Duncan Mackay After years of steady improvement, women’s distance running has finally come of age. When Japan’s Naoko Takahashi set the world marathon record of 2hr 19min 46sec in Berlin on Sunday she achieved a landmark that had long been the holy grail for every female runner. A sub-2hr 20min time had been a target […]
Frank Keating on the great Basil D’Oliveira, who celebrated his 70th birthday this week. Or did he? The one-time enemy of the state has a few times been welcomed back to the new South Africa as prophet and treasure. “Oh sure, they’ve even given me full red-carpet treatment in the Orange Free State,” says Basil […]
So the “small-minded, vacuum-brained anti-American commentators” have been identified by your reader John Valentine as taking up position in your paper (September 21). One of those “morons” happens to be Noam Chomsky, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1972 to 1992 he was cited 7449 times in the Social Science Citation Index. His […]
Barry Streek In a new privatisation move, the government has released draft legislation enabling private companies and equity partners to become involved in South Africa’s strategic petroleum pipelines. The draft Petroleum Pipelines Bill, published in the Government Gazette, provides for the appointment of a Petroleum Pipeline Regulator to regulate the operation of the petrol pipeline […]
channel vision Robert Kirby Strange how our television broadcasters, the moment they know they’ve got a popular programme, like to pig out on commercials. I’ve seen as much as eight minutes of an uninterrupted commercial break before a final rugby match; the inclusion during the match, at about two-minute intervals, of the dreadful squeezebacks so […]
Fred Esbend Shortly after being voted South Africa’s top mayor in a survey by a business magazine, Port Elizabeth mayor Nceba Faku’s reputation has been tarnished by allegations that he misused council funds for his personal ends. The Democratic Alliance this week revealed a staggering R87 000 discretionary fund splurge in the mayor’s discretionary fund. […]
Marianne Merten Seven members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) staged a lunchtime escape from the Cape High Court on Thursday but four, including alleged hitman Ebrahim Jenneker, were rearrested within 90 minutes . The Mail & Guardian has reliably learned that this is the second time Jenneker tried to escape from custody. Last […]
Mail & Guardian reporter A new organisation has been formed in response to criticism and concerns regarding credit bureaus, which blacklist creditors who have not settled their accounts with retailers. The Credit Bureau Forum (CBF), as the organisation is known, seeks to address problems that consumers encounter with credit bureaus and the concerns of credit […]
DANCE Guy Willoughby Cape Town’s annual contemporary dance festival, the FNB Vita Indaba, held over four chock-a-block days at the Artscape Theatre, offered riveting work, including major new ensemble pieces by Tossie van Tonder, Christopher Kindo and Vincent Mantsoe, among others Standards were uneven the selection process needs to be re-examined closely but in general […]
The ruling elite may have missed out on lessons in reasoning NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe It is difficult to look back at my schooling with fond memories. How could I, when the philosophical grounding of education was to ensure that schools were conducted in such a way that “the natives will be taught from […]