Gaye Davis THE media are in danger of becoming unwelcome guests in Parliament. Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala has ordered an inquiry into the justification for the R1-million paid out by taxpayers each year to accommodate journalists in its precincts. Attempts by the Mail & Guardian to get a copy of the report on the investigation, […]
Mark Tran in New York Billionaires from the tiger economies of the Far East are gaining on Bill Gates, chairman of software giant Microsoft, and Warren Buffett, America’s super investor, as the world’s richest individuals. While Gates and Buffett are still lording it for the second year running in Forbes magazine’s 10th annual ranking of […]
Philippa Garson PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s gentle but persistent finger-wagging at student organisations has met with reluctant nods in some quarters and outright rejection of the “Madiba magic” in others. But his moves have clearly signalled that the romantic liaison between the African National Congress and its campus foot soldiers is coming to an end. The […]
The legal fraternity has come together to analyse the validity of the new Constitution. Mungo Soggot reports ON the second floor of a new office block at No 33 Hoof Street in Braamfontein four big video screens are watched by a clutch of dedicated smokers. Inside the smokeless but stuffy room next door the closed- […]
David Beresford President Nelson Mandela’s tendency to “shoot from the hip” on foreign policy matters — a trait which is the despair of diplomats, but admired by others as straight talking — was on display again this week when he panned the British prime minister on the eve of his state visit to the United […]
Andrew Wilson WOZA ALBERT 15 years on? If it was Brecht, there would be no question: the German’s works had sufficient form and structure to carry them decades into the future — something the loose, informal construction of Woza Albert doesn’t have. Brecht is offered to students as an example of didactic, political theatre; commentary […]
Vietnam, with its frequent changes in policy and bureaucratic rule, has left investors confused and wary. Nicholas Cumming-Bruce reports from Hanoi An 18-storey hotel, soaring above a jumble of low- rise Hanoi houses and construction sites, is a landmark to the rapid changes rattling this once- sleepy capital of faded colonial villas and lakes. Foreign […]
Eddie Koch Senior Department of Trade and Industry officials have come under fire from the European Union (EU) for refusing to endorse a ban on the movement of toxic waste to developing nations because South Africa can treat and recycle hazardous materials. This is despite repeated statements that the Cabinet is opposed to the international […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift Boy Louw said it best. “Looks for the scoreboards” was his superbly unique and ungrammatical reply to criticism of how the Spingboks played. So it should be with the 43-18 scoreline from this week’s test against Fiji at Loftus Versfeld. This was not an inspired perfomance. But it was a winning one, […]
Prospects of a large church congress in Zimbabwe has given impetus to the gay rights movement, writes Iden Wetherell in Harare ZIMBABWE’s embattled gay community, the target of an abusive campaign last year by President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwean church leaders, is bracing for another confrontation with the same opponents. A proposal by international Protestant […]