Capetonian Nathan Zeno doesn’t recognise the seasons by the weather. He relies on esoteric signals THE Cape Town of summer is not the same as the Cape Town of winter. This may seem obvious to those who don’t live here. Otherwise we would be besieged all year by all of you. But it’s not just […]

King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palaces cost a fortune to maintain, but what, asks Ann Eveleth, is to be done? KING Goodwill Zwelithini’s financial affairs appear likely to come under close r scrutiny in coming months as the Inkatha Freedom Party tightens the screws i n a renewed effort to bring the monarch to heel. Efforts by […]

Greg Bowes It’s a rare pleasure these days to come across electronic music that isn’t bound to the latest dance floor fad or the newest pre-set sounds. In a market thoroughly saturated with soulless imitations of the last hit formula there are fortunately some techno pioneers who see past the music-by-numbers scenario. Because machines like […]

‘I am not made to report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,’ writes A ntjie Krog, who has been reporting on it for months. That job takes an awful toll The word truth makes me uncomfortable.mmmmmnAs recently as last week I had to do several retakes of a voice report for radio, because – after […]

Mungo Soggot THE Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) warned this week the government h ad “no option” but to give the SABC the money it needed to survive. Councillor Lyndal Shope-Malofe said the IBA, which was charged with ensuring t he viability of the public broacaster, had urged Post, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Jay Naidoo several […]

Criminal sanction: Fighting crime is at the forefront of everybody’s minds – s ome do it with thepolice, while some have decided to go it alone Rehana Rossouw Father Christopher Clohesy’s life is filled with contradictions: he’s a white man but lives in destitute Mitchell’s Plain in Cape Town; he’s a supporter of Gun Free […]

While the South African public is seemingly being turned off by the commercial isation of sex, one group remains obsessed by it: the Publications Control Bo ard. The board’s director, Dr Braam Coetzee, and his team of fellow censors have be en busy this year, shoring up the taboos which many believe are responsible in […]

Eddie Koch The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) went into its Christmas recess a fter a one-year performance that was “quite remarkable compared to other truth -seeking processes around the world”, says an international expert. Priscilla Hayner, an international researcher writing a book on truth commiss ions in various parts of the world, says it […]

The Mail & Guardian’s Reporters take a look at some of the people who’ve been in the news – but whose fame has faded Former arts and culture minister Ben Ngubane was plucked out of his efficient national ministry after the Inkatha Freedom Party’s July conference to bolster the party’s provincial stakes. In keeping with […]