Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]
GM war Jaspreet Kindra The real political contest today is between the Opower of people and the power of corporationsO, pronounces Dr Vandana Shiva, the fiery activist from India. Shiva, one of the stalwarts of the anti- biotech movement launched over a decade ago, is here to help kick-start the South African campaign against genetically […]
E-mail virus warnings spread as fast as the viruses themselves but are often only hoaxes Rupert Neethling Alarm at the prospect of a new computer virus is both healthy and justified. But it seems that many users have yet to discover that not all virus warnings are true. Ironically, e-mail hoaxes posing as virus warnings […]
Financial guru Magnus OUncle FinanceO Heystek this week finally paid the taxed costs incurred by the Mail & Guardian in defending itself against a defamation case he had brought. Heystek withdrew from his much-publicised legal action and agreed to pay the newspaperOs costs before the matter was due to go to court. The M&GOs lawyers, […]
Ria Ledwaba+s dream of top-flight soccer has come true as her team, Ria Stars, are in the premier league Merryman Kunene Being the youngest child and the only daughter in the Rasebotsa family, Ria Ivy Ledwaba+s formative years were heavily influenced by her soccer-mad brothers – who either played for or supported Pietersburg+s most famous […]
community Thebe Mabanga A Jewish lifestyle-oriented website has caused outrage among community leaders and conservative elders in BritainOs Jewish community. The site, totallyjewish.com, offers everything from current affairs to travelling and personal finance advice. It also offers an online dating service. The service boasts the largest database of single Jewish people complemented by relationship and […]
Brenda Atkinson crossfire While the idea of woman-hatred is commonplace and spans most cultures, hatred of men is generally considered the narrow preserve of embittered radical lesbians and the odd feminist. On the surface of things, director Catherine BreillatOs controversial and infinitely subversive film Romance demands that equivalent term, misandry: the message it conveys about […]
Paul Kirk A Mail & Guardian investigation into the medical abuse of conscripts by the former South African Defence Force (SADF) has uncovered that both the University of Pretoria and the SADF were warned of the bizarre experiments being conducted under the care of Dr Aubrey Levin but did nothing to stop the abuse. The […]
Barry Streek A decade from now as many as 45 000 people in South African prisons could die every year from HIV/Aids and Aids-related diseases, according to the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. He told a conference on crime and human rights at the University of Western Cape that five years ago 182 […]
Roshila Pillay The Internet could prove to be an indispensable crutch to assist women on their walk to economic empowerment. It is an important component in alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth. Women account for a paltry 17% of South AfricaOs 700 000 Internet users, according to a study by Gillian Marcelle, chair of the […]
The Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in Southern AfricaOs 15th annual convention will give delegates from the investment industry a chance to raise problematic issues and find solutions Mail & Guardian Reporter South African economic transformation and its role in the global economy will be under the spotlight next week (August 10 and […]
Creating opportunities in which new investment talent can grow is crucial for the future of the South African economy Mail & Guardian Reporter Attracting new black talent into the investment and asset management field is crucial to transform it from Oa closed shop, a white boysO clubO, says Raymond Ndlovu, investment and assets manager of […]
They+ve come through two by two – South African heavyweights trying to win the world title Gavin Evans When Lennox Lewis entered the ring to the sounds of Bob Marley+s We+re Gonna Chase Those Crazy Baldheads Out of Town, you couldn+t miss the message: no place for White Hopes in this hood. Francois Botha+s demise […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter South Africa has yet to realise the full effect the Internet and e-commerce could have on improving the lives of ordinary South Africans, even deep in the bundu, says multibillionaire Internet whiz Mark Shuttleworth. OThe beauty of the Internet is that you are connected no matter how isolated,O he says. OThe […]
Valentine Cascarino CRAFT Whether in Sofia, Sai-gon, Addis Ababa, Khumasi or Durban, French contemporary artist Herv di Rosa is always on the lookout for pavement images, plastic objects or naive paintings in shop windows for inspiration. Since 1992 he has been globetrotting to escape the confines of his Paris-based workshop, which can sometimes lead to […]
Paul Weaver motor racing The television commentator best known as Muddly Talker is currently the subject of national debate in England. It is being suggested that at the age of 77 Murray Walker is well past his pitstop date. I could not disagree more strongly. Walker+s age is irrelevant. His is the most recognisable voice […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North OMan, I admire this Governor [Ahmed] Sani of Zamfara [State of Nigeria]. He just goes ahead and does his things without any noise-making preambles declares sharia, flies prostitutes to Mecca, cuts off someoneOs hand, summons 2 000 beggars, supplies 100 donkeys to supplement okadas [motor-bike taxis], promises to flog […]
Robert Kirby CHANNEL VISION Two of my unfortunate viewings recently have been of American versions of established British favourites: the quite disastrous Payne and the somewhat embarrassing Fitz. As most of us will have recognised, the former is based on the quite marvellous British series, Fawlty Towers, the latter on the just as marvellous Cracker. […]
Shirley Kossick A Larger Silence by Yvonne Burgess (Penguin) Y vonne Burgess+s latest novel is, in effect, a sequel to her moving -alternative love story+, Anna and the Colonel (1998). It is not necessary to have read the earlier book to enjoy A Larger Silence, but the two together comprise the history of Rudyard Kipling […]
Users of instant messaging (IM) software number more than 100-million. In no order of preference, the most popular IM packages include: l ICQ (OI seek youO): www.mirabilis. com l Yahoo Messenger: messenger.yahoo.com l Odigo: www.odigo.com l AOL Instant Messenger (AIM): www.aol.com/aim/home.html l Powwow: www.tribalvoice.com l MSN Messenger: messenger.msn.com With the exception of Powwow, these packages […]
Investigators at the Independent Complaints Directorate this week began fitting together the pieces of the puzzle around Bheki MkhizeOs death Paul Kirk and Niki Moore African National Congress MP Bheki Mkhize, killed in a police raid on his home at Mahlabathini, near Ulundi, was shot through his open palm an indication, say the provincial ANC […]
Conditions in prisons are not likely to improve until the problem of overcrowding is solved Barry Streek The OghastlyO conditions and overcrowding in South AfricaOs 236 prisons prevent the addressing of prisonersO human rights, says the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. About 170 000 prisoners were being held in jails built to accommodate […]
With the Sydney Olympics starting in September, John Pilger ruefully reflects on his home country Physically, there is no place like Sydney: the deep-water harbour, the tiara of Pacific beaches, the estuaries and secret bays where white eucalyptus, the giant ghost gums, rise from the water+s edge. At the centre is a stage set like […]
Afrikaner and black women both suffered through wars, but the way they were treated after the conflicts could not be more different Antjie Krog OI was awake … suddenly completely awake in my bed. It was very dark but I sensed someone bending over me then these cold, kind of dry hands were at my […]
conferencesO Jaspreet Kindra The Pan-Africanist Congress has criticised the organising of the National Conference on Racism, which begins at the end of this month. According to the PAC, racism is Otoo deep- rootedO to be handled by Osuperficial mechanisms which provide short-term solutionsO and cost millions of rand. OIt is time to descend from platforms […]
Thebe Mabanga CD OF THE WEEK It is hard to believe that Whitney Houston has entertained us for 15 years now. The double-CD compilation Greatest Hits (Arista) is a timely reminder of what brought her to the point she is at and what she is capable of. The compilation showcases Houston in two contrasting but […]
ZimbabweOs political and economic stability is in danger as President Robert Mugabe pushes ahead with plans to expropriate white-owned land Chris McGreal in Harare Zimbabwe is mobilising its army to rapidly resettle several million black peasants on expropriated farms after a government announcement that it will now seize about two-thirds of all white-owned land. And […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo Technikons struggling to implement transformation now have an extra task, suggested by the Council on Higher Education (CHE): to reposition themselves, to merge or face closure. ItOs a challenge for these 15 tertiary institutions, but two technikons are ahead already. They have been discussing a merger for 10 years. Next month their councils […]
Pule waga Mabe As technikons try to redefine themselves as universities of technology, some institutions are encountering problems likely to hamper their progress. Irregularities and outstanding charges of maladministration and racism are threatening a number of technikons. This, according to some technikon officials, may damage smooth mergers in line with the recommendations of the Council […]
Jaspreet Kindra The purge of former minister of agriculture and land affairs Derek HanekomOs appointees continues with the departmentOs two deputy directors general having been given marching orders. The deputy directors general anti- apartheid struggle veteran Stanley Nkosi, who heads land reform implementation, and Sue Lund, in charge of land reform policy, were informed two […]
Ivor Powell Shopping for spies in recent months, defence intelligence operatives have not concentrated their recruiting efforts only on political journalists. They have also tried to bring what its editor describes as a Ofeel-good travel magazineO into the espionage fold. This intelligence comes in the wake of revelations this week that Adrian Hadland, political editor […]
Barbara Ellen Body Language More and more over the past 12 months, IOve found myself bearing witness to lesbian comings out. Or should I say, listening to drunk women tell me theyOre Oso sickO of guys, theyOre Oseriously consideringO becoming lesbians. OWhy not? Why not, I ask you?O the latest one cried the other evening. […]