Thousands of people across the country are building their own homes, writes Ferial Haffajee Whizzing south on the Golden Highway out of Johannesburg, newly built houses seem a sad symbol of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. Hundreds of new houses stand like lonely soldiers, watching over a development dream that seems to have gone wrong. […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Four people have been found guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court of robbing National Party MP Abdul Ganie Mohammed of more than R70 000 at the Carousel entertainment complex outside Pretoria in 1995. Andre Pretorius, his wife Vanessa, and two accomplices, Theresa Howard and Jacomina Pretorius, claimed Mohammed tried to solicit […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The South African soccer squad is set for a major forced overhaul ahead of the World Cup warm-up match against three-time champions Germany in Dusseldorf on November 15. Because the friendly clashes with the Rothmans Cup semi-finals, no players from Kaizer Chiefs, Manning Rangers, Orlando Pirates or Sundowns are available for […]

V Roger Prabasarkar : Cricket Like two over-hyped American heavyweight boxers, South Africa and Pakistan snarled and threatened in all the right places and at all the right times before the current Test series began. Now it is as though someone farted at a particularly tense moment during the pre-fight press conference and both fighters, […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: SA BREWERIES is in another spat with its only significant rival in the region, Namibian Breweries, winning a court order in Pretoria to prevent Namibian Breweries from selling its Hofbrau brand in South Africa. SAB told the court that it had concluded a licensing agreement with Staatliches Hofbrauhaus, the Munich-based brewer of Hofbrau, […]

Chris Gordon De Beers is holding an internal inquiry following the shooting and robbery of the head of its Angola operations, Ken Kempson, near Lucapa in Lunda Norte. The attack left Kempson badly injured with five bullet wounds, and minus a reported $1,5-million (R7-million) in cash he was to deliver to the De Beers diamond-buying […]

Leading figures in the Motheo scandal are earning consultancy fees from the controversial company, writes Justin Arenstein Despite getting their fingers burnt and losing their jobs for bulldozing the R198- million Motheo rural housing deal through Mpumalanga’s housing board, the central figures in the scheme are still doing business with each other. Sacked Nedcor credit […]

West Johnny Masilela and Sechaba ka’Nkosi President Nelson Mandela’s visit to strife- torn Rustenburg last weekend failed to attract the expected crowds after North West Premier Popo Molefe refused to let Mouthpeace Workers Union president Kaizer Mpiyakhe share his platform. Sources say the union insisted at a meeting with Molefe two weeks ago that it […]

Madeleine Wackernagel The markets were quick to give their verdict on a possible deal between Lonrho and Avmin: shares in holding company Anglovaal and Avmin slumped while Lonrho remained unchanged – going against the trend in a gaining sector. The reason is not hard to find: analysts have seen it all before, only the dance […]

Solly Mapaila, leader of a group sympathetic to Swazi workers, has been declared ‘undesirable’, reports Mukoni T Ratshitanga In a bid to silence sympathisers with his country’s pro-democracy voices, Swaziland’s Minister of Home Affairs Prince Guduza this month declared the South African director of a solidarity group a prohibited person. Swaziland Solidarity Network’s head, Solly […]