Mail & Guardian reporter=20 POLICE have dropped charges against a man who half blew =20 himself up while attempting to blast open an auto-=20 teller machine, because it was too expensive to pay his =20 stay at a Johannesburg private hospital.=20 The man, a Mr Brits, was admitted to the hospital on =20 Monday last […]

Questions are being asked about the viability of the =20 Cape Town Olympic Bid Company’s budget, presented =20 to Cabinet this week, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 THE green light for South Africa’s Olympic dream shone =20 faintly this week when Cabinet decided to support the =20 preparations for the 2004 Games, but warning lights =20 flashed […]

Meshack Mabogoane Prospects for major commercial property developments in emerging markets, or black areas, could increase dramatically once black local government has been legimitised. A morass of technical hurdles, such as identifying owners of land and registration of title deeds, still remains to be cleared up. So, too, does the role of numerous community development […]

The only change in the IFP’s new draft constitution for =20 KwaZulu-Natal is that ‘state’ has been changed to =20 ‘kingdom’, writes Ann Eveleth=20 KWAZULU-NATAL’S constitutional process is going around =20 in circles, if the draft constitution tabled this week =20 by the Inkatha Freedom Party is anything to go by.=20 Far from reflecting progress […]

Ann Eveleth=20 KWAZULU-NATAL Safety and Security MEC Celani Mtetwa — =20 named this week as a former paid police agent and gun =20 runner — is no stranger to the third force spotlight.=20 Allegations linking the former KwaZulu homeland justice =20 minister to gunrunning and to the notorious C10 =20 Vlakplaas security police unit first […]

Rowan Callaghan The membership of the Catering, Restaurant and Tearoom Association (Catra) may have changed over the last 76 years but the organisation still plays an integral part in issues facing members. The employee organisation was formed in the “good old days” when the genteel citizens of Johannesburg frequented tea-rooms and the more risque could […]

Pik Botha could be among those questioned by British =20 police when they arrive in South Africa to investigate =20 the bombing of ANC House, writes Marion Edmunds=20 BRITISH police will travel to South Africa next month =20 to question witnesses and suspects — including =20 “master” spy Craig Williamson — in the 1982 bombing […]

Lynda Loxton The South African wine industry is flourishing. Exports are booming and heavy rains in the Cape hold out promise of a good crop. The only fly in the ointment remains the antiquated system through which KWV continues to dominate the price farmers get for their wine. Distillers Corporation chairman Boetie van Zyl was […]

Mamphela Ramphele has trod a path from black =20 conciousness activist in the 1970s to the top of the =20 academic and corporate world in the 1990s. She is =20 tipped as the next vice-chancellor of the University of =20 Cape Town, sits on the board of Anglo American and =20 helps run the Nelson […]