Eddie Koch Four lions, that were shot dead and skinned illegally=20 by a pastor of the Full Evangelical Church on a farm=20 near Hoedspruit, are at the centre of a growing row=20 over illicit hunting operations by white farmers in the=20 Northern Province. Conservation officials in Phalaborwa told the Mail Guardian they had the pastor, […]

A human rights foreign policy is a laudable ideal, but=20 it leads to a minefield of conflicting priorities,=20 writes Danny Titus ONE cannot but wholeheartedly support the Mail Guardian’s headline last week: “Let human rights lead=20 the way in SA foreign policy”. South Africa is moving towards adding the international=20 element of human rights to […]

Gauteng Finance MEC Jabu Moleketi talks to Aspasia Pragmatic idealist and communist, Jabu Moleketi, Gauteng Finance and Economics MEC is a living contradiction. In the space of a year, he has evolved from an MK soldier and communist party strategist into a convincing economics planner. Moleketi himself does not see an ideological conflict. “I do […]

Shadley Nash Eastern Cape Muslims responding to a call to take up=20 arms against the rebel Serbs in Bosnia are being=20 trained in guerrilla warfare at a secret venue outside=20 Port Elizabeth. Sources have also confirmed that a training ground has=20 been established in Pietermaritzburg and another is=20 expected to be established in Cape Town. […]

Eastern Cape civil servants are fighting against a=20 decision to axe about 7 000 government jobs, reports=20 Steuart Wright A SHOWDOWN is looming between the Eastern Cape=20 government, which is preparing to cut its bloated and=20 inefficient bureaucracy, and the civil servants=20 fighting to retain their posts. The province’s 155 613 civil servants were caught […]

Stefaans BrUmmer IT took the humble platanna frog — well, perhaps a=20 million or more of them — to point out the urgent need=20 for uniform and strong national legislation protecting=20 wildlife resources. While legislation dealing with the ivory and rhino horn=20 trade were jacked up after elephants and rhino became=20 the causes celebre of […]

You’re not going to believe it, but Arts, Science and=20 Culture Director General Roger Jardine, who had penned=20 a prompt answer to our Cabinet Efficiency Test letter,=20 had his car hi-jacked last week — with his reply in=20 it. We await a fresh attempt. The M&G had sent a letter in the name of an […]

The slow pace of change at the Department of Foreign=20 Affairs has prompted Zola Skweyiya to take action,=20 writes Rehana Rossouw MINISTER of Public Service and Administration Dr Zola=20 Skweyiya this week stepped in to overhaul the=20 Department of Foreign Affairs, impatient at the pace of=20 A ministry source said Skweyiya, who met Foreign=20 Affairs […]

The Kunene Brothers are branching out into military hardware. Jim Caredig reports Black business is poised to penetrate the military bastion of the old South Africa. The Mail & Guardian has learnt that Kunene Finance Company (KFC) is to buy a 10 percent stake next week in Grinaker Electronics Limited (GEL). KFC is a wholly […]

There’s too much theory, too little skill on this year’s Martienssen Prize exhibition, argues IVOR POWELL WHAT is to be said about the Wits University fine arts department’s Martienssen Prize Exhibition, which opened this week at the Gertrude Posel Gallery? Just that the most arresting piece on the exhibition in fact isn’t on it at […]