RUGBY Grant Shimmin inWellington One of the more dramatic ironies of the rugby year is that the team that finished bottom of the Tri-Nations log is the only one still to have the same national coach it started the year with. Then again, South Africa don’t have that many potential Bok coaches left to hire […]
As the rand collapses and global recession threatens South Africa, the Mail & Guardian has invited leading economic thinkers to explain what these recent, sudden changes in our economic environment mean and what we can do about them. Despite the writers’ diverse backgrounds, there is agreement that a major rethink of the government’s economic strategy […]
SENIOR African National Congress officials will meet their counterparts from the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”The objectives of the meeting will be the sharing of information about the current developments in Angola, including the peace process, the impact of the ongoing war in the country, and in […]
SANDILE Nthsakala, editor of the Swazi Observer was killed in Mbuleni near Manzini on the early hours of Monday morning after working through the Monday edition of newspaper. Nthsakala who has been the editor of the Swazi Observer for about 4 months was visiting a friend and was in the company of a colleague Bongani […]
THE Cape Town unicity’s rules committee is expected to make a finding on Friday on whether the city’s mayor, Peter Marais, breached any councillors’ code of conduct. Marais has been put on special leave pending the outcome of a probe into a street naming saga which backfired on him and deputy mayor Belinda Walker has […]
RWANDA’S parliament has approved a new law governing the press which provides for expulsions, jail terms and even capital sentences for infringers. The 101-article law, approved by parliament on September 28, is now before the constitutional court to make sure there are no inconsistencies with the constitution, according to Dominique Mwemayire, the director of parliamentary […]
SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations has pledged South Africa’s continued co-operation with the United States over the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Dumisani Khumalo, told the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday that intelligence agencies would pass on any concrete information to their US counterparts. In the […]
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Excluding HIV-positive pupils from school is unlawful and unconstitutional, Minister of Education Kader Asmal has said.
Beryl Bainbridge, the eternal Booker prize bridesmaid, was last week snubbed for a sixth time when her novel failed at the penultimate hurdle for Britain’s greatest literary prize, writes Fiachra Gibbons.