Elliot Josephs talks to Rehana Rossouw about his struggle to launch a satirical magazine A CAPE Town author and artist is bringing a legal claim for damages against the Argus, owned by Independent Newspapers, after it refused to print his satirical magazine. Elliot Josephs, who describes himself as an “artist- cum-entrepreneur”, says his right to […]
Mungo Soggot SASOL, the synthetic fuel giant, this week took a regional magistrate to court for ordering it to hand to an inquest documents relating to a mining accident in 1993 which killed 53 workers. The magistrate, Mike Jungbluth, presided over the inquest which started in 1993 and was frozen pending the outcome of this […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter IN the wake of Desmond Tutu’s call for apartheid judges to come clean, the search for dubious judgments has unearthed an extraordinary case involving a clerk articled to Nelson Mandela and the late Oliver Tambo. The clerk was charged with contempt of court after sitting in the white lawyers’ seats in […]
Beeld’s new editor, Johan de Wet, will not bow to politics, but claims he will be led by the news, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy He is not arrogant, but soft-spoken, seemingly quite laid-back. As a senior managing director from a rival publishing house put it: “He was never a gutsy type of journalist; nor is he […]
Islamic Unity Convention, in The Mark Gevisser Profile The Imam of the Flats AN hour before the faithful and the outraged are to gather at Vygieskraal Stadium in Athlone, I sit, in a small apartment somewhere on the Cape Flats, with one of the new footsoldiers of the revolution: a man who has discovered meaning […]
Mungo Soggot A TOP Johannesburg accountant has hit the public purse jackpot, earning what appears to be the highest salary in the government sector — as much as R88 000 a month, considerably more than President Nelson Mandela takes home. A spokesman for the Department of Finance confirmed this week that Charles Stride, who was […]
Repeal, not reform, is the essence of the new Bill, writes Martin Woollacott The 18th-century British literary figure Dr Samuel Johnson said: “A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.” Where, then, does United States civilisation stand after President Bill Clinton’s assent to a Welfare Bill that will cut entitlement to […]
potential Police ignored more than 30 intelligence reports about Pagad’s potential for violence and had been monitoring the organisation for six months before gang leader Rashaad Staggie was murdered. Police intelligence began monitoring People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) in March, after members of the organisation invaded Justice Minister Dullah Omar’s home in an attempt […]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has warned the ANC of further repercussions concerning its involvement with Sol Kerzner. Gaye Davis reports AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has warned the ANC of “further bruising” concerning Sol Kerzner’s relationship with the organisation in a letter to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Axed deputy minister of environment affairs Bantu […]
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is hot property. ADRIAN SEARLE test drives his new show at the ICA in London THERE is a lift stalled in the middle of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London’s upper gallery. The light is on inside and the doors are open: Going Up? But wait, there’s something wrong here. […]