Only one research body managed to avoid a government funding cut, reports Lesley Cowling The Foundation for Research Development (FRD) has been rated top of the science councils for its research support division, and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has ranked last. The ratings, in points out of 10, were determined by a panel […]

There are so many stories to be told on TV. BAFANA KHUMALO looks one of the latest attempts – Flat 27 In the past a lot of us used to talk about the post-apartheid society, a society where – among other things – we would be able to tell our own stories. This would be […]

Eddie Koch MAGGIE Friedman, partner of assassinated academic David Webster and founder member of Khulumani, says her organisation has constantly stated that the full involvement of victims in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is vital for its success. Sylvia Dlomo-Jele, co-founder of Khulumani whose son, Dlomo, went missing in the 1980s, echoes […]

Stuart Hess EXECUTIVE members of the South African Football Association (Safa) are preparing to sack their former boss, Solomon Morewa, after this week’s damning indictment by Judge Benjamin Pickard of financial irregularities in local football. Safa executive members contacted by the Mail & Guardian said they would continue to support Morewa as president while he […]

Charl Blignaut The longest-running theatre project in South Africa, the Market Theatre Laboratory’s Theatresports, staged weekly in Johannesburg, is being videotaped live and will be broadcast as a 13-part series on SABC3 from mid-1997. Following a growing world trend since the late 1970s, the Market introduced the comedy concept in 1991 and it has continued […]

Amid new allegations from air force officers, the defence force responds to reports on racism, writes Rehana Rossouw SOUTH Africa’s black top guns have blasted their commanders, claiming the air force is as racist as the army. Last week, a report in the Mail & Guardian highlighted problems in the integration of the South African […]

Mark Philippoussis Australia Age: 20 World ranking: 29 The right-hander from Melbourne is rated by Boris Becker as the most likely big star of the future – “because he has a few assets the other up-and-coming youngsters do not have. I’m talking about his first serve and his pure strength.” Beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 7-6, […]

Marion Edmunds President Nelson Mandela last year considered sending Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri to Burundi as a special envoy, to dispense advice and represent South Africa in the Great Lakes crisis. Instead, he sent her to a trouble-spot nearer home – to the Free State as premier, to pour oil on the troubled waters there. Matsepe-Casaburri […]

CINEMA: Derek Malcolm Peter Greenaway has never made a less than accomplished film, but nor is he ever likely to make one that’s fully comprehensible at first sight, which is a bit of problem for your average film-goer. The Pillow Book, however, is a distinct advance on his last, The Baby Of Macon, since its […]