In which NATHAN ZENO gets to grips with the rarefied world of Cape Town models and their photographers 1. A picture … (in which Nathan tries to understand the reality of being a fashion photographer in South Africa) It’s not so much that the standard of fashion photography in South Africa is bad, it’s just […]

Zambia’s president is moving from controversy to controversy, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has suspended a distinguished high court Judge, Kabazo Chanda, who has a history of criticising the president and the country’s poor human rights record. Chiluba has refused to disclose reasons for the suspension. According to Article 98 Section […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter THE legal profession is set to be subjected to a special investigation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission later this year. The commission’s head of research, Charles Villa-Vicencio, has confirmed it is planning to hold a special hearing into the legal system under apartheid. At the hearing it would invite submissions […]

AMONG all the miniscule creatures that live around us, invisible to the human eye, is a strange, rod-shaped bacterium called Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. It does not cause disease, cannot pollute the environment and is happiest in an extremely acidic environment where it can “eat” the minerals in rock. It is these creatures (and their relatives) that […]

Certain TV programmes directed at children have provoked outrage from the public. Gillian Farquhar reports RECENT complaints lodged with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) have once again raised the controversial issue of who or what dictates the parameters of programme content for child viewers. Some of the most serious complaints received by […]

plan Mungo Soggot THE SABC has temporarily frozen plans to drop the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) because the corporation’s actions apparently breach key sections of the new Labour Relations Act. Radio chief Govin Reddy admitted this week he had erred in his execution of the decision. He confirmed the SABC had not taken legal advice […]

Justin Arenstein DISSENT over the Mpumalanga Parks Board’s (MPB) decision to place its prime nature reserves in the hands of the shadowy Dubai- based Dolphin Group deepened this week with the resignation of one of the provincial parks board’s most influential members. John Hanks, who is also executive director of Worldwide Fund for Nature South […]

Imaginative alternatives are needed to deal with poverty, argues Jeremy Baskin. And he has a particularly bold one to offer UNEMPLOYMENT and poverty are arguably the biggest challenges facing South Africa. And yet there is a startling paucity of ideas on how to tackle them. Certainly there are lots of specific ideas that could make […]

Angella Johnson REPORTED incidents of rape in Johannesburg went up 64% in the last half of 1996 compared with the previous year, according to police figures which were due to be published this week but have been witheld by National Police Commissioner George Fivaz. The report, which was obtained by the Mail & Guardian, and […]