Mail & Guardian journalist Donna Block has won the inaugural Citadel Personal Finance Journalist of the Year award for the print media category. The awards are given in two categories: print and electronic media. The judges decided the quality of entries into the latter category did not justify naming a winner. The overall award was […]
A century from now the foyer of the Park and Long building in Cape Town could be torn up by enthusiastic Mail & Guardian readers keen to see a real “dead tree” version of their favourite newspaper. A copy of our souvenir millennium edition is to be sealed in a time capsule and entombed in […]
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/ 25 February 2000
The Human Rights Commission says that it served subpoenas on newspaper editors, including the editor of the Mail & Guardian, Phillip van Niekerk, because it believed this was the only way of ensuring their attendance at the hearings. The Mail & Guardian never refused to attend.
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/ 18 February 2000
The Mail & Guardian has entered the millemium with a bang, bringing to its readers an exciting new redesign and a newspaper jam-packed with even more of Africa’s best reading matter: The design, which was done by our talented in-house team, provides the newspaper with a fresh, serious though accessible new look, starting with an […]
After three weeks of negotiation and at least six meetings, the African National Congress, the National Party and the SABC have finally settled on the format of next Thursday’s televised presidential debate between Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. They have squabbled over the smallest detail: the NP, for example, wanted the two leaders to […]
Thursday’s TV debate between South Africa’s two leading statesmen promises to be a psychological drama revealing much about how they are going to rule the country together.
Two of the country’s most influential men met for the first time on a Weekly Mail platform this week. Former Anglo American chairman Harry Oppenheimer and National Union of Mineworkers general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at the Market Theatre on how they viewed the South African press
THE Weekly Mail will celebrate its first birthday next week by hosting a historic meeting: the first direct encounter between the most powerful men in the mining industry, Harry Oppenheimer and Cyril Ramaphosa. In keeping with its aim of provoking exchanges about the future of South Africa, the Weekly Mail has organised for these two […]
Weekly Mail Reporter Two Weekly Mail journalists, co-editor Anton Harber and freelance reporter Jo-Anne Bekker, were this week found guilty of contempt of court for three articles on the Delmas treason trial which appeared in last Friday’s edition of the newspaper. Mr Justice K van Dijkhorst, the presiding judge in the Delmas trial, sentenced Harber […]
In last week’s Weekly Mail, a report appeared on page nine which purported to contain notes made by Mr Justice K van Dijkhorst regarding a video shown at the Delmas treason. At the time we published this report, we believed the notes were made by the judge. This was incorrect. A legal representative for the […]
The little-publicised treason trial of 22 men at Delmas took a surprise turn this week when a young state witness said that she fabricated her evidence after being sjambokked in detention.
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/ 17 January 1986
Weekly Mail’s news editor Anton Harber is suing the minister of Law and Order for damages in the first series of actions arising from assaults on journalists during the first elections for the House of Delegates in 1984. Harber, who was the Rand Daily Mail’s political reporter, was assaulted by a group of vigilantes outside […]
Matthew Goniwe? Just one more death. Just one more death that could shake our country. ANTON HARBER reports on the Cradock community leader, pictured on the right, who was murdered last week. Who will pay for the murder of Matthew Goniwe? No doubt, we all will. For when this vital, powerful leader of the Cradock […]