Marion Edmunds AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS members of Parliament have threatened a parliamentary inquiry into the party’s appointment of consultants if Deloittes and Touche win a R1-million contract for the transformation of the Correctional Services Department. This contract, should it go to Deloittes and Touche, may be the last straw on the camel’s back for many […]
Glynnis O’Hara spen a few hours behind bars – observing art projects intended to help prisoners find a creative outlet `I USED to be ashamed of my crime [kidnapping, possession of firearms and explosives],” says a prisoner in Diepkloof’s Medium C section. “Not any more. I’ve learned to forgive myself. I was an angry person, […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter LAWYERS with a bent for gambling might be unhappy to hear that the waiting will not be over after the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has publicly interviewed judges Ismail Mahomed and Hennie van Heerden for the post of chief justice. The questioning of the two judges in Cape Town this week […]
Shaun de Waal HAVING frequently been the butt of criticism – especially in these pages – due to the organisation of its categories, the CNALiterary Award has been reorganised. South Africa’s longest-running national literary prize used to have only two categories: English and Afrikaans. Within them, highbrow fiction sometimes fought it out with yachting manuals […]
TELEVISION: Charl Blignaut WHEN MTV, the ever-burgeoning 24-hour music channel unleashed their cartoon slacker brats Beavis and Butthead on an unsuspecting US audience, little did they know that the two braindead greaseheads would end up eating Bart Simpson – shorts, ratings and all. Serving as VJs (video jocks: those who introduce music videos on TV) […]
Mungo Soggot DID the man who killed a reveller at a party thrown by soccer celebrity Doctor Khumalo really study criminology, sociology, psychology and Zulu at the University of Zululand? This was the question that vexed lawyers this week as they debated the sentence to be imposed on Sipho Tshabalala who rocked the cream of […]
Rehana Roussow THE African National Congress’s Western Cape provincial conference last weekend failed to provide a blueprint for victory for the party in the 1999 elections. Delegates who had hoped their organisation’s biennial conference would provide a solution for its inability to attract coloured voters left dissatisfied as not one resolution on the thorny issue […]
Against a background of pink gins and turbans, cricket in Kenya is gaining in popularity with all population groups CRICKET:Neil Manthorp IT is well known that Africa is a continent as full of contradictions as a pomegranate is of pips, but that does not make the four- nations tournament currently under way in Nairobi any […]
The ANC is making sure more than ever before that its MPs toe the party line. Gaye Davis reports AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS members of Parliament are expressing growing concern with the organisation’s leadership style, citing mismanagement of crises, a consolidation of central authority and a clampdown on internal dissent. The Mail & Guardian has interviewed […]
The smaller unions have taken some humiliating beatings this season and these lopsided clashes aren’t good for spectators or players RUGBY:Jon Swift AT the heart of every sporting endeavour is the contest. Without this vital ingredient the game itself ceases to be a spectacle, fails to hold the hearts and minds of the followers and […]