Though fairly new to South Africa, the eco-village concept has been around for about 70 years, reports Jacqui Pile James Shepard is a man with a plan. As an ecologist working at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre in Roodepoort, he has dreams of turning most of the centre’s 18ha of land into a working example of how […]

posters Paul Kirk During the June election Amichand Rajbansi’s Minority Front unleashed a secret weapon on Durban: a king-size poster. Now Rajbansi has to pay the price. Durban has strict by-laws relating to the placement of election posters. No posters can be placed on traffic signs, no more than one poster can be erected on […]

By Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape Department of Health, its hospital care services threatened with financial collapse within five years by an overload of Aids patients and its budget facing over-expenditure of R225- million this year as it struggles with a near billion-rand shortfall, went public this week on plans to rationalise state hospitals and […]

The Mail & Guardian apologises to its readers in the Northern Province who did not receive a copy of the November 5 to 11 edition of the newspaper. Unfortunately, the guide and driver of Allied Distibutors were involved in motor vehicle accident en route to Pietersburg, from where the M&G was to be distributed. The […]

Barry Streek Despite pending gun control legislation, more than one million applications for firearm licences have been approved in the democratic South Africa, “but the rate of stolen” firearms is lower this year than the previous two years. This was revealed by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete when he replied to a question […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD I’ve come to the conclusion that having kids drives you a bit mad. I realized this when a friend in New York called to tell me that Nasdaq, the United States’s electronic share trading exchange, is going to set up shop in Europe and wants to create a strategy for 24-hour […]

eleven Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION Malcolm Marshall was an icon. He was comfortably the best bowler of the Eighties and Nineties. His peer influence in Natal brought through such players as Shaun Pollock and Lance Klusener. His death is a tragedy for all who played with him, against him and who watched him. My […]

Much of government is hidden, with many officials inaccessible and unknown except to people within their own ministries and departments. Particularly because of the recent large turnover in the director generals of most departments, it has become even more difficult to establish which officials are influential. Many of these advisers have only been appointed since […]

They wear Orange sashes, they go on Orange marches – and they’re based in Ghana. Chris McGreal meets the Protestants who don’t have a problem with Catholics Divine Fred Gregorio-de Souza – Most Worshipful Brother and former Grand Master – popped the question almost immediately after telling me to call him Fred. “Do you lean […]

what in the ministries Presidency President: Thabo Mbeki Deputy president: Jacob Zuma Minister: Essop Pahad Advisers to Mbeki: Mojanku Gumbi (legal), Titus Mafolo (political), Vusi Mavimbela (security and intelligence – on his way to head the National Intelligence Agency [NIA]), Moss Ngoasheng (economic), Charles Nqakula (parliamentary) Advisers to Zuma: John Jeffrey (parliamentary), Jabulani Mzaliya (special) […]