This weekend Cape Town city will razzle to the sound of chainsaws, DJs and one- man bands Erika Schutze Staring at the blackened face, woollen hat and scruffy overalls of Luke Jane I’m reminded of a chimney sweep from a novel by Charles Dickens, only he’s slightly more menacing. And the Blue Temple Night Festival […]
NETWATCH The world is filling with computers at a rate unmatched by the proliferation of touch typists. Which, along with poor office furniture, Ricoffy and fluorescent lighting, can add to the discomfort of work. If you’re still a keyboard two-finger hunter and pecker, advance your interaction with computers and finally master the keyboard. There are […]
AMAGLUG-GLUG face the Black Meteors in an Olympic qualifier this weekend without defender Aaron Mokoena, midfielder Quinton Fortune and strikers Benni McCarthy and Siyabonga Nomvete after a domestic ruling barring senior national team players from the squad. The under-23 side is trailing in Group B with Cameroon leading 1992 bronze medalists Ghana and South Africa […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF I am not simply returning a compliment when I say that it was somewhat uplifting to see Aggrey Klaaste stand up in St George’s church, Parktown, Johannesburg, last Tuesday afternoon, and deliver a warm and honest tribute to the late Jim Bailey. It was a particularly striking gesture because […]
M&G reporter The English Academy of Southern Africa awarded Alex Sudheim the Pringle Award for 1999, on March 7, for his reviews published in the Mail & Guardian’s Friday in 1998. Sudheim’s work was honoured for its widely diverse nature. Stories he has written for Friday were named, specifically his look at Durban’s Indian cinema […]
according to public Barry Streek After the churches, the media are the most trusted institution in South Africa – more so than all levels government, the police, the defence force and the of courts. These surprising findings were revealed this week by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) when it released its latest Public Opinion […]
Recent guerrilla attacks are affecting the burgeoning tourism industry in northern Namibia Angus Begg Since the killing of three French tourist children and a number of medical aid workers in separate incidents on January 3, the tourist industry in one of Southern Africa’s fastest-growing, exclusive wilderness lodge destinations, Namibia’s Caprivi Strip, has taken a hammering. […]
SANLAM said on Wednesday that it has boosted its headline earnings for the year ending December 31 1999 by 65% to R1955-million. Headline earnings per share amount to 73,4 cents – 26% higher than in 1998. A 26% return on equity has been achieved and Sanlam’s operating profit increased by 39% to R1722-million. Announcing the […]
David Gow Forget the gearstick and bewildering array of switches and buttons you have scarcely mastered before buying a new model. The car of the future will come with a single joystick to activate Web-based data services; it will even talk to you and tell you where to go. Within 10 years at most, the […]
A draft Bill on immigration aims to ease restrictions on skilled foreigners coming to South Africa Khadija Magardie The new draft Immigration Bill looks geared to promote economic development by easing restrictions on monied and skilled would-be immigrants. Its predecessor, the White Paper on International Migration, focused largely on controlling the influx of illegal, generally […]
Khadija Magardie The new draft Bill on immigration could exacerbate the already high levels of xenophobia in South Africa. The Bill lists “the prevention and deterrence of xenophobia, at both government and community level” as one of its primary functions. But this is contradicted in its approach towards what it classifies as illegal foreigners. The […]
Chatsworth police station is the subject of a police internal investigation unit probe Paul Kirk Four policemen from Chatsworth, KwaZulu- Natal, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of beating a destitute deaf mute man to death. The policemen, who remain on duty, allegedly bludgeoned Clive Michael with a variety of blunt […]
SOUTH African Breweries has received permission from the Indian government to proceed with a $35,3-million investment in a joint venture in Indiay. The joint venture provides for SAB’s investment in Narang Industries Limited, one of India’s oldest industrial houses. The venture — which includes Hallvard Limited, a non-resident Indian investment company — was concluded in […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Television is a wonderful invention – it finds it hard to lie. So we have all been witnesses to the paltry efforts of the so-called “international community” to save the people of Mozambique from the incredible deluges of water that have threatened to drown thousands of them with every […]
show Alan Henry Although Formula One Holdings will require a professional management board when it is floated as a public company, the administration of grand prix racing has always responded to a powerful individual touch. These are some of the names that have been mentioned as possible members of the board. Luca di Montezemolo: The […]
Mail & Guardian reporter 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. […]
Barry Streek The allocation of medical graduates to one year of community service has helped to reduce the shortage of doctors and had a positive impact on the staffing of hospitals, according to Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. She said in reply to a question tabled in the National Council of Provinces by Phillipus Nel […]
BRITISH-BORN supermodel Naomi Campbell jetted into South Africa this week to attend the official launch on Thursday of the new logo and name for the World Motorcycle Grand Prix, Phakisa raceway organisers said. She attended a lunch at the Phakisa hospitality suites tower at Welkom’s Phakisa Freeway with about 400 other invited guests. The first […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Surging oil prices – which may push the cost of petrol to more than R3 a litre by April – have come as an overdue reminder to industrialised countries of just how dependent their economies still are on a single source of energy. And, more to the point, how little they […]
Greg Bowes PREVIEW OFTHEWEEK As if the banging breakbeats of Cut La Roc and Aphrodite weren’t enough, this month you can catch a staggering assortment of international DJs at two not-to-be-missed Gauteng events. The first of these is the Select party at Carfax on Friday March 10. Backed by the French Institute, this is the […]
A new initiative is reviving the creations of a poet and artist whose work ranks among the best from South Africa Michael Gardiner ‘I don’t want to become a campus guru.” This in response to my request to Wopko Jensma for permission to photocopy his poems for my students, necessary because his published work had […]
Ivor Powell Shareholder agreements for the consortium that the South African Telecommunications Authority (Satra) has recommended for the third cellular license could make a mockery of the bid’s claims to promote black empowerment. Analysis of the agreements and founding documentation submitted by the Cell C consortium in support of its bid shows that the bid’s […]
US President Bill Clinton has said that Amadou Diallo, the African immigrant whose shooting death by police stirred turmoil in New York, might not have been shot if he had been a white man in a white neighbourhood. Clinton talked about the Diallo case during a White House meeting of more than 150 religious leaders […]
Khadija Magardie The leading United States television news network, ABC, has drafted advertisements for the South African press seeking patients who were part of Dr Werner Bezwoda’s discredited clinical trials into breast cancer treatment. The advert calls on women who were part of Bezwoda’s breast cancer trials at Johannesburg hospital to come forward to tell […]
Aid workers in Sierra Leone are striving to rehabilitate the country’s child soldiers Victoria Brittain Three hundred children spill out across the dusty courtyard, playing ball with homemade bundles, wrestling, running, exuberant. A month ago they were child soldiers with guns and ammunition deep in the bush of Sierra Leone, often wreaking havoc in their […]
They may have only appeared once, but these characters made quite an impression: Poochie: Ill-fated canine addition to The Itchy and Scratchy Show, renowned for habitually “getting biz-zay”. Rabbi Krustofski (pictured below): Estranged father of Krusty the Clown; co- host of radio talk show Gabbin’ about God. God: Briefly endorses Homer’s new religion – based […]
Gregory Mthembu-Salter Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma concluded a four day visit to Burundi on Monday, rounding off a remarkable two weeks of intense South African involvement in efforts to stop this tiny Central African nation’s long-running civil war. The week before Dlamini-Zuma’s visit, former president Nelson Mandela had been in action in Arusha, […]
REUSABLE needles used for a national treatment campaign in Egypt decades ago are the cause of the high number of liver disease cases in the country today, researchers said. hundreds of thousands of Egyptians received injections for a common but serious disease called schistosomiasis, which is caused by a parasite in the blood, from the […]
Neil Manthorp Planning was something that South Africa’s cricket teams weren’t able to do in the past because they had no experience of what they were planning for. It was like packing for a weekend trip to the moon – should you take sandwiches? Does it get cold in the evenings? This time, with three […]
Peter Dickson Still weary from flood relief and mercy missions in Mozambique, South African Air Force (SAAF) helicopter pilots were this week plucking stranded victims from raging river waters in southern KwaZulu- Natal and northern Transkei. Pilots of the SAAF’s Durban-based 15 Squadron rescued 13 pupils and teachers from Riverside Primary in Port Saint John’s […]
Rural women are likely to be the losers under the agriculture ministry’s new policy aimed at creating a class of black commercial farmers Samuel Kariuki The South African land reform programme has the potential of consolidating and expanding South Africa’s fragile democratic gains. But this process also has the devastating potential of fragmenting the vision […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Can there have been a more gratifying triumph than that of Nando’s over the humourless prissmongers who succeeded in having the now famous guide-dog television commercial canned? God save me from ever praising an advertising outfit, but to Hunt Lascaris I bow my head in honour, especially for the way they came […]