Katy Bauer The sale of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Jacaranda, a snip at R70-million, was the bargain of the century. The winning bidders own a station which reaches five provinces and has as many listeners as the far more expensive Gauteng-based Highveld. Radio Jacaranda is stress-free wireless for a huge, fiercely loyal, largely […]

Andreas O’Shea The Mail & Gaurdian has acted as the forum for the beginnings of a much-needed debate on the legitimacy of the process of granting amnesty from criminal and civil liability to those that have carried out gross violations of human rights. The process was challenged by the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) in the […]

Without the appropriate investment incentives, foreign firms will not dash to develop Africa’s oil resources, reports Lynda Loxton Top oil industry representatives at this week’s Africa Upstream conference in Cape Town warned that Africa should not expect an “oil rush” unless African countries did a lot more to provide the kind of investment incentives and […]

Mungo Soggot ACADEMICS and legal professionals this week described Judge Hennie van Heerden as having an exceptional legal mind with an impressive track record on the bench. He has a low profile — several lawyers were unable to offer an opinion of him — but most of those who had had contact with him sung […]

The revelations that Swiss banks accepted Nazi gold show how history has become more a concatenation of symbols than a memory of experience, argues David Cesarani in London One of the intriguing questions arising from the latest “revelations” about the conduct of Swiss banks during and after World War II is why it took so […]

It should be said at the outset that the controversy which has developed over the appointment of South Africa’s chief justice does not involve great issues of principle. It is little more than a petty squabble, essentially over personalities. But it is nevertheless a damaging one for the judiciary. Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of […]

Alasdair Fotheringham explains why Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, is riding in Spain this week against his will MOST Spaniards are loyal first to their family, second to their home town and only considered their country as an afterthought, said the writer and lover of Spain, Gerald Brenan. Had Brenan been […]

The past and present Springbok captains clash when Francois Pienaar’s Transvaal take on Gary Teichmann’s Natal this weekend RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is little left really for Transvaal this season but to pick up the pieces. A win against Natal at King’s Park in Durban this weekend will perhaps keep them in the running for […]

Greg Streak is the first South African artist to win a place in one of the world’s great sculpture schools, reports SUZY BELL AT LAST, a white male South African who doesn’t spend his days whingeing about feeling dislocated, alienated and oh so lonesome in the new South Africa. Instead, Durban artist Greg Streak (25) […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters The question about why there are virtually no photographs of the judges in the Appellate Division has been answered by the librarian at the Rand Supreme Court. She told a reporter that if the media published the judges’ photos, it would be “putting their lives in jeopardy.” She refused to tell […]