Mzilikazi wa Afrika The Department of Justice has enlisted two of South Africa’s top special investigation teams to probe a well-organised national crime syndicate which has defrauded the department of more than R30-million over the past three years. Confidential information leaked to the Mail & Guardian shows that 23 government officials, including police officers, court […]
David Beresford At 10.12am on Thursday, President Nelson Mandela made constitutional history when he took the oath in Room 6E of the Pretoria High Court, submitting the executive to the scrutiny of the judiciary. Looking the epitomy of dignity in a charcoal suit, the president made a point of demonstrating his respect for the court […]
Alex Duval Smith reports on the United States president’s visit to a continent reborn as a trading partner Bill Clinton’s six-nation tour of Africa next week – the first by a serving United States president for almost 20 years – will reward good book-balancers and strategic friends. But it will also lay bare mixed African […]
Charlene Smith As U2 “rattle and hum” their way through their second South African concert this weekend, a bitterly divided music industry argues for the crumbs from a financially squeezed R1-billion entertainment industry. While Computicket managing director Jeff Carel says big acts like U2 bring in small takings (but large credibility for concert promoters), Howard […]
Shaun de Waal: International tour What does it all mean? Besides the obvious live band footage (treated or untreated), the series of images flashing past on the giant video screen that is arguably the most essential part of U2’s PopMart concert is an almost bewildering cornucopia of pop/ art iconicity. Perhaps it is unfair to […]
Hunadi Mateme: RIGHT TO REPLY Your article, “MEC ‘has blood on her hands’” (February 27 to March 5) has not done anything to assist the public in understanding the action of my department. Your reporter claims that this mentally ill person set fire to himself and his home because his pension was suspended. We could […]
Alan HenryMotor racing Ferrari are poised to offer Michael Schumacher a virtual blank cheque to prevent him defecting to the McLaren-Mercedes team in 1999, a year before the end of his contract. Fiat’s president Gianni Agnelli is said to have sanctioned a o52-million package to ensure Schumacher stays at Ferrari to the end of the […]
Bongani SiqokoHuman Rights Day Speech-making politicians and music groups turning air into sound will compete for attention in Sharpeville at this weekend’s commemoration of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Youth development and cultural education are firmly on the Human Rights Day a genda of the township-based Ideas Exchange International (IEI). IEI executive director Nicho Ntema […]
Brett Davidson Auckland Park’s education division is forging ahead on a number of fronts, laying the foundations for the future of public service broadcasting. It is forming innovative and complex relationships with the government and other stakeholders, promoting local production and lobbying against the increasing pressure towards commercialisation. “There are some educational programmes that can […]
Michael Nurok For top Kenyan runners the real competition is not international – it occurs at national level, where local runners are forced to compete against arguably the best distance runners in the world. A quick look at the International Amateur Athletics Federation World Cross Country Championship records shows Kenyan junior and senior men placing […]