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 […]
Pride in environmental awareness is what drives a school in northern KwaZulu-Natal, writes Niki Moore It’s a school in the forest the indigenous Dukuduku Forest on the verge of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. The school is called Ubuhle bemvelo (the beauty of nature) to reflect its location within a World Heritage Site. The […]
Jaspreet Kindra Tensions between Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu and Fish Mahlalela have spilled over in an extraordinary Constitutional Court challenge by the premier to his former MEC. The case highlights deepening conflict between the executive and the legislature in the province. Now an ordinary MPL, Mahlalela was removed as local government MEC by Mahlangu in […]
Phone calls from space, or through your fridge, are possible through a new telephone technology, writes David Shapshak Making history as an astronaut seems par for the course, but American astronaut Marsha Ivins took a giant leap for mankind earlier this year by making the first phone call in space. In February Ivins had a […]
Barry Streek The Cape Town City Council’s rules committee is meeting today and is expected to clear suspended mayor Peter Marais, allowing him to be reinstated by Monday. Should Marais be reinstated in this manner, major conflict within the ruling Democratic Alliance is likely to burst out into the open and could eventually lead to […]
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 […]
SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo The Mother City should brace itself for one of its biggest soccer days in living memory as the Coca-Cola Cup double-header descends on the quiet suburb of Newlands on Sunday. The biggest teams in the country, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, will take on two of the city’s biggest clubs, Hellenic and […]
Marianne Merten African National Congress MP James Ngculu has emerged as a potential challenger to Ebrahim Rasool for the position of Western Cape party chairperson. Ngculu, a former provincial secretary of the party, has the backing of the ANC Youth League to unseat Rasool at the party’s provincial conference. The league has a small minority […]
Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni theorised that the only people interested in the scrapping of exchange control are those who intend packing for Perth (September 28). I trust a man of his obvious intelligence was in a good mood and speaking lightly. My question to academic economists: has exchange control cost South Africa, as a […]