 12 tour Down Under RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is, in the current vernacular, a phrase which opines that whatever goes round comes round. It is one of those seemingly inane bits of homespun […]
CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale JON AMIEL, the British director of Sommersby and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, turns away from romanticism to manipulative horror in Copycat, a very nasty thriller that seems to gloat over the violence the story deals with. Sigourney Weaver plays criminal psychologist Helen Hudson, an expert on serial killers, who gets involved […]
Bafana Khumalo Whitey didn’t know what hit him. One minute he was walking down the crowded early evening street and the next, bang! The film of alcohol in his eyes, which made the piss-smelling streets seem as safe as Disneyland, rudely cleared. A film which made the redlined people around him seem as friendly as […]
Annicia Reddiar When basketball player and rapper Shaquille O’Niel tells us that Pepsi is the “choice of the new generation”, and Natural Born Killers Juliette Lewis look-alike pulls on a pair of Levi’s in a public toilet, the common denominator is not only memorable advertisements. It also shows that we are worthy of being courted. […]
If one goes back to the Dennis Davis article in this newspaper — which led to the furious counter-attack from Human Rights Commission head Barney Pityana, and this week’s impassioned television debate — it is striking how mild his criticism was. Davis lamented the commission’s “lack of profile” and the appointment of its members. He […]