Mungo Soggot SOUTH AFRICA has experienced a massive surge in non-mineral export volumes matched only by the Asian tigers, says Mike Schssler, an economist at stockbroker EW Balderson. Schssler says latest Portnet figures show a 33% increase in the volume of exports that left the port of Durban last year. The port handles a wide […]
president IT is usual for newspapers, in the name of free speech, to excoriate those who resort to the laws of libel. But there are grounds for regret among the most freedom-loving of journalists that the case of De Klerk v Mokaba is unlikely to be heard, at least in relation to the African National […]
Susannah Frankel in Paris CALL it fin de sicle confusion if you will, but something, in fashion at least, is rotten. There was a cynicism underlying many of the so-called high points of the Paris autumn/winter ready-to-wear collections that made for uncomfortable viewing. Increased media attendance meant even fewer real clothes and more bare-faced sensationalism […]
Huge losses in revenue to pirates have goaded the music industry into constructive action, reports Glynis O’Hara IN China, eight people were executed last year for music piracy. “Just like that,” says Mike Snow, drawing a line across his throat with his finger. The trouble is, they weren’t the big guys. And, according to overseas […]
The IFP has dictated to the new provincial premier whom to appoint to his Cabinet, reports Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi appears to have blocked attempts by KwaZulu-Natal’s newly elected Premier Ben Ngubane to appoint a provincial Cabinet without his approval. IFP parliamentarians told the Mail & Guardian this week Ngubane -sworn […]
A high court judgment sends the wrong message to police torturers and their victims, argues `Serjeant at the Bar’ A JUDGE in the Johannesburg High Court has refused to make a special order for costs against the minister of safety and security and two others in connection with an incident of police torture at the […]
THE march of Laurent Kabila and his spirited rebel army through the jungles of Zaire is less a war story than a tale of disintegration. If he had transport, Kabila would be in Kinshasa already, if there were roads. The difficult part only begins when he gets to the capital, when the euphoric crowds that […]
done RUGBY: Jon Swift IT was, in the light of hindsight, perhaps too much to expect that this country could hold two World Cups simultaneously. The Fijians, certainly, were not going to allow that to happen and duly donned the sevens crown with a handsome, come-from-behind 24- 21 victory over South Africa in the final […]
Adam Haupt in Cape Town HIP-HOP subculture is alive and kicking in Cape Town. Spots such as Angels, in Green Point, represent the tip of the hip-hop iceberg here. While devotees gather there ever so often to do their thing, the culture doesn’t stop with rap, but graffiti art has been taken to dizzy heights […]
Stephen Gray THE latest number of the six-monthly English in Africa shows a change of policy. Instead of the usual miscellany of learned articles, most of it is devoted to printing primary material that would not otherwise be available to the general reader. This is the very raw material, before the biographer gets to it. […]