Mungo Soggot CRAIG WILLIAMSON, the spy turned media celebrity, was “contemptuous” in his attitude toward the justice system and the truth commission, the Pretoria Supreme Court heard this week. Williamson was appearing in the first round of a case that could become a landmark clash between the truth commission and the justice system. He is […]

TENNIS:Jon Swift IT is well, with the weekend’s Davis Cup World Group tie at Durban’s Westridge Park in view, to keep an eye on the quintessential cornerstone of the Russian psyche – hardship is not a new phenomenon, it is to be both expected and endured. The Russians go into the crucial five-match encounter suffering […]

Glynis O’Hara WHAT do you do when there are two radio stations with substantially the same format, both wanting a slice of the airwaves? Will it be overkill for listeners and too much competition for advertisers? Or should the discipline of the free market be left to sort out who will and who won’t survive? […]

The exhibition at South Africa’s National Gallery in Cape Town offers a spe= ctr um of insights into a troubled decade. JULIA TEAL reports LOOKING at the work presently on display at the South African National Gall= ery , there is an almost tangible sense of the weight that the institution carr= ies as one […]

Jim Day HOSPITALS around the country are having trouble meeting the demand for abortions, largely due to reluctance on the part of staff to take part in the procedure. No one knows the exact number of medical professionals who have declined outright to help with abortions, but Helen Rees, respected director of the Reproductive Health […]

Anthony Egan COLONIAL SOUTH AFRICA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE RACIAL ORDER by Timothy Keegan= =20 (David Philip, R79,95) WAS modern apartheid South Africa the product of the “mineral revolution” o= f g old and diamonds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Or do the roots= go back even further into the Dutch […]

Real stars take drugs, lose their looks and throw tantrums. But ‘Digital Hollywood’ can now make its own stars, writes Pat Kane SCI-FI writer William Gibson, the inventor of the term “cyberspace”, recently brought out a new novel about a digital woman – a computer-generated image – who gains an actual consciousness and wants to […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter THE high drama of former superspy Craig Williamson’s appearance in the Pretoria Supreme Court this week was deflated by a pitiful divorce case. Just before Williamson’s case came up before Deputy Judge President Piet van der Walt, a man sporting a wavy hairstyle uncannily similar to that of former Civil Co-operation […]

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As SAA limbers up for an equity partner there are increasing signs that morale and standards are slipping. Mungo Soggot and Max Gebhardt report ZUKILE Nomvete grudgingly tells the story of how he was saved by rival Sun Air shortly after he assumed his Transnet post of executive director in charge of South African Airlines […]