THE Electronic Mail & Guardian’s daily online version of Madam & Eve allows you to win a Fiat Uno car in a new online competition. Join the Madam & Eve “cyber club” to receive the Madam & Eve electronic newsletter; send free Madam & Eve “cybercards” to friends around the world; and browse through a […]
air Mungo Soggot FORMER Central Energy Fund chair Roy Pithey has swatted suggestions this week from Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna that the operation engaged in irregular accounting practices. Maduna told Parliament that the results of his investigation into the fund’s post-1992 operations would be handed over “soon”. The probe -which triggered […]
When push comes to shove it’s the forwards, especially the front row, that can lead the Springboks to victory over the Lions RUGBY:Steve Morris IT is not overstating the case to say that Martin Johnson’s British Lions have grown considerably in stature and the ability to handle the South African game since their arrival. Starting […]
With the help of Dennis Rodman, the Chicago Bulls have just won another NBA title, but the wayward star might end up a loser BASKETBALL:Ian Whittell EVEN by his own extraordinary standards Dennis Rodman had an extraordinary week. The Chicago Bulls player, cross-dresser and cultural phenomenon, won his fourth NBA Championship, made two much publicised […]
As part of a push for empowerment, the SACP is to seek opportunities in business, writes Ferial Haffaje THE South African Communist Party is going into business. Soon it will start one or more companies either on its own or with partners. Mum’s the word right now on where investments will be made or what […]
Mungo Soggot THE African National Congress is hiring out its Cabinet ministers as guest speakers and MCs in a drive to swell the party’s coffers. Among the ministers available for such lucrative engagements are Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and his colleague Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin. Both are highly prized as guests […]
Glynis O’Hara GOVERNMENT regulation in the music industry can reach a point where it interferes with the market, but artists must be nurtured before people start throwing “international standards” at them. So says Sue Gillard, general manager of Ausmusic, in South Africa to address a series of seminars organised by the Music Industry Development Initiative […]
More active policy and less macro-economic theology is the only way to get South Africa on to agrowth path, argues the SACP’s Jeremy Cronin A friend in the finance ministry of a West African state once described a visit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meeting with the ministry, the IMF official hauled out his […]
Gustav Thiel speaks to the psychiatrist accused of electrocuting gay soldiers T HE psychiatrist accused this week of using electric shocks to reprogramme gay soldiers has bitten back, claiming he only used drugs and a “battery-operated device” on his patients. Speaking from Canada, Dr Aubrey Levine said he flashed pornographic pictures in front of the […]
In the troubled heart of Africa: Ethnic cleansing which began in Rwanda is reaping murder and mayhem in other Chris Gordon THE last act in Angola’s cold war is now in motion in the diamond-mining region of the Lundas as the opposition party Unita and the Angolan army FAA confront each other across the disputed […]
NO ANC-IFP SOLUTION YET TALKS between the ANC and IFP in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, on Thursday yielded no real agreement about special amnesty conditions in the province. Provincial Premier Ben Ngubane said: “It’s going to be a long road to find real peace, real brotherhood, but we are confident that we are going to walk that […]
DOWN THE TUBE BOUNCING between programmes on Sunday night, the best viewing night of the week by far, one was stuck once again in that awful TV clash between Carte Blanche and 50/50. This time 50/50 won, because of a brilliant BBC/ABC programme on the crazy attitudes humans have to animals. There they all were […]
Criticism that SA’s bid is not African enough lies behind the latest row, write Julian Drew and Stefaans Brmmer THE furore around Cape Town Olympic bid chief Chris Ball’s “nepotism” and autocratic style was sparked by outside criticism that the bid is not African enough. Intervention last week by a Cabinet sub- committee, and a […]
AS part of an ongoing process of fine- tuning to make the Mail & Guardian, the best weekly read, the newspaper has a new section this week – Inside. Inside will open up a new space for top- quality feature and analytical writing, incorporating this with existing features such as the leader page, Krisjan Lemmer, […]
controls lifted Madeleine Wackernagel COME July 2, the markets will hopefully breathe a collective sigh of relief and wonder what all the fuss was about. Granted, the rand has taken a bit of a knock but there are no signs of panic as yet. There has been some speculative dollar buying in anticipation of the […]
A newspaper report that tied a top band to an audience uprising got it hopelessly wrong, reports MARIA McCLOY WHILE one edition of the Sunday Times (the one aimed at the paler natives) last weekend led with a story and picture detailing the recovery of the South African Everest expedition photographer Bruce Herrod’s camera and […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM ANGOLA’S Unita rebel movement, apparently preparing to return to war with the Angolan government in the north of the country, is receiving war matriel from South Africa, according to reports by the Institute for Security Studies. Institute senior researcher Jakkie Potgieter said that during filed trips last November and in March, he saw […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM SOUTH Africa’s first quarter current account deficit widened to R1,9-billion from only R100-million in the last quarter of last year, largely due to an unexpected drop in exports, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday in its Quarterly Review. The figures are being taken as bad news for economic growth, given that the rand’s […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM The free-spending Independent Broadcasting Authority has a R3,8-million deficit on last year’s budget and is set to spend R9-million in excess of this year’s budget, according to a report by auditors Deloitte & Touche. Earlier this year, IBA CEO Harris Gxaweni was suspended for failing to institute financial controls, and five of the […]
It’s not Independence Day that’s set the record for the longest-running movie in Durban. It’s Raja Hindustani – one of a crop of Bollywood hits. SUZYBELL bought a ticket I CAN see the lure – it’s pure disco. Okay I can’t understand a word of Hindi, and the acting is quite appalling, but there’s a […]
AT the heart of the debate around Cape Town’s Olympic bid lies a question of ownership. Faced by accusations of nepotism and racism this week, bid company chief executive Chris Ball responded that the spirit of volunteerism was integral to the Olympic movement. When pressed for details as to the costs of the bid process, […]
Tom Hibbert on Abel Ferrara IT was four years ago that I first set out to interview Abel Ferrara, the “maverick” film director whose talent to shock seems unparalleled. His Bad Lieutenant – in which Harvey Keitel plays a corrupt copper who is coked to the gills, given to masturbating in public and having writhing […]
Anne Eveleth DYNAMO Investments Chairman Oscar Dhlomo says he promised full editorial independence to staff at City Press – South Africa’s largest black weekly – before a consortium led by his company bought a controlling share of the newspaper from Naspers. The R110-million sale of 51% of the paper – to Dynamo, Ukhozi Investments and […]
There is a growing gulf between what is important to those at the top of the police force and those at the bottom, reports Tangeni Amupadhi after two weeks at a police station CONSTABLE Mbekeni Mthetwa died for a car. Minutes before his shift was to end on the evening of May 26, the 34-year-old […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM FORMER justice minister Adriaan Vlok has admitted to ordering the placing of “small explosive devices” outside two cinemas showing anti-apartheid movies, and to making false bomb threats to cinemas planning to show the Biko film Cry Freedom. Vlok is believed to be referring to a series of anti-censorship film festivals run by the […]
meet Moshoeshoe Stephen Gray TWO hundred years ago a pair of lowly lads was born in Scotland, that great producer of emigrants. One was the son of a humble joiner in the northernmost Highlands, the other of a mere shepherd in the Border area. Both were self-educated, ambitious enough to make something of themselves in […]
Top films, like Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, are being released straight to video. ANDREW WORSDALE finds out why TO see some really great movies these days it seems you have to go to a one-off film festival or visit the video shop. “Marginal” films often go straight to video. This is the case with clunky […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: BRITISH LIONS manager Fran Cotton on Thursday announced the team to play the Springboks in the first Test between South Africa and England, at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday. LIONS: Neil Jenkins, Ieuan Evans, Scott Gibbs, Jeremy Guscott, Alan Tait, Gregor Townsend, Matt Dawson, Tim Rodber, Richard Hill, Lawrence Dallaglio, Jeremy Davidson, […]
Stephen Gray attended the clannish celebration of writer, doctor and cook Louis Leipoldt in the Cedarberg area. On a warm winter West Coast long weekend … over an old Republic Day … ‘ Twas nostalgia all the way … the village churchbells chimed and rimed. Season to commemorate the folk poet with the jug ears […]
SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi AS Manning Rangers bask in the glory of winning the inaugural Castle Premiership soccer championship, several key figures within the squad have continually created headlines. Coach Gordon Igesund has received due praise for moulding a team of virtual nonentities into one good enough to finish eight points clear of Kaizer Chiefs and 10 […]
THE full-page advertisements inserted in South African newspapers (including the Mail & Guardian) by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association over the last week should be recognised for what they are: a crude attempt to protect vested interests of an industry, the commitment of which to the public welfare is questionable to say the least. Headlined “Health […]
Danielle James WINNING an endurance event is an achievement in anyone’s book, but getting to the top and staying there, year after year against all odds and changing circumstances, takes one from the realm of the possible to the impossible. Equestrian star Graham Winn is a man who operates in the realm of the impossible. […]