Aspasia Karras A REPRESENTATIVE piece at the current Hong Kong Biennale art show is a small pile of Chairman Mao Zedong’s little red book. In the context of threats and statements from Beijing to prevent future marches in Hong Kong, it presents a critical counterpoint to the generally upbeat approach most Hong Kong citizens appear […]

A student’s refusal to pray has highlighted religious and racial discrimination at Stellenbosch, writes Marion Edmunds A PETITE 21-year-old Stellenbosch University student says she has been repeatedly heckled, abused and imtimidated by fellow residence students because she refuses to pray after meals. Lawyers’ letters are flying between the student, Yvonne Malan, and student leaders of […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki comes in for a scathing attack in Bantu Holomisa’s court challenge against his expulsion from the African National Congress. Holomisa says in his affidavit served on the African National Congress this week that he had cleared his Truth and Reconciliation Commission submission with President Nelson Mandela, who […]

Mail & Guardian Reporter APPELLATE Division Judge Joos Hefer, the champion of apartheid emergency legislation who called on Ismail Mahomed to withdraw from the race for chief justice, now has some unlikely spiritual allies across the Atlantic. They are the black activists who tried, but failed, to prevent Margaret Marshall, a South African-born lawyer, from […]

Cooking the books may prove less than lucrative in the future if auditing groups have their way, reports Andy Duffy CORPORATE South Africa’s often cavalier attitude to financial reporting can mislead investors and deter foreign interest, according to the firms which check companies’ accounts. Though most of the companies’ accounting ploys are legitimate, they can […]

Max Gebhardt AS the rand continued plummeting this week, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said the proper response to the currency’s woes lay in the steady implementation of the government’s macro-economic strategy. The market didn’t agree with him, with many traders blaming the rand’s spiral on a lack of a coherent policy. The rand notched […]

As India struggle to find form, the whole South African team has contributed to a great winning percentage CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar ‘CAN India stop the SA juggernaut?” intoned the local daily newspaper in Rajkot on the day before South Africa’s third game against the host nation before the visitors’ penultimate match in the round-robin phase […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift Defeat on the Springbok tour that gets under way this week could be disastrous for Andre Markgraaff’s ‘vision’ AMID the emotional storm which has raged around the Springbok touring squad, the dissatisfaction about financial packages for the players and the rank idiocy of the nutters of the game issuing death threats to […]

confessions Behind Johan van der Merwe’s brief confession at the truth commission this week lies a last-ditch effort by the amnesty applicants to escape prosecution, writes Eddie Koch SOME city hall staff had to drag in a metal table from the kitchen so that all the lawyers in the house could be properly accommodated. Long-awaited […]