Thabo Mohlala Although there is no cure for Aids yet, many people who are HIV positive advise that speaking out and accepting one’s status is in itself a prophylaxis. It not only has a therapeutic effect so the theory goes but also prepares one to deal with emotional stress and stigma. More significantly, it enables […]

Frances Kinghorn The commemoration of International Day of Disabled Persons this year will be bitter-sweet when the Disabled People of South Africa (DPSA) present a memorandum on disability grants to Deputy President Jacob Zuma in Port Elizabeth on Monday. The memorandum is expected to express concern over government expenditure on social grants for people with […]

David Hopps in Jaipur England’s tour of India looked in real danger of cancellation after Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the Indian cricket board, angrily refused to recognise the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) deadline of noon on Friday, Calcutta time, for confirmation that India’s suspended batsman Virender Sehwag will not play in next week’s first Test […]

Constitutional Court president Arthur Chaskalson, South Africa’s new Chief Justice, spoke to Mungo Soggot this week Mail & Guardian: What do you see as your main challenges now that you will be presiding over the entire judicial system as opposed to just the Constitutional Court? Arthur Chaskalson: I don’t think it’s a question of presiding […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The African National Congress’s biggest alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), has vowed to intensify its criticism of the government’s controversial arms procurement. Two week ago the government was given the green light to forge ahead with its multibillion-rand arms procurement after a multi-agency probe by the […]

The Airports Company is reeling from several security-related controversies Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The chair of the Airports Company of South Africa, prominent businessman Mashudu Ramano, was briefly held this week for questioning on suspicion of having fake citizenship documents. His arrest is the latest in a series of debilitating events to strike the South […]

comment Julia Beffon The United Cricket Board’s decision to side with India in the row with the International Cricket Council (ICC) over match referee Mike Denness has been condemned as ill-advised and mercenary by those who believe cricket is somehow separate from the modern world. These are the same people, however, who would have no […]

England exposed South Africa’s lack of ambition Andy Capostagno in Houston When the Springboks arrived at George Bush International Airport on Sunday they were detained for three hours while each member of the squad was asked, as a precaution against the spread of foot-and-mouth, to identify his luggage and remove all the mud from the […]

Barry Streek The arms deal investigators Auditor General Shauket Fakie, Public Protector Selby Baqwa and National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka will face six parliamentary committees in public next week in the climax to Parliament’s hearings on the arms deal report. The chairperson of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Gavin Woods, said […]

Belinda Beresford December 1 is World Aids Day, when red ribbons will be sported worldwide, speeches and promises made and learned research released and debated. Heart-rending stories of the dyingand those they leave behind, indignant news items about the high cost of drugs, and hand-wringing about the failure to change human behaviour push Aids to […]