Mail & Guardian Reporter AN attorney who achieved his long-held ambition to appear in the supreme court has laid defamation charges against a judge who criticised him for wearing a light-grey suit. Robert Chalom, an attorney who practices in the Johannesburg suburb of Bruma, told the Mail & Guardian this week he had laid the […]

Shaun de Waal FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS by Andrew Collins (Michael Joseph, R149,95) MAGI: IN SEARCH OF A SECRET TRADITION by Adrian G Gilbert (Bloomsbury, R149,95) THE TOMB OF GOD by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger (Little, Brown, R139,95) A TEST OF TIME by David Rohl (Arrow, R139,95) THE kind of books that used […]

Ann Eveleth THE “mysterious” exclusion of a prominent Nigerian from the search for a new English department head has divided academic staff at the University of Zululand. African literature specialist Professor Ramanas Egudu is lauded by his supporters at Unizulu as a “world-renowned scholar and expert on African poetry and oral traditions”. He was one […]

1976 Cabinet minutes quote Jimmy Kruger urging his colleagues to back shootings. Mungo Soggot and Stuart Hess report CABINET notebooks from 1976 reveal murder was official National Party policy, with the recommendation from the then minister of justice, police and prisons, Jimmy Kruger, that the police kill more people in the wake of the Soweto […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy After 17 years of broadcasting, Capital Radio will go off the air at exactly 6pm this Friday. Established in December 1979, Capital, based in Durban, has been an issue of debate between the telecommunications ministry and the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) for eight months. Fifty employees will lose their jobs after months of […]

IVY MATSEPE-CASABURRI might want to ask herself whether she wants to be made premier of the Free State in the current circumstances – when she is getting the job because of the dismissal of a highly respected politician who won the post through the normal democratic procedures. But, if she still does want the job, […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki’s Task Group on Government Communications (Comtask) this week tabled a hard-hitting report challenging government to revamp its internal communications departments, making them more flexible and less bureaucratic. It also recommends that the government funds the SABC and Channel Africa, the external service which carries news from across Africa in […]

A London office, standing empty for two years, is hardly a luxury the SABC can afford, writes Marion Edmunds THE South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is paying 216 000 annually – more than R1,7-million at the current exchange rate – for its broadcasting office in London, half of which has been standing empty for about […]

Rehana Rossouw DEPUTY Environment Affairs and Tourism Minister Peter Mokaba’s bid for the leadership of the African National Congress in the Northern Province will be discussed by a high-level ANC National Executive Committee delegation (NEC) to the province this weekend. This week Mokaba confirmed that he was available for the position of ANC Northern Province […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE impression created of South Africa in foreign countries is not as flattering as it should be because missions based abroad are being “seriously hampered” in their attempts to promote the country, said a Task Group on Government Communications (Comtask) report handed this week to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. South Africa needs to […]