Ann Eveleth FIVE years, five months and two inquests after assassins snuffed out the lives of Vusi Ngcobo and Bonokhwakhe Gasa, at least 17 other victims of the same attack have descended into abject poverty, with a combined income of less than R200 per month. Ngcobo’s frail elderly mother Khonzaphi suffered two bullet wounds in […]
Jakes Gerwel, the Director General of the President’s Office, is the intellectual, erudite and politically savvy former rector of the University of the Western Cape. He was apparently Mandela’s first choice for Education Minister, but turned it down, insisting he did not want a life in either politics or the civil service. He now has […]
Access to a good education for all remains a crucial issue on the political agenda. Karen MacGregor looks at the battles that lie ahead A bold new approach to financing and organising South African schools is likely to be proposed by the government’s new review committee on school funding and The committee’s crucial task is […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift NOW this country has its one rugby side. And that side — or as many as Kitch Christie can substitute against Natal this Saturday — has one game. There are two schools of thought about what promises to be as hotly-contested an encounter as the President’s XV match against Western Province was […]
THERE is something both sad and courageous about Bert’s Buskers, a Johannesburg skiffle band that contains six of the oldest musicians in the country. Sad because, in the case of their eldest member, 81-year-old spoon-player Gunner Burns, time is getting on; courageous because, despite their age — the average is seventysomething — their capacity for […]
A programme focused on illegal immigrants won an Artes award for investigative journalism this week for Weekly Mail Television producer Harriet Gavshon, and Nicolaas Hofmeyr, who directed the episode. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday was flighted in the Ordinary People series. The programme showed police raids in restaurants and hotels; the deportation of an illegal immigrant; and, […]
DR ALLAN Boesak’s embattled FPJ suffered huge losses in a $40-million bungled bank loan that lead to the doorstep of Indonesia’s President.
Justin Pearce Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been given a humiliating thumbs-down by the business community. In a survey published today, top South African business executives have rated Buthelezi a miserable 3,8 out of 10 – – even lower than The Weekly Mail & Guardian’s own “report- card” in which he scraped through […]
Gerald Combrinck ORLANDO Pirates take the ever growing reputation of South African soccer a step further this weekend when they travel to Nigeria to face BCC Lions in an African Champions Cup second round first leg game. To say that Pirates will be stepping into the “lion’s den” is an understatement, because there is no […]
The Arts and Culture Task Group’s report casts new light on the Biennale, writes Ivor Powell IS there anything left to say about Johannesburg’s Africus Biennale? It happened; there was a lot of good art to be seen, but more that was indifferent or bad. Sixty-three countries participated, along with a sizeable number of South […]