Mail & Guardian Reporter THE white, male edifice of the South African judiciary sustained another blow this week with the announcement of three new women judges. The three, attorney Kathy Satchwell, Geraldine Borchers, SC, and Vivian Niles-Duner, will bring to seven the number of women on the Bench. They will join the small club which […]

South African Koto Bolofo has been picking up awards on the international festival circuit, so why have we never heard of him? Dinah Arnott finds out `SOME 30 years ago, a history teacher was accused of communist infiltration: a quotation from Karl Marx had been found in one of his text books. This was criminal […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is 49 and still conquering. Undaunted, ANDREW WORSDALE tackles his new film, Eraser AS a child growing up in Graz, Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger was encouraged by his father to become a soccer player. Soon enough, however, the teenager discovered that his true passion was weight-lifting. Five years later, at the already bulging age […]

Kevin Mitchell says Atlanta’s juggernaut has left the Olympic caravan in need of urgent repair for Sydney 2000 and finds a growing belief that it can only move ahead with confidence if Juan Antonio Samaranch is ousted TO STUTTER and then triumph, as Michael Johnson did, surely defines the resilience and the brilliance of the […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy Labour Party leader Tony Blair is expected to address the Commonwealth’s biennial conference to be held in South Africa in October. Chairperson of the organising committee and Cape Times editor Moegsien Williams says the conference is significant as it is the first time since South Africa walked out of the Commonwealth in the […]

Duncan Mackay AS THEY approached the bend in the 200m final, the leaders were even making their differences seem mere matters of style. Frankie Fredericks, the Namibian who finished second in the 100m five days earlier, ran so tall and long that Michael Johnson, with his lower knees and shorter gait, looked like a trotter […]

The Kerzner/Holomisa imbroglio gives ground for concern about the thin fabric of our still-fragile society. The issue of corruption, while troubling, is not the most worrying factor. It is rather the effect a succession of these sorts of rows is having on the character of the ruling party. South Africa has much to be grateful […]

In contrast to The Felicia Mabuza-Suttle Show, Dali Tambo’s People of the South is regarded as an entertaining talk show which does not dwell on politics and is more “light-hearted”, says television analyst Don Seokane. People of the South’s ratings are highest among Afrikaans-speaking audiences, pulling in 11ARs. According to Seokane, People of the South […]

Although the business confidence index has dropped significantly, Sacob believes the longer-term outlook is positive, writes Madeleine Wackernagel The sharp reversal in the business confidence index for July came as no surprise, says Dr Ben van Rensburg, chief economist of the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), which compiles the monthly measure. “Inflation, interest rates […]

To become globally competitive, South Africa’s marketers have to be innovative, argues Hunt Lascaris TBWA director Paul Bannister The poor state of the rand is a reminder of the strength of incoming competition. Foreign competition’s marketing budgets are more powerful as they are backed by a much stronger dollar. Marketing budgets for global brands targeting […]