Mail & Guardian reporter The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has thrown out a complaint of subliminal racism laid against the Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times newspapers by the Association of Black Accountants and the Black Lawyers Association. The request for an investigation was turned down “because the issue of racism in the media is […]

Angella Johnson : VIEW FROM A BROAD Sophia Jardim was trawling the aisles of her local supermarket, one of her “children” precariously balanced on her hip, when a woman approached and lobbed a gob of spit at her. It was just another in a string of unpleasant attacks this 43-year-old divorcee has had to endure […]

Lauren Shantall A B-grade Barbie-rella babe in a yellow polka dot rubber bikini steps s on to the stage. Armed with a hairdryer-cum-ray gun she begins to blow up a flaccid yellow blob while the soundtrack blares a kooky, surreal mix of Plan Nine From Outer Space meets Mars Attack on an operating table. As […]

It started seven years ago as a university project. Recently its tiny distributor received a huge financial endorsement. Karlin Lillington gets the line on Linux Only six months ago, Linus Torvalds conceded that in the business world, Linux, his trim and robust variation of the popular operating system Unix, was the OS that dared not […]

John Stremlau : A Second Look Democratic gains in this month’s congressional elections should enhance South Africa’s leverage in dealing with the United States on issues of importance to Africa. The unexpected defeat of Republican conservatives has given moderates in both political parties a stronger hand in foreign policy. And this new majority is likely […]

Ferial Haffajee Zwelinzima Vavi is the man who will step into Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Mbhazima Shilowa’s red socks next year. Shilowa, Cosatu president John Gomomo and vice-president Connie September are likely to join a labour throng to Parliament. Vavi, who currently serves as Cosatu’s assistant general secretary, is redder […]

appeasement “The only defence that can be offered is that the issue was intensely debated by the commission, which ultimately succumbed to the fears of those who argued that Buthelezi’s appearance would give him a platform from which to oppose the commission and would stoke the flames of violence in KwaZulu-Natal, as indeed he himself […]

The David Gleason Column Is the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on the verge of becoming more like a First World bourse than one which has the characteristics of an emerging market? Well, it looks that way to me – and, I might add, to more than a handful of investors and analysts. Here is what […]

Sharon Hammond Driving south of Malelane, in Mpumalanga, into a land of sugar cane fields and burnt- out minibus taxis, you enter a world where women own nothing and get little respect or recognition from men. “Even if you work and buy something with your own money, it’s not yours, it’s your husband’s,” explains a […]

Review of the week : Brenda Atkinson Roger van Wyk, all Capetonian cool and soft round vowels and mad professor hair, has had two espressos, and he’s on a roll, his lucid rapid-fire monologue dragging my morning brain into foreign terrain. In Van Wyk’s world, the world of Transmission – his show at the Rembrandt […]