Foreign views, foreign standards, foreign players. Ruud Gullit has brought all three to English football, and everyone loves him for it SOCCER: Brian Alexander THE pundits got it wrong before the European Championship. When asked who would emerge as the stars of the tournament, they trotted out names like Suker, Kluivert, Zidane and Boban. But […]
Philippa Garson OVERSEAS donors are still investing in higher education, despite fears that the escalation of violent protest and crime on campuses would scare them off. The executive director of the Tertiary Education Fund of South Africa, Roy Jackson, said he would be “very surprised” if the campus turmoil “didn’t cause a great deal of […]
M&G Crime Correspondent Angella Johnson, who spent 10 years working on papers like The Guardian, London Times and Los Angeles Times, finds herself at loggerheads with the SAPS `Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as […]
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 […]