What is it about beauty pageants that captures the popular imagination? Our reporters try to make sense of it all Brenda Atkinson: Miss South Africa 1997 The Miss South Africa competition at the Sun City Superbowl last weekend was a model of new South African behaviour. While the VIP guests below the stands exchanged rainbow […]
Attorneys general investigating police torture face the obstacle of corruption in the force, reports Gustav Thiel Dozens of cases detailing police torture to extract confessions or information from suspects have been handed to the Witwatersrand and Transvaal attorneys general during the past three years. Decisions about prosecutions are awaited. Jan Munnik, the advocate responsible for […]
Barbara Ludman They pour out of matric by the thousands: bright young women, a world of opportunity at their feet. At university, they can follow any course open to their male counterparts. But, invariably, most choose to train for the same low-paying, stress- inducing professions women have gone into for decades: education, social work, nursing […]
More money has been spent, more foreign players have been bought. Amy Lawrence gives the A to Z of the new English Premier League season A is for Ales. Krizan that is, of Slovenia. The Stg 500 000 defender from Maribor Branik, his Barnsley team-mate Macedonian Georgi Hristov, and Chelsea’s Uruguayan Gustavo Poyet, will be […]
The Mail & Guardian can now back up its claim to be the newspaper with the most sought-after readers in South Africa. Statistics released this week by the All Media Products Survey (Amps) show the M&G has 81 000 readers and nearly half of them are black, with more professionals reading the paper than any […]
The SABC and M-Net agree – the IBAis incompetent and has no jurisdiction to change the status quo. Peta Thornycroft reports The SABC and pay channel M-Net may be enemies in the ring, but both agree the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) is an incompetent referee. When the IBA begins the final countdown to its proposed […]
Gwen Ansell If it weren’t for Fela Kuti, we might not have Bayete. Today Afropop is a recognised musical genre; in the late 1960s, it didn’t exist. Two men – Manu Dibangu with Soul Makossa in 1972, and Fela Anikulapo Kuti with the 1970 Fela’s London Scene – pioneered big, jazzy outfits which fused traditional […]
FRIDAY, 10.40AM: ZIMBABWEAN and fomer Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobelaar was on Thursady cleared by the jury on a second count of match fixing in Winchester. Also found not guilty are footballers John Fashanu and Hans Segers and Malaysian businessman Heng Suan. The court foreman said that the jury had not yet reached an agreement on […]
Lucy Hannan in Nairobi Kenyan police are rounding up hundreds of refugees and foreigners after President Daniel arap Moi announced that “foreign spies and criminals” were masquerading as refugees and inciting the people. Buses carrying 129 Burundian, Rwandan, Sudanese and Somali refugees drove under police escort last week to Kakuma camp, more than 800km from […]
making The Women’s Health Project is assisting in creating a greater understanding of gender- sensitive issues in the health fraternity, reports Barbara Ludman What has gender to do with health? Everything, if you’re a woman living in a rural area in a province with few resources. Everything, if you’re married to a man who won’t […]