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 […]

Marion Edmunds The Pan Africanist Congress found itself battling on two fronts this week to clear the name of its president, Dr Stanley Mogoba. This week it was alleged he had collaborated with the apartheid government against a comrade. Hours after PAC MP Patricia de Lille tried to shift the spotlight away from her party […]

Lorraine Pace : Design of the week Over-indulgent, maybe, attention grabbing, definitely. A Guide to the Good Stuff is a vibrant, passionate and energetic A2-format brochure which resonates with alternative art created by Johnnesburg’s street artists. The concept of advertising agency Net#Work’s Kam Naidoo and Mandi Stamelman, it catalogues the creative spirit of Johannesburg’s entrepreneurs. […]

Steve Morris : Rugby It is one of those interesting, though probably largely irrelevant statistics, that Free State have not won a Currie Cup since 1976 and a graphic illustration of the swirling tides of the game that they have washed up in Cape Town this weekend as the side to oppose Western Province in […]

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 […]