Economic reality has derailed plans to build the Wild Coast toll road, writes Craig Bishop Less than two weeks before an important international investors’ conference in East London on the Wild Coast spatial development initiative (SDI), the government is learning its development lessons the hard way. The Department of Transport has shelved plans to construct […]

Na’eem Jeenah Nelson Mandela’s statement “I am the master of my own fate”, and his accusation that the Americans are arrogant and dull, resonate as the truth to many South Africans. As a sovereign nation, South Africa cannot simply accede to the demands of the world’s superpower and ditch those which supported its struggle for […]

Emeka Nwandiko Street hawkers in Johannesburg are threatening to “cleanse the streets” of foreign traders whom they blame for disease and decay. Amid chants of “chase the makwere-kwere out” and “down with the foreigner, up with South Africans” a 500-strong crowd of informal traders toyi-toyied to the Department of Home Affairs in Johannesburg on Wednesday. […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi Intense pressure from the government and less enthusiasm for mass action are believed to be behind the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s (Cosatu) sudden change of attitiude on the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill this week, and a possible settlement before the Bill is tabled in Parliament next week. Cosatu’s woes began […]

Gauteng will be using a space map to plot its future urban growth and manage its resources, writes Aspasia Karras In the drive to confirm Gauteng’s status as the “smart province”, it has come to grips with the digital age and is now using snappy automated products to deliver its vision of “growth for all”. […]

Modern art has found a new home in a space- age museum that has risen amid the urban sprawl of a Spanish port. Robert McCrum visited the Bilbao Guggenheim If, as a native of Bilbao, you had happened to see a balding, middle-aged American in trainers and sweatpants jogging past the Jesuit university along the […]

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, […]